Immigration detention

The ACLU argues immigrants held under the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy deserve bond hearings to determine whether they should be released while their cases play out.

U.S. Senator Gary Peters weighs in on the American war with Iran. Then, a Grand Rapids resident founded a group to support families affected by immigrant detention.

It's natural for political parties to evolve. Over the course of time, they adjust to meet the realities of their current era. A century ago, the Democratic Party was primarily a combination of Jim Crow southerners and working-class northerners. Sixty years later it started shifting more toward the party of minorities and women. And today, it's the neurotic, often self-defeating mishmash that we all know.

In a press conference Thursday afternoon, elected officials, faith leaders, and immigrant rights advocates voiced their concern about the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s expansion into Michigan communities.

A new detention facility is coming to southeast Michigan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirms. ICE said the detention center would create more than a thousand jobs. But many local leaders have opposed the facility.

“We know that an individual has died in this facility, and we still don't have answers as to why,” Representative Hillary Scholten told reporters after her visit to the North Lake Processing Center.

The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 million in 2024.

Hundreds of people, chanting "Ice out now," marched in Ann Arbor Friday as part of a general strike to protest violent actions by federal agents in Minneapolis.

The bills — all sponsored by Democrats — would forbid immigration enforcement actions at schools, houses of worship, and hospitals, and bar law enforcement from wearing masks in many situations.

The average daily population at the North Lake facility in Michigan has ballooned to more than 1,300 people. This retired pastor visits each week.