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Forbes
5 days ago
- General
- Forbes
Andy Ogles Discusses Calling For House Investigations Into Nashville Mayor Critical Of ICE Operations
After ICE arrested close to 200 people in Nashville earlier this month, Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) called on the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees to investigate Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell, who was critical of the operation. Ogles joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss. Watch the full interview above.
Fox News
5 days ago
- General
- Fox News
Trump administration sets new goal of 3,000 illegal immigrant arrests daily
The Trump administration has a new goal of 3,000 arrests of illegal immigrants daily, which was publicly confirmed by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. "Under President Trump's leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day," Miller told "Hannity" on Wednesday night, saying the number is going to keep getting bumped higher over time. His response comes after an Axios report that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Miller were said to be backing the 3,000 daily figure in a meeting last week at ICE headquarters. On "America's Newsroom" on Thursday morning, border czar Tom Homan reaffirmed his statement, saying that officials are "asking for an increase" in arrests. "We've gotta increase these arrests and removals," Homan said. "The numbers are good, but I'm not satisfied. I haven't been satisfied all year long," noting that there's a major "public safety" risk with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants still in the country from the Biden administration and earlier. For those that do not already have rap sheets, DHS is encouraging them to self-deport with a covered commercial flight and an $1,000 stipend for exiting. During Trump's first 100 days, ICE arrested 66,463 illegal immigrants, and more than 65,000 illegal immigrants were deported. Of that figure, more than 17,000 had criminal convictions or charges for crimes such as driving under the influence, assault, or "weapon offenses," according to ICE. The agency deported 17,200 people in April, which is roughly 4,000 higher than the year prior, when former President Joe Biden was in office, according to NBC News. "Under Secretary Noem, we are delivering on President Trump and the American people's mandate to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens and make America safe," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin stated. The goal increases as the administration pushes Congress to pass the reconciliation bill, which has just been passed by the House. The bill is expected to ramp up funding to get 10,000 more ICE agents and tens of thousands more beds for detention facilities. "This bill will add infrastructure and technology to make our gains on the borders permanent. It puts more boots on the ground to target cartel activity, alien smuggling, child trafficking and drug smuggling. It will provide the needed funds and manpower to increase the great work of ICE on our deportation operations nationwide," Homan said of the bill after its House passage, according to the White House.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
ICE detains asylum seekers, UNLV immigration clinic says
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — UNLV's Immigration Clinic said ICE arrested six asylum seekers looking for ways to legally stay in the United States. Attorneys with the clinic said the federal government may be seeking ways to rapidly deport the men. 'We are concerned that the government will try to use something called expedited removal to deport them without ever going back before a judge,' UNLV Immigration Clinic Director Michael Kagan said. Kagan said they've confirmed ICE arrested the men, who are now behind bars in Pahrump. 'It's really unclear whether they are being legally detained right now,' he said. Kagan said the Department of Homeland Security found some of the men had a credible fear of persecution or torture in their home countries and were going through the legal process to determine if they should be deported. 'And yet DHS has decided, well, let's just stop the deportation proceedings and arrest them anyway,' Kagan said. He said the move strips the men of their due process that they're owed by the legal system, and says it causes concern for the rest of the country. 'It's very dangerous that this administration is constantly trying to find ways to avoid courts, to avoid the idea that everyone in America has their day in court, and in the end, it threatens all of our rights,' Kagan said. In a statement posted on X, the Nevada GOP said, '@unlv and @nshe should be stripped of federal funding until they stop being sanctuary campuses for illegal aliens! No public money for illegals, hard stop.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
The Guardian
22-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ice arrests at immigration courts across the US stirring panic: ‘It's terrifying'
Federal authorities have arrested people at US immigration courts from New York to Arizona to Washington state in what appears to be a coordinated operation, as the Trump administration ramps up the president's mass deportation campaign. On Tuesday, agents who identified themselves only as federal officers arrested multiple people at an immigration court in Phoenix, taking people into custody outside the facility, according to immigrant advocates. In Miami on Wednesday, Juan Serrano, a 28-year-old who immigrated from Colombia, went to court for a quick check-in where a judge soon told him he was free to go. When he left the courtroom, federal agents waiting outside cuffed him and placed him in a van with several other immigrants detained that day. Journalists, advocates and attorneys reported seeing Ice agents poised to make arrests this week at immigration courthouses in Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York, Seattle, Chicago and Texas. Arrests near or in the immigration courts, which are part of the US Department of Justice, are typically rare – in part due to concerns that the fear of being detained by Ice officers could discourage people from appearing. 'It's bad policy,' said Lindsay Toczylowski, president of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef). 