ICE arrests and other deportation enforcement are ramping up as President Donald Trump's orders rapidly shift the immigration law landscape. Here's how those process work.
Currently, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agencies are the only entities that can enforce immigration law. Here in Southwest Louisiana, local law enforcement agencies say they will cooperate if help is requested by the federal government.
Among President Trump’s many immigration policies implemented since he took office, his plan for mass deportations has rattled migrant communities in Colorado and beyond.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s air transportation branch, ICE Air Operations, runs deportation flights. The agency uses commercial or charter planes to fly migrants internationally to their countries of origin or internally to other U.S. detention centers.
The president authorized the military to assist in deportations. The planes triggered a crisis between the United States and Colombia, and prompted questions. Here’s what to know.
Over 3,000 undocumented Nigerians face U.S. deportation per ICE reports. Nigeria ranks second in Africa for removals amid Trump's strict immigration policies.
Three days after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declared an early accomplishment: the arrest, and deportation, of hundreds of immigrants she alleged were convicted of crimes. “We’re getting the bad, hard criminals out,” Trump told reporters the next day.
Andres Oppenheimer, a columnist for the "Miami Herald," said the Trump administration is targeting illegal immigrants with jobs.
A recent directive by the administration means U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials can conduct deportation raids at places previously off limits.
Rumors of ICE raids in the first week of Trump's presidency rattled a community that's been preparing for the his promise of mass deportation.
The Trump administration’s first flight deporting Brazilians involved aborted takeoffs, sweltering heat, emergency exits and shackled deportees on a wing.
Zeneyda Barrera, 18, was arrested at her home in Lynn Monday morning after a neighbor heard a commotion. Barrera is accused of pushing her 12-year-old brother during an argument over a cellphone, according to a Lynn Police Department report.