This Week On ICE

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Counting down the clock: We are officially less than a month away from the midterm elections that have loomed over our coverage all year — and survey after survey indicates that the Democrats are looking strong enough to seize control of both the House and Senate. If they clinch both chambers of Congress, it could trigger a tidal change in a number of hot-button i...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. An ICE killing in Houston: On Tuesday, armed ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston, Texas, as he was driving a work crew to a homebuilding site. The killing has sparked an international incident, with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum vowing to pursue “legal measures” beyond mere diplomatic complaints. While fighting...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Support This Week on ICE Podcast The top line: An ICE shooting in Texas and an ICE attack on a U.S. Citizen in Illinois. On Sunday , ICE agents in Austin, Texas, rammed their vehicle into Venezuelan asylum seeker Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez as he was making a DoorDash Delivery. They then proceeded to shoot him at point blank range, injuring him. Miraculously, Perez...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Gute reise, Matt! — This Week on ICE co-host Matt Kendrick is headed to Vienna, Austria, this month to begin not one but two (2!) Master’s programs where we will study  East Asian society and culture. But don’t worry; he’s not going anywhere: Matt will still be a loyal co-host, an ace producer, and a grreat friend of the show,. Best of luck to you, Matt! We have i...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. An immigration lawyer answers your biggest questions — This week, we welcomed back immigration attorney Robyn Nice of McAfee & Nice Law in Boston to talk about how the rapidly changing immigration enforcement landscape is impacting attorneys, immigrants, and families. We encourage you to listen to the full episode, but we’ve included a few highlights below. [Catch...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. An “ask me anything” with immigration lawyer Robin Nice. — Next week, we’re inviting a former This Week on ICE guest and seasoned immigration lawyer Robin Nice to answer your most pressing questions about how immigrants are building their best defense against ICE surveillance, arrest, detention and deportation. Email us at thisweekonice@gmail.com with your questio...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Farewell to Dolly Parton — a true legend not only in music but also in the power of kindness. Hours before recording this week’s episode, we learned of the passing of country music star and humanitarian Dolly Parton. Through building up countless charities and donating to important causes, Dolly was a firm believer in giving everyone in this country a chance to th...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. A third ICE detention death in Delaney Hall: The troubled ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, is back in the headlines this week for tragic reasons — this time following news of the death of Guatemalan immigrant José Chajón-Raxón. His death reportedly occurred over one month ago, but the public only learned of it last week, after New Jersey Democratic Re...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. ICE will release body camera footage, but only on their terms: The killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero last month renewed calls for ICE to equip its officers with body cameras, which the agency had promised to do earlier this year. Now, ICE claims it will roll out the cameras completely by the end of September — but that doesn’t me...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. TPS ends for Haitians and Syrians: On Monday, at least 300,000 Haitians in the United States lost their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) — a special humanitarian protection for nationals originally from countries deemed far too dangerous to return to. They are now subject to imminent deportation, and the Department of Homeland Security says it is already in the mi...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. The FBI stops investigating ICE encounters: On Monday, the New York Times reported that the FBI has stopped investigating ICE-related incidents, and all such issues will be handled internally by the Department of Homeland Security. The reported plans signal a grave shift away from accountability for ICE in the wake of two deaths by shooting in less than a week. We...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. An ICE killing in Maine: If you received our newsletter last week, this introduction may feel all too familiar. That’s because in less than seven days, ICE agents have killed another person. Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, who was shot and killed by ICE in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, was a 26-year-old Colombian national with a valid U.S. work permit and a Social S...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. An ICE killing in Houston: On Tuesday, armed ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston, Texas, as he was driving a work crew to a homebuilding site. The killing has sparked an international incident, with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum vowing to pursue “legal measures” beyond mere diplomatic complaints. While fighting...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. A devastating earthquake in Venezuela: Last Wednesday, on June 24, the country experienced a magnitude 7.5 earthquake just west of Caracas, the capital. The quake collapsed huge numbers of buildings in highly urbanized areas, leaving at least 2,200 people dead and 50,000 missing. The part that deeply relates to what we cover here on this podcast is that among the...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Breaking news from the U.S. Supreme Court: SCOTUS ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians in a 6-3 decision along party lines, impacting hundreds of thousands of people from two of the world’s most dangerous countries. The ruling also appears to clear the way to end TPS for over a million other...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. First, the biggest news of the week: On Wednesday, President Trump signed a new bill that gave ICE a $70 billion windfall that will fund the next three years of immigration enforcement activity, putting an end to a months-long stalemate in Congress. It was this stalemate that led to a partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. First, the biggest news of the week: On Wednesday, President Trump signed a new bill that gave ICE a $70 billion windfall that will fund the next three years of immigration enforcement activity, putting an end to a months-long stalemate in Congress. It was this stalemate that led to a partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this...

In this week’s episode, we welcome back OG co-host Matthew Kendrick after a month away. It was such a pleasure bringing in LA-based investigative journalist Ben Camacho into the fold as temporary co-host. Throughout that time, Ben and co-host Kelly Kimball discussed the possibility of ICE’s presence at World Cup matches across the U.S. , what historic highs of ICE detention deaths say about the co...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Major moves happened this week, so before we get into our official run of show, here’s a quick rundown of the latest: Alligator Alcatraz will be officially dismantled by early June, per a Tuesday report by the New York Times. The closure follows a year of intense legal challenges, controversial operational costs, and allegations of inhumane conditions. The 1,400 p...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Major moves happened this week, so before we get into our official run of show, here’s a quick rundown of the latest: Alligator Alcatraz will be officially dismantled by early June, per a Tuesday report by the New York Times. The closure follows a year of intense legal challenges, controversial operational costs, and allegations of inhumane conditions. The 1,400 p...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Major moves happened this week, so before we get into our official run of show, here’s a quick rundown of the latest: Alligator Alcatraz will be officially dismantled by early June, per a Tuesday report by the New York Times. The closure follows a year of intense legal challenges, controversial operational costs, and allegations of inhumane conditions. The 1,400 p...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. While we were recording this week’s episode, news broke that the Trump Administration is in talks to shut down the Florida Everglades ICE Detention Center known as Alligator Alcatraz. These talks are still preliminary, with DHS officials having said it has become too expensive to keep operating the center, which at one point burned $1.2 million taxpayer dollars pe...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. This week, we’re tracking several consequential developments in U.S. immigration policy made in the last week. We’re also diving even deeper into the unprecedented dilemma for Afghan allies stranded at a way-station in Doha, Qatar. Plus: We’ve brought on our new co-host for a little bit while Matt is traveling — Ben Camacho. Welcome, Ben! We’re so glad you’re here...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Kelly and I are still out-of-office this week. So, for this week’s episode, we’re featuring the most important highlights from two great guests we’ve had on the show. Before we get to it, here’s a rundown of this week’s developments involving ICE and the U.S. immigration crackdown 👇 — Matt Republicans in the Senate passed a bill in the wee hours of Thursday morni...

Welcome back to This Week on ICE. This week, we are both out of office - but it doesn’t mean we’re out of pocket. Matt and I are taking this time to feature highlights from our best guest interviews. Before we get to it, though, here’s a rundown of this week’s developments involving ICE and the U.S. immigration crackdown 👇 — Kelly Over the weekend — Costa Rica received the first group of migrants...