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ICE explores opening new detention center in Maryland
BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. immigration officials are considering opening a detention center in Maryland that could house hundreds of men and women. The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement advertised on a federal contracts forum to seek potential locations. A new facility...
Maine making it easier for asylum seekers to quality for aid
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's Democratic governor is expanding assistance to an influx of prospective asylum seekers and urging the federal government to also provide funding. Gov. Janet Mills says Thursday her administration's new regulations will allow asylum seekers to qualify for general assistance...
Clerk fired after altercation with Hispanic customers
CHICAGO (AP) — A clerk at a suburban Chicago gas station has been fired after a video was posted on social media appears to show him telling Hispanic customers to "go back to their country." The general counsel for the parent company of Bucky's Mobil gas station in Naperville says the employee who was...
Feds: Man charged with killing 3 had been deported twice
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a Guatemalan man charged with killing an Iowa woman and her two children had been deported twice from the U.S. and is believed to be in the country illegally. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday night that 31-year-old Marvin Oswaldo...
Sea-Watch 3 captain calls for EU action on migrants rescues
ROME (AP) — A German humanitarian ship captain who eluded an Italian effort to block her from docking at an Italian port with migrants onboard has called for the European Commission to do its best to avoid new political standoffs. Carola Rackete, captain of the Dutch-flagged Sea-Watch 3, was questioned by...
10 arrested during sit-in protest at ICE headquarters in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) — Protesters angered by the federal detainment of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border blocked access to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington, D.C., and staged a sit-in. News outlets reports at least 10 sit-in demonstrators were arrested and charged with unlawful...
Asylum seekers waiting in Nuevo Laredo fear lurking dangers
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — The round-faced woman from La Ceiba, Honduras, and her 5- and 12-year-old sons arrived in this city across the border from Laredo, Texas, where she had been promised a job and hoped to build a new life. Instead they were met by unidentified men, taken to a hotel, held in a room...
Asylum ban may further strain immigrant detention facilities
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A new policy to deny asylum to anyone who shows up on the Mexican border after traveling through another country threatens to exacerbate overcrowding at severely strained U.S. immigration detention centers and makeshift holding areas. Photos and video of Vice President Mike Pence's visit...
Trump vs. Dems: 'Racist,' 'socialist' lines drawn for 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — With tweets and a vote, President Donald Trump and House Democrats established the sharp and emotionally raw contours of the 2020 election campaigns. In the process, they have created a fraught political frame: "racists" vs. "socialists." Trump's aggressive condemnation of women of color...
US detains immigrant after he spends year in Seattle church
TUKWILA, Wash. (AP) — An immigrant who has spent the past year inside a Seattle church to avoid being deported to Mexico was detained Wednesday after presenting himself to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The arrest prompted protests from a crowd of supporters who had accompanied Jose...
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