As the Trump administration gears up efforts to deport immigrants en masse, asylum seekers at immigration court who thought they were playing by the rules were abruptly swept up by ICE agents in

The Trump administration is aiming to make illegal migrants ineligible for bond hearings as they contest their deportation cases in

Oscar, who is living and working in the U.S. legally, uses the Coqui app to check if ICE agents are nearby, fearing improper detention and deportation.

The policy shift will apply to all immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, no matter when they did so.

First off the detention center bus was 37-year-old Eulalio Ginez-Zarate, a fugitive from Mexico. He’s facing a homicide warrant when he returns. ICE Field Director Camilla Wamsley alleged that approximately half of Tuesday’s passengers have a criminal past.

The migrants have been held at East Meadow jail under a partnership with the feds, announced by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman earlier this year.

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