Washington, Jan 15 (IANS) Outrightly dismissing comparisons of ICE arrests to authoritarian tactics, Trump border czar Tom Homan has defended federal agents operating in US cities, and said sanctuary policies were forcing immigration enforcement into local communities rather than jails.Homan, in an interaction with reporters at the White House on Wednesday (local time), rejected criticism over recent enforcement images from Minneapolis and elsewhere, where federal agents were seen pulling suspec…
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Los Angeles, Jan 11 (IANS) From California’s capital city Sacramento to the town of Sonora, and from San Francisco to Los Angeles, dozens of protests against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were held across the US state.The protests, dubbed “ICE OUT For Good,” were organised by a network of several groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the 50501 Movement, which organised mass demonstrations in all 50 US states almost every month last year, Xinhua news agency repo…
Washington, Jan 8 (IANS) A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman in south Minneapolis during a federal immigration operation, an incident that drew sharply conflicting accounts from federal authorities and local officials and ignited a political dispute over the Trump administration’s enforcement tactics.President Donald Trump and administration officials said the agent acted in self-defence after the woman used her vehicle to threaten officers. Local lead…