Beyond the Border: An arrested journalist, citations for green card holders and another death in custody
Here's what happened this week in immigration news.
Written by Kate Morrissey, Edited by Maya Srikrishnan
Welcome to another edition of Beyond the Border, which summarizes immigration news from across the country in a weekly roundup. Did I miss something? Message me via kate@daylightsandiego.org or on Instagram.
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Immigration arrests
ICE arrested a journalist working in Nashville and covering the agency, Reuters reported. Tennessee Lookout reported that a federal judge asked ICE to justify its arrest of the woman, who came to the U.S. on a tourist visa, sought asylum and then met and married a U.S. citizen.
Attorneys struggled to find a mother and her children after ICE detained them, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. KQED reported that one of the children is deaf and that ICE would not let the mother retrieve his hearing aids from a family member waiting outside. The family was quickly deported to Colombia.
The number of children arrested by ICE in San Diego has increased under the Trump administration, KPBS reported.
Targeting green card holders and U.S. citizens
Customs and Border Protection officials in Arizona are ticketing immigrants who have permission to be in the U.S. if they don't have their documents with them at the time, according to the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.
WGN9 reported that a U.S. citizen said she was taken into ICE custody when she arrived at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. ICE has denied the claim.
The Intercept reported that immigration officials in Minnesota are intimidating people observing them by revealing they know where the activists live.
The Wall Street Journal posted on Instagram that it had analyzed video footage from hundreds of incidents in which immigration officials alleged someone assaulted them and found that the evidence did not back up those claims. The Charlotte Observer wrote about a judge dropping charges against one U.S. citizen recently accused of assaulting federal officials.
ICE-related deaths
L.A. Taco reported that an Iranian man died in ICE custody in Mississippi, bringing the total number of deaths this year to 11.
A man died days after his release from Adelanto ICE Processing Center, and the family is alleging that the agency did not provide him proper medical care while he was inside, L.A. Taco reported.
Straight Arrow News reported that body camera footage of when immigration officials shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Texas last year contradicts the federal narrative about what happened.
Conditions in immigration custody
A man with a heart condition told L.A. Public Press that ICE was withholding his medication and denying him proper medical care.
L.A. Taco wrote about two women held at the California City ICE facility who befriended each other despite not speaking the same language.
Immigration court
The Trump administration has gotten rid of nearly half of the immigration judges who worked at the Chicago court, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Judges in immigration court — whom the administration is now calling deportation judges — are rushing cases and denying due process rights, L.A. Taco reported.
Updates on federal court cases
The Supreme Court allowed a forced labor lawsuit by detainees against The GEO Group, one of the largest private prison companies that contracts with ICE, to move forward, Colorado Newsline reported.
A federal judge in Boston found that the Trump administration's policy of deporting people to countries where they are not citizens is unconstitutional, The Washington Post reported.
Reuters reported that a federal judge had blocked a new Trump administration rule that would have allowed the Board of Immigration Appeals to quickly dismiss cases appealed from immigration court.
I reported for Daylight San Diego (and Beyond the Border) that the Supreme Court will soon hear a case about turning away asylum seekers that originated in San Diego in 2017.
Resistance
The Guardian profiled an 18-year-old who spends his mornings watching for ICE in the farmland of Central California.
Borderless Magazine talked with Iranians in Chicago about celebrating Persian New Year as an act of resistance regarding the war the U.S. is waging in their home country.
The Texas Tribune reported that two high school mariachi stars and their family were released from ICE custody. The Border Chronicle looked at the way that these and other arrests in South Texas have mobilized the community, including some local Republicans.
Other stories to watch
ICE refused to let a bishop accompany families to their appointments at the agency's office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Little Village reported.
Lawmakers in Tennessee are trying to pass a bill that would take away the right to education from undocumented children, The Intercept reported.
For Capital & Main, I wrote about how the similarities between the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and two that happened more than a decade ago in the San Diego region show the impunity in fatal encounters with immigration officials.
The White House and Republican leaders have told GOP members of Congress to avoid talking about mass deportation until after the midterms in November, The Washington Post reported.
The Bulwark profiled Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump's pick to replace former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
The New York Times reported that the Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation into allegations that Border Patrol leader Gregory Bovino made anti-semitic comments.
For Voice of San Diego, I covered the 8M march for women's rights in Tijuana.
Thanks for reading! Take care and stay well.
— Kate
