ICE Cools It on the Quotas

Staff / Truthdig Aug 19, 2009 A controversial program that had set quotas for the arrest of undocumented immigrants is finally over. While U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will continue to bust into homes and workplaces, arresting and deporting illegal immigrants -- some without deportation orders or criminal records -- agents will no longer have a hard number that has to be met. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New, Softer Approach to Illegal Workers

Staff / Truthdig Jul 3, 2009 The immigration raids of the Bush years that have carried over into the Obama administration may be changing. The era of federal agents busting into shops and rounding up undocumented workers for deportation is being replaced by a new effort to use fines and civil sanctions, making employers responsible, rather than the workers themselves. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

America’s ICE Backwards Approach to Immigration

Andrew Becker / Truthdig Jun 30, 2009 While the nation’s understaffed immigration courts strain under a backlog that has grown to more than 200,000 cases, thousands of new border agents have been hired and the number of government attorneys who argue for deportation has increased by 35 percent, pushing more cases onto an already overburdened system. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

U.S. Citizens Detained and Deported by Immigration

Staff / Truthdig Apr 24, 2009 In its zeal to crack down on illegal immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining and deporting American citizens. The Center for Investigative Reporting's Andrew Becker talks about his investigation into this disturbing trend. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Apr 8, 2009 It turns out that people can still be arrested and deported based on the same charges they've been acquitted of in court. The U.S. Constitution protects people from "double jeopardy," being charged twice with the same offense. But in the murky world of immigrant detention, double jeopardy is perfectly legal. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Arctic Has Lost Enough Ice to Cover Texas

Staff / Truthdig Apr 7, 2009 Although this wasn't the worst winter on record for retention of Arctic sea ice, a report from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center says that the region is now missing a Texas-sized chunk of the stuff that keeps polar bears alive and cities above sea level. More alarming, the ice that is there is younger, thinner and more fragile than in years past. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Predicted Rise in Sea Levels May Be Way Short

Staff / Truthdig Mar 11, 2009 A team of researchers has found that sea levels could rise up to three times higher over the next century than U.N. estimates have indicated. The findings have dire implications for the 600 million people who live in vulnerable areas. Scientists gathered in Denmark said they expect polar and glacial melting to accelerate. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Undocumented Workers Cleaned Chertoff’s Home

Staff / Truthdig Dec 12, 2008 Oops! It wasn't exactly an international incident, but it turns out that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff unintentionally had undocumented workers clean his house. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

ICE Raid Arrest Numbers Rise

Staff / Truthdig Aug 27, 2008 ICE raids -- federal officials who bust into rural factory towns to arrest suspected "illegal immigrants" -- continued this week in Laurel, Miss. The town of about 18,000 saw federal officials revise the number of people arrested in the raid to 595. It remained unknown whether the majority of detainees would serve jail time or be immediately deported. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Ice Is Falling

Staff / Truthdig Mar 26, 2008 A prominent Antarctic scientist says a large ice shelf is disintegrating much faster than he predicted. In fact, it's "hanging by a thread," according to David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey. The concern over melting ice shelves has to do with the tremendous amount of water they store. The more they melt, the more sea level rises. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chomsky on Ice

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Immigration Dept. Deports Americans

Staff / Truthdig Jan 25, 2008 Despite his Southern accent and the conclusions of a court to the contrary, officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement managed to convince themselves that Thomas Warziniack was born in Russia. So they detained and planned to deport him. He is just one of hundreds of victims caught up in an unforgiving bureaucracy who beg, often without recourse, to be taken seriously. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )