Elham Khatami

Elham Khatami Twitter Jul 12, 2018, 4:24 pm The Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. (Credit: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Forty-year-old Efrain De La Rosa, a Mexican national who was held in an ICE detention facility in Georgia, committed suicide and was pronounced dead late Tuesday evening, making him the eighth person in ICE custody to die in the 2018 fiscal year.

Elham Khatami Twitter Jun 22, 2019, 9:38 am Updated: Jun 22, 2019, 3:28 pm ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations unit raid to apprehend immigrants without any legal status and who may be deportable in Riverside. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Ahead of mass raids planned by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency in 10 U.S. cities Sunday, immigration advocacy groups are rushing to alert migrants of their rights if agents show up at their doors.

My sister Maryam and I arrived home from school one afternoon, and Baba announced that we were going to the neighborhood park. We squealed with excitement and followed him outside, where he was jogging in place, a goofy smile plastered on his face, his tan tracksuit baggy on his slender frame. We trailed behind him on the mile or so run to the park: a small bespectacled brown man, his lean, bearded cheeks filling up with air that he forced out in a rapid whoosh, whoosh.