A former acting ICE director told Newsweek that increased resources could allow the agency to deport public safety risks.

A memo from the agency’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.

SAN DIEGO ( Border Report) — Migrant advocates in Southern California have announced a pending two-day strike by field workers as a way to protest ongoing immigration raids at fields and farms across the state. Organizers say the workers will stop working on consecutive days in the near future to show their displeasure and concerns with the raids.

Tom Homan’s comments about ICE agents being able to detain people based on “their physical appearance” will likely make racial profiling concerns worse.

The policy shift will apply to all immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, no matter when they did so.

A number of restaurants in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas have seen a significant impact following a number of federal immigration raids. Restaurant