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Detroit police notify ICE, most detainers go unenforced

(The Center Square) – Questions over immigration enforcement in Detroit are resurfacing after city records showed federal officials issued 63 detainers for individuals arrested by local police, but fewer than half resulted in a federal pickup. The issue has been further complicated by the recent unpaid, 30-day suspension of two

Seattle begins installing anti-federal immigration enforcement signage

(The Center Square) – One of the first of an expected 656 signs stating that city property in Seattle cannot be used by federal authorities for civil immigration enforcement efforts has been posted at Jefferson Park in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. The signs are part of Mayor Katie Wilson’s Jan.

Arizona House to consider bill on arrests of illegal immigrants

Editor's note: This story has been updated since its original publication. (The Center Square) - A new Arizona bill would require state and local police to notify federal law enforcement once an illegal immigrant is arrested. Senate Bill 1055 is heading to the state House for consideration after the

'Crazy': Trump blasts Dem policies, SCOTUS tariff ruling in wide-ranging State of Union

(The Center Square) — The economy, immigration and patriotism took center stage Tuesday night as President Donald Trump delivered his second State of the Union Address of his second term. Flanked by members of his cabinet, Supreme Court justices, military leaders and members of Congress, the president spoke for over an

Where Montana cities stand on ICE and immigration enforcement

Where Montana cities stand on ICE and immigration enforcement

Montana attorney general Austin Knudsen announced last week that he is investigating the city of Helena after local officials approved a resolution in late January directing police to avoid assisting federal immigration enforcement, a hallmark of so-called sanctuary-city policies that restrict local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration

Updated: Gianforte, Knudsen launch probe into legality of Helena's immigration resolution

Just two weeks after the Helena City Commission declared in a resolution it wanted to keep local police out of participating in immigration enforcement, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced Wednesday he had opened an investigation into whether the measure violates a law banning sanctuary cities signed by the governor

Montana will ban sanctuary cities under bill expected to pass Legislature

The state Senate on Monday endorsed a bill to ban sanctuary cities in Montana, a law-and-order notice from conservative lawmakers which Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte is expected to sign once it reaches his desk. "What it gets down to is legal versus illegal," Sen. Keith Regier,