Laura Strickler

Senior Investigative Producer

I am an Emmy award-winning journalist based in Washington, D.C., covering how decisions in Washington affect the rest of the country with a focus on immigration.

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I am an Emmy award-winning journalist based in Washington, D.C., covering how decisions in Washington affect the rest of the country with a focus on immigration.

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Latest from Laura Strickler

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ICE working to open four new detention facilities with space for 5,500 detainees

The plan to contract new detention facilities in its Seattle, Philadelphia, Miami and Denver jurisdictions is the latest sign of the agency’s push to boost immigration arrests.
11d ago

How U.S. law enforcement pulled off securing the World Cup

U.S. law enforcement secured the World Cup. There were very few security incidents.

U.S. deportation tracker: Counting arrests, deportations

President Donald Trump came into office promising the largest mass deportation in U.S history, targeting the more than 10 million unauthorized migrants living in the United States.
15d ago

ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

The ICE officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood and never should have been given a badge and gun to patrol American streets, several of his close relatives told The Associated Press.
17d ago

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ICE leadership surprised by Trump’s call for continued immigration traffic stops

President Donald Trump wrote that ICE should continue traffic stops. The agency had ordered a pause on the stops after they led to fatal shootings in Maine and Texas.
18d ago

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ICE pauses most vehicle stops as pressure to arrest is blamed for fatal shootings

The administration’s pressure to increase arrests has put officers under “too much stress,” sources said, after two men who weren’t initial ICE targets were killed in less than a week.
19d ago

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Man fatally shot by ICE officer in Maine wasn’t the target of arrest warrant, senator’s spokesman says

A local advocacy group identified the victim as a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the U.S.

On the same day, a Florida airport and a Tennessee bridge are renamed after Trump

Palm Beach International Airport is now President Donald J. Trump International Airport, and a Jefferson County bridge is the President Donald J. Trump Bridge.
23d ago

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ICE officers involved in fatal Houston shooting weren’t wearing bodycams

The lack of bodycam video could hinder the DHS inspector general’s review of the incident.
25d ago

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Man fatally shot by ICE officer during traffic stop in Houston

ICE officers were trying to arrest Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who the Department of Homeland Security said isn’t authorized to be in the country.