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A recent surge in U.S. domestic news includes Wisconsin's costly judicial race, Trump and Musk's federal restructuring, Doug Emhoff's law firm deal with Trump, mass health sector layoffs, record-low migrant arrests, and heated legal battles involving prominent figures, reflecting deepening political and legal unrest in the country.
Monsignor James Kelly from Co Limerick has been helping immigrants become US citizens for 65 years. But as President Donald Trump cracks down on immigration, he believes services like his could be a target.
The move effectively wipes out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to leave the country.
We don’t know what happened to Kilmar Abrego Garcia — and it should worry every American.
Secretary of state says ‘criminals’ were taken to country thanks to alliance between Trump and Nayib Bukele
The president offered few details about the plan, including timing.
As world leaders scramble to get the ear of US President Donald Trump, the self-described "world's coolest dictator" scores a coveted White House meeting.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said he wants to give money and an airplane ticket to any immigrant who is in the country illegally who chooses to “self-deport,” and
Trump's first 100 days: America First president is overturning world order
After making numerous bold promises during his election campaign, we look at where Donald Trump has delivered and failed to deliver.
Few expected Donald Trump’s second term in the White House to be boring, but hardly anyone expected Americans to be dulled to the transformations he would bring
Officials in the Trump administration have proposed flying several deportees to Libya aboard a U.S. military aircraft as soon as Wednesday, several reports say.
Baraka, a Democrat who is running to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Murphy, has embraced the fight with the Trump administration over illegal immigration
It's the latest request from the Trump administration for assistance with its mass deportation efforts.
Kid Rock took to social media to respond to reports of ICE raids targeting his Nashville bar.
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — The United States on Monday sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries, the first government-funded flight of what the Trump
Cato analysis goes against Trump administration’s claim that only undocumented people were deported to Cecot
In a new report, one in five business owners said they lost employees due to deportations, visa denials or ICE raids.
The Department of Homeland Security is putting more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” across the country on notice that the Trump administration views them as obstructing immigration enforcement, as it attempts to increase pressure on communities it believes are standing in the way of the president’s mass deportations agenda.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The agency tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign is undergoing a major staff reorganization.
Tensions flared in Los Angeles as immigration officials clashed with demonstrators following a series of ICE raids. Confrontations included tear gas deployment and detentions, with some protesters arrested. Controversy arose over immigration enforcement, highlighting a deep divide on policies under the Trump administration, and sparking calls for action from political figures.
Immigration enforcement activities in Los Angeles spurred protests and arrests amid tensions between authorities and advocates. Equipped with riot gear, officials deployed tear gas, sparking public disapproval. Arrests were part of President Trump's broader deportation initiative. Mayor Bass criticized the approach as fear-mongering, as ICE maintained commitment to law enforcement.
As many demand the release of loved ones, Trump’s ‘border czar’ admits some were arrested without criminal records
Former President Donald Trump has deployed National Guard troops in Los Angeles to uphold his immigration policies, escalating tensions with local leaders. Despite protests, Trump remains steadfast, aiming for large-scale deportations, raising questions about his executive power and the future of immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration has ordered US marines into Los Angeles and intensified raids on suspected undocumented immigrants, fuelling more outrage from street protesters and Democratic leaders who raised concerns over a national crisis.
South Florida's Cuban-American community supports President Trump, but some members are uneasy with his immigration policies. "I'm not for deporting people without criminal records."
Protests of President Trump's immigration policies grew across the U.S. on Tuesday, with rallies held in New York City, Chicago and Seattle.
With migrant communities already living in fear amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, ICE raids in downtown Los Angeles sparked days of protests.
Tens of thousands of people have been detained since Trump took office, including permanent residents.
The White House’s callous tactics are warping perceptions of reality.
Immigration raids on American farms are having ripple effects across the agricultural industry.
The only real surprise about the clashes in Los Angeles is that anyone is surprised by them. Of course Donald Trump, in an attempt to get his moribund deportation numbers up, sent masked goons to indiscriminately snatch undocumented immigrants from their work…
The government attempted to deport Ward Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian woman, to Israel hours before it attacked Iran, according to her husband.
Organizers argue that LA’s sanctuary laws aren’t enough to keep their immigrant neighbors safe. The post Community Defense Groups Take the Last Stand Against ICE in LA appeared first on The Intercept.
After a federal judge confirmed Donald Trump‘s control of the California National Guard, the Los Angeles Dodgers are giving back to those in the community impacted by recent ICE raids. On Friday, the 8x World Series champs announced a $1 million donation in p…
The pledge comes amid ongoing federal immigration raids targeting migrants in the area, and calls from the Dodgers' fanbase for the organization to speak out against them.
Emily Witt reports on loved ones grappling with the unimaginable, as communities across Southern California document and protest the escalating raids.
The number of people in ICE detention without criminal convictions nearly doubled in the last month — a significant increase compared to detainees who have been convicted of crimes.
Advocates say the bill would deliver an infusion of cash to deportation efforts, as communities struggle with arrests.
