ICE blocked from re-detaining immigrants freed from two California facilities due to pandemic

Detained immigrants and their advocates scored a major court victory this week, reaching a “groundbreaking” settlement in a lawsuit filed nearly two years ago over unsafe pandemic conditions.

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Months after releasing remaining immigrant, California jail is once again locking people up for ICE

Immigrants and their advocates won a major victory last fall, following the release of Ricardo Vasquez Cruz from a northern California jail last October. Vasquez Cruz had been the remaining immigrant …

Attorney 'can’t say for certain' if ICE retaliated against detainees, but it sure damn looks like it

Did federal immigration officials needlessly transfer a number of immigrants as retaliation for speaking out against inhumane and unsafe conditions at multiple California detention facilities? Centro …