U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Morning Poll: Did ICE Help Kill Phoenix Officer Daryl Raetz, as Senator John McCain Asserts?

U.S. Senator John McCain sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday demanding more information about why the immigrant suspect in Phoenix cop's death was released from custody in 2012. Jesus Cabrera-Molina owns the green SUV from Sunday's hit-and-run collision that cl ... More >>

Morning Poll: Did ICE Help Kill Phoenix Officer Daryl Raetz, as Senator John McCain Asserts?

U.S. Senator John McCain sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday demanding more information about why the immigrant suspect in Phoenix cop's death was released from custody in 2012. Jesus Cabrera-Molina owns the green SUV from Sunday's hit-and-run collision that cl ... More >>

Bill Montgomery's Victims Break: 14 Captured in Sportex Raid Plead Out Under Coercion

Bill Montgomery's victims speak... Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery must feel really proud of himself. After more than three months in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's dirty, dangerous and sometimes deadly jails, 14 of the 23 undocumented workers being prosecuted in the MCSO's February 8 raid of Sporte ... More >>

ICE Detainee Commits Suicide, and a Not-So Modest Proposal

Watch A clip from The Undocumented on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. I have very little to go on with the press release below from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement concerning the "apparent suicide" at the Eloy Detention Center by a 24 year-old Guatemalan woman named Elsa Guadalupe-Gon ... More >>

DPS Officer's Pursuit of DREAMer Lands Woman in Stir for Six Months

If you need an illustration of Arizona's diseased "attrition through enforcement" mentality, look no further than the case of Solaguahire Zenil, a local DREAMer, who is currently in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. See also: -The MCAO Follows ICE's Blueprint for Separating I ... More >>

Bill Montgomery's Shame: Mom Risks Deportation Because of MCAO Felony

In this video by Puente, Ivon's goodness should be self-evident to all but those with the meanest of spirits Let's be honest, Anglos in Arizona would starve if there were no undocumented persons here to prepare our food. Or harvest it from the fields. See also: -Steven Seagal a No Show at Joe Ar ... More >>

The MCAO Follows ICE's Blueprint for Separating Immigrant Families

Bill Montgomery and ICE, Partners in Crime, To Be Protested in Monday March

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and his partners at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will feel the heat of Latino and pro-immigrant rage this Monday when the Phoenix human rights group Puente spearheads a march demanding an end to the deportations of individuals whose only real "cri ... More >>

Bill Montgomery's Smoking Gun: ICE PowerPoint Shows Monty's Minions How to Deport More Immigrants

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office and Arizona-based attorneys for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement are engaged in a partnership to ensure the deportation of undocumented aliens who otherwise would benefit from President Obama's proposed comprehensive immigration reform, despite ... More >>

Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate

Arizona Deserves No Peace From Pro-Immigrant Forces

DREAM Activist Erika Andiola Says Mom and Brother Taken Into Custody by ICE (w/UPDATE)

Andiola's tearful account of the arrest of her mom and brother Nationally-known Arizona DREAM Activist Erika Andiola has reported that her mother and brother were arrested last night at their home by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Above is Andiola's tearful recounting of the ra ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Throws Another Fit After ICE Says No Thanks to Attempted MCSO Delivery

For the second time, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office put out a press release to complain that Immigration and Customs Enforcement "refused" to take custody of a suspected illegal immigrant.The story from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is that the Human Smuggling Unit pulled over a car, and th ... More >>

Joe Arpaio or ICE: Whose Story Do You Believe?

Late last week, Sheriff Joe Arpaio claimed Immigration and Customs Enforcement "refused" to take custody of two suspected illegal immigrants that MCSO deputies found in the desert.Arpaio suggested that he saw this was coming, and had discovered a back-up plan to keep turning over immigrants to feder ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Tells Tale About Fooling the Feds; ICE Calls Sheriff's Bluff

Sheriff Joe Arpaio put out a press release today boasting about how he outsmarted Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which "refused" to take custody of two suspected illegal immigrants that deputies found in the desert yesterday.In reality, ICE didn't refuse to take custody, and Arpaio's boys actu ... More >>

Janet Napolitano's Alleged "Frat House" Leader Suzanne Barr Now on Leave

See also: Janet Napolitano's Lady-Friends Don't Like Men, ICE Employee ClaimsOne of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's appointees is taking a little break from her job after word got out about a lawsuit accusing her of sexual harassment.Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief of staff ... More >>

Janet Napolitano's Lady-Friends Don't Like Men, According to Angry ICE Employee

According to a lawsuit filed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a couple of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's lady-friends at ICE don't like men.The lawsuit, filed by James Hayes Jr. -- the special agent in charge of New York City investigations for ICE -- says two women brought ... More >>

Puente Kicks Off "Undocubus" with Pro-Immigrant March

See Also: Puente's "Undocubus" Set to Travel to Democratic National ConventionSee Also: The complete slideshow of Puente's "Undocubus" Pro-Immigrant March.About 200 hundred people peacefully protested Saturday morning against the immigration policies of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the federal government ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Protesters Released From Custody

