One woman who was detained was later released until Citizenship and Immigration Services officials can review her residency application.

SAN JOSE – Around 50 people gathered Friday afternoon to protest an increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Jose, blasting the agency for making arrests outside courtrooms and in plainclothes and calling on public officials to take action.

Since immigration agents detained his wife in New Orleans last month, a Marine veteran has ferried the couple's nine-week-old daughter a north Louisiana detention facility while the family waits to learn whether she will be deported.

Lawyers with DHS are deploying a novel legal maneuver in an attempt to step up removal of immigrants, immigration lawyers say.

Rincon, owner of two Mexican restaurants, has been detained in Tacoma on federal immigration crimes since May.

Valdiney Goncalves had been in the process of obtaining a green card for five years when immigration officials detained him.