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Protestors outside the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan. April 21, 2026 | Photo by Erick Dia Veliz/Michigan Advance
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, ...
Elections
Palantir-linked donations riddle Michigan Senate race, McMorrow returned the money
A Sunday report from Detroit News shows that three Michigan Senate candidates have accepted campaign donations from the tech company Palantir, which has a $30 million federal contract with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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Immigration
Michigan lawmakers and faith leaders demand Southfield building owners cancel lease used by ICE
Elected officials who represent Southfield on the state and federal level joined faith leaders and community members to demand that REDICO, the building management of One Towne Square in Southfield, ...
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Elections
John James gets 0% Black voter support in new Michigan governor poll
U.S. Rep. John James (R-MI), the presumed Republican frontrunner in Michigan’s gubernatorial race, garnered 0% from Black voters in a recent poll commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber.
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Economy
Whitmer’s final State of the State speech to include pitches on medical debt, housing reforms
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will highlight her record after nearly a decade in office as Michigan’s chief executive Wednesday evening, but don’t expect the governor’s eighth and final State of the ...
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Immigration
Hundreds rally as Romulus council rejects ICE detention center plan
The Romulus City Council unanimously passed a resolution on Monday night formally opposing the “establishment, construction or operation” of a new ICE detention center that is planned to open ...
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Immigration
Lawmakers, advocates say ‘hell no’ to Romulus ICE facility, demand to defund and abolish the agency
Elected officials, faith leaders and community advocates called for a halt to the expansion of ICE’s presence in Michigan — including plans for an ICE administrative office in Southfield and a ...
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Immigration
Michigan lawmakers and faith leaders say ICE administration has no place in Southfield
Elected officials, faith leaders and residents of Southfield gathered on a street corner near the One Towne Square building Tuesday amid concerns that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcements is ...
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Immigration
Michigan congresswomen get no answers on Baldwin ICE facility death during visit and tour
Circumstances around the death of Nenko Gantchev, who died in ICE custody in December, are still unclear after a visit to the detention facility where he died, according to U.S. Reps. Haley Stevens ...
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Elections
Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers receives support from ICE-linked private prisons
Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show that Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers (R) has received $27,625 from for-profit prisons who are working with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain immigrants.
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Democracy
Slotkin speaks out following failed grand jury indictment, saying citizens ‘upheld the rule of law’
After U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro failed to convince a federal grand jury to move forward with indictments for a group of Democratic lawmakers who encouraged U.S. military and intelligence personnel ...
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