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An agreement signed by former Chicago Police Department Superintendent of Police Eddie Johnson in April allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “designate certain employees” of the Chicago police as customs officers. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and police officials are saying...

Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Chad Wolf requested a review of state DMV laws on immigration enforcement that allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driving licenses and how this affects DHS enforcement efforts. According to The Associated Press, on Tuesday,...

ICE inquiries into workplace immigration investigations of immigrants working illegally and employers illegally hiring undocumented workers have quadrupled under the Trump administration, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.  Investigators with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace...

16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill on May 19 when immigration agents put him in a small South Texas holding cell with another sick boy. A nurse practitioner at the Border Patrol processing center in...

In what is believed to the first case in the United States, a New York City judge had a landlord fined $17,000 for threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on immigrant renters. The complaint said that the landlord...

Illinois immigrant families may lose medical care under a new Trump administration decision, and immigrant families with serious illnesses may be facing deportation. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) on August 7, 2019, stopped accepting and adjudicating medical deferred action...

Phone scammers have been calling U.S. citizens in Palos Park, a suburb southwest of Chicago. Palos Park police said in early August, 2 people received fraudulent calls from someone pretending to be an ICE agent with the threat of deportation....

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has permanently banned ICE officials from accessing the city’s police databases. Ahead of the July ICE raids, Lightfoot committed that the city would not coordinate with ICE and would be met with “fierce resistance from Chicagoans...

If someone is arrested and detained on an immigration charge by the Department of Homeland Security, they may be held in a detention center to wait until their hearing. One option to get out of the detention facility while waiting...

NPR is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is fining individuals who failed to depart the United States as ordered. According to NPR, during the last week of June letters with ICE fines up to $500,000 were sent across...