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Immigration agency leader resigns, only weeks in office
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement resigned Wednesday, only weeks after taking over the agency that detains and deports immigrants and runs international criminal investigations. Jonathan Fahey gave no explanation for his abrupt departure in a brief email to...
Community fights to save Thibodaux teacher from deportation
THIBODAUX, La. (AP) — When Thibodaux teacher Djibril Coulibaly didn’t show up to school last month, his friends and family feared the worst. They later learned he had been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, was transported to a detention center and now awaits...
Sheriff pulls out of controversial immigration program
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — The new sheriff for a diverse Atlanta-area county has canceled the county's participation in a controversial program that allows for warrantless detention of arrestees at the request of federal immigration authorities. Shortly after being sworn in Friday, Sheriff Keybo Taylor...
2020: Pandemic, politics, and passing of a civil rights icon
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic and its imprint on politics, education, work and society in all corners of Georgia made headlines throughout most of 2020. But the year also included the high-stakes November election and early voting in a pair of Senate run-off elections that cast a white-hot...
Editorial Roundup: New England
Recent editorials of regional and national interest from New England’s newspapers: CONNECTICUT: More cash for money pit Republican-American Dec. 20 Come January, work will begin on the latest upgrade to Hartford’s XL Center, formerly known as the Hartford Civic Center. The project is expected to...
Civil rights group sues sheriff over immigration enforcement
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — A Boston civil rights group is taking a sheriff's office in Massachusetts to court over its involvement in federal immigration enforcement matters. Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a petition with the state Supreme Judicial Court on Monday, asking the state's highest court to nullify...
Judge won't speed bail hearings at Tacoma immigration lockup
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge has declined to order speedier bail hearings for detainees at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lockup in Tacoma who are especially at risk from COVID-19, despite recent cases there. Attorneys for the detainees asked U.S. District Judge James L. Robart in Seattle...
US plans family deportations, including girl with broken arm
HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4-year-old girl with a broken arm requiring surgery, according to lawyers for the families. Medical records show that doctors at the Dilley,...
Cuomo signs law limiting ICE arrests at state courthouses
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed a law limiting the circumstances under which Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials can arrest people on immigration violations at state courthouses. The law, passed by the state Senate and Assembly in July, requires a warrant signed...
State faults officers' use of force against ICE detainees
BOSTON (AP) — Officers at a Dartmouth detention center used excessive force when they deployed pepper spray, police dogs and a flash bang device against inmates who refused to be tested for COVID-19, according to a state report released Tuesday. In a scathing report, the Massachusetts attorney general's...
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