Wife pleads for release of Latin Grammy-winning Cuban musician detained by ICE
Degnis Bofill, who won a 2022 Latin Grammy, is being held at the Krome Detention Center in Miami-Dade County while his asylum case is pending.
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Degnis Bofill, who won a 2022 Latin Grammy, is being held at the Krome Detention Center in Miami-Dade County while his asylum case is pending.
A South Florida family is seeking the release of a Colombian father who was detained by ICE at a Doral gas station while on his way to work.
The hearings, known as "master calendar hearings," are often an immigrant's first appearance before an immigration judge and can determine the future of their case to remain in the United States.
The regulation, described in internal documents obtained by CBS News, would be the latest effort by President Trump's White House to tighten access to the U.S. asylum system.
More than 12,000 people gave up their asylum claims or voluntarily departed the U.S. as ICE moved to cut cases short by sending asylum-seekers to third countries, a CBS News analysis found.
ICE has filed more than 8,000 requests to toss out asylum claims in immigration court, asking judges to send immigrants to third-party countries.
The Trump administration on Friday directed officials to pause all asylum decisions in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C.
The Trump administration is considering a regulation that would prevent most asylum-seekers from getting work permits.
Critics are saying the end of a pandemic-era practice to provide interpreters for those seeking asylum is putting lives at risk.
