Federal immigration officials are force-feeding six immigrants through plastic nasal tubes during a hunger strike that's gone on for a month inside a Texas detention facility, The Associated Press has learned. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 11 detainees at the El Paso Processing Center have been refusing food, some...
Ex-Judges to ICE: End Immigration Arrests at Courthouses
BOSTON — Dozens of retired state and federal judges called Wednesday on U.S. immigration officials to stop making arrests at courthouses of people suspected of being in the country illegally, saying immigrants should be free to visit halls of justice without fearing they will be detained. Nearly 70 former judges...
Poll: Few Democrats Favor Liberal Cry to Abolish ICE
WASHINGTON — The rallying cry from some liberals to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn't a likely winner this election year, as a new poll finds only a quarter of Democrats support eliminating the agency that carried out the Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their parents....
Bad News for Trump: A Fresno Grocery Clerk Didn't Really Say That.
One of the most popular stories today in America is only 260 words long. It quotes a grocery clerk in Fresno. And it's totally made up. Satire is Andy Borowitz's specialty, and The New Yorker provides him a forum to exhibit his comedic skills. So after President Donald Trump falsely...
Some Dems Want To Abolish ICE. How About No Borders at All?
Several prominent Democrats who are mulling a bid for the White House in 2020 have sought to bolster their progressive credentials by calling for major changes to immigration enforcement, with some pressing for the outright abolition of the federal government's chief immigration enforcement agency. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York,...
Immigration Raids Can Rip Apart Communities
U.S. immigration agents raided an Ohio gardening company on June 5, arresting 114 suspected undocumented workers. This followed other large workplace raids, including a raid on a rural Tennessee meat-processing plant in April. The raids suggest the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is returning to sweeping immigration enforcement tactics not...
ICE Gets More Prison Space for Immigrant Detainees
NPR is reporting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has acquired new space in federal prisons to house immigrant detainees — more than 1,600 beds. An ICE spokeswoman attributed the need for the additional beds to a "current surge in illegal border crossings" and the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance policy."...
Fresno GOP Goes To Great Lengths To Avoid Protesters
A group of elected lawmakers met secretly about how to deal with SB 54, the “California Values Act,” or as some call it, the Sanctuary State law. Organized by Fred Vanderhoof, chairman of the Fresno County Republican Party, the group was supposed to meet at an office in north Fresno....
Will Elizabeth Heng Reach Her Next Big Goal of Beating Jim Costa?
There's no question that Elizabeth Heng is an achiever. Raised in Fresno, the 33-year-old Republican — and former Capitol Hill staffer — seeks to replace Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) in the 16th Congressional District seat. Heng is the daughter of refugees from Cambodia. She attended elementary, middle and high school...
Congress, Can You Hear Us? Please Pass Immigration Reform Now.
Two weeks ago, after millions of Americans righteously voiced their frustration with Congress, our nation's lawmakers ended the three-day government shutdown and promised to work on two important issues: a permanent federal spending bill and immigration issues. What have they done since then? Nothing ... yet. And now, right here...