Iranian immigrants to the U.S. already faced higher scrutiny. After the U.S. waded into Israel’s war on Iran, ICE seems to be targeting them. The post “Are We At Risk?” Wave of ICE Arrests Strikes Fear in Iranian Communities appeared first on The Intercept.
The migrants were the subject of a lawsuit that halted their deportation to South Sudan and diverted them to a U.S. military base in Djibouti.
The podcast king, once a prominent supporter of Donald Trump, denounced the president’s aggressive deportation tactics on his wildly popular podcast.
After legal battle, US sends eight detainees to country it has advised citizens not to visit due to 'crime, conflict'.
Podcast host says Trump broke promises by targeting workers, not criminals, in recent immigration crackdown
Trump advisor/subhuman ghoul Stephen Miller wants ICE to be arresting 3,000 people a day. So far, ICE has only managed to top out at 2,200 arrests in a single day, despite going full black ops in neighborhoods and businesses, driving unmarked cars, and leavin…
Techdirt has just written about how people are using Ring doorbell cameras to warn others in the area about the presence of ICE agents and the risk of possible ICE raids. That’s a good example of using existing technology to monitor the increasingly widesprea…
How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps. The post What To Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood appeared first on The Intercept.
Jaime Alanis' death shows the horrific consequences of a secret police force behaving with utter impunity. The post ICE Campaign of Violence Will Lead to More Deaths appeared first on The Intercept.
Churches in Los Angeles put contingency plans in place after the Trump administration rescinds long-standing guidance advising immigration agents to avoid houses of worship.
I grew up in the Unification Church. Like them, ICE is tearing families apart
Jaime Alanis Garcia, a cannabis farmworker who was critically injured during a chaotic immigration raid by federal authorities in Southern California, died Saturday, according to his family.
Several more immigration judges have been fired, even as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement, and after Congress gave the Department of Justice $3 billion, in part to hire judges.
The Supreme Court may have suddenly decided nationwide injunctions are bad now that they’re bad for Trump, but it will need to cook up new arguments if it hopes to allow the open racism of its mass deportation program to continue in California. Trump has sent…
Faced with the risk of ICE detention, Regina Higuera decided to leave her family behind in the US to move back to Mexico.
The Trump administration has offered little consolation to American businesses worried about losing undocumented workers to deportations. US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did offer them one solution last week: to replace immigrant farmworkers with Amer…
I’ll tell you, one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube these days are the court hearings where illegals are in court and ICE shows up to drag them out of court to deport them,” Mace told Fox News.
Last month, a federal judge in Los Angeles handed down a temporary order placing some restrictions on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in that city. The Trump administration now wants the Supreme Court to lift those restrictions. The conteste…
A global roundup of some of last week’s events.
“Kristi Noem is going to have a bad day today,” exclaimed Gavin Newsom’s press office X feed this morning, calling out the Homeland Security Secretary by name. “You’re welcome, America.” The taunting post came just a few hours before the California Governor S…
This week, Texas National Guard troops arrived in Chicago. The deployment was the latest turn in the Trump administration’s efforts to more aggressively marshal boots on the ground to abet its mass deportation efforts in some American cities. The situation o…
by J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed …
Social media is abuzz as last year’s NYT warning of Trump's future deportations and disaster politics proves true
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man the Trump administration mistakenly deported in March and eventually returned, is now free from ICE custody. And, Indiana lawmakers reject a redistricting proposal.
President Donald Trump promised the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, but achieving his goal wouldn't have been possible without funding...
One year in, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immigrants and citizens across the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on mega-prisons where the agency can disappear thousands of people. In a memo shared with New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte, ICE outlined its $38.3 billion plan to launch a…
Resistance in both Democratic and Republican cities points to broader unease with the direction of immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration announced the deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to US airports amid the partial government shutdown.
Travelers have faced delays of several hours at understaffed security checkpoints amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.
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Democrats and other observers slam deployment of US immigration agents to airports as dangerous and source of tension.
Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war in Iran, postponing threatened strikes on its power plants, but Iran denies such talks happened; ICE agents were deployed to U.S. airports Monday.
Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.
"Who the fuck even thought it was a good idea to send America's most hair-trigger agency into America's most hair-raising environment?"
The Trump administration has deployed ICE agents to airports across the United States.
Trump is sending ICE agents to fill a TSA officer shortage during the government shutdown.
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The Central American nation is latest to sign a 'third-country' deportation agreement with the Trump administration.
Shortly after President Donald Trump took office for the second time, his administration started illegally detaining immigrants without giving them a bond hearing or other method of avoiding incarceration while an immigration judge determines if they are in t…
During Trump's first term, between his tariffs and his anti-immigrant stance, Wisconsin dairy farmers suffered severely. At one point, two dairy farms were closing each day. Despite that, many dairy farmers kept voting Republican, and now they are going throu…
Kesha, John Legend, and King Princess are also calling for the “immediate closure” of a facility in Dilley, Texas
Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country will take steps to protest death of another Mexican citizen in US.
