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A Stockton police sergeant and eight officers wearing face shields and carrying batons helped escort vehicles from the city’s ICE facility Thursday night.
The administration is offering financial incentives to lure back recently departed immigration officers as it works to fill 10,000 job openings.
Four I.C.E. agents discuss their pride in protecting the public, explaining how detention centers operate and debunking claims about cages while detailing bond hearings
The Trump administration has dramatically curtailed the ability for those facing deportation to be released from immigration detention.
It’s part of a new state law that will force counties that run or contract out operations of a jail to participate in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program called 287 (g), named for a section in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. But right now, only about a third of Texas counties are signed on.
If approved by council at the Aug. 5 meeting, Keller law enforcement officers would be a part of ICE's 287 (g) program. The program authorizes state and local officers to "perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency's direction and oversight," according to the website.
Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk said in an op-ed published Thursday that her abrupt arrest and detention by immigration agents was “a narrative of human suffering.”
A green card holder who has been living in the United States for 40 years was detained by federal agents while walking his dog. Reza Zavvar, 52, was apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) agents on June 28 just outside his home in Maryland and is currently being detained at a facility in Texas.