A U.S. Senate investigation has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers across the country — detainees are denied insulin, left without medical care for days and forced to compete for clean water — raising scrutiny over how the government oversees its vast detention system. The report…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge overseeing the Trump administration’s prosecution of U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver on charges that she assaulted and impeded immigration agents outside a New Jersey detention center told the government to remove social media posts he called “harmful” to the congresswoman. District Judge Jamel Semper on Tuesday heard pretrial arguments…
CHICAGO — In a parking lot outside O’Hare International Airport Monday afternoon, a man prayed next to his car as a plane took off. The parking lot, just east of the airport’s Terminal 5, is where Uber and Lyft drivers wait for ride-sharing apps to assign them passengers. There, drivers make phone calls and have…
A senior Department of Homeland Security official has been caught publishing wildly inaccurate information about the violent arrest of an American teenager. Last month, the Daily Beast exposed how DHS Deputy Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, Interior Secretary Kristi Noem’s top communications official, had falsely smeared a mother who lost her baby while being held by ICE…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration had violated his earlier court order by implementing a nearly identical policy that again made state cooperation with federal immigration authorities a condition of receiving grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. U.S. District Judge William Smith in Providence, Rhode Island,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federal government has awarded 10 construction contracts worth $4.5 billion that will add 230 miles of barrier along the U.S. southwest border, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. The contracts will add hundreds of miles to the border security system called Smart Wall that includes steel barriers, water barriers,…
