immigration enforcement

The Department of Homeland Security claimed its immigration agents were not pursuing Mario David Coronado-Juarez at the moment he crashed.

A person died Sunday after crashing into a tree in Grand Rapids. The Grand Rapids Police Department said Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had attempted to stop the driver before the crash.

About three-fourths of people who were arrested in Michigan by ICE ended up being deported or removed in some way, including those who took a “voluntary departure."

Michigan police are handing people over to immigration enforcement officers—even when it's against their own stated policies. We talked to two reporters who investigated how often a stop, even for minor offenses, leads to detention and deportation. Plus, a conversation about a musical that draws inspiration from a community coming together to take care of strangers on Sept. 11, 2001.

Days after a different Afghan native shot and killed a national guardsman in D.C., an asylum seeker living in metro Detroit was called in for a check in with ICE. He was put into immigration detention at the North Lake Processing Center soon after and he said his life hasn’t been the same since.

The Trump administration wanted Washtenaw County to help enforce federal immigration law. The county refused. A federal judge says the county is within its rights.

How the all-male, Christian religious order called The Servants of the Word has come under scrutiny after sex abuse accusations and convictions among its members. Also, a group of Pontiac residents banded together to help immigrants in their community as ICE presence persists. Plus, how Mid-Michigan authors are writing about their own region from the ground up, creating a regional guide inspired by the Federal Writers’ Project.

An asylum-seeking mother returned to Venezuela after months in immigration detention. Just weeks after her husband and children joined her, the region where they were restarting their lives was devastated by two of the worst earthquakes in Latin American history.

Over the last year, members have been convening “circles” of immigrants across the state to better understand what legislative proposals they see as most important to create their platform.

In a lawsuit filed Friday, the Trump administration is seeking injunctions against Michigan and three other states to require them to turn over their last five years of applicant data from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.