The proposal started as a joke on social media and ended up with the endorsement of the U.S. president. Donald Trump has backed renaming the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement — NICE — a play on the acronym.
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Information about what is happening inside the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan — the largest immigration detention center in the Midwest — depends on who is telling the story. According to civil society organizations and detainees inside, hundreds of detainees have gone on a hunger strike in protest of the “inhumane” conditions. For the federal government, however, no such strike is happening, and the center meets — and even exceeds — the standards of other prisons in the country.
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On April 14, Deisy Rivera Ortega went to an immigration office in El Paso with her husband, Sergeant First Class Jose Serrano, hoping to make progress on her application to remain legally in the United States. She left in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The appointment was part of the “parole in place” process, a mechanism that has traditionally allowed family members of military personnel to regularize their status without leaving the country.
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The dispute surrounding Infowars, the website founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has entered a new phase: its potential transformation into a platform run by The Onion, the well-known satirical news site. The proposal, still pending judicial approval in Texas, marks the latest chapter in a protracted legal battle that began following Jones’s false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, in which 26 people were killed. Those statements — in which he described the shooting as “a giant hoax” — led to defamation convictions that forced him to face payments of up to $1.3 billion and resulted in the liquidation of his company’s assets.
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An image of a man in his underwear, wrapped in a blanket as he was being arrested by federal agents, went viral during the massive immigration raid launched by the White House in Minnesota earlier this year, sparking outrage across the country. Now, the arrest of that man, a U.S. citizen, has triggered a criminal investigation into possible kidnapping, unlawful entry, and unlawful detention, and has opened a new front of conflict between local authorities and the federal government.
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