"I want to cause terror," the gunman behind Wednesday's deadly attack on a Dallas ICE immigration facility allegedly wrote in a note, according to authorities.
Outside of the Atlanta ICE field office on Friday, a group of supporters called for the release of Rodney Taylor, a disabled Georgia barber detained by federal immigration officials.
State leaders gathered for the groundbreaking of the 2000-acre Rivian electric vehicle factory east of Atlanta. Speakers at the ceremony included Gov. Brian Kemp, Newton County officials, and Rivian founder RJ Scaringe.
A plane carrying more than 300 workers from South Korea who were detained during an immigration raid on a battery factory in Georgia last week has left Atlanta bound for South Korea. The workers had been held at an immigration detention center in southeast Georgia and were bused to Atlanta on Thursday for their flight, which is expected to land in South Korea on Friday afternoon.
U.S. immigration officials say some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles.
South Korea on Friday expressed “concern and regret” over a major U.S. immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles, which officials said led to the detainment of a significant number of South Korean nationals.
Immigration agents are conducting a raid at the sprawling industrial site where Hyundai makes electric vehicles in Southeast Georgia. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Lindsay Williams said the operation Thursday focused on the site where construction workers are building a separate factory for making batteries that power EVs.
According to records, no local law enforcement in Colquitt County had officers trained by ICE before a May 12 joint patrol shook the immigrant community.
An investigation by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff alleges more than 500 counts of human rights abuses in immigration detention, including the abuse of pregnant women and children.
On the July 31 edition: Gwinnett County leads the state in ICE detentions; state Democrats push back against health care cuts that could jeopardize nursing home funds; and Savannah's iconic Forsyth Park fountain gets a deep clean after decades.
Attorneys, family members and journalism advocates gathered at the state Capitol on Tuesday to call for the release of Mario Guevara, a Spanish language journalist detained by immigration officials.
Born in the Philippines to an American father and Filipino mother, Alma Bowman came to the U.S. at age 10, grew up and had her own family as a citizen of the U.S. But the 59-year-old, ICE persists, is in the country illegally. GPB's Grant Blankenship explains.
