Posts Tagged ICE

Homeland Security budget includes funding for ‘nationwide deployment’ of Secure Communities

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.14.12 | 1:18 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The Department of Homeland Security’s 2013 budget, released Monday, includes overall cuts to the agency, but secures funding for the controversial immigration enforcement program Secure Communities. More…

Local Sierra Club opposes South Florida immigration detention center

By Marcos Restrepo | 02.13.12 | 8:00 am | More from The Florida Independent

The Broward Group of the Sierra Club last week announced its opposition to the federal immigration detention center set to be built in the South Florida town of Southwest Ranches.
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Activists praise ICE decision not to open new family detention center in Texas

By | 02.08.12 | 10:42 am

Prior to 2009, undocumented immigrant families were detained in a private prison facility in Taylor, Texas. The T. Don Hutto Residential Center, owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), profited from a government contract to imprison undocumented families. After the ACLU of Texas sued the T. Don Hutto Center and More…

Secure Communities task force to Homeland Security: Stop Secure Communities

By Marcos Restrepo | 01.06.12 | 4:49 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Former members of a task force on Secure Communities sent a letter this week to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano calling on her to suspend the immigration enforcement program.
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ICE detains and deports U.S. citizens

By | 01.05.12 | 3:49 pm

Jakadrien Turner ran away from home in the fall of 2010, and ended up being deported to Columbia. Turner, then fourteen years old, wasn’t an undocumented immigrant, but a US citizen from Dallas, Texas.
According to reporting by WFAA Channel 8 More…, Turner was arrested by police for theft in

Payroll tax bill includes funds for more immigration detention beds

By Marcos Restrepo | 12.20.11 | 4:56 pm | More from The Florida Independent

The congressional showdown over payroll tax cuts and unemployment benefits continues after the GOP-led House voted Tuesday against a Senate bill approved over the weekend. More…

‘Nobody’ in Pembroke Pines wants proposed immigration detention center, commissioner says

By Marcos Restrepo | 12.15.11 | 3:42 pm | More from The Florida Independent

Pembroke Pines Commissioner Angelo Castillo tells The Florida Independent that as an immigrant and an advocate for comprehensive immigration reform he abhors the proposed immigration detention center to be built on a lot surrounded by his city. More…

GOP Senate candidate says he opposes South Florida immigration detention center

By Marcos Restrepo | 12.08.11 | 3:06 pm | More from The Florida Independent

GOP Senate candidate George LeMieux issued a statement today opposing a publicly funded, privately managed immigration detention center to built in South Florida.
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