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Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez has withdrawn himself from consideration in becoming the nation’s Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Department of Homeland Security is planning to transport migrants awaiting immigration proceedings from U.S. cities along the southern border further into the interior of the country, beginning with Los Angeles in the coming weeks, according to internal documents obtained by NBC News.

Fugitive operations officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Houston Field Office arrested 10 unlawfully present convicted sex offenders in May who were residing in the Houston-area. Eight of the individuals arrested were convicted of sex offenses involving minors.

The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's office issues an alert calling for detainees to be relocated until conditions improve.

Anna Sorokin, the convicted swindler who claimed to be a German heiress to finance a posh lifestyle in New York, is making a new bid to fight deportation, a lawyer said Tuesday. ICE on Tuesday said only that she remains in the agency's custody.

Federal officers deported a non-citizen wanted in Mexico.

No one knows how much sea levels will increase — or how much of the Golden State’s identity will be submerged.

No one knows how much sea levels will increase — or how much of the Golden State’s identity will be submerged.

These are some of the images captured from across Texas by KPRC 2 viewers and beyond as severe weather sweeps across the state.

With the arctic cold front bringing cold air to our area, some roads and bridges have started to form ice, which can be dangerous for drivers.

Winter is changing across the Great Lakes region, and scientists want to know what that will mean.

Winter weather is expected to impact many areas of the Lone Star State these next few days.

The settlement comes as coronavirus infections in detention centers have surged since December to 3,129 — nearly 15% of the total detained population — as of Wednesday.

The suspect accused of gunning down a Harris County corporal and then fleeing to Mexico is the same man who, under a different name, was previously charged with other crimes, according to court records.

The decision marks a historic victory for immigration activists, who had pushed McHenry County to end the practice, calling it an inhumane and costly way to break up families.

Over 37% of immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody have declined vaccination, according to data obtained by CBS News.

In a second tweet Friday, Simmons attempted to clear the record by saying he’s “never advocated for, nor believed that Dreamers should be targeted by ICE agents.” “Dreamers” is the term used to describe immigrants living in the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which was designed to protect them from deportation.

The coldest US state faces weather extremes after heavy snowfall and torrential rain.

The Biden administration has apparently halted for now the practice of holding migrant parents with their children at three ICE detention centers.

The New York Stock Exchange is shaking up the company's leadership team with announcements of new president and chair.

Abortion activists are protesting in Mississippi’s capital as the state takes center stage in a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court case that could end a nationwide right to abortion.

DHS to boost protections for immigrants who denounce exploitative employers.

The almost 250 detained men, whose immediate release was ordered three days ago, are expected to be turned over to federal authorities to be detained again, deported or freed in the United States while their cases are being resolved.

The practice of holding immigration detainees in county jails in Illinois will end next year under a new law, but McHenry County's prosecutor is opposed to the change.

Lawyers for Claudio Rojas say he was deported by ICE in retaliation for his activism, which the agency denies. His case could have big implications for immigrants' freedom of speech.

In the past six weeks, ICE has reported over 5,000 new coronavirus cases among immigrants in its detention facilities.

The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved on Wednesday the nomination of Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzales to be Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The number of people in federal immigration detention has risen markedly under President Joe Biden.

ICE is currently detaining more than 27,000 immigrants. So far, just over 1,300 detainees have received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Here are things to know for Friday, July 2:

A lawsuit is being filed by several Texas sheriffs and counties along with an association of ICE officers against President Joe Biden and the leadership of his Department of Homeland Security.

The dispute, which occurred at Tuesday’s Commissioners Court meeting, caused deputies to escort protesters out and prompted Judge Glen Whitley to ask for citations.

Many EV owners may go from Thanksgiving to April Fool’s Day and never see the window-sticker range on their charge gauge.

Despite high risks of infection and hundreds of sick detainees, there’s still no clear COVID-19 vaccination strategy from ICE officials, and few local health departments have stepped up to provide vaccines.

Arrests by ICE officers have dropped by more than half under new Biden rules limiting enforcement, according to records obtained by The Washington Post.

Five undocumented people were found Wednesday during what investigators described as a possible human smuggling attempt near Katy.

The transgender woman who organized a protest at the president's speech tells Newsy she spent 13 months at three ICE detention jails.

The transgender woman who organized a protest at the president's speech tells Newsy she spent 13 months at three ICE detention jails.

Biden has shored up four key allies – and their democratic ideals – against next-door aggressors.

Tens of thousands of people, many ultra-Orthodox Jews, were gathered for the event. The cause of the stampede was not immediately clear.

President Biden on Thursday was interrupted as he began a rally in Georgia by protesters heckling him about private detention centers.

