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Sen. Susan Collins announced via X that ICE has ended enhanced activities in Maine, amid protests in Portland over immigration enforcement.
Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies agents are using in their immigration enforcement campaign.
Misinformation about ICE authority has spread widely online. Federal law allows ICE to detain, arrest, and use force under defined conditions, and misunderstanding those powers can lead to dangerous real-world consequences.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins said there are no ongoing or planned large-scale ICE operations in the state.
Social media has become a critical tool for documenting the activity of federal agents. In some cases, officers are filming activists right back.
U.S. Reps. Joaquin Castro of San Antonio and Jasmine Crockett of Dallas said conditions they observed Wednesday inside the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley amount to "inhumanity." The two Democrats urged Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and other children.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has ended its enhanced operations in Maine, its Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins said on Thursday, citing a conversation with the head of the Department of Homeland Security.
GOP Sen. Susan Collins noted in a post on X that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem notified her that ICE has concluded "enhanced" activity in Maine.
ICE's budget hovered around $10 billion for years. But President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are taking the agency's funding to unprecedented levels.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and the Trump administration remain at odds as Border Czar Tom Homan reiterated President Donald Trump's commitment to removing criminals from the street. While Homan and Frey described their initial meeting Tuesday as productive,
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Anti-ICE protesters gather outside Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Buffalo
Solidarity was the message as demonstrators protested U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement here in Buffalo and across the country on Wednesday.