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In this photo taken Sept. 10, 2019, a detainee works in a kitchen area at the GEO Group’s immigration jail in Tacoma, Wash., during a media tour. After nearly four years of litigation and pandemic-related delays, a federal jury on Tuesday, June 15, 2021, began deliberating whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees who perform cooking, cleaning and other tasks at the facility – instead of the $1 per day they typically receive. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Mistrial halts case on minimum wage for immigrant detainees

By Gene Johnson Jun. 17, 2021 06:19 PM EDT

In this photo taken Sept. 10, 2019, a detainee works in a kitchen area at the GEO Group’s immigration jail in Tacoma, Wash., during a media tour. After nearly four years of litigation and pandemic-related delays, a federal jury on Tuesday, June 15, 2021, began deliberating whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees who perform cooking, cleaning and other tasks at the facility – instead of the $1 per day they typically receive. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Jury deciding if immigration detainees must get minimum wage

By Gene Johnson Jun. 15, 2021 07:34 PM EDT

In this May 12, 2021 photo, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before the Senate Appropriations committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration will stop using immigration detention facilities in Massachusetts and Georgia that are the subject of abuse allegations. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday announced that federal authorities will no longer use the jail facilities in Bristol County, Massachusetts and the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia. (Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via AP, Pool)
US ends use of 2 immigration jails accused of mistreatment

By Ben Fox And Kate Brumback May. 20, 2021 11:49 AM EDT

Complaint: Mississippi ICE center is violating COVID rules

May. 19, 2021 01:27 PM EDT
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — Several immigrants’ rights groups filed a complaint against those running a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in...

Healthcare workers transport to a morgue the body of a patient who died from COVID-19 at Clinicas Hospital in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The Health Ministry reported that a record number of people died from COVID-19 on Tuesday, May 18. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
The Latest: Detroit archbishop ends mask rule for vaccinated

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 01:10 AM EDT

Violations of ICE detention standards found at Illinois jail

May. 06, 2021 07:01 PM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security inspector general's office detailed several violations at a southern Illinois jail that houses...

Editorial Roundup: Texas

By The Associated Press May. 03, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Dallas Morning News. April 30, 2021. Editorial: Who are my parents? Texas should give adoptees access to their original birth certificates ...

Editorial Roundup: US

By The Associated Press Apr. 29, 2021 12:19 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ April 29 The Los Angeles Times...

COVID changed everything for Georgia group helping migrants

By Nick Wooten, The Ledger-Enquirer Apr. 18, 2021 10:06 AM EDT
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Rita Ellis got the call around 1:30 on a recent afternoon. Four men were being released from the Stewart Detention...

Washington state governor OKs bill banning for-profit jails

By Rachel La Corte Apr. 14, 2021 06:43 PM EDT
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — One of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would be shut down by 2025 under a bill signed Wednesday by...

Cook Co. aims to disrupt conviction-to-deportation pipeline

By Carlos Ballesteros Of Injustice Watch Apr. 03, 2021 01:01 AM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — This story was co-produced by Injustice Watch and Borderless Magazine. —- Alejandra Cano thought she was...

FILE - In this April 15, 2020 file photo a protester holds a sign she looks out from the sunroof of a car during a protest at the Northwest Detention Center a facility privately operated on behalf of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, in Tacoma, Wash. The Washington Legislature has approved a bill aimed at shutting down one of the country's largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren,File)
Bill in Washington state would ban private immigration jail

By Gene Johnson Mar. 30, 2021 05:17 PM EDT

Largest Iowa detention facility seeks change to ICE contract

By Ryan J. Foley Mar. 25, 2021 01:50 PM EDT
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The rural jail that has long been the largest detention facility for immigrants facing deportation in Iowa plans to stop housing long...

Suit seeks information on immigrants held in county jail

Mar. 04, 2021 09:44 AM EST
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Three groups that believe the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using the Cumberland County Jail as a short-term detention...

Bill takes aim at ICE detention centers in Maryland

By Audrey Decker Of Capital News Service Feb. 11, 2021 10:14 AM EST
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland lawmakers heavily debated a bill concerning ICE detention centers on Wednesday, including testimony from a previous detainee who...

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden talks with a protester objecting to his stance on deportations during a town hall at Lander University in Greenwood, S.C., on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. President Joe Biden's administration has deported hundreds of people in its first days in office despite the president's campaign pledge to halt most deportations at the beginning of his term. It’s unclear how many of the people deported in recent days are considered national security or public safety threats or recently crossed the border illegally, as prescribed by new guidance issued by Biden’s Department of Homeland Security to enforcement agencies. That guidance went into effect Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard, file)
Hundreds deported under Biden, including witness to massacre

By Nomaan Merchant Feb. 01, 2021 07:50 PM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2019 file photo, a detainee mops the floor at the intake station at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. Federal authorities said a 57-year-old Mexican man who was being held in federal immigration detention at the center in southwest Georgia died on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021, from complications of COVID-19. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
Immigration detainee with COVID-19 dies in Georgia hospital

Feb. 01, 2021 09:48 AM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 file photo, Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. On Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting Biden swore on a “Masonic/Illuminati” Bible during his inauguration. It is a Douay-Rheims Bible, an English translation of a Latin Bible, which has been in the Biden family since the 1890s. Robert Miller, professor of biblical studies at The Catholic University of America, says, “Nothing even vaguely Masonic would have been anywhere near these Bibles. … Same thing for the ‘Illuminati,’ to the extent that such a thing existed: repeatedly condemned by the Popes and certainly coming nowhere into contact with Catholic Bibles.” (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

The Associated Press Jan. 29, 2021 03:45 PM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 5, 2020, file photo, members of the Georgia National Guard work to clean and disinfect hallways and common areas at Provident Village assisted living and memory care home, in Smyrna, Ga. Despite having no coronavirus cases among residents or staff, the home welcomed the extra help from the guard. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
2020: Pandemic, politics, and passing of a civil rights icon

By Jeff Martin Dec. 28, 2020 07:22 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: New England

By The Associated Press Dec. 25, 2020 02:56 PM EST
Recent editorials of regional and national interest from New England’s newspapers: CONNECTICUT: More cash for money...