Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Foster youth in Minnesota sound off on the effects of ICE's disruption, violence and racial profiling in their communities.

An immigration judge has denied bail for a well-known foster youth advocate who has been locked up in a Southern California detention center.

Minnesota families are now making plans for someone to care for their children if immigration agents whisk them away.

Jeremy Loudenback reported on a foster youth advocate who now sits at Adelanto ICE Processing Center, swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet.

ICE official Mellissa Harper has been tapped to lead the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Her hire has concerned experts and advocates that information about children and their families could be shared for arrests and deportations.

Comparing the threat of coronavirus to fire tearing through a house, a federal judge on Friday ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release minors who have been held in family detention facilities for more than 20 days by July 17.

When parents are detained or deported by American immigration officials, their children can end up in a highly unstable situation, with child welfare officials forced to quickly find a safe place for them to live until they can be together with their parents again.

The Trump administration insists, without evidence, that the thousands of Central American migrants arriving at America’s southern border include scores of criminals and terrorists. But those on the ground in border states tell a different story.

The Trump Administration’s “anti-immigrant sentiment” is engendering heightened levels of stress and anxiety among children of immigrant families and is keeping kids from accessing healthcare and attending school, according to a new report from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP).