Immigration Customs and Enforcement

ICE Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, David Marin and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Fugitive Operations team make an arrest at a home in Paramount, Calif., on March 1, 2020.

Biden's limits on ICE offered hope. But immigrant advocates say he's broken promises

12:45pm January 21, 2022

by Joel Rose

The Biden administration promised big changes on immigration enforcement, including limits on whom ICE should arrest and deport. But so far, advocates say the reality is falling short of the rhetoric.

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ICE, a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security, has issued guidelines preventing newly enrolled international students from studying in the U.S. if their colleges are operating only online this fall.

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ICE Confirms New Foreign Students Can't Take Online-Only Course Loads In The U.S.

7:34pm July 24, 2020

by Rachel Treisman

The agency says Friday that guidance granting visa flexibility to international students only applies to those who were actively enrolled at a U.S. school on March 9.

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Federal Judge Orders ICE To Release Detainees At 3 Florida Facilities

2:24pm May 01, 2020

by Greg Allen

The judge ruled that crowded conditions exposing detainees to COVID-19 violate their constitutional rights. She ordered ICE to reduce populations at the centers to 75% of capacity within two weeks.

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Judge Orders 10 ICE Detainees Released From N.J. Jails Over COVID-19 Concerns

9:41am March 27, 2020

by Scott Neuman

The detainees range in age from 31 to 56 years of age and have medical conditions including diabetes, heart disease and obesity — making them particularly vulnerable to the disease.

A guard walks with a detainee in the intake area at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in 2019. A previously confidential report obtained by NPR found "negligent" medical care and other problems at the facility.

Despite Findings Of 'Negligent' Care, ICE To Expand Troubled Calif. Detention Center

6:09pm January 15, 2020

by Tom Dreisbach

A previously confidential report obtained by NPR found major failings at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, one of the nation's largest immigration detention centers.

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An Elaborate ICE Sting Set Up A Fake College To Lure Student Visa Fraud

5:57am November 29, 2019

by Steve Inskeep

The agency arrested about 250 people, many of them Indian, who enrolled at the made-up University of Farmington. Few are contesting their orders to deport.

The Pew Research Center estimates there are 7.5 million unauthorized workers in the United States concentrated in agriculture, construction and the hospitality industry.

Employers Struggle With Hiring Undocumented Workers: 'You Cannot Hire American Here'

8:51am August 21, 2019

by John Burnett

Unauthorized immigrants often do manual, low-paying jobs, and employers say they have no choice but to hire them. But the White House and advocates for lower immigration say the law is the law.

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A Guatemalan teen asylum-seeker (left), who isn't able to hear or speak, signs with his mom in Florida. He was brusquely separated from her and held in a shelter for nearly three months, unable to readily communicate, according to a civil rights complaint

Homeland Security's Civil Rights Unit Lacks Power To Protect Migrant Kids

9:00am August 02, 2019

A former official in the civil rights office says the unit seems afraid to offend U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ICE. Meanwhile, the complaints of abuses of families continue to pile up.

A razor wire fence surrounds the Adelanto immigration detention center, in Adelanto, Calif., April 13, 2017.

'No Meaningful Oversight': ICE Contractor Overlooked Problems At Detention Centers

6:01pm July 17, 2019

by Yuki Noguchi

Public scrutiny of the health and safety conditions at immigration detention centers is growing. But the contractor ICE hired to inspect those conditions is accused of ignoring problems for years.

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Bianey Reyes (center) and others protest the separation of children from their parents in front of El Paso Processing Center, an immigration detention facility, at the Mexican border on June 19, 2018, in El Paso, Texas.

Opinion: The 'Filthy And Uncomfortable Circumstances' Of Detained Migrant Children

2:12pm June 22, 2019

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the unsanitary conditions for detained migrant children in border detention facilities.

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