A top official from the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) office in Boston testified Tuesday that he received orders to prioritize the arrest of Tufts Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was swarmed by ICE agents on a Somerville sidewalk earlier this year and whisked to a detention center in Louisiana.

An external police oversight panel will review the incident. Police Chief Oscar Perez said officers were de-escalating, not cooperating.

Immigration officials may deport migrants to countries other than their own with as little as six hours' notice, Trump administration memo says.

Despite a previous denial by the federal government that it had used a controversial website to find Pro-Palestinian protestors, an ICE official admitted in court this week it was one of its main sources of information.

Nguyen, who has lived in the United States since he was 13 years old and was on a work visa, was taken into custody during a routine court check-in on Thursday, his family told local news station KFOR. They are worried he could be deported back to Vietnam, where he hasn't lived for decades.

The release of the transgender woman, identified in court filings as O-J-M, came after a federal judge in Oregon ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday to free her. In her order, U.S. District Judge Amy Baggio wrote that O-J-M had been deprived of her liberty by the government without procedural due process.

An ICE spokesperson told CBS New York the masks are optional but that "ICE law enforcement and their families are being targeted and are facing a 500% increase in assaults ... due to the demonization of ICE by hostile groups and irresponsible elected officials."

Esther Ngoy Tekele, who was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the mother of a young child, was detained by immigration authorities on July 6 while entering the U.S. at the Highgate Springs Port of Entry, reported local news station WPTZ.

Immigration authorities are demanding that landlords turn over leases, rental applications, identification cards, and other information.

A large discrepancy exists between the number of immigration detainer requests the Boston Police Department said it received from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2024 versus the ...