US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
US politicsnews
‘Arena of fear’: amid the immigration crackdown, artists are skipping US residencies
Artist-in-residence programmes are grappling with cancelled funding and artists from abroad staying away
Repatriationnews
US customs agents return ancient cuneiform writing implements to Iraq
The millennia-old prism and tablet were found to lack proper paperwork—one after its owner’s death, the other following an online auction
Malinews
US customs officials return more than 900 stolen artefacts to Mali
The objects, which include vessels and funerary urns, where intercepted in Houston in 2009 then sat in limbo for years
Smugglingnews
US returns over 500 smuggled pre-Hispanic-era artefacts to Mexican officials
Tools and other objects were discovered in a national park in southwest Texas, triggering an inquiry