In announcing the new policy guidelines, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said agents and officers should consider ‘broader societal interests’ and the impact of their activities on communities.

Very few of the Democrats they cited actually endorsed the idea.

‘By relying on detainee labor, GEO avoided the cost of hiring non-detainee workers and unjustly pocketed the savings and resulting profits,’ charged the Washington state attorney general’s office.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told Congress in March 2019 that there has been ‘no parent who has been deported, to my knowledge, without multiple opportunities to take their children with them.’

The Biden administration believes more than 1,000 families remain separated.

Republicans are unhappy that ICE officials are no longer issuing detainers for some people under current administration policy.

‘Technology under white supremacy and capitalism will continue to be used to fuel violence and harm against us,’ one immigration group said.

The facility is owned by private prison company CoreCivic, which has faced allegations of understaffing, work violations, and delays in medical care in the past.

The Florida GOP governor really wants things to go back to the good old days under Donald Trump.

It’s not enough to just ban future contracts between the law enforcement agency and private prisons, experts say.

Lawmakers are expected to vote on a bill legalizing recreational marijuana on Tuesday.

‘When I blow my nose, blood comes out,’ one immigrant reported.

Vaccines are slowly becoming available to immigrants in US custody. Whether they trust authorities enough to take them is another question.

Activists and advocacy groups expressed devastation over the news, saying it is ‘unconscionable’ to deport people in the middle of a pandemic.

One watchdog group called the ruling a win for transparency.

One expert calls it a ‘good first step,’ but says more needs to be done.

GEO Group, which gave to Donald Trump in the 2016 election and profited off his immigration policies, is under fire again following the death of a 74-year-old man at one of its detention facilities.

Their lawyers argue the families facing deportation were never given a fair chance to seek asylum under several policies enacted by Donald Trump’s administration.

Stephen Miller is spending the final days of the election pushing for even more extreme immigration policies.

The Trump administration’s foot-dragging has made it even tougher to reunite families, experts say.

Refugee rights organizations say Donald Trump previously pledged to help Christian refugees but has failed them.

‘The only thing they told me was: ‘You’re going to go to sleep and when you wake up, we will have finished.”

A whistleblower complaint said a gynecologist was performing questionable hysterectomies at an immigrant detention center in Georgia.

The administration is keeping kids in hotels, thereby circumventing federal anti-trafficking laws and a two-decade-old court settlement.

The rule would have required international students to transfer schools or leave the country if their colleges hold classes entirely online this fall.

A judge is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in the case.

There are currently no detainees at ICE or Customs and Border Protection facilities who have tested positive for COVID-19.

Immigrant detention facilities are known to be overcrowded and unsanitary — but officials don’t appear to have plans to address the problem.

The units have been described as the ‘SWAT team of the border patrol.’

‘I fear for his immediate health and safety and for his long-term health and safety,’ one advocate said.