The check-ins are how ICE keeps track of some people who are released by the government to pursue asylum or other immigration cases as they make their way through a backlogged court system.

ICE agents are increasingly showing up at Richmond-area courthouses and arresting immigrants at routine check-ins once considered safe, local immigration lawyers tell Axios. The big picture: ICE ...

Valerie Crespo is the attorney for the Rodriguez family. VALERIE CRESPO: What has been happening recently is that every time that we go with a similar situation, the client gets detained. Every time.

A child, bundled against the cold, stands in line to attend an immigration registration meeting outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Feb. 4, 2025.

When a couple from Colombia who was planning their wedding showed up for a check-in with U.S. immigration authorities, one was given his next appointment date. The other was detained and deported.

He is among many people who now fear that once-routine immigration check-ins will be used as an opportunity to detain them. The appointments have become a source of anxiety as President Donald ...