Daughter Says Cuban Mother Has Spent Eight Months in ICE Detention Despite Dismissed Removal Proceedings Xiomara Companioni González walked into what her family says was a routine immigration check-in on Nov. 13, 2025. According to her daughter, Yaimi Yanet, she never walked back out. ICE detained the 63-year-old Cuban national, and she has remained in federal custody while her immigration case continues through the legal system. Court records confirm she has remained detaine

Everyone knows about the raids, but fewer people are tracking the paperwork behind them. Wednesday morning, unmarked vehicles circled unsuspecting subjects, carrying them away in handcuffs. The raids that people see on the news are now happening in Starr County. Residents believed this would never reach them. What's landing in Starr County didn't start there. It started with a plan built in Washington, long before any vehicle circled a parking lot in Rio Grande City looking f

A post on Threads has gone viral: immigration is paperwork law, and nobody should die over paperwork. No caveats can soften that sentence, and none are needed. It sets a moral floor that predates any statute. The floor has needed restating all year, in different states, under different agencies. An ICE officer fatally shot a man on Canal Street in a predominantly Latino neighborhood of Houston in July, prompting LULAC to demand release of all body cam, dash cam, and bystander

Susan Collins picked an interesting week to defend an agency's honor. On Tuesday, a day after an ICE officer shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero through his windshield in Biddeford, Maine, in front of his three-year-old daughter, the senator told reporters ICE could improve but deserved defending against its harshest opponents. Guerrero wasn't the target of the operation, and he was driving to work when the agent fired. He lived in the country legally. "There's no doubt that ICE nee

LULAC Disputes ICE Account of Fatal Houston Shooting Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up his construction crew before 7 a.m. on Tuesday, when an ICE agent shot him on Canal Street in Houston's Magnolia Park. He died at Ben Taub Hospital with CPR already underway in the ambulance. Federal officials say he tried to run over an officer. His family says he spent thirty-five years in this country building homes for other people. Ronaldo Salgado, one of Salgado Araujo's sons, con

Threatening the President Carries a Lighter Sentence Than Threatening an ICE Agent Congress classified threatening the life of the President as a federal felony in 1917, and the statute has outlived eleven administrations without a single rewrite of the core language. Title 18, Section 871 criminalizes any knowing and willful threat to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm on the sitting president, the president-elect, or a former president within a defined protection window.

The "Blue Butterfly" at Dilley: What's Real, What Isn't, and Why It Matters The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, is not a place most people think about until something goes wrong. And lately, something has, though the full picture is considerably messier than social media wants it to be. Dilley is an ICE family detention facility. It has held mothers, their children, and more recently single adult women. The facility is operated by a private contractor,