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Feds consider criminal charges against ICE officer accused in January shooting of Venezuelan immigrant in Minnesota

nglobix@gmail.com2 weeks ago04 mins

Federal prosecutors are considering bringing criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who is accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in the leg during the Trump administration’s federal immigration surge in Minnesota in January, according to multiple sources familiar with the deliberations. The officer, Christian Castro, was charged in May by local prosecutors…

He spied for the U.S. in the war on terror. Now ICE wants to deport him.

nglobix@gmail.com3 weeks ago07 mins

The Trump administration is trying to deport a self-described CIA spy who infiltrated al Qaeda after 9/11 and won his permission to live in the U.S. by helping convict terrorists. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Blerim Skoro, a Kosovo-born father of three, outside an immigration office in New Jersey where he was renewing his…

Justice Department expands military’s power to detain migrants accused of trespassing

nglobix@gmail.com4 weeks ago03 mins

The Justice Department on Friday issued a legal opinion giving the U.S. military broader powers to detain migrants accused of trespassing in areas that the Department of Defense controls as part of President Trump’s crackdown at the southern border. The opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concerns large swaths of land near…

DOJ seeks to empower immigration judges to hold lawyers and their clients in contempt

nglobix@gmail.com1 month ago04 mins

The Justice Department is proposing a new rule to empower federal immigration judges to hold attorneys, their clients and witnesses in contempt if they violate court orders, in a move that departs from historical practice and which legal experts warn could be unconstitutional. The regulatory proposal by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, an office of…

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Reports of airport immigration arrests come amid increased TSA-ICE collaboration, sources say

nglobix@gmail.com1 month ago03 mins

Recent reports of immigration arrests at U.S. airports, some of them captured in videos that have gone viral, stem from increased collaboration between the Transportation Security Agency and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE sources tell CBS News. TSA has been sharing more information about noncitizen travelers with ICE, including on immigrants who lack criminal records but…

DOJ tests limits of secretive, never-before-used court to deport suspected terrorist

nglobix@gmail.com1 month ago07 mins

The Justice Department is now attempting to use a decades-old, secretive federal immigration court that has never been used in a test case that could allow it to expedite the deportation of suspected “alien terrorists.” The Alien Terrorist Removal Court was created by Congress in 1996 and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. It…

Judge orders immigration officials to free key witness in deadly Texas ICE shooting

nglobix@gmail.com2 months ago03 mins

Houston — A federal judge on Monday ordered U.S. immigration authorities to release a key witness in the fatal shooting of a Mexican homebuilder by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston. U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison ordered the release of Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego from ICE custody within 48 hours, after the…