I’ve read a lot of CEO talking points over the years, and most of them are carefully polished to not say much about anything. Tim Cook’s latest comments to Apple employees about immigration don’t read that way. Cook told staff he was “deeply troubled” by the current US approach to immigration and said he would … Read more
GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Like many Donald Trump voters, Miranda Niedermeier isn’t opposed to immigration enforcement. She was encouraged by the Republican president’s initial moves in his second term that she saw as targeting immigrants who were in the United States illegally and had committed crimes. But Niedermeier, 35, has grown increasingly disenchanted with Trump. … Read more
By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration has resisted efforts to expand the use of body cameras by immigration officers and sharply cut surveillance staff while transferring officers to Minneapolis and other cities, leading to a series of violent clashes. Bystander footage of two fatal shootings of … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The detention of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy with his father outside their Minnesota home has become the latest lightning rod for U.S. immigration divisions under the Trump administration. The versions given by government officials and the family’s lawyer and neighbors offer conflicting accounts of whether the parents were given adequate opportunity to … Read more
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that academics who are parties to a lawsuit alleging that U.S. policy singles out non-citizens for detention or deportation because of their pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses can seek relief from the court if their immigration status is changed as punishment for participating in the case. The … Read more
As the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationwide, a wave of high-profile arrests — many taking place at private homes and businesses and captured on video — has thrust a legal question into the center of the national debate: When can federal immigration agents legally enter private property to make an arrest? That question … Read more
By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO, Dec 19 (Reuters) – Allyson Lopez hoped business would pick up at her dress shop in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, which specializes in ball gowns for Quinceaneras, a coming-of-age rite of passage in many Latino communities that celebrate a girl’s 15th birthday. Instead, this week brought the return of federal immigration … Read more
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — State and federal authorities are closely monitoring online criticism and demonstrations against an immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats against agents while compiling regular updates on public “sentiment” around the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by The Associated Press. The intelligence gathering … Read more
When Martha Ruiz returned to her home in Gary on Nov. 13 after several weeks in ICE custody in El Paso, she was excited to see her children. “When I dropped them back at the prison, I didn’t know if I was going to see them again,” Ruiz, 57, said. Her husband, Rosario Carrillo Lopez, … Read more