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News Articles: ICE

A jogger makes their way across a snowy street on Saturday in Seattle. A large winter storm dropped heavy snow across the region.

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  • Weather

Winter Storms Across The Country Bring Snow And Ice To Millions Of Americans

More than 100 million Americans were under some type of winter weather advisory on Saturday, with more snow and ice expected to hit the southern and eastern United States over the coming days.

February 13, 2021
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By:
  • H.J. Mai
Inside of the Blue Ice Drill tent, drillers Tanner Kuhl (left) and Elizabeth Morton (right) work with graduate students Austin Carter, Jacob Morgan and postdoctoral fellow Sarah Shackleton in Antarctica in 2019.

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  • Science

Scientists Have Found Some Truly Ancient Ice, But Now They Want Ice That's Even Older

Ice is usually ephemeral; it doesn't last that long before melting. But some ice on our planet has stayed frozen for millions of years, according to scientists on a quest to find the oldest ice.

December 26, 2020
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015.

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  • Science

Pluto Has White-Capped Mountains, But Not Because There's Snow

Mountains on Pluto look strikingly similar to white-capped peaks on Earth, but these cold, alien mountains got whitened in a completely different way.

October 13, 2020
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A detainee lays on a bunk in a pod at the Stewart Detention Center, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Lumpkin, Ga. Coronavirus infections within the center housing roughly 1,650 male detainees have propelled Stewart County into the second worst per capita infection rate in Georgia.

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  • Health

Third Person Dies of COVID-19 At Georgia Immigration Detention Center

There has been a third death from COVID-19 among people held in immigration detention centers in Georgia. 

September 22, 2020
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

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  • News

Nurse Questions Medical Care At Immigration Jail In Georgia

A nurse at an immigration detention center in Georgia says authorities performed questionable hysterectomies, refused to test detainees for COVID-19 and shredded medical records.

September 15, 2020
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  • Associated Press
Harvard University, shown here, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration over a rule change that would have barred international college students from taking fully online course loads in the United States. In court on Tuesday, a judge announced that the government would rescind the directive.

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  • Education

ICE Agrees To Rescind Policy Barring Foreign Students From Online Study In The U.S.

A federal judge announced on Tuesday that ICE has reached an agreement with schools that sued it over the rule change. The directive will now be rescinded nationwide.

July 14, 2020
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Pedestrians in Harvard Yard in 2019. Schools and businesses have gone to court to stop the Trump administration from barring online-only international students from entering or staying in the United States.

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  • Education

Schools, Businesses, Cities Push Back On Rule Blocking Some International Students

The Trump administration says it will ban international students in the fall if their education is online-only. Colleges and businesses say that decision could devastate the economy.

July 14, 2020
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By:
  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Reporter Seth Freed Wessler spoke with people detained in Irwin County's ICE Detention Center about the pandemic, including Nilson Barahona-Marriaga (pictured here), a 39-year-old father who has diabetes and hypertension, two risk factors for COVID-19.

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  • Health Care

With Lack of Pandemic Protections, Fears - And Coronavirus - Spread Among Georgia ICE Detainees

While protests set off by the killing of George Floyd show no signs of letting up, another quieter protest has been stirring at an Immigration and...

June 12, 2020
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By:
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • Pria Mahadevan ,
  • and 1 more
This April 13, 2009 photo shows a detainee at Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., leaving the cafeteria after lunch to go back to their living units.

Man Detained At Georgia Immigrant Detention Center Dies

A man has died in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a Georgia immigration detention center. Pedro Arriago-Santoya, 44, was...

July 26, 2019
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

Rapper 21 Savage Speaks Out For First Time Since Release From ICE Custody

Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage spoke out Friday for the first time since he was released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The rapper,...

February 15, 2019
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By:
  • Ross Terrell
Rapper 21 Savage attends an event related to his new album, I Am > I Was, in Atlanta. The rapper, whose real name is She'yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested Sunday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Attorney: Immigration Officials Trying To "Unnecessarily Punish" Rapper 21 Savage With Detention

Attorneys for Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage are fighting to have him released from federal immigration custody and say the detention is to ...

February 04, 2019
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announces on Thursday the city will no longer accept ICE detainees at the jail.

Atlanta Will No Longer Accept ICE Detainees

The City of Atlanta will no longer accept U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements detainees at the Atlanta City Detention Center. Atlanta Mayor Keisha...

September 06, 2018
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By:
  • Ross Terrell

On Second Thought for Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Efrain de la Rosa, a 40-year-old detainee at ICE’s Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, was found dead in his cell last Tuesday. Immigration and Customs...

July 18, 2018
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott ,
  • Fenly Foxen ,
  • and 3 more
 Mayor Keisha Bottoms on Wednesday signed an executive order to prevent immigration detainees from being housed in the city jail.

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms Signs Executive Order Pertaining to Separation of Families

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Wednesday called the separation of immigrant families at the country’s Southern border “despicable,” and said the...

June 21, 2018
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By:
  • Camile Ervin

On Second Thought For Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Georgia is a hub of multiculturalism. At Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, there’s a new class tapping into that topic. It's called " Literary Tribalism...

May 09, 2018
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  • La'Raven Taylor ,
  • Adam Ragusea ,
  • and 4 more
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