Austin Linfante

At the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, the biggest in the Midwest with 1,800 beds, several hundred detained immigrants started a hunger strike on Monday, refusing to eat or work, according to immigrant rights advocates and relatives of the detainees in Michigan.

A masked ICE agent knocks on the window of an observer’s vehicle in Minnesota in January. Some Democratic states want to restrict the actions of federal immigration enforcement officers. (Photo by Nicole Neri/Minnesota Reformer) An ordinance that prohibits local or federal law enforcement officers from wearing face masks, except in dangerously cold weather, passed the Milwaukee Common Council Tuesday. The measure is part of a package the council considered under the heading “ICE Out Milwaukee”.