ICE detention centers

Leaders of a Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation-owned business were fired after they accepted a $30 million federal contract to assist with designing large-scale immigration detention centers. Now, Tribal Council chair Joseph Rupnick says the tribe is no longer involved in the project.

After firing the business leaders who accepted a federal contract to design immigration detention facilities, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation's chairperson compared such sites to Native American reservations.

“At no moment did they ever present me with an arrest warrant, did they ever let me see a judge. They never told me anything,” he said.

A Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation-owned business landed a federal contract to assist facility design for immigration detention centers. The tribe said the project does not align with its values.

The private prison company had previously argued it didn't need a permit to operate the now-idle prison as a detention center for immigration detainees. Now, CoreCivic says it will apply for the special use permit.

The charges include engaging in organized criminal activity, hindering the prosecution of terrorism, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a peace officer and terrorism.

One of the men, 53-year-old Shahrokh Rahimi, was arrested at his home in San Antonio, where he had lived for more than two decades. The other, 27-year-old Argam Nazarian, was arrested in the Los Angeles area and transferred to El Paso.

Attorney General Ken Paxton is launching undercover investigations of left-wing political violence in Texas after recent attacks against ICE.

The federal government joined the private prison company CoreCivic in its legal fight against the city of Leavenworth, which has been fighting in court to stop the reopening of a controversial detention center for immigrants.

Private prison company CoreCivic is temporarily barred from holding detainees at its dormant Leavenworth facility. Yet preparations to reopen are going full steam ahead.