See Also: Joe Arpaio Protesters Arrested During Public DemonstrationThe four people claiming to be undocumented immigrants who were arrested Tuesday during a civil-disobedience protest against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have been released from jail. While Arpaio was on the witness stand in ... More >>

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's Deputy Reports to ICE a Speeding Teenager -- Along With the Boy's Parents Who Weren't Even in the Car

See also SB 1070: Supreme Court Upholds "Papers Please" Section, Invalidates OthersSee also Brewer Declares "Victory" as Court Tosses Unconstitutional SB 1070 ProvisionsSee also Babeu Turns Distortion of Truth Into an Art FormSee also Babeu Calls Obama's DREAM Act Policy "Shocking" Pinal Coun ... More >>

California's "Anti-Arizona Law" Meant to Protect Undocumented Immigrants From Deportation

See Also: Arizona Congressman David Schweikert Falsely Claims Illegal Immigrants Are No Longer AfraidSee Also: Janet Napolitano's "Secure Communities" Program Secure in Arizona, Elsewhere Not So MuchThe California State Senate passed a bill Thursday that is being called the "anti-Arizona law"&n ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Crows About ICE Taking Two Suspected Illegal Aliens Following MCSO Traffic Stop

ABC 15's report on Joe's ICE announcementSee also: Bill Montgomery Blames Obama's 287(g) Move for Attack on Phoenix CopSee also: Obama's 287(g) Move Bogus, Activists Call on Feds to Cut Ties with ArizonaSee also: Jan Brewer Hysterical Over Homeland Security's 287(g) MoveI'm skeptical of MCSO press r ... More >>

Bill Montgomery Blames Obama's 287(g) Move for Attack on Phoenix Cop

Let's be honest, there are a lot of nativists out there who are caressing their hands at the prospect that an Arizona cop might soon be killed by an illegal alien.What better way to attack both the U.S. Supreme Court's recent 5-3 decision tossing three sections of Senate Bill 1070, and the Obama adm ... More >>

SB 1070: Phoenix Officials Calm Residents' Fears; Answer Questions About Police Enforcement of Law

About 200 people filed into the Carl Hayden High School auditorium in west Phoenix in search of answers on Monday evening, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed one of the most controversial provisions of SB 1070 to stand. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, councilmen Michael Nowakows ... More >>

SB 1070-Influenced Operations Order Leads to Alleged Racial Profiling Incident by Phoenix PD

No doubt you've heard of driving-while-brown, particularly regarding Arizona's infamous ethnic cleansing law Senate Bill 1070. Well, if you're Hispanic and plan to continue living in this state, get ready for running-out-of-gas-while-brown, walking-to-the-7-11-while-brown, picking-up-your-kids-from- ... More >>

Barack Obama's Shame: DREAM Activists Rally Outside Phoenix ICE Office as Part of National Day of Action

It can only be described as a massive violation of human rights, what this country has done to deny a future to an entire generation of individuals, who for all intents and purposes are Americans.I'm talking about the hundreds of thousands of bright, undocumented youth who would qualify for a pathwa ... More >>

SB 1070: Why Obama Is Partly to Blame for the Racist Bill

SB 1070 Redux: Phoenix Police Department Criticized for Post-1070 Operations Order

The Phoenix human rights group Puente is planning a press conference and rally for Friday March 9, to protest the Phoenix Police Department's current operations order on immigration enforcement, which allows crime victims and witnesses to be questioned about their immigration status.The operations o ... More >>

Coddling Joe: How Do You Collaborate With a Felon?

Arpaio's Boys in Beige Say Sayonara to ICE Authority in Overly Dramatic Badge-Piling Ceremony

James KingMaricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio looks on as his detention officers kiss their ICE authority goodbye.​It's official: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office detention officers no longer have the authority to act as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in MCSO jails -- as was announced d ... More >>

ICE Dedicates 50 Officers to Maricopa Jails Following Canceled Agreement with Sheriff Arpaio; "No Gap" in Enforcement Expected

Nelson Peacock, DHS assistant secretary for legislative affairs​ Federal authorities promised today to take up the slack in Maricopa County jails following the severing of ties with the sheriff's office over allegations of widespread racial profiling. In a letter today to&n ... More >>

Where was ICE? Feds Supervised 287(g) Program in Jails, Touted Numerous "Success Stories" This Year

John Morton, director of ICE.​ The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau isn't ready to comment this morning on the impact of severing ties with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.Which is a shame, because we have some good questions for them. Like, why was ICE supervising operatio ... More >>

Feds Pull 287(g) Authority From Maricopa County Jails Due to Civil Rights Violations

Janet Napolitano, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, announced today that she's yanking the 287(g) program, which helps identify illegal immigrants, from Maricopa County jails.​ U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yanked the 287(g) program from Maricopa County jails today due to ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Jails Off Limits to Federal Immigration Detainees, John Morton Tells Bill Montgomery

