Faster, more frequent transfers of immigrant ICE detainees sow fear and cut off resources
At 3:25 in the morning of July 24, Milagro Solis Portillo was woken up and booked out of B-18, ICE’s basement detention facility in the…
Trump administration opens immigration prison in Louisiana
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9zxQtq3eyc[/embed] Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The federal government is opening a new immigration detention facility at Louisiana State Penitentiary, which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem…
Contributor: MAGA has won the war on science
This is the story of two Republican doctor-senators named Bill.One of them, as majority leader from 2003 to 2007, helped a self-described “compassionate conservative” Republican…
Mandatory evacuations remain day after Louisiana plant explosion
"Although there is less visible smoke today, the fire is still burning," Louisiana State Police posted Saturday on Facebook about an explosion at a plant…
Texas can’t put the Ten Commandments in certain classrooms, judge says
Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in…
Louisiana AG Murrill accuses Roblox site of endangering children
Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill accused California-based Roblox of enabling online predators to endanger children in a state lawsuit filed on…
Feds charge 3 current or former Louisiana police chiefs in an alleged visa fraud scheme
BATON ROUGE, La. — Federal authorities have charged three current or former Louisiana police chiefs with taking bribes in exchange for filing false police reports that would…
Freed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20-million claim against Trump administration
NEW YORK — On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent…
Supreme Court doesn’t rule on Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday put off ruling on a second Black majority congressional district in Louisiana, instead ordering new arguments in the fall.The case…
Appeals court panel rules against Louisiana Ten Commandments law
June 21 (UPI) -- Louisiana can not compel officials to display the Ten Commandments in public school and college classrooms, a federal appeals court has…
Court blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms
NEW ORLEANS — A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the…
ICE arrests 84 people at Louisiana racetrack
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 84 people unlawfully in the country during a raid at a southwestern Louisiana racetrack, the agency announced…
Louisiana is the latest Republican-led state expanding its role in immigration enforcement
BATON ROUGE, La. — As protests erupt across the country over aggressive immigration enforcement tactics, Louisiana lawmakers approved a package of legislation this week that’ll aid the…
Zion Williamson accused of raping woman while living in Beverly Hills
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson has been accused of raping and abusing a woman who says she dated the former Duke standout and No.…
Texas moves closer to mandating Ten Commandments displays in classes
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas would require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a Republican proposal that cleared a major vote Saturday and would…
Challenge to Louisiana law that lists abortion pills as controlled dangerous substances can proceed
BATON ROUGE, La. — A legal challenge against a first-of-its-kind measure that recategorized two widely used abortion-inducing drugs as “controlled dangerous substances” in Louisiana can move forward,…
Tufts University student back in Boston after release from Louisiana detention center
BOSTON — A Tufts University student from Turkey who was seized on a street by federal immigration agents has returned to Boston after being released from a…
Judge releases the Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by ICE to continue her studies
A federal judge in Vermont on Friday released a Turkish Tufts University student detained in a Louisiana immigration center more than six weeks after she…
ICE deports a breastfeeding mother and 2-year-old U.S. citizen
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in recent days have deported the breastfeeding Cuban-born mother of a 1-year-old girl, separating them indefinitely, and in another…
Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont
A Tufts University student from Turkey being held in a Louisiana immigration facility must be returned to New England no later than May 1 to…