Rapper 21 Savage to be released from ICE custody

The Atlanta Immigration Court granted 21 Savage a release on bond Tuesday, according to his lawyers. The rapper was taken into custody nine days ago by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, who said he is actually “a United Kingdom national” who overstayed a nonimmigrant visa. The bond will be posted Wednesday. Lawyers Charles H. Kuck, Dina LaPolt and Alex Spiro spoke with ICE to “both clarify [21 Savage’s] actual legal standing, his eligibility for bond, and pr

Jay-Z hires legal help for 21 Savage

Jay-Z doesn’t like what’s happening to 21 Savage and he’s going to do something about it. The rap mogul called the 26-year-old’s arrest by ICE agents an “absolute travesty” on Wednesday and hired a lawyer to help with his defense. “The arrest and detention of 21 Savage is an absolute travesty, his U-visa petition has been pending for 4 years,” he said in a statement released by his company Roc Nation. “In addition to being a successful recording artist, 21 deserves to be reun

21 Savage: Atlanta rapper 'arrested by US immigration force'

Atlanta rapper 21 Savage has been arrested by immigration officials who say he is actually from the UK, reports say. The rapper, Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, came to the US in July 2005 aged 12 and failed to leave when his visa expired a year later, officials said. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman said he was being held for removal proceedings. The 26-year-old's Wikipedia page says he is from Atlanta. It says he grew up around criminality, dropped out of s

Trump officials to get $10,000 raises as federal workers struggle to make ends meet during shutdown

Senior political appointees in the Trump administration are set to receive annual raises of roughly $10,000 — while hundreds of thousands of federal workers impacted by the ongoing government shutdown go without paychecks. Vice President Pence, cabinet secretaries and their deputies are slated to see a bump in their next payslip thanks to the expiration of a salary freeze that began in 2013, the Washington Post first reported Friday. A measure keeping the cap in place was inc

Chuck D Has Scathing Words For Donald Trump And His Followers: ‘This is the Devil’

Public Enemy’s Chuck D called out Donald Trump for threatening to close the Southern U.S border to migrants and asylum seekers. He also tweeted something to his followers. “This is the devil anyway you frame it,” wrote the rapper. “He is the king devil. If you voted for him you wear that badge too.” Of course, the political debate began instantly and some used sarcasm to disagree with the rap legend. For example, one person suggested he use his own residence to house some of

Report Says, A Record-High 12,800 Immigrant Children Are Currently Being Detained by the U.S. Govern

Nearly 12,800 immigrant children are currently being detained by the U.S. government, a record-high figure spread across 100 federally contracted shelters that is five times higher than the amount held in May 2017, the New York Times is reporting. While the figure is only somewhat higher than numbers reported earlier this year, 2,500 of those children arrived with their families and were separated under a new Trump administration policy. The remaining children in custody arri

US Border Patrol agent arrested in 4 deaths described as serial killer

(CNN) A supervisory US Border Patrol agent who authorities are calling a serial killer was arrested Saturday in the deaths of four people after a would-be fifth victim narrowly escaped harm and alerted a police officer. Juan David Ortiz, 35, confessed to killing four people between September 3 and September 15, according to a criminal complaint filed in Webb County, Texas. Ortiz was charged with four murder charges and one unlawful restraint with aggravated assault with a dea

Rapper Foxy Brown Says Her Father Can’t Get Back into U.S. After Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Foxy Brown has been personally affected by Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policy. On Thursday (June 22), the Brooklyn rapper posted an Instagram message and said her father wasn’t let into the United States after her family went to Trinidad, her parent’s home country. Brown wrote her words next to a photo of a child stopped at the U.S. border and said she was reminded of her own daughter, Baby C. “This angel’s Baby C’s age,” wrote Foxy. “I’d literally f—ing die, tor

Nonprofit to Be Paid $458 Million by Trump Administration to Detain Migrant Children

The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars this year to care for immigrant children who were detained crossing the U.S. border illegally, according to government data. The nonprofit, Southwest Key Programs Inc., is to be paid more than $458 million in fiscal 2018, according to the data — the most among the organizations, government agencies and companies that run a detention and care system for immigrant children on behalf of the Dep

Trump reverses course, says he will put an end to family separations on southern border

President Trump abruptly reversed course Wednesday, saying he would sign an executive order ending family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border after a public uproar over the impact of his administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The plan, as described by administration officials, would keep families together in federal custody while awaiting prosecution for illegal border crossings, potentially violating a 1997 court settlement limiting the duration of child det

Sessions cites Bible in defense of breaking up families, blames migrant parents

The attorney general, in a speech to law enforcement officers in Indiana, called on his "church friends" not to blame him for the policy. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday offered a full-throated defense of the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their parents at the border, saying that having kids does not give migrants immunity from prosecution — and found justification for his policies in the Bible. Sessions — who last month announced a "zero

Border Patrol slightly changes account of undocumented woman's fatal shooting

(CNN) United States Customs and Border Protection on Friday released a slightly different account of a border agent's fatal shooting of an undocumented migrant near Laredo, Texas, raising new questions about what actually happened. After initially reporting the agent was attacked by migrants armed with "blunt objects," the federal agency on Friday said only that the group "rushed" the officer after ignoring orders to get on the ground. But its latest version of events makes n