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• Federal Judge Slams ICE for "Untenable" Defiance of Law in Illegal Detention of Belarusian Asylum Seeker

  Published: Mar 21, 2026

  Section: Crime

  U.S. District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger has issued a stinging rebuke to federal officials for refusing to release Andrei Bankevich from an Iowa jail despite conceding his dete...

• Federal Judge Rebukes ICE for Untenable and Illegal Year-Long Detention of Belarusian Asylum Seeker in Iowa

  Published: Mar 21, 2026

  Section: Immigration Policy

  U.S. District Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger ordered the immediate release of Andrei Bankevich, a Belarusian national held illegally for over a year at the Muscatine County Jail. T...

• Muscatine County Jail Secures Seventy Five Percent Funding Increase for Federal Immigration Detention Amid New Transparency Restrictions

  Published: Mar 9, 2026

  Section: Immigration Policy

  Newly unsealed records reveal that the Muscatine County Jail received a $360,000 increase in federal funding for housing ICE detainees during the first year of a national immigrati...