U.S. Immigration

After being arrested and detained for immigration violations last August and enduring expensive and time-consuming litigation, a Tulsa couple lost their entire livelihood.

After a Tulsa couple was arrested for immigration violations last fall, they endured months of detention as a tangled federal court system handled their fate with procedural distance.

As immigration enforcement in Oklahoma continues to ramp up, one Tulsa couple's experience shows how the federal government is piling onto trauma of people protected from deportation.

Gov. Kevin Stitt recapped his approach to immigration enforcement in Oklahoma and laid out his vision for how such enforcement should look going forward in his state and across the country.

Van Vu and thousands of other Southeast Asian immigrants have been confined to ICE detention over non-violent convictions that are decades old. Families are left torn apart.

The Choctaw Nation announced last week the purchase of a former Big Lots distribution facility and adjoining land in Durant, which had been speculated to be a potential detention center site for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A rural Oklahoma school district caused a stir on social media recently after seemingly signing an agreement to deputize its police department as immigration enforcement officers, and then backing out of the partnership days later.

State Superintendent Lindel Fields and Secretary of Education Dan Hamlin responded Friday morning to an open letter from lawmakers calling for an investigation into student-led ICE protests.

Organizers with Indivisible Tulsa County said small, more consistent protests can help raise awareness and build community.

The measure, which was the first of its kind in the nation, would make it a state crime to be in Oklahoma without legal authorization.