ICE honcho John Morton, back when the two guys to the left were still in office...In case Sheriff Joe Arpaio missed the gist of the fiat handed down Thursday by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ending Arpaio's 287(g) jails agreement, John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigrati ... More >>

Nogales Smuggling Tunnel Pictures Released; Shaft Ran 70 Feet South From a Home

Image: ICE, HSIThe smuggling tunnel found in Nogales yesterday had internal support structures to guard against cave-in.​ Border authorities shut down a tunnel Tuesday that ran 70 feet from a U.S. home in Nogales, Arizona to Mexico. Pictures just released show the builders of this tunnel, wh ... More >>

ICE Flies Undocumented Immigrants Back to Mexico on U.S. Dime

Signs like this one along the U.S.-Mexico border warn migrants not to cross​The United States government is revamping a program that will fly  undocumented Mexican immigrants back to Mexico City, after they've been caught entering the country illegally.The feds claim this prevents deaths from ... More >>

Immigrants Who Fight Deportation Are Packed Into Federal Gulags for Months or Years Before Their Cases Are Heard

ACLU Report on Immigrant Detention Released; ICE Responds With Promise to Investigate "Significant Acts of Abuse" Alleged by ACLU

New Times Detention: not much different than incarceration. ​The Arizona ACLU released a report on conditions in Arizona immigrant-detention facilities today alleging serious abuses of detainees in the custody of private prisons and the Pinal County Jail.   It is titled, "In Their Own ... More >>

Phoenix Cross-Country Coach Miguel Aparicio Deported

Miguel Aparicio, 37, deported on Monday, despite ICE director John Morton's empty "changes" to ICE deportation policiesLast week United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement honcho John Morton announced a series of  "improvements" meant to keep ICE's focus on deporting aliens with serious ... More >>

ICE Honcho John Morton Blasted by Critics of Secure Communities

Critics think ICE director Morton's policy reforms are a feel-good PR stunt.Pro-immigrant lawyers and activists are slamming the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for recently announced policy "changes" that they say will do nothing to improve the way illegal immigrants are b ... More >>

Janet Napolitano's "Secure Communities" Program Secure in Arizona, Elsewhere Not So Much

Three states have opted out of a federal immigration program that helps identify and deport illegal immigrants.​Massachusetts is now the third state to opt out of a federal immigration program that helps identify illegal immigrants and turn them over to federal officials.Governor Deval Patrick cal ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Defends Separating Parents from Children in Worksite Raids

Videographer Dennis Gilman covered Sheriff Joe Arpaio's recent worksite raid at the Phoenix company Great Western Erectors, and challenged Joe on separating mothers and fathers from their children during these immigration-enforcement stunts of his.Arpaio tries to slough it off, claiming he's just en ... More >>

Two Charged After 53 Illegal Immigrants Found in Phoenix Drop House

ICEICE agents found 50 illegal immigrants in a west Phoenix drop house on Friday.​Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents found 53 people in a Phoenix drop house on Friday, and two Mexican nationals now face human smuggling charges.  Edgar Meza-Bustamante, 23, and Cruz Gerardo Meza-Tira ... More >>

ICE Punks Out To DREAM Act Students

In the light of day, while they're being watched, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ain't so tough.The above video with footage by Bill Pierce and editing by Dennis Gilman documents a November 19 demonstration outside the Phoenix offices of ICE by undocumented Arizona DREAM Act student ... More >>

More Than a Ton of Weed Seized and Three Alleged Drug Dealers Arrested in ICE's Latest Big Bust

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement​Do yourself a favor: if you own a white conversion van, don't drive it near Nogales -- especially if you're carting around more than a ton of marijuana.According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, last week, ICE agents saw a white conversion van s ... More >>

ICE Rescues 9-Year-Old Ecuadorian Boy After He Was Held Hostage in Mesa for More Than Four Months

​A suspected human smuggler is behind bars after allegedly holding a 9-year-old Ecuadorian boy hostage for more than four months and demanding $4,000 from his family for his release.Ecuadorian nationals, the family was unable to pay the ransom, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement agen ... More >>

Nearly $7.6 Million Worth of Weed Found in Truck Carrying Squash Near Nogales

www.demotivateus.com​Federal agents, acting on a tip, searched a semi-trailer delivering squash at a Rio Rico warehouse Tuesday night and guess what they found -- a whole-lotta weed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement received a tip that the trailer looked out of place at the warehouse. Afte ... More >>

Most Immigrants Arrested in "Operation Return to Sender" Had No Criminal Record

​When U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement conducted an immigration sweep in northern Arizona in November, 2008, as a part of "Operation Return to Sender," they touted it as a program designed to target and deport dangerous criminals. As it turns out, most of the people arrested didn ... More >>

Smuggling Syndicate Crushed in "Operation En Fuego," AG's Office Says

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard will reveal details tomorrow of the break-up of a large smuggling syndicate thanks to the work of several law enforcement agencies (but not the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office). While Sheriff Joe Arpaio was rousting corn vendors and trying to one-up Mesa ... More >>