Over 900 Google employees urge company to cut ties with US immigration agencies Letter highlights Google’s role in ICE and CBP surveillance tools Employees demand disclosure of contracts and more support for affected workers More than 900 Google employees have signed an open letter condemning recent actions by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs…
A US Democratic Congressman, Joaquin Castro, shared about his meeting with Liam Conejo Ramos, the five-year-old detained by federal immigration authorities. He said that the kid is showing signs of depression after being held for days in a Texas detention facility.The Texas representative said he spent about 30 minutes with Liam Conejo Ramos and his…
Under a new guideline, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are now directed to “avoid engaging with the agitators” during their immigration crackdown, Reuters reported.Following the shooting of two US citizens during the anti-ICE protest in Minneapolis, new guidance for the enforcement officers says that they shall only target immigrants with criminal charges or convictions.“DO NOT…
File photo: Tom Homan (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has announced that his border czar, Tom Homan, will be sent to Minneapolis, a city that has emerged as the epicentre of protests against the administration’s immigration enforcement tactics following two fatal shootings involving federal agents this month. Trump on Monday said Homan would…
Anti-ICE crowd chase off pro-ICE demonstrators from Minneapolis streets (AP photo) A January 6 rioter pardoned by US President Donald Trump led a small pro-ICE rally in Minneapolis on Saturday, but was quickly swamped by a much larger counter-protest against Trump’s immigration crackdown and the surge of federal agents in the city.Jake Lang, one of…
A video of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer slipping on ice has gone viral online, drawing widespread attention and criticism. In the clip, the agent loses his balance and falls while walking on a patch of ice, prompting social media users to ridicule the federal agency amid heightened scrutiny of its actions in Minnesota….
Protesters in Minnesota (AP photo) Anger over the killing of a woman by a US immigration agent in Minneapolis spilled onto the streets across US on Saturday. The demonstrations came three days after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a US citizen, during an encounter in south Minneapolis. She was sitting in…
Renee Nicole Good lived a few blocks from where she died. She was 37, a US-born citizen, a poet, and a mother of three. On a winter morning in south Minneapolis, during a large federal immigration enforcement operation, she was shot and killed by an officer from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while seated…
US President Trump defended his administration’s ICE raids and argued “they haven’t gone far enough” in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night, his first sit-down with CBS News since suing the network. The interview was filmed Friday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He dismissed criticism of his immigration crackdown and blamed “the…
Alejandro Jaurez and family/ Image:X Alejandro Juarez’s case exposes severe procedural lapses inside the US immigration system, after officials accidentally deported him across the southern border before realising the mistake. The 39-year-old father of four, once employed at Donald Trump’s golf club in New York, is now at the centre of a controversy that has…