Jeff Gammage
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A Philly man is deported to London. He was arrested by ICE last month while attempting to fly home from a business trip. (opens the original)
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A Philadelphia man who thought he was waiting for approval of a green card was deported to London on Wednesday night, his wife said, removed a month after being arrested by ICE at a California airport. Michael âSandyâ Sims, 42, had flown to California in September for what was supposed to be a short business trip, but was stopped outside the San Jose airport when he arrived to fly back to Philadelphia. He was held at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Bakersfield, Ca
Trump administration has abandoned plans to hold immigrants at a South Jersey military base, GAO says (opens the original)
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The Trump administration has dropped its plans to build an immigrant-detention center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in South Jersey, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. The office said that in October, after the opening of an ICE detention site at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Pentagon officials said they âno longer plan to build detention facilities on other military installations.â Specifically, the report said, Defense and ICE officials âtold us th
A business trip from Philly led to an ICE arrest at a California airport. Now a local man is in detention. (opens the original)
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Michael âSandyâ Sims was supposed to be back in Philadelphia by now, after a business trip to the West Coast. Instead, heâs locked up in an ICE detention center in California. Sims, 42, a veteran of the entertainment-lighting industry, told his wife that immigration agents were waiting for him when his Lyft driver pulled up at the San Jose airport early on Sept. 2. Sims was born in Ireland and raised in London, and has been expecting approval of a green card that he and his wife, an Americ
Clergy and others gather outside Philadelphia ICE office in aftermath of officerâs suicide (opens the original)
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A group of clergy, political leaders, and activists gathered at the Philadelphia ICE office on Friday in the wake of a deportation officerâs suicide, condemning what they said was the agencyâs destruction of lives both inside and outside its ranks. Speakers said they said they grieved with the family of Joseph Moore, 38, who died of a self-inflected gunshot wound while parked near the Center City headquarters, and with the families of immigrants treated wrongly and cruelly by the agency. Moo
Anti-ICE activists question why Philly police showed up at their meeting. The department is investigating. (opens the original)
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The Rev. Jay Bergen was at the sign-in table inside the Friends Center, where No ICE Philly was holding its regular public meeting last week, when a police civil affairs officer appeared. Bergen asked what was happening, and said the officer responded, âWeâre just here to make sure everyoneâs safe.â The activist group was preparing to serve cake, to celebrate its one-year anniversary. Bergen, who leads No ICE Philly, was concerned that the officer brought his gun into the Center City fac
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