Ahmad, an Afghan immigrant and father who has lived in New York City for more than a year, had been growing increasingly paranoid that ICE would detain him or his brother. While grocery shopping, he ...

The 1.6 million number marks the largest-ever effort to strip permissions for immigrants who attempted to migrate to the country through legal means, advocates say.

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ICE agents detained her and shipped her to a detention center in California.