All posts tagged "Ice Agents"

An Army soldier's wife was pulled off a deportation flight to Brazil this week by federal agents who explained she was "famous," according to reports on Friday.

An Associated Press investigation identified Maisa Lopes Eliaser as one of dozens of military spouses and parents who had been detained following the Trump administration's rollback of protections for military families as part of its broader mass deportation efforts, The Boston Globe reported.

Eliaser's husband, Staff Sergeant Alexis Jaramillo has served in the Army for 11 years and went public about what happened to his wife, who was ripped from his side during what the couple, their son and translator thought was an adjustment-of-status appointment on July 8 in Montgomery, Alabama....

ICE has suspended traffic stops after two recent fatal shootings in a "huge reversal" of its previous policy, CNN immigration correspondent Priscilla Alvarez reported Tuesday.

The move comes after ICE fatally shot two men this week in Biddeford, Maine, and last week in Houston, Texas, both during vehicle stops.

Immigration agents will continue to conduct arrests for undocumented immigrants, but the guidance now tells them to work with partner agencies and local authorities, Alvarez said....

Piñata makers have been busy crafting a specific style of punchable candy-stuffed characters — ICE agents, LA Material reported.

After aggressive immigration sweeps under the Trump administration hit Southern California over the last year, ICE agents have become one of the most requested and popular piñatas in Los Angeles' Piñata District.

Karla Fuentes, who works at Navarro's Party Supply, told LA Material that the store got its first order for an ICE agent just a week after immigration officers flooded the city. After that, many other orders for the tissue paper and cardboard figures started rolling in....

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been arrested in Texas on charges related to his actions during President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

ICE agent Christian Castro was apprehended Friday by law enforcement officials from both states after the Hennepin County attorney’s office charged him with four counts of second-degree assault this month and another charge of filing a false police report, reported The New York Times.

The 52-year-old federal agent is accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant on Jan. 14 and lying about it....

Reactions were mounting on Monday as news surfaced about an incident involving two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who tackled a rape survivor to the ground just moments after she testified in a New Jersey courtroom.

David J. Bier, Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies, shared an excerpt from an Atlantic report on X about an incident last year involving a woman who had survived rape and told her story in court about her perpetrator and ex-boyfriend, who she was seeking a restraining order against after he put her in a chokehold and sexually assaulted her, causing her to lose consciousness. When she stepped outside the courthouse, she was suddenly tackled to the ground by two plainclothes ICE officers.

Several public figures and prominent voices online spoke out in response. ...

After months of saying that ICE agents need to wear masks so they don't get doxxed, President Donald Trump said this week that they should not wear masks while working at airports.

In an MS NOW opinion piece from Jarvis DeBerry, the opinion editor described how Trump had reversed his initial stance on masks, and noted the hypocrisy of this move considering that law enforcement officers across America go to work daily with their names on their chests and faces visible.

And as the partial government shutdown hits the 40-day mark and airport security lines leave lengthy wait times — while TSA staffing shortages continue and workers go without pay — the move to bring ICE agents to airports has raised questions about why Republicans have argued the federal officers need to conceal their identities. ...