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News Articles: Immigration and Customs Enforcement

A friend of Ximena Arias-Cristobal's family holds up a sign plastered with several photos of the 19-year-old, during a protest against the detainment of her and her father, Jose Arias-Tovar, in Dalton on May 14, 2025. Arias-Cristobal was arrested by local police during a traffic stop and sent to an ICE detention center in South Georgia shortly after, because she does not have valid U.S. citizenship.

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  • Politics

In Dalton, a community rallies for the release of student detained by immigration officials

Local charges against Ximena Arias-Cristobal have been dropped, but she remains in a South Georgia detention center.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Sarah Kallis
President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

Trump administration strips schools, churches of immigration enforcement protections

The memo rescinds a Biden administration guideline that created "protected areas" consisting of places where "children gather, disaster or emergency relief sites, and social services establishments."

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Detainees do a virtual visit with their attorneys or asylum officers at the Port Isabel Detention Center hosted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Harlingen Enforcement and Removal Operations center on June 10, 2024 in Los Fresnos, Texas.

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  • Politics

ICE estimates it would need $26.9 billion to enforce GOP deportation bill

An internal document from Immigration and Customs Enforcement concludes it would be "impossible" for it to enforce the Laken Riley Act without significantly more resources.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
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
A U.S. law enforcement officer stands guard by a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border at El Paso, Texas.

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  • Law

The Supreme Court sides with the Biden administration in a fight over immigration

The case concerned the administration's effort to set guidelines for whom immigration authorities can target for arrest and deportation. Texas and Louisiana had sued to block the guidelines.

June 23, 2023
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Claudio Rojas, who was deported from the U.S. in 2019, is silhouetted against a curtained window of his home in Moreno, Argentina, on May 8, 2021. He was able to return to the U.S. in August.

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  • National

An immigrant activist says ICE deported him in retaliation. Now he's back in the U.S.

The Biden administration has allowed several prominent immigrants' rights activists back into the U.S. after they charged that immigration authorities were retaliating against them for speaking out.

December 15, 2021
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By:
  • Joel Rose
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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  • National

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
While campaigning in November 2019, Joe Biden talked with a protester about his stance on deportations at a town hall at Lander University in Greenwood, S.C. The Biden administration says it will rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement, starting with a temporary moratorium on deportations.

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  • National

For Immigrants, Election Promises Relief From An 'Atmosphere Of Terror'

The 2020 election is expected to usher in a major shift in immigration enforcement — particularly in suburban Atlanta, where newly elected sheriffs are pledging to limit how they cooperate with ICE.

November 18, 2020
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Iván and his mother, Hilda Ramirez, have taken refuge in a suburban church in Austin, Texas, for more than four and a half years. She says they fled his abusive grandfather in Guatemala five years ago, made it to the Texas border, and asked for asylum from the Obama administration. But she says their treatment under President Trump has been worse.

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  • National

Sanctuary Immigrants Take Refuge In Texas Church, Watch Election Closely

President Trump's immigration policies are on the line and many are hoping Joe Biden will follow through on pledges to help immigrants and asylum-seekers if he wins the election.

November 02, 2020
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By:
  • John Burnett
Rep. Hank Johnson visits Irwin County Detention Center Saturday Sept. 26, 2020.

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  • Health

Congressional Members Describe 'Horror Show' At Georgia ICE Detention Center

The doctor at the center of a whistleblower complaint against a detention center in South Georgia allegedly used his bare hands to conduct unwanted, invasive gynecological exams, according to members of Congress who toured the facility Saturday.

September 26, 2020
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  • Ellen Eldridge
Dawn Wooten

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  • News

Congress Launches Inquiry Into South Georgia Immigrant Detention Center

Top U.S. House Democrats are investigating a whistleblower’s allegations that immigrant women in a Georgia detention center endured gynecological procedures without their consent or full understanding of the treatment that was being performed.

September 23, 2020
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  • Ariana Figueroa
Dawn Wooten speaks at a public event

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  • News

ICE Doctor Accused Of Performing Unwanted Hysterectomies Never Held Board Certification

Dr. Mahendra Amin never held a board certification from the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

September 21, 2020
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Protesters gather outside of the ICE field office in Atlanta on Tuesday morning.

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  • Health

Pelosi Demands Investigation Of Ga. Detention Facility, Whistleblower Alleges Forced Hysterectomies

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded an investigation into a detention center in Georgia where a whistleblower complaint alleges hysterectomies are being performed at high rates on women.  

September 15, 2020
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By:
  • Sarah Rose and
  • Wayne Drash
Simge Topaloğlu, a Turkish citizen pursuing her doctorate at Harvard University, was caught off-guard by a new international student visa regulation put forward by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this week.

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  • Education

'I Couldn't Believe My Eyes': International Students Blindsided By ICE Rule Change

As Harvard and MIT challenge a new visa requirement that doesn't allow for online-only curricula, students face difficult choices.

July 08, 2020
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  • Max Larkin
A statue of John Harvard, namesake of the university, overlooks the campus earlier this year. Harvard University joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in suing the federal government over its policies on international students Wednesday.

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  • Education

Harvard, MIT Sue Immigration Officials Over Rule Blocking Some International Students

The policy — which bars foreign students unless they have in-person classes — will "create as much chaos for universities and international students as possible," the schools said Wednesday.

July 08, 2020
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer
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