The Trump administration put lives at risk by failing to properly vet people seeking to become ICE agents during a frantic hiring spree, a whistleblower has alleged. An official who oversaw the vetting of thousands of ICE recruits said the Department of Homeland Security could have broken the law and exposed the country to “grave national security risks” by cutting corners during last summer’s hiring spree,

Christian Castro was released from a South Texas jail last week after a judge ruled he could no longer be detained while Minnesota seeks his extradition.

A supervisor overseeing background checks warned last year that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was hiring many new officers who had not undergone basic vetting, violating federal rules and putting the agency at risk of misconduct, a newly released whistleblower complaint shows.

An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.

New data shows ICE arrests are rising in Oregon, with a sharp increase in the number of people detained who have no criminal record.

ICE arrested Villeda Mejía at Denver International Airport on March 30. He was detained at the ICE detention center in Aurora until early August, when ICE moved him across the country to a “staging facility” in Louisiana — the final stop before ICE deports someone, according to Henry Hollithron, Villeda Mejía’s Denver-based attorney.

ICE records revealed details about a pursuit that led to the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston's East End. Prosecutors want to seal the documents.

A divided panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that ICE ’s novel interpretation of mandatory detention laws distorted a 30-year-old statute that was generally meant to require detention for people who recently crossed the border.