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According to the Huffington Post, Adnan Asif Parveen, a Muslim detainee, was imprisoned at a Border Patrol detention facility even though he holds a work permit to the United States. He was given only pork to eat for a week, a violation of Muslim beliefs.

In December, Meng Wanzhou, the 46-year-old CFO of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, was arrested in Canada by request of American officials who say she violated sanctions against Iran using a subsidiary of Huawei. According to CBC News, U.S. officials have indicated to David MacNaughton, Canadian ambassador to the United States, that they will be filing […]

According to the Miami New Times, a facility ran by one of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) top contractors, the GEO Group, has been engaging in practices that make it difficult or impossible for those who are being detained to obtain lawyers. This practice has lead Ben Johnson, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers […]

After the Trump administration separated more than 2,000 children from their parents under the “zero tolerance” policy, the president succumbed to pressure and signed an executive order to stop the separations at the border. Instead, families will be detained together indefinitely.

A Montana border patrol agent detained and questioned two American citizens after he merely overheard them speaking to each other in Spanish at a gas station. Early Wednesday morning, the two women, Ana Suda and Mimi Hernandez, were making a midnight trip to a convenience store near the Montana border to Canada in Havre when […]

The Pentagon recently announced plans to transfer the first detainee from Guantanamo Bay, the American detention center in Cuba, since Donald Trump assumed the presidency. Ahmed al-Darbi, a Saudi national, is that detainee. In 2014, al-Darbi, pleaded guilty to charges connected with facilitating a 2002 Al-Qaeda attack on a French oil tanker. He was required to […]

“You illegal?” That’s the first thing Marcos Antonio Huete heard when approached by a Monroe County sheriff. Just moments earlier, the back wheel of his bike had been clipped by a car. Instead of seeing how he could help him, the officer was asking Huete about his immigration status, according to Univision. 

Last month, Muhammad Ali Jr. was detained with his mother, Muhammad Ali’s first wife, and many suspected it was because of their ties to the Nation of Islam. After speaking to Congress about his experience with the Transportation Security Administration, Ali was detained yet again while boarding a flight back to Fort Lauderdale, according to The New […]

Last month, the first wife and son of the late, great Muhammad Ali were detained at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for more than two hours and asked questions about their religious faith. The two appeared on MSNBC to detail their experience earlier this week.

Major cities across the United States have seen a drastic increase in immigrant arrests due to a concerted effort by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to Fusion, as many as 680 arrests were made in just a five-day period. 

Police in Prince George’s County, Maryland were told to look for a black suspect in blue jeans and a black top following a shooting at Iverson Mall. They found someone who fit the description. However, they failed to realize the man they were detaining was an off-duty police officer. Officer Robert Parker Jr. is officially filing […]

By now, stories of Pokemon Go players ending up in all kinds of awkward situations have surfaced, including strolls through mine fields and discovering dead bodies. But a University of Iowa football player recently found himself “”with four gun barrels staring me in the face,” according to his Facebook account of the experience. Body cam […]