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For several years, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) subpoenaed financial services companies Western Union and Maxitransfers in California, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico to turn over all records for money transfers over $500. ICE obtained over 6...

McHenry County Jail was finally forced to put the Illinois Forward Act into effect on January 13 after a federal appellate court ruling that McHenry and Kankakee counties in Illinois must stop housing federal immigration detainees. Effective January 14, ICE...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will launch a pilot program in 2022 for ICE officials in some cities to wear body cameras. The December 21 announcement by Secretary Mayorkas said the body cam pilot program is to increase accountability and...

President Joe Biden has been in office for nearly 11 months. On his first day in office, January 20, 2021, Biden issued orders for temporary changes to the enforcement of the immigration law while a full review is underway. Newly...

A new memo issued on November 3 by DHS (Department of Homeland Security) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says that immigration authorities will limit arrests at schools, hospitals and other “protected” areas. The new policy limits immigration arrests at protected such as...

The Illinois General Assembly passed the Illinois Way Forward Act, a bill that will close all ICE detention centers in the state and severely restrict how local law enforcement can work with federal immigration agents. Cities and counties will be...

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is ending a program started under the Trump administration that investigated crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. The Victim of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) office was opened in April 2017 through a Presidential executive order. The...

La Ley TRUST de Illinois (SB-31) se promulgó en 2017 para restringir la transferencia de inmigrantes indocumentados a agencias federales sin una orden judicial. La ley prohíbe a las fuerzas del orden retener a alguien solo por una solicitud de...

The Illinois TRUST Act (SB-31) was enacted in 2017 to restrict local law enforcement from transferring undocumented immigrants over to federal agencies without a judicial warrant. The law prohibits law enforcement from holding someone just because of a request from...

Calling it 'a stain on our country,' a professor at Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health says ICE is failing to stop the spread of COVID in detention centers. Detainees at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention...