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News Articles: ICE

Sen. Bill Cowsert

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  • Politics

Lawmakers Huddle: Athens lawmakers say it’s not a sanctuary jurisdiction

The Department of Homeland Security has officially removed its list of "sanctuary jurisdictions" from its website, which included six areas in Georgia. The designation has sparked confusion in some of the communities on the controversial list.  

June 06, 2025
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
Protest

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  • News

Immigrant rights groups protest proposed Georgia detention center expansion in Charlton County

Opponents of a proposal creating the country’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in South Georgia protested in Atlanta on Thursday morning. Despite the delay in funding for the project, they’re still organizing. 

June 05, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis and
  • Amanda Andrews
A frame grab from dashboard video of Ximena Arias-Cristobal's arrest for driving without a license. The charge would later be dropped but after Immigrations Customs and Enforcement issued and acted on a detainer request to the Whitfield County Jail.

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  • Law

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

North Georgia college student Ximena Arias-Cristobal, who had been in immigration detention for over two weeks, has been granted bond and will go home. 

19-year-old who was sent to immigration detention following dropped traffic charges gets bond

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship and
  • Sofi Gratas
Atlanta immigration attorney Charles Kuck, center, argued on behalf of some 133 international college students who for now have no way to continue their studies. "There's no doubt that this administration wants foreign students outside the United States, especially those from countries it does not be desirable," Kuck said. "What we see as a result is the terror in these students."

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  • News

ICE is reversing terminations of international students’ status after hundreds join Atlanta lawsuit

In a change of policy, ICE will restore the student status of international students whose visas were suddenly revoked.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Chase McGee and
  • Sarah Kallis
The Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. in 2020 when the county jail was both a county jail and an immigration detention center.

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  • Law

Rules of collaboration are emerging between ICE and Georgia's keepers of the peace: county sheriffs

As the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationally, Sheriff’s offices in Georgia are slowly doing the same as mandated by a state law passed last year. 

February 07, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Crowds gathered along a main thoroughfare in Gainesville, G.a on January 29, 2025 to protest ICE and President Trump's expedited removal policy. The protest followed a weekend of sweeps by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security across Georgia.

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  • Politics

'There is a lot of fear': Latinos gather in North Georgia to protest against mass deportations

This week, some of the first people in Georgia without legal citizenship were reported to be detained by federal agents under Trump’s expedited removal policy, prompting hundreds from the Latino community in Hall County to gather to support each other and speak out against recent federal immigration policy changes.

January 31, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement logo

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  • News

Organizations react to ICE raids in DeKalb, Brookhaven

Leaders across DeKalb County are responding to arrests made Sunday, Jan. 26 by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chamblee, Brookhaven, Doraville, and Lilburn.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Logan Ritchie and
  • Cathy Cobbs
The Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado currently holds more than 600 immigrant detainees on behalf of the federal government. The facility is operated by GEO Group, a for-profit government contractor.

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  • Investigations

ICE releases investigation into immigrant's death after months of 'inexcusable' delay

Under pressure, the government released a report examining the death of an immigrant in ICE custody. The report found multiple failures, but did not indicate they caused the migrant's death.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Immigrants in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use the phones at a detention center in California in 2019. Secret government reports obtained by NPR described "negligent," "barbaric" and "filthy" conditions in ICE detention.

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  • Investigations

A 'shocking' 911 call and other key takeaways from NPR's ICE detention investigation

NPR obtained secret government inspection reports, which described "negligent," "barbaric" and "filthy" conditions inside immigration detention facilities. Here's what to know.

August 24, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach
Immigrants await processing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Adelanto, California. By filing a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act, NPR obtained a trove of inspection reports detailing serious problems at this ICE facility and others across the United States.

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  • Investigations

Government's own experts found 'barbaric' and 'negligent' conditions in ICE detention

Inspectors for the Department of Homeland Security found dangerous problems in immigration detention facilities. For years, the government fought NPR's efforts to obtain its often damning reports.

August 16, 2023
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By:
  • Tom Dreisbach

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  • Climate

Greenland's melting ice could be changing our oceans. Just ask the whales

The massive ice sheet on Greenland is shrinking as the climate gets hotter, pouring fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean. That could be setting off a chain reaction that's altering ocean ecosystems.

April 18, 2023
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
This Friday, June, 15, 2018 photo shows Lake Champlain from the ferry landing in Grand Isle, Vt.

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  • National

3 men in 3 days die after falling through ice on Vermont's Lake Champlain

The three men were all ice fishermen, and two of the men were brothers.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Burst pipes flood Freedom Height Lofts in Old Fourth Ward in Atlanta after Christmas weekend 2022.

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  • Weather

Burst pipes damage apartments, businesses across metro Atlanta

Frozen sprinklers and pipes burst and flooded hallways, units, and lobbies at apartment complexes and businesses — usually accompanied by blaring fire alarms — after the frigid Christmas weekend.

December 27, 2022
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By:
  • Collin Kelley
A boat navigates at night next to large icebergs in eastern Greenland on Aug. 15, 2019.

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  • Climate

Zombie ice will raise sea levels more than twice as much as previously forecast

Zombie ice, or doomed ice that is no longer getting replenished by parent glaciers will raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches, according to a new study.

August 30, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Immigration detainees being held in the Stewart Detention Center in south Georgia have a filed a federal lawsuit against the for-profit company that operates the 2,000-bed facility, citing “deplorable conditions” inside the prison. LEDGER-ENQUIRER FILE PHOTO

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  • News

Four women allege they were sexually assaulted by nurse at Georgia ICE facility

Four women allege they were sexually assaulted on multiple occasions by a male nurse at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Stewart Detention Center in late 2021.

July 14, 2022
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By:
  • Nick Wooten
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