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News Articles: ICE

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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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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  • Nick Wooten
Snow covers the Virginia Beach, Va., oceanfront on Saturday.

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Coastal Virginia and the Carolinas get snow and ice

A winter weather system brought colder temperatures and precipitation not often seen in the region. Authorities urged drivers to stay off the roads, which forecasters said are slick and snow-packed.

January 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Dawn Wooten

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Georgia Today: After ICE Detainee Abuse Allegations, Will Rural Georgia County's Jail Jobs Remain?

A jail used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain migrants is nearly empty in the wake of complaints filed against the facility. Among the complaints is a whistleblower allegation from a nurse claiming some female detainees at Irwin County Detention Center were forced to undergo hysterectomies. The jail has also been criticized for failing to protect immigrants and jail staff from COVID-19. Now, Irwin County officials worry the facility, which also houses federal and county inmates and is the area's largest private employer, may eventually be shut down, taking much-needed jobs with it.

September 17, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Harris County, Texas, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez during a 2017 news conference in Crosby, Texas. President Biden has nominated Gonzalez to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of an attempt to overhaul the agency.

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Biden's Pick To Lead ICE Would Take Over An Agency In Turmoil

Sheriff Ed Gonzalez runs one of the nation's biggest jails in Houston. If confirmed by the Senate, he'll be tasked with overhauling ICE, an agency he's criticized for its aggressive tactics.

July 15, 2021
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  • Joel Rose
Clive Thompson reads aloud the letter that means he and his wife, Oneita, no longer need to fear deportation. They are joined by their son, Timothy, 15.

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'All Our Opportunity Was Taken Away': Sanctuary Family Slowly Restarts Life

The Thompsons, originally from Jamaica, spent 843 days living in churches in Philadelphia to avoid deportation. Now they are free, but reentry comes with new challenges.

May 13, 2021
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  • Laura Benshoff
Protesters in Baltimore call for the abolition of ICE in 2019.

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Biden Administration Limits Power Of ICE To Arrest Immigrants In Courthouses

The decision rolls back a Trump administration practice of seizing people who were in courthouses for reasons unrelated to their immigration status.

April 27, 2021
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By:
  • Mark Katkov
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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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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  • 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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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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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015.

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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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  • 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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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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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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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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  • 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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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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  • 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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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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  • 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
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