U.S. immigration authorities are preparing to send more than 300 South Korean workers home on a chartered flight from Atlanta, a week after detaining them for allegedly working illegally.
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People Over Papers is a site that tracks crowd-sourced ICE sightings. As of Monday, the app had received 7.1 million unique visitors.
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