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A NY-based nonprofit called Breakthrough launched a video game yesterday called ICED: I Can End Deportation (also a play on the acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Department).

Employees at FreshDirect’s Plant Operations warehouse voted overwhelmingly against unionization over the weekend. Given options of joining either the United Food & Commercial Workers, the Teamsters, or no union at all, 80 percent of the employees voted “no union.” The vote comes in the midst of an ongoing labor crisis at the warehouse; over one hundred undocumented workers were forced out earlier this month as FreshDirect announced an imminent inspection by Immigration and Customs Enforcement [I.C.E.].

The Newark police arrested a third suspect in the murders of three young residents. The third suspect is 15 years old, and he will be arraigned in Family Court on charges of murder, felony murder, attempted murder and other counts, according to the Star-Ledger. He is the third suspect in custody; another 15-year-old is was arrested on Thursday and as was 28-year-old Jose Lachira Carranza, who pleaded not guilty to the crimes. The police are still looking for two other suspects.

Federal immigration agents and city probation officers worked together to round up 45 sex offenders in an sting called "Operator Predator." The NYPD and and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been working together to locate sex offenders on probation who are eligible for deportation. The offenders were taken into custody after visits with their probation officers. Out of the people apprehended, 20 were in the country illegally; deportation proceedings have begun for all.

Over the weekend, the NY Times had a story about immigration officials trying to deport a 7 year-old Canadian-born boy back to Canada - even though his mother is an American citizen (and after seeing the article, immigration officials decided to let him stay). Today, there's a story about a Chinese woman that immigration officials are trying to deport - and how their treatment of her could have caused her to miscarry her twins. Backstory: Zhenxing Jiang and her husband Tien Xiao Zhang live in Philadelphia with their two American-born sons and have run a restaurant there for ten years; Jiang was denied political asylum in the U.S. (claiming China's one-child policy was too strict), but her husband's case is still on appeal. According to Jiang's lawyer, last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers drove her from their Philadelphia office - where her husband and sons were waiting in the lobby - to JFK Airport. Without telling her husband and kids. Allegedly, they did not give her any food and ignored her complaints that she wasn't feeling well. Once at the airport, she finally got medical attention (perhaps because she was in a public area?) and found out at a hospital that the two fetuses she was carrying had died. The Times reports that there will be protests today in Philadelphia and New York about the ICE's treatment of Jiang, and City Councilman John Liu spoke out against the ICE. Where will conservatives stand on this one? Which issue will they stand for, the loss of human life or deporting all immigrants? But this cannot be good for the feds - trying to deport little children, making women miscarry. For shame!