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Now, the president is telling them not to back down. ]]> https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/ice-directives-wake-of-houston-shooting-40696055/feed/ 0 Dallas Observer https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/target-the-money-activists-say-love-field-ice-protests-are-working-40695657/ https://www.dallasobserver.com/?p=40695657 Austin Wood https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/target-the-money-activists-say-love-field-ice-protests-are-working-40695657/#respond Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:22:42 -0500 News ICE uses charter flights to move detainees across the country. But after activists protested the company's corporate headquarters, those flight patterns are starting to shift.]]> https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/target-the-money-activists-say-love-field-ice-protests-are-working-40695657/feed/ 0 Dallas Observer https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/these-immigrant-kids-were-once-protected-under-trump-their-deportations-have-tripled-40694088/ https://www.dallasobserver.com/?p=40694088 Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/these-immigrant-kids-were-once-protected-under-trump-their-deportations-have-tripled-40694088/#respond Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0500 News The Trump administration has gutted policies that gave immigrant minors access to legal counsel and relief from deportation while they applied to stay in the U.S.]]> https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/these-immigrant-kids-were-once-protected-under-trump-their-deportations-have-tripled-40694088/feed/ 0 Dallas Observer https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/certificate-in-ice-custody-death-contains-obvious-error-family-denied-full-autopsy-40693780/ https://www.dallasobserver.com/?p=40693780 Kelly Dearmore https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/certificate-in-ice-custody-death-contains-obvious-error-family-denied-full-autopsy-40693780/#respond Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:15:50 -0500 News More than 100 days later, Nazeer Paktiawal's family has more questions than answers about how the Richardson resident died after being arrested by ICE. ]]> https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/certificate-in-ice-custody-death-contains-obvious-error-family-denied-full-autopsy-40693780/feed/ 0 Dallas Observer https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/ruling-blacks-dallas-immigration-court-arrests-40690050/ https://www.dallasobserver.com/?p=40690050 Emma Ruby https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/ruling-blacks-dallas-immigration-court-arrests-40690050/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:39:43 -0500 Last summer, ICE agents became a daily fixture of Dallas’ immigration court. Now they are barred from making arrests. ]]> https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/ruling-blacks-dallas-immigration-court-arrests-40690050/feed/ 0 Dallas Observer https://www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/ice-the-mental-health-emergency-we-can-no-longer-ignore-40687949/ https://www.dallasobserver.com/?p=40687949 Sindy Benavides https://www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/ice-the-mental-health-emergency-we-can-no-longer-ignore-40687949/#respond Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:00:00 -0500 Anti-immigrant policies are fanning the flames of a youth mental health crisis. Here’s how governments can respond. ]]> https://www.dallasobserver.com/opinion/ice-the-mental-health-emergency-we-can-no-longer-ignore-40687949/feed/ 0 Dallas Observer https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/faith-leaders-activists-call-on-dallas-officials-to-stop-love-field-ice-deportations-40686044/ https://www.dallasobserver.com/?p=40686044 Austin Wood https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/faith-leaders-activists-call-on-dallas-officials-to-stop-love-field-ice-deportations-40686044/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:52:57 -0500 News They also called on Atlantic Aviation to stop facilitating ICE flights through its Love Field facility.]]> https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/faith-leaders-activists-call-on-dallas-officials-to-stop-love-field-ice-deportations-40686044/feed/ 0 Dallas Observer https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/love-field-being-used-for-ice-deportation-shuffle-flights-as-city-profits-40684286/ https://www.dallasobserver.com/?p=40684286 Austin Wood https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/love-field-being-used-for-ice-deportation-shuffle-flights-as-city-profits-40684286/#respond Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0500 News Activist groups have been documenting ICE-affiliated flights in and out of a 'backdoor' hangar since May. ]]> https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/love-field-being-used-for-ice-deportation-shuffle-flights-as-city-profits-40684286/feed/ 0 Dallas Observer https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/north-texas-deportees-go-to-countries-they-barely-know-40678329/ https://www.dallasobserver.com/?p=40678329 Emma Ruby https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/north-texas-deportees-go-to-countries-they-barely-know-40678329/#respond Wed, 27 May 2026 08:00:00 -0500 News One had to leave family behind, while another was reunited with his far away, while many questions from the past and concerns for the future persist. ]]> https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/north-texas-deportees-go-to-countries-they-barely-know-40678329/feed/ 0 Dallas Observer