A new report shows this year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, carried out the highest number of deportations in a decade.
ICE’s 2024 annual report shows the agency carried out more than 271,000 deportations this fiscal year, which spans October 2023 and this September. That number includes almost 50,000 family units and more than 400 unaccompanied children.
As CBS reports, it’s the highest fiscal-year total since 2014 — when the agency carried out some 360,000 deportations under then-president Barack Obama. And it also eclipses a Trump-era high of some 261,000 deportations in 2019.
This summer, a rule enacted by the Biden administration blocked most migrants apprehended between ports of entry from asking for asylum in the U.S. The law is currently under litigation from rights groups that argue it goes against U.S. immigration law.
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On Monday, dozens of agents swarmed a stretch of private land where the activists had been camped in and around a centuries-old cottonwood tree. Contractors tore down the tree and agents made multiple arrests. -
New research shows the ancient site is much older than previously thought. In fact, it’s now confirmed to be the oldest known scientifically dated geoglyph in the Americas, 2,000 years older than the first Pyramids built in Egypt. -
Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls. -
Ahmed Soliman has no ties to Equatorial Guinea. The 30-year-old man was born in Egypt and brought to the United States. when he was just 4 years old. He grew up in Phoenix. Now he’s believed to be in a hospital in the African nation. -
Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old.
