Construction industry likely to be a subject of state’s FAIRNESS Act enforcement
The law, which takes effect July 1, provides that employers who knowingly and intentionally hire undocumented immigrants could face civil actions.
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Congressman calls for ending ICE detention at Indiana prison
The congressman’s visit came just days after a second death in federal immigration custody at Miami Correctional Facility.
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Latest federal payment to state for ICE detainees more than triples
Miami is considered a long-term facility by ICE, holding the men for three days or more.
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More than 500 advocates gather to push elected officials on homelessness, immigration
The pressure placed on the third-term Democratic mayor demonstrated what Live Free USA Indiana organizer Josh Riddick describes as “people power.”
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Indiana’s controversial immigration bill is now law — and it may be used against IPS
Attorney General Todd Rokita is asking a court to consider the new immigration enforcement law in his case against Indianapolis Public Schools, in which he alleges the school district interfered with a January 2025 deportation order.
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Monroe County sheriff sues AG Rokita, calls new state law unconstitutional
On Wednesday, Monroe County Sheriff Ruben Marté filed a complaint asking a federal court to declare Indiana’s new FAIRNESS Act unconstitutional.
Federal judge rules ICE can’t lock up everyone facing deportation
The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada, one of the petitioners in the case, said the decision could allow potentially thousands of immigration detainees to seek release on bail.
Indiana strips nearly 1,800 noncitizens of CDLs
House Enrolled Act 1200 narrowed eligibility by requiring that non-domiciled commercial drivers hold H-2A, H-2B or E-2 visas to receive and maintain their CDLs, effective April 1.
Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship as he attends arguments
The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.
DACA recipient returns to US after judge finds she was unlawfully deported
Maria de Jesus Estrada was arrested after showing up at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for an appointment on Feb. 18.
Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship
The Trump administration has tapped Alexander Porter Morse as an authority in its push to upend long-settled law that virtually everyone born in the United States is a citizen.
Democrats probe Trump’s $38 billion plan for immigrant jails
In a letter, the group of more than 50 U.S. senators and representatives asked contractors and real estate companies for details of their roles in the $38 billion plan.
ICE officers go to TSA checkpoints at Trump’s direction, while long wait times at airports persist
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers began patrolling terminals and standing watch beside long lines of passengers Monday at several airports.
ICE agents to begin work Monday at some airports to try to help alleviate delays, lines
Federal immigration agents newly ordered to U.S. airports by President Donald Trump to may guard exit lanes or check passenger IDs.
Those seeking to sue ICE for injuries or damage face uphill battle
Scores of claims arising from the crackdown on illegal immigration are winding through a bureaucratic process mandated under the Federal Tort Claims Act.
Cancellation of licenses for immigrant truckers takes effect
The rule bars immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses.
As Trump pushes deportations, immigration data becomes harder to find
For all the boasting, the administration has been releasing less reliable, carefully vetted data than its predecessors on a signature policy that has become one of the most contentious of Trump’s second term.
New citizens look forward to civic life after Carmel naturalization ceremony
The ceremony, administered by Judge James R. Sweeney of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, also served as an early celebration of the U.S.’s 250th birthday.
Coroner rules ICE detainee died of natural causes at Miami Correctional
Miami Correctional Facility started holding ICE detainees in October, under a two-year agreement with the federal government.
How ICE officers defied court orders as immigrant arrests soared in Minneapolis
Minnesota case files show officers repeatedly detained people under a reinterpretation of a 1996 law that states that anyone in the U.S. illegally “shall be detained” without bond, indefinitely, even when courts had ordered they be granted a bond hearing or set free.
Testy exchanges over immigration cases highlight growing confrontations between judges and DOJ
There has been a surge in recent weeks of judges issuing critical and sometimes scathing statements and rulings over the fallout from the administration’s attempts at mass immigrant deportations.
Marion County detained over 1,000 immigrants for ICE last year
WFYI obtained the 2025 data through a public records request to provide a clearer picture of how people move through the immigration enforcement process in the local jail.
Is ICE eyeing Indy as possible site for large-scale detention facility?
Another national news report has named Indiana as a possible site for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility — this time, in the state capital.
IPS adopts new student policy in latest move involving ICE lawsuit from Attorney General Rokita
A lawsuit from Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita alleges the district unlawfully impeded federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.