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A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Trump administration policy to keep migrant children in detention after they turn 18, moving quickly to stop transfers to adult facilities that advocates said were scheduled for this weekend. U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras on Saturday issued a temporary restraining order to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to not detain any child …

DES MOINES, Iowa — On Tuesday, hundreds of students walked out of middle and high schools across the city to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention of Ian Andre Roberts, the now-former superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district. In the afternoon, several dozen students gathered at the State Capitol, calling for Roberts’ release from the Sioux City jail where …

Officials on Saturday put the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on administrative leave, a day after federal immigration agents detained him because they said he was in the country illegally. The Des Moines school board voted unanimously to place Superintendent Ian Roberts on paid leave during a three-minute-long special meeting. The board said Roberts was not available to carry …

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transferred to a Pennsylvania detention center on Friday, his attorneys said in a status update, explaining to a federal judge handling his human smuggling case in Tennessee why a motion wasn’t promptly filed. Abrego Garcia, the 30-year-old native of El Salvador who was mistakenly deported to his home country in March, was previously held at the Farmville Detention …

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who was wrongly deported to El Salvador and later brought back to the U.S. before facing new deportation efforts, was transferred to a central Pennsylvania detention center Friday morning, his attorneys said. Abrego, 30, was taken to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, according to federal court documents filed by his attorneys. They …

Immigrants with no criminal record are now the largest group in US immigration detention, according to data released by the government. The number of people with no criminal history arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and detained by the Trump administration has now surpassed the number of those charged with crimes. Ice, the federal agency most heavily relied upon …

Trump’s new detention policy targets millions of immigrants. Judges keep saying it’s illegal.  Politico ICE Is Detaining So Many People It’s Running Out of Beds  The New Republic Homan Slams Brandon Johnson Over Resistance To ICE Agents In Chicago: ‘Putting Politics Over Public Safety’  FOX News Radio ‘We’re at War’: Trump Border Czar Issues Direct Warning  NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts White House’s immigration …

Protesters and Federal Agents Clash Outside an ICE Detention Facility Near Chicago  The New York Times Federal agents use teargas and pepper balls to break up Chicago Ice protest  The Guardian Democratic congressional candidate thrown to ground during chaotic anti-ICE protest  Fox News WATCH LIVE: ICE protests continue outside suburban Chicago facility  FOX 32 Chicago Tear gas used on protesters at Chicago-area ICE site …

US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Sunday expressed regret over the recent detention of hundreds of South Korean workers in Georgia. Landau, in Seoul for a Korea-US vice foreign ministerial meeting, said that the 316 South Koreans who returned home Friday on a chartered jet after being detained in Georgia will face no disadvantage when re-entering the US, …

INCHEON, South Korea (AP) — More than 300 South Korean workers detained in an immigration raid in the United States last week were brought back home on a charter plane and reunited with their loved ones on Friday. They were among the 475 people detained during the Sept. 4 immigration raid at a battery factory under construction on the campus …