The documents released yesterday by the ACLU of New Hampshire confirm what many of us have feared: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been actively planning to build a detention facility in Merrimack while avoiding transparency and public input.
The ACLU of New Hampshire on Feb. 3, released public state documents that confirm detailed site plans for the proposed immigrant detention facility that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking to create at 50 Robert Milligan Parkway in Merrimack.
“When families are terrorized and children are afraid to go to school, our democracy itself is wounded.”
Approximately 225 people attended a candlelight vigil in Goffstown’s town square Wednesday night in clear but very cold weather to bear witness to the nine lives lost to ICE agents around the country.
Amidst a surge of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity across the Twin Cities, stoking statewide fear as thousands of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents conduct militarized raids and make illegal stops and arrests in an unprecedented immigration operation, Minnesotans have come together to stand with its immigrant community.
The House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted Inexpedient to Legislate (ITL) – an unfavorable motion – on HB 1822 on January 22, relative to reporting of civil immigration detentions by state, county, and local law enforcement and correctional facilities.
Senators have until a Friday deadline to clear a package of six House-passed funding measures, including the $64.4 billion Homeland Security appropriations bill that includes funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Border Patrol.
I’m 50 years old and never thought I’d see the day where these types of totalitarian, Orwellian acts of violence would occur on the curbs of our country. But what I find most disheartening is the fact that many of my fellow Americans—many of whom tout their freedom, especially their Second Amendment right to bear arms—seem to be walking lock-step with fascism.
On Wednesday night, Manchester School District Superintendent Jennifer Chmiel sent a message to staff regarding reports of heightened U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the city earlier in the day as well as potentially on Thursday.
Auburn Police Chief Charles “Chip” Chabot said he signed the agreement on Jan. 6, 2026. The issue was not put before the police commission, he said, because as “police chief it falls under my purview.”