The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is going to undergo legal proceedings for the improper processing of immigrants. The migrants were supposed to stay idle and wait for their court hearings without being locked up, but ICE did otherwise. ICE is facing a lawsuit that was filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and the Bronx Defenders. 

They were told by the legal authorities to proceed with what they were originally supposed to do. Immigrants who do not appear to be dangerous don't have to be locked up. 

ICE claimed that they use the process of "Risk Classification Assessment" to sort which immigrants should be okay to go for now and the immigrants who should stay behind. Both the accusers demanded that their method should be considered illegal. They asked for a reevaluation of the detainees.

The NYCLU submitted a request for the Freedom Information Act. They discovered that in the year 2013 up to June 2017, 47 percent of the detainees were freed by ICE in the years spanning from 2017 to 2019, only three percent were released.

In the southern cone, "Gabriela's Law" was approved by President Sebastian Pinera. The law aims to strengthen and make the penalties and sanctions for the criminal acts on women harsher. The law was in honor of the death of a woman who was murdered by an old lover. The suspect who committed the femicide was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

ICE Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, David Marin and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Fugitive Operations team search for a Mexican national at a home in Hawthorne
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In Colombia, a discussion regarding the War on Drugs, two-sided cooperation, commerce, and Venezuela were addressed by the president of Colombia, Ivan Duque, and the U.S. President, 

Donald Trump. Along with the president of Colombia and the U.S., Defense Secretary Mark Esper, Adam Boehler, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and other important persons were seen attending the meeting.

PDVSA is a state-run oil company managed by two directors, Alfredo Marcial Chirinos Azuaje and Aryenis Torrealba. Recently, both directors were detained for acting as spies of the United States. They were released shortly after being arrested.

Cases of the expansion of access to abortion were discussed in a court case. They insist that they would cover the 16-week gestation period for the women who are victims of rape, fetal deformities, and other issues.

In Central America, a former congressional president of Guatemala, Pedro Muadi, was imprisoned for criminal activities like embezzlement, illegal association, and money-laundering. He has robbed over $500,000 from the resources of the public. 

In North America, the churches and priests of Mexico will receive a visit from two of Vatican's sex-crimes detectives, Monsignor Jodi Bertomeu and Archbishop Charles Scicluna, to check on the current issues suspected in the country. Mexico is recognized as the second-largest Catholic community.

They interviewed the victims and vowed that their interview will be confidential. Before they visited Mexico, they went to Chile in 2018 and discovered a total of 60 victims of the sexual abuses of the church. The bishops in Chile who were responsible for the crimes were terminated.