Houston police remove leader of immigrant rights group from city council meeting following outburst
FIEL Houston executive director Cesar Espinosa criticized the city's mayor and police chief more than a week after Emmanuel Gonzalez Garcia, a 15-year-old boy with autism, reportedly went missing while he was selling fruit with his mother. The boy ended up in federal custody.
Effort to eliminate Houston-based immigrant rights group can continue after appeals court ruling
The recent opinion from Texas' Fifteenth Court of Appeals reversed a previous trial court's order that effectively denied Attorney General Ken Paxton's efforts to revoke FIEL Houston's nonprofit charter.
Houston’s Fiestas Patrias parade returns amid Latinos’ fears about federal immigration crackdown
Saturday's Fiestas Patrias parade, which is being held for the first time in four years, celebrates the cultures of several Latin American countries and serves as a kickoff for Hispanic Heritage Month.
‘Operation Lone Star 2.0’: DPS arresting undocumented immigrants across Texas to aid Trump’s mass deportation
The Department of Public Safety has shifted from Biden-era border enforcement to helping expel people from the country, a job once exclusively done by federal authorities.
Civil rights group FIEL Houston plans Friday night protest in response to recent ICE arrests
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has detained multiple people this week at an immigration courthouse in Houston.
ICE detains multiple men at Houston immigration courthouse, civil rights organization says
The men were detained after their immigration cases were administratively closed, according to FIEL Houston. Its account matches reports of similar immigration enforcement tactics witnessed in other cities in Texas and across the United States, in which people have been detained at courthouses shortly after their cases were dropped at the request of federal attorneys.
Houston-area immigrant who says he has permission to work in U.S. released by ICE on bond
Kevin Zaldaña Ramirez, a 20-year-old from El Salvador, says he arrived in the U.S. when he was 14 and has been working to provide for his visually impaired mother while using a work visa through Special Immigrant Juvenile classification. But federal immigration authorities suspect him of being a gang member and accuse him of being in the country illegally.
Houston police, after recent turnover to ICE, say stance on immigration enforcement hasn’t changed
Jose Armando Lainez Argueta, 43, was detained March 5 during a traffic stop in northeast Houston, according to Houston Police Department spokesperson Jodi Silva. She said the traffic stop involved running Argueta's criminal history, and that was when an immigration warrant popped up.
Houston worker says he was detained by immigration officers despite permission to work in U.S.
FIEL Houston, an immigrant advocacy group, is warning that people with authorization to work in the U.S. or with complicated legal statuses are at risk of being detained amid increased immigration enforcement under the Trump administration.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says Colony Ridge community target of immigration enforcement
The 33,000-acre development near Houston has been singled out by conservative state officials in the past.
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