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A recent return of pre-Columbian objects to Mexico from a small town historical museum has raised questions about whether US agencies are encouraging citizens to give up privately owned objects for which there is no

The House Homeland Security Committee convened in Mississippi for a field hearing on Thursday, looking into the impacts of the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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BuzzFeed News has obtained thousands of pages of documents from internal investigations of deaths of immigrants held in ICE custody.

Top officials in the US Justice Department were the "driving force" behind President Donald Trump's controversial zero tolerance immigration policy that separated thousands of migrant children from their families, according to a draft of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation report reviewed by The New York Times.

In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general concluded that there was no clear reason for ICE to exist at all.

Advocates briefed senators on allegations that a doctor working with an ICE detention center performed unnecessary or overly aggressive procedures.

Dismantling the government's immigration-enforcement agency isn't as straightforward as the slogan suggests.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Court-appointed lawyers said Tuesday that they have been unable to find parents of 545 children who were separated at the U...

Lawyers are now of the belief that 666 parents of migrant children separated at the border cannot be located.

Regardless of whether Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone or challenger Jerry Sheridan wins election in November, ICE will remain in MCSO jails.

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The raids are set to begin in 10 cities: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco.

U.S. authorities caught more than 171,000 migrants at the U.S. border with Mexico in March, according to preliminary data shared with Reuters, the highest monthly total in two decades and the latest sign of the mounting humanitarian challenge confronting President Joe Biden.

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Family separations at the border are driving calls to abolish the agency seen as villain

Immigration officials are accused of allowing improper gynaecological procedures on detainees without their knowledge.

While the COVID-19 epidemic has changed everything, one thing remains the same: The detention of families with minor children is unjustifiable.

Activists and politicians want a total overhaul of immigration enforcement—but do we have a real plan?

Ten-year-old Leonardo had not seen his mother in years. His hope, as he set out from Guatemala with his aunt and her young daughter, was that they would all be able to reunite with his mother, Emiliana, in California together.

In the weeks ahead, local jurisdictions that currently collaborate with the federal government to enforce federal immigration laws must make a choice: protect their immigrant residents or remain complicit in President Trump’s deportation agenda.

As part of ICE, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) examines, deters and interdicts threats arising from the movement of people and...

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced a new 18-month designation of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) mission is to protect America from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety. This mission is executed through the enforcement of more than 400 federal statutes and focuses on smart immigration enforcement, preventin

The left’s rallying cry is a repudiation of Trump’s immigration policy — and a challenge to Democrats.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has become a political lightning rod in recent months. Out of the debate surrounding ICE and the Trump administration’s immigration policies come two separate issues that need to be addressed. First, are today’s immigration policies legal and sufficiently humane? There is a broad consensus, among elements of both the Left […]

We explain the movement calling for eliminating U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Trump administration Tuesday dropped a proposal to order international students home if their schools were not offering in-person classes this fall, a move challenged in court by 18 states and colleges across the country, including all three of Arizona's public universities.