Federal officials said that they were attempting to take into custody an undocumented Dominican immigrant. Their statement did not indicate what might have prompted the shooting.

Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.

The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal is at least the 12th person to die ​in ICE detention this year.