Harris County’s top law enforcement officer is leaving his post and headed to the nation’s Capital.

The president nominated a new leader for ICE and the DHS reversed a Trump-era policy.

President Joe Biden will nominate Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A one-time California man who bilked wine collectors out of millions by selling cheaper booze he relabeled in his kitchen has been deported to his native Indonesia.

Migrant families will be held at hotels in the Phoenix area in response to a growing number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, another step in the Biden’s administration rush to set up temporary space.

Houston police spent hours Wednesday afternoon in and out of a house that they believed people were held against their will.

ICE rolls out new guidelines for deportations to focus on certain groups The Biden administration issued new guidance Thursday instructing deportation agents to focus on apprehending recent border-crossers and immigrants determined to threaten national security and public safety, and requiring them to seek supervisory approval for other arrests. Nick Miroff, an immigration reporter with The Washington Post, discusses how critics are responding to the new guidance and who is no longer a priority for ICE.

(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)As the Houston-area braces for another round of wintry precipitation, drivers are continuing to be warned to stay off the road as much as possible. Houston TranStar lists more than 190 icy spots and the city of Katy Office of Emergency Management warns Interstate 10 is currently experiencing ‘very icy’ conditions. Use extreme caution if traveling on I-10 due to very icy road conditions. Harris County’s OEM is warning about the hazards of black ice which is very hard to see when you’re driving. pic.twitter.com/ni7lcuufQB — Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management (@ReadyHarris) February 17, 2021Click here for the latest weather updates.

Federal authorities seized hundreds of fake sports championship rings from a memorabilia store in Florida, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Thursday. The law enforcement agency's Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) team found 284 counterfeit "sports championship rings" at "Friendly Confines Collectibles" in Oviedo, Florida, on January 14, ICE said. The rings were replicated as teams from the NFL, NBA and WWE. ICE seized hundreds of counterfeit rings last week. The recent seizure was predicated upon a previous one made in November, when federal agents seized 54 fake NFL and 30 NBA rings that were shipped from China and headed for Friendly Confines Collectibles.

ICE has no clear timeline to vaccinate immigrants in custody Nearly 9,000 immigrants in ICE custody have been infected with the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. U.S. immigrations officials have agreed to vaccinate more than 15,000 detainees once doses become available. But the agency still has no concrete timeline on when that will be. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano to discuss.

Migrants told researchers that they couldn’t stay socially distant in ICE detention and they weren’t given adequate soap. Immigrant detention centers in Texas and across the country have failed to protect people from COVID-19 and comply with their own safety standards, according to a new report. “Historically, ICE has failed to meet its own health and safety standards,” researchers wrote in the report. Multiple migrants detained in Houston-area facilities previously told Houston Public Media they experienced substandard medical care, including being denied COVID-19 tests despite exhibiting symptoms. The report also showed that most migrants — 85% — found out about COVID-19 through television, not detention guards or medical staff.

Couple hid in Philadelphia church for over 2 years to avoid deportation Oneita and Clive Thompson are celebrating freedom after spending 843 days in hiding to avoid deportation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it will no longer seek removal of the couple, who have five children. The Thompsons join CBSN to share their story.

HOUSTON – The official Twitter account for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, @ICEgov, doesn’t exist or has been disabled, as of this writing. It’s unclear at this time whether the account was intentionally deleted. The ICE page on Twitter, as of 1:23 p.m. on Nov. 12, 2020. (Copyright 2020 by KPRC Click2Houston - All rights reserved.) The agency’s other social media -- its Facebook and Instagram accounts -- appear to be functioning normally at this hour.

In this Aug. 28, 2020, photo provided by the USDA Forest Service, is an 11-year-old Belgian Malinois named Ice, a highly decorated U.S. Forest Service police dog, the day after he suffered nine stab wounds during a marijuana raid in Northern California. (USDA Forest Service via AP)SACRAMENTO, Calif. A highly decorated U.S. Forest Service police dog suffered nine stab wounds during a marijuana raid in Northern California. What's more, it's the second time the dog, an 11-year-old Belgian Malinois named Ice, recovered after being seriously injured on the job. The dog, which had been wearing a protective vest, was released later that afternoon, and federal prosecutors are still considering charges. Ice had multiple stab wounds that were more severe during a similar raid in 2016, the agency said.

The mother of a 5-year-old Guatemalan boy sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the medical care he has received in detention for a head injury suffered before the family was arrested. About a month later, he and his family were detained by ICE during what they thought was a routine check-in. The boy, his 1-year-old brother and their mother were taken to ICE's family detention center at Dilley, Texas, while their father was taken to a detention center in California. The boy was not seen at the hospital by a pediatric neurologist, according to medical records obtained by his family's attorneys. Cohen said the boy had an appointment to see a neurologist before the family was detained by ICE.

