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ICE is keeping pregnant women in detention where they are not getting the medical care they need.
08/18/2026

ICE is keeping pregnant women in detention where they are not getting the medical care they need.

08/11/2026

You can’t make this stuff up: ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ according to The Associated Press.

08/05/2026

The Department of Homeland Security has begun summoning Haitian immigrants in Ohio for check-ins with ICE, forcing them to wear ankle monitors after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end their temporary protected status. According to The Washington Post, many Haitians have ongoing asylum claims and no deportation orders, yet face travel restrictions and pressure to self-deport.

07/28/2026

With a lawyer, immigrant families are up to 10 times more likely to win their case. Thank you for giving families a fighting chance. ♥️ Wendy Ortiz

07/23/2026

BABES, do not fall for it.

07/18/2026

A DHS official has confirmed David Brouillette, 37, is the ICE agent who killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, according to the Maine News Center.

Officials believe Brouillette “likely did not go through in-person training before working for ICE.”

Local immigrant rights groups identified the man killed as a 26-year-old Colombian man who was legally authorized to wor...
07/13/2026

Local immigrant rights groups identified the man killed as a 26-year-old Colombian man who was legally authorized to work in the U.S. Federal officials late Monday confirmed he was not the person named in the warrant, according to NBC News.

07/10/2026

President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday she believes the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is considered a “homicide.”

07/08/2026

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was driving in Houston’s East End area when ICE agents shot and killed him. Salgado Araujo had been part of the Houston community for the last 35 years, his son Ronaldo Salgado said at a Wednesday news conference.

Ronaldo said his father’s dream was to build a house for himself and his family, just like the hundreds he had built for others over his career.

“That’s how I want the world to know my father, not as someone who got shot and killed, but as a family man,” Salgado said at the news conference.

As The Washington Post noted: “ICE’s account of Salgado Araujo’s killing echoed many of the statements the agency quickly issued in other shootings that resulted in fatalities or injuries to undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens.”

07/01/2026

Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass in McAllen, Texas, when federal immigration officers stopped her, confiscated her rosary and put her in handcuffs.

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