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City To Renew Rikers Phone Deal Amid AI Surveillance Concerns
Advocates warn the Securus system could funnel intimate detainee call details into the company’s AI tools.
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ICE Racially Profiling New York Immigrants, Lawsuit Says
The suit, which cited reporting by THE CITY, documents numerous cases where people appeared to have been arrested on the basis of their ethnicity in so-called “Kavanaugh stops.”
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Trump-Appointed Judge Keeps City Council Staffer in ICE Detention
It’s the latest blow for Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez, who was arrested in January at an interview in his asylum case.
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High Schooler Detained by ICE Released After 10 Months
Contreras was the first known New York City public school student to be detained by ICE.
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Homeland Security Agents Lied Their Way Into Dorm to Arrest Student, Says Columbia President
The agents entered campus housing at around 6:30 a.m., just before Azerbaijani undergraduate Ellie Aghayeva posted online: “Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help."
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ICE Has Doubled Its Presence in Notorious Brooklyn Jail
Rep. Dan Goldman learned of the expansion on Wednesday when he became the first lawmaker to visit the federal facility since it began detaining immigrants last June.
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After an ICE Arrest, a Scarred Family Returns to 26 Federal Plaza
Ingrid and her two young children, one of them a U.S. citizen, had gone for a routine check-in, only to spend the holidays trapped in a hotel room awaiting their seemingly inevitable deportation. This week, they returned to the scene of their arrest.
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Rep. Dan Goldman Visits ICE’s Secretive Holding Cells at 26 Federal Plaza
The congressmember visited four ninth floor cells that Trump administration attorneys disclosed for the first time during a court hearing earlier this week.
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ICE Moved Detainees to Previously Undisclosed Floor of 26 Federal Plaza
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reduce overcrowding and squalid conditions at a Manhattan holding room. Months later, he finds ICE merely shifted floors.
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City Council Staffer Denied Bond, Deemed ‘Danger to Society’
Immigration Judge Charles Conroy denied the release of a City Council data analyst whose arrest by ICE last month provoked widespread outrage.