Homeland Security announced that it has deported an Afghan evacuee brought to the U.S. during last year's chaotic airlift back to his home country after he was convicted of molesting a 3-year-old girl at one of the evacuation camps.
Advocates push for the release of women inside the soon-to-be-closed Berks County immigrant detention center. ICE officials say those whose cases are not finished by the end of January will be transferred.
As the Berks County immigration detention center prepares to close early next year, advocates and lawyers are working for the release of the women still detained there.
Homeland Security will close a migrant detention center it maintains in Pennsylvania, bowing to pressure from immigrant-rights activists who say the facility is tainted by its history of detaining women and children.