The e-commerce giant eBay more closely resembles the New York Stock Exchange than it does Amazon, at least in the eyes of Intercontinental Exchange CEO Jeffrey Sprecher. He suggested instead that eBay "be viewed as a 25-year-old cash market for collectible goods, which looks a lot more like the New York Stock Exchange than Amazon." The comments came as Sprecher sought to clarify ICE's discussions with eBay. ICE operates exchanges for commodity and financial markets, including the New York Stock Exchange. Sprecher acknowledged that pressure but stopped short of asserting that it prevented talks between ICE and eBay.

eBay in January discontinued its shuttle service, which transported employees from around the San Francisco Bay Area to its offices. The service wasn't being used by enough employees to justify the cost, according to a person close to the company. The majority of eBay's shuttle service operated between San Francisco (the North Bay) and San Jose (the South Bay), where the company already has two offices respectively, this person said. Silicon Valley tech companies including Facebook, Google and Apple contract shuttle services for employees who commute from various areas around San Francisco Bay Area's sprawling region. Tech workers often live far outside of San Francisco and Silicon Valley in search of lower housing prices.

Shares of eBay surged 8.7% on Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported that Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has made a bid to acquire eBay's marketplace business. The companies aren't in formal talks about a possible takeover and there's no guarantee eBay will choose to pursue any deal, the Journal reported. The deal could value eBay at roughly $30 billion, according to the publication. An eBay spokesperson told CNBC in a statement: "The eBay Board is aligned and open to all value-enhancing alternatives. ICE has approached eBay about owning the company's online marketplace, not its classifieds business, the Journal reported.

Many of those families were released into the U.S. while their asylum requests wind through the courts a practice President Donald Trump has derided as "catch-and-release." Homeland Security officials have said they would detain families, but ICE has not been funded for that. The emergency funds from Congress did not include additional bed space for immigration detention. At one point, ICE was detaining some 56,000 people.

BlackRock and NYSE owner ICE are looking to improve efficiency in the ETF market with their new ETF Hub as the industry continues to boom. The hub's key features, according to the ICE ETF Hub website, include processes to streamline ETF order entries, consolidate issuer data and provide the analytic tools needed while also facilitating fixed income ETF trading. The latter has been a focus of BlackRock's Samara Cohen, co-head of iShares Markets and Investments at Blackrock, given the surge in bond ETF trading. In fact, over half of net ETF inflows have gone to bond ETFs in 2019. This is particularly relevant given that bond ETF trading, unlike for many ETF groups, has yet to be electronified, another goal Cohen has for the Hub.

That is the central goal behind the Intercontinental Exchange's recently rolled-out "Hub" for exchange-traded funds, a joint effort by the New York Stock Exchange parent and ETF issuers like BlackRock meant to streamline the often complex, decentralized process of bringing ETFs to market, ICE President Ben Jackson tells CNBC's "ETF Edge." The ICE ETF Hub, which launched in October, is an attempt to simplify the ETF issuing process for these industry players by offering what it calls key "efficiencies" such as messaging, order management and analytics. "There's a whole negotiation process between the issuers and the banks around, 'What is going to be an acceptable sample for that bank to trade of securities in lieu for a share of the ETF?' So, what we're doing is really lubricating that process," Jackson said. Given that performance during a holiday week, Jackson anticipated even more engagement in the new year as ICE builds out the hub's capabilities.

Joe Giudice is sending his family love from Italy! In his first statement since being released from ICE custody and departing the U.S. for his native Italy, Giudice tells Bravo's The Daily Dish, "You just gotta look forward and never look back." "Life, its always better to look through the windshield and not through the rear view mirror," he said. Watch the video below for more on the Giudice family. RELATED CONTENT: Joe Giudice Speaks Out For the First Time Since Release From ICE Facility Embed Code RestartJoe Giudice Shows Off 50-Pound Weight Loss With Shirtless Pic After Being Released From ICE CustodyJoe Giudice Lost 'More Than 50 Pounds' During Prison Stint -- and Here's HowJoe Giudice FaceTimes Daughter Gia After Leaving ICE Custody

Jessie Reyez's new music video for "Far Away" shines a light on the realities immigrants face at the U.S.-Mexico border. Reyez says "Far Away" will be the first solo song that she's had in a while. CBS News: The visuals for "Far Away" are jarring and methodical. "Far Away" by Jessie Reyez Phillip HarrisCBS News: Why is the message in "Far Away" so important? Jessie Reyez's "Far Away" Phillip HarrisCBS News: There's so much symbolism in "Far Away."

