DETROIT (AP) — A Marine veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder was held for three days for possible deportation before federal authorities learned that he was a U.S. citizen born in Michigan, lawyers said Wednesday. Jilmar Ramos-Gomez, 27, lives in the Grand Rapids area. He was released on Dec. 17 from a detention center in Calhoun […]
A Florida man filed a lawsuit after he was nearly deported to Jamaica despite law enforcement having evidence of his citizenship. Peter Sean Brown was born in Philadelphia and was unlawfully detained by the Monroe County Florida Sheriff’s Office. They threatened him with deportation to Jamaica and mocked his pleas for help. Now he’s teamed with the Southern Poverty […]
BOSTON (AP) — 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 from 23 states — […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Over 100 activists gathered outside a jail in Phoenix on Wednesday to protest Sheriff Paul Penzone’s continued cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities. Four activists who chained themselves to each other outside one of the jail entrances were arrested in an act of civil disobedience. Authorities said the four were […]
UPDATED: 7/5/18 A Black woman, Therese Patricia Okoumou has been arrested at the Statue of Liberty after she climbed it yesterday in protest of Trump’s immigration policy. Black Twitter, who seemed to know the woman’s identity before it hit mainstream news outlets, rushed to her support along with Black activist organizations, who reportedly helped the […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal immigration official says about 800 people living illegally in Northern California avoided being arrested because Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf warned that immigration raids were upcoming. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Thomas Homan told “Fox and Friends” Wednesday that Schaaf’s action was “no better than a gang lookout yelling […]
A huge part of the struggle during the Trump presidency is that he throws so much BS at the world that it’s hard to focus on any one issue at a time. This morning I wanted to talk about his foolish leaks of classified information to Russia, I wanted to talk about the fact that […]
Much of the South was forecast to see temperatures drop 30 to 45 degrees in a 24-hour period thanks to yet another arctic cold front, according to the latest forecasts. Some locations may even see their coldest temperatures ever recorded so late in the season, including Nashville and Louisville, Kentucky, where temperatures may drop into […]
