Jasmine Garsd

2 weeks ago | mprnews.org | Sergio Martínez-Beltrán |Jasmine Garsd

"ICE out of New York!"Those were the words thousands of people chanted near the city's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, and throughout the streets of Manhattan Tuesday night as part of a series of nationwide rallies against President Trump's immigration sweeps and the deployment of the U.S. military in California.

3 weeks ago | wesa.fm | Jasmine Garsd

Updated June 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM EDTThe text message, sent to NPR, came in early May: It was accompanied by a screenshot of a photo of a man with swollen red eyes, with another screenshot of his full detainee information. "Please help me. Im desperate."The woman who sent it, Maria, was texting about her brother at the Krome Detention Center in Miami.

1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Jasmine Garsd

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1 month ago | kuow.org | Jasmine Garsd

Florida community rallies around immigrant pastor swept up in crackdownThe Trump administration's immigration crackdown is in full swing in Florida. For some US citizen children of those facing deportation, that's meant quickly becoming the head of the household.

1 month ago | klcc.org | Jasmine Garsd

The White House has announced that a flight with eight immigrants which was reportedly heading to South Sudan will instead remain in the East African country of Djibouti for at least two weeks, in order to comply with a federal court order. The migrants are from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan. Earlier this week, they were placed on a deportation flight out of Texas.