Pablo Manriquez

2 weeks ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON — Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) was manhandled by several federal agents today at a DHS press conference in Los Angeles. Here are the videos we have so far of what occurred: Here’s another angle on what appears to show federal agents assaulting the senior senator from California: While the videos confirm that Padilla was handcuffed, it remains unclear whether he was formally arrested.

3 weeks ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, we asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries about his call to identify the ICE agents who “physically accosted” Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., during an oversight inspection of an ICE detention center in Newark. We also asked whether the agents who allegedly harassed staff at the district office of Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., have been identified.

3 weeks ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON — A coalition of 252 national and local organizations is calling on the U.S. Senate to reject H.R.1, the sweeping budget reconciliation package known informally as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," warning that the legislation would unleash “devastating harm” on immigrant communities and low-income families while enriching corporations and fueling mass deportations.

4 weeks ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON—Maksim Borisov says he can’t hide who he is. “I’m super obviously gay,” he tells me, over a crackling detention center phone line, the kind of static that sounds like it’s hissing in protest. “It’s completely obvious—that’s who I am.”Maksim is twenty two, he was born on the far edge of Russia, on Sakhalin Island, where the Sea of Japan laps cold against gray shores. Fast-spoken and fierce, Maskim is a survivor. He’s been locked up in Arizona’s Eloy Detention Center for three months now.

1 month ago | migrantinsider.com | Pablo Manriquez

WASHINGTON — ICE has consolidated an array of databases and surveillance technologies to identify, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants. The agency’s use of the Investigative Case Management (ICM) system, alongside data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Flock Safety’s license plate reader network, and other tools, reflects a sweeping approach to immigration enforcement that has sparked widespread concern over privacy and due process.