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Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify, ...

The table is set, the food is ready, and guests are about to arrive — and you suddenly realize the ice cream you bought never made it into the freezer. What was meant to be dessert is now a meltdown — ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, said Wednesday it will issue a land use violation notice to the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, accusing the facility of detaining ...

Illinois senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth requested a meeting with the Department of Homeland Security to try and get detailed plans of exactly what federal agents are planning and how Great ...

Senator Edward J. Markey teamed up with fellow US Senator Ron Wyden, of Oregon, to demand answers from immigration officials about their use of facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology ...

The White House "Border Czar" says Chicago should expect a surge of immigration enforcement actions this week, and he says the use of National Guard troops to protect and support those operations is ...

PARK RIDGE, Ill. (AP) — It was 3:30 a.m. when 10 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gathered in a parking lot in the Chicago suburbs for a briefing about a suspect they were hoping to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, said Wednesday it will issue a land use violation notice to the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, accusing the facility of detaining ...

A federal immigration officer stands watch in a hallway at San Diego Immigration Court among volunteers there to help immigrants who might be detained. (File photo by Swasti Singhai/Times of San Diego ...