'By putting immigration officers in the courtrooms, they're discouraging people from following the processes, punishing people for following the rules.' Toczylowski noted several Ice officers both inside and outside an immigration courtroom in Los Angles this week, but said she did not see any arrests made there. She said that immigrants without lawyers are especially vulnerable, as they may not understand the exact information and context they need to provide in order to advance their case for asylum or other pathways to permanent residency in the US. ImmDef and other legal groups are sending attorneys to courtrooms they believe may be targeted by Ice officials, to try to provide basic legal education and aid to people appearing at required appointments. The presence of agents is stirring panic, she said. 'People are being detained and handcuffed in the hallway,' she said. 'Can you imagine what you would be thinking, if you're waiting there with your family and children, about to see a judge? It's terrifying.' The agents' targeting of immigrants at court comes as the Trump administration faces multiple lawsuits and the president attempts to enact the large-scale deportations he promised during his campaign. 'All this is to accelerate detentions and expedite removals,' said Wilfredo Allen, an immigration attorney with decades of experience representing immigrants at the Miami immigration court. The Trump administration has revived a 2019 policy that allows for 'expedited removals' – fast-tracked deportation proceedings for people who have been in the US for less than two years. Immigrants who cannot prove that they have been in the US for longer than two years are subject to having their cases dismissed and being immediately expelled from the country. Under the Biden administration, expedited removals were limited to people apprehended within 100 miles (160km) of the US border, and who had been in the US for less than two weeks. In Phoenix, immigrant advocates gathered outside immigration court to protest the presence of Ice agents. 'We witnessed parents and children being detained and abducted into unmarked vans immediately after attending their scheduled immigration proceedings,' said Monica Sandschafer, the Arizona state director for the advocacy group Mi Familia Vota. 'We demand an immediate stop to these hateful tactics.' Three US immigration officials told the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity that government attorneys were given the order to start dismissing cases when they showed up for work Monday, and were aware that federal agents would then be able to arrest those individuals when they left the courtroom. In the case of Serrano in Miami, the request for dismissal was delivered by a government attorney who spoke without identifying herself on the record, the Associated Press reported. She refused to provide her name to the AP and quickly exited the courtroom. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement this week that it was detaining people who are subject to fast-track deportation authority. Advocates and lawyers are advising immigrants with upcoming hearings or court appearances to bring a trusted family member or friend who is a US citizen and ideally, a lawyer, to their appointments. The Associated Press contributed
The Independent
14-05-2025
- Politics
- The Independent
Moment masked ICE agents leave a child alone on the street as they arrest the person he was walking with
Video footage shows the moment a child was left alone on the street after agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested the person the child was walking with on a sidewalk on Fenton Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The video was shared with Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra by Waltham City Councilor Colleen Bradley-MacArthur. She filmed the video while taking part in a volunteer neighborhood watch walk. Masked officers used multiple vehicles to block the road. One officer drove past her. 'You stay here and don't interfere,' the officer said when she asked which agency they were with, according to the councilwoman. Bradley-MacArthur told NBC that she backed off but continued to record. 'I couldn't believe that they would just leave someone there,' she said. 'The masks, right — that's so frightening to see masked men blocking the road, with the lights and the sirens.' Bradley-MacArthur said she was scared and angry for the child, adding that 'it felt like our community — seeing the video today — is under siege.' She told the network that the ICE agents left the scene without providing any help to the child to get back home. Volunteers from the group the councilwoman was working with escorted the child back home. There have been further ICE arrests in Waltham in the last few weeks. On Tuesday morning, two men were detained as they were traveling in the same vehicle. One of the men was removed by force after agents asked for identification and subsequently smashed the vehicle window. Last week, federal agents were also spotted outside the district courthouse. In one of the more high-profile cases of people being snatched off the street by ICE, Tufts University scholar Rumeysa Ozturk was locked up for more than six weeks after writing a pro-Palestinian op-ed in her student newspaper. Ozturk left an ICE facility in Louisiana on Friday night after a federal judge ordered her immediate release. She had been arrested outside her Massachusetts apartment on March 25. Similarly, a University of Florida student was detained in March during a traffic stop conducted by ICE. Felipe Zapata Velásquez, 27, from Colombia, disappeared after the traffic stop in Gainesville, his mother, Claudia Velásquez, told NTN24, a Colombian news outlet. Zapata Velásquez was detained on March 28 after driving without a license. According to WPLG, he was processing the I-20 form needed to apply for a license when he was detained. He was taken to Jacksonville and given the options of remaining in jail or signing a deportation order. He chose the latter, reportedly without an attorney present, WPLG noted. Late last month, more than 300 federal agents raided what the Drug Enforcement Administration called an 'underground nightclub' in Colorado Springs. Firearms and drugs were also seized in the raid, which took place around 3:45 a.m. President Donald Trump took to Truth Social at the time to celebrate the raid, writing that it was conducted against 'some of the worst people illegally in our Country — Drug Dealers, Murderers, and other Violent Criminals, of all shapes and sizes, and Judges don't want to send them back to where they came from.'
