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A Boulder-based company is playing a key role in the Trump administration’s growing immigration surveillance network. BI Inc., a subsidiary of the private prison giant Geo Group, manufactures the GPS-enabled ankle monitors now being required for thousands of immigrants under new directives from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
More than half the people ICE has detained under President Trump have no criminal conviction, while roughly 8% were convicted of violent crimes, an analysis of new data by CBS News finds. ICE is holding around 59,000 detainees in facilities across the country, likely setting a record high, according to internal government data obtained by CBS News.
During the Trump administration’s first 100 days, ICE reports arresting 66,463 undocumented immigrants and removing 65,682.
Immigrants who live and work in the city say they want violent crime lowered but fear that ICE efforts could make it worse.
The move amounts to a sweeping reversal of "sanctuary" policies in the nation's capital, allowing the Metropolitan Police Department, for the time being, to fully cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
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Judge orders ICE to improve conditions after NYC immigration detainees complain of mistreatment
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration Tuesday to immediately improve conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility, acting on complaints by jailed migrants that it is dirty, smelly and overcrowded.
Federal orders to D.C. police to enforce immigration laws became the fuse igniting a lawsuit D.C. filed against President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration is ordering a “rigorous, holistic, and comprehensive" approach to evaluating U.S. citizenship applicants.
Officials with the town and police department of Old Orchard Beach have said federal authorities previously told them reserve Officer Jon Luke Evans was legally authorized to work in the U.S.