An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officer shot and killed a female motorist on Wednesday during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown on a major American city. Federal officials claimed the shooting was an act of self-defence but the mayor of Minneapolis described it as “reckless” and unnecessary. The shooting happened in a residential neighbourhood…
CHICAGO (AP) — A suburban Chicago father and his 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed at close range as they headed grocery shopping over the weekend and happened upon federal immigration agents, the family said. Rafael Veraza said the incident happened in a Sam’s Club parking lot in Cicero on Saturday, amid escalating clashes that day between…
JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, has urged the Trump administration to suspend its immigration crackdown in his state from Friday to Sunday, to allow children to “spend Halloween weekend without fear”. In a letter addressed to the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and the heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and…
Nearly half of the FBI agents working in the US’s major field offices have been reassigned to aid immigration enforcement, according to newly released data, a stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns. Personnel data obtained by Mark Warner, a Democratic senator, and shared with the Guardian, suggests the Trump…
Since assuming office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump has initiated a broad immigration crackdown. The most recent step involves overhauling the H-1B visa programme, marking one of the most significant efforts so far to reshape temporary work visas. Amid the fee hike and the proposal to revamp, the H-1B visa programme has been a…