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A federal judge in California ruled over the weekend that her previous order to release migrant children from ICE custody by Monday is now “unenforceable.”

Legal groups sued the U.S. government Friday in an attempt to prevent the rapid expulsion of children that the Trump administration detained in hotel rooms under an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus

Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego was the site of the first big outbreak at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 221 detention centers

More than 200 universities are backing a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy saying international students cannot stay in the country if they take all their classes online in the fall.

Northeastern University announced Wednesday afternoon that it would join Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in filing a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over new rules barring international students from living in the country while taking online courses. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, asks...

ICE has retracted a temporary rule that allowed foreign students to attend school online during the coronavirus pandemic — potentially forcing many out of the U.S. and preventing others from arriving in the fall. Rosanna Berardi, an immigration attorney, explains how the new rule is an extension of the Trump Administration’s attack on legal immigration.

With a growing number of colleges planning to offer fall classes online, many international students will not be able to stay in U.S., according to new rules issued Monday. That could mean a significant hit to school budgets — and student aid. Under the guidelines issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, “students attending schools operating entirely online may not take a full...

An immigrant detainee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center is alleging that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are failing to protect detainees from an “uncontrollable outbreak” of COVID-19 inside the facility.

A mother is reporting that her son was arrested by ICE agents Thursday morning outside his residence in South Los Angeles, allegedly using false information.

Doctors fear a wave of new infections will explode into communities around ICE detention centers.

Federal officials say the COVID-19 outbreak has unleashed a wave of fraud

A human rights organization with a Los Angeles office sent a letter to the state Supreme Court Friday, urging judges to stop the transfer of deportable non-citizens from jails and prisons to federal immigration detention centers during the coronavirus pandemic. In the friend of the court letter, Human Rights Watch submitted what it claims is evidence from its investigation into…

An inmate at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, which houses detained immigrants, says sick inmates are denied adequate medical care, that staff are not passing out masks, and he fears that people will soon start dying if nothing changes.  Over the course of the past three days, the number of detainees who tested positive for COVID-19 has increased. On...

Detained migrants inside Otay Mesa Detention Center say the federal government is underestimating the scope of the COVID-19 outbreak inside. As of April 28, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website lists 84 cases of inmates who have contracted the deadly virus. Those inside the immigration detention center, however, paint a much different picture, telling NBC 7 Investigates more than…

Immigrant rights advocates Thursday filed suit in Los Angeles seeking to stop ICE agents from allegedly conducting warrantless searches by impersonating local law enforcement. The proposed class-action suit was filed by the ACLU on behalf of Osny Sorto-Vasquez Kidd, a Hacienda Heights man and recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and two community organizations who contend that ICE officers…

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials must allow avenues for confidential conversations between detainees and attorneys at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Judge Jesus G. Bernal said the facility “must allow free, reasonably private legal calls on unrecorded and unmonitored telephone lines,...

Authorities say a 27-year-old Honduran man died by apparent suicide at one of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s family detention centers

A 22-year-old Guatemalan woman in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement died in a Texas hospital, the agency said Monday.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges that he sexually abused a teenage foster child. Carlos Nava, 30, is charged with four counts of committing a lewd act on a child 14 or 15 years old and three counts of oral copulation of a person under 18, according to Deputy District Attorney Kelsey…

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