At the time of the dismissal, Ciccione was the case agent for Operation Cornerstone, a large-scale Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force case that resulted in indictments of over 100 Colombia-based cocaine traffickers from the Cali Cartel. This defendant was a drug kingpin who paid a Special Agent to bribe his way out of a criminal indictment, said Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Departments Criminal Division. In furtherance of this scheme to obstruct justice, Ciccione misled the U.S. Attorneys Office, HSI management, and altered TECS records to secure the dismissal. Ciccone also falsified the concurrence of several other federal agents and attempted to obtain entry for Piedrahita-Ceballos into the United States. The Criminal Divisions Office of International Affairs, the Office of the Judicial Attach in Colombia and the Drug Enforcement Administration provided valuable assistance to the investigation.

CNN VideoANTIOCH, Tennessee (CNN) - An ICE officer fired shots in a Tennessee grocery store parking lot during an attempted vehicle stop Thursday. The shooting occurred in a Food Lion parking lot outside Nashville in Antioch, Tennessee. ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility, which looks into all officer-involved shootings involving ICE, is also investigating, the ICE official said. Memphis FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic said the individual who the ICE officer was attempting to stop remains at large. The vehicle he had been driving was found abandoned with blood inside, the ICE official said.

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U.S. immigration authorities on Wednesday rounded up hundreds of undocumented workers in food processing plants during a sprawling operation in Mississippi that officials touted as the largest immigration enforcement sweep in a single state in U.S. history. By targeting workplaces across six different cities in southern Mississippi, Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents, with the help of the local district attorney's office, apprehended approximately 680 undocumented immigrants. At a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Mike Hurst said the large-scale raids collectively represented "the largest single state immigration enforcement operation in our nation's history." Peco Foods, a poultry processing and packaging company, confirmed that ICE conducted operations at three of its facilities in southern Mississippi. We know from past immigration enforcement actions of this type, that there are going to be children who go home tonight and their parents will be gone," Solrzano told CBS News.

U.S. immigration authorities on Wednesday rounded up hundreds of undocumented workers in food processing plants during a sprawling operation in Mississippi that officials touted as the largest immigration enforcement sweep in a single state in U.S. history. By targeting workplaces across six different cities in southern Mississippi, Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents, with the help of the local district attorney's office, apprehended approximately 680 undocumented immigrants. At a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Mike Hurst said the large-scale raids collectively represented "the largest single state immigration enforcement operation in our nation's history." On Wednesday afternoon, Magdalena Gomez Gregorio tearfully pleaded for the return of her dad, one of hundreds of undocumented immigrants rounded up Wednesday by ICE. Peco Foods, a poultry processing and packaging company, confirmed that ICE conducted operations at three of its facilities in southern Mississippi.

CHICAGO, Illinois (KTRK) -- What was supposed to be a day of fun is creating a lot of controversy.Cell phone video shows children hitting a piata made to look like an ICE agent at a family-oriented community day.The video shared on social media also shows kids throwing balls into a painted image of President Trump.Organizers say they didn't know the items were going to be at the event.Some said those who brought the piata were just trying to make a statement. Others are calling the piata ignorant and disrespectful, saying it teaches kids to hate.

"I didn't know how far they were willing to escalate this," a Missouri woman says after ICE arrested her boyfriend.

HOUSTON – Immigration Rights hotline has been flooded with phone calls since ICE raids began Sunday. Andrea Guttin, with Houston Immigration Legal Services Collaborative, said the organization has extended the Immigration Rights hotline into the weekend. She said the call volume was anticipated to be high following deportation orders carried out Sunday in 10 cities, including Houston. Guttin said most callers inquired about the difference between an administrative warrant and a warrant signed by a judge. “A lot of the other 10 cities that were the subject of potential raids today have locally supported public funds for deportation defense.

ICE has special customs agents, a branch of the agency many people haven't heard of. PORTLAND, Ore. - When you think of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE for short, the immigration side is what usually comes to mind. "During the investigation we found he had returned about 3,000 phones to Apple," said Williams. Finally, Williams showed the FOX 12 Investigators a case out of state still being investigated by HSI agents. Williams said being sentenced for counterfeiting and trafficking goods could get you up to 20-years in prison.

WASHINGTON D.C. -- President Trump says his administration will still launch a series of immigration raids, and that they will likely happen after the July 4th holiday.The planned raids were supposed to happen last weekend but were delayed.President Trump spoke at the G-20 summit in Osaka saying ICE agents will be "legally removing large numbers of people. "He also praised a $4.6 billion emergency border funding bill passed by the Democrat-led House this week calling it "humanitarian money."