Immigration and Customs Enforcement

In a message to families Wednesday, the school district said it’s “aware of online discussions” about potential walkouts over federal immigration issues. If a walkout were to occur at Elkhart Community Schools, classes would continue as scheduled, and attendance would be recorded.

Notre Dame Law School’s Immigration Clinic is seeing rising demand as immigrants face fear and uncertainty, while students work to provide free legal help.

The Golden Dome on the University of Notre Dame campus. The university's Law School Immigration Clinic is accepting new clients.

University of Notre Dame migration professor Amy Hsin says growing challenges to a 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling protecting access to public education for children of immigrants serves the children and the workforce.

“We gather in grief. We gather in community. We gather in hope,” said Carrie Bowie with the Michiana Alliance for Democracy.

“We want to honor and humanize the lives that were taken by ICE – have been taken by ICE – and to highlight the fact that we want this to stop,” said Carrie Bowie with the Michiana Alliance for Democracy, which is organizing the event.

Federal immigration officials say more than 200 immigrants without legal status have been arrested on Indiana roadways. They discussed the Chicago area’s Operation Midway Blitz during a press conference in Gary on Thursday.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's office says it's confident that an appeals court will reverse St. Joseph Superior Judge Jenny Pitts Manier and uphold the will of the General Assembly — that the office can sue communities that it believes offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants.

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's immigration-related lawsuit against St. Joseph County Sheriff Bill Redman now goes to Superior Judge Mark Telloyan, after Circuit Judge John Broden removed himself to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest that Broden didn't disclose.

St. Joseph Circuit Judge John Broden said he'll rule by Aug. 18 whether Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita's immigration-related lawsuit against Sheriff Bill Redman can proceed.