Your Friday morning briefing: Voters widely support ballot proposal to legalize recreational marijuana; roadwork will resume following the standoff over a labor dispute; and a Nigerian immigrant can stay in Detroit – for now.
What you need to know today: How Detroit schools plan to fix elevated levels of lead and copper; ICE plans to deport a deaf Nigerian immigrant living in Detroit; and the universities of Michigan and Harvard team up to tackle poverty and the opioid crisis in the Motor City.
ICE agents claim an abandoned building in southwest Detroit was being used as a cockfighting and gambling ring.
Yousef Ajin will be able to stay in the U.S. with his wife and four children.
Yousef Ajin is a father of four who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years and was working towards gaining his citizenship when immigration officials detained him in Detroit.
More than 100 protesters rallied outside of an Immigration Customs and Enforcement center in Detroit on Friday to show opposition to President Trump’s pledge to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. The peaceful rally last about three hours. Many metro Detroit immigrants are worried that their law-abiding relatives and friends could be deported as part of Trump’s […]
Detroit Police Chief James Craig has pledged to alert immigration officials of all undocumented immigrants who are accused of committing a crime, no matter how minor.
On one of the windiest, iciest nights in Detroit in over a year, the city had just one Public Lighting Department crew overnight to handle countless downed, sparking power lines and fallen street lights spread across 139 square miles.
Ice accumulated a fire gutted an abandoned apartment building in Detroit Saturday morning.