The White House had said all the thousands of people arrested were “dangerous criminal” immigrants. The post Two Thirds of People Arrested by ICE in Minnesota Surge Had No Criminal Records, New Data Reveals appeared first on The Intercept.
In cities where ICE operations have surged, community members are walking kids to school.
Dozens of stars signed an open letter urging the federal government to shutter the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas
ICE seems to be changing from aggressive immigration enforcement on city streets to an apparent return to operations that rely heavily on local law enforcement. But even in Florida, where sheriffs are required to cooperate with ICE, some conservative sheriffs…
Trump wants industrial-size immigration jails, and money is no obstacle.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In the first days after Pam Bondi was appointed attorney general last year, the Department of Justice began shutting down pending criminal cases at a record pace. …
Abrego Garcia's wrongful removal in 2025 has spurred criticism of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.
Immigrant advocates in North Carolina are calling for justice after they say two children and their parents were swiftly deported to Honduras without due process.
The U.S. plans to roll out a system by December that automatically registers young men for the military draft, a policy signed into law by President Trump last year.
New documents reveal ICE is paying local law enforcement to supply information on unaccompanied minors
"Third country" deportation sent four men from around the world to Africa. They were imprisoned, and spent 9 months just getting a lawyer.
A Mexican migrant died last week in ICE custody, according to the agency, becoming the 47th person to die in ICE detention during the second Trump administration.
An appeals court has halted a contempt inquiry into Kristi Noem and others for last year's deportation of more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison.
Marie-Thérèse was reportedly waiting for a green card when her husband died. Now the elderly widow is in ICE's hands.
Hennepin County officials say these are the first charges filed against a federal immigration agent related to the crackdown that brought thousands of federal officers to the state. The widespread operation led to the shooting deaths of two American citizens.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced.
It sure sounds like the experience of working under Stephen Miller damn near killed ICE director Todd Lyons in the last year.
The deportees from South America are the first to be sent to the DRC in a deal agreed between Washington and Kinshasa
Twenty-nine people have died in ICE custody since October, the start of the federal government's fiscal year, already surpassing 2004's toll of 28, the previous record, according to government data.
The family has been detained in immigration custody for more than 10 months at the family detention facility in Dilley, Texas.
The Trump administration has signed multimillion-dollar deals with foreign countries to accept non-citizen deportees.
With its last contract expiring, activists say garage owners should spurn ICE to avoid becoming complicit in Trump’s deportation blitz. The post ICE Is Looking For Parking in New York City — For a 150-Vehicle Deportation Fleet appeared first on The Intercept.
Rights advocates have accused Trump administration of using third-country deportations to intimidate asylum seekers.
A bill introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) would prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from converting warehouses and similar buildings into immigrant detention centers, an attempt to slow President Donald Trump's mass deportations campaign. The Ba…
Lawyers say El Gamal family detained by Trump administration hours after returning home from 10-month detention.
The Justice Department's bid to denaturalize American citizens has roots in the Red Scare
Their experiences — of sudden financial insecurity, months of unemployment, and crippling anxiety — come as the administration seeks to restrict legal migration and boost mass deportation.
Trump endorsed the idea of renaming ICE agents to NICE agents. But as long as we’re on the topic of rebranding, we have some more accurate names.
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Not that ICE was ever that great about taking care of all the people it detains. It certainly wasn’t during Trump’s first term. The DHS Inspector General released a report that said there were numerous problems in a single detention facility. Not only that bu…
As mass deportations continue, scam complaints soar.
Rights group says believed suicide underscores need for more oversight amid Trump's mass deportation drive.
Brooklyn Brought President Antonio Reynoso speaks at a rally Monday, May 4, 2026, outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick. Immigration advocates and local officials also condemned the action and praised the effort by New Yorkers to disrupt ICE. …
The federal government is offering local law enforcement incentives to join a program that gives their officers authority to make immigration arrests. Police leaders say the funds, which include money for salaries, equipment and vehicles, are enticing.
The impact of Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities can still be felt, even three months after it ended. For immigrants, the impact has been devastating — many are at risk of losing their homes and business, and some are dealing with mental health challen…
A Gothamist data analysis shows children who cross the border without a parent or guardian have been kept in federal custody nearly four times as long. [ more › ]
Border czar Tom Homan said he'll "flood" New York with ICE agents if lawmakers pass a sanctuary state law. “We're going to flood the zone. You're going to see more ICE agents than you've ever seen before,” Border czar Tom Homan said. [ more › ]
We provide the first causal, national empirical analysis of the labor market impacts of heightened immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration. Enforcement increased everywhere, but, we take advantage of the fact that the increases have bee…
The remarks contrast with Border Czar Tom Homan's softer messaging earlier this year, after two U.S. citizens were killed by immigration officials in Minneapolis.
Rodney Barreto has received reassurances from Secretary of State Marco Rubio that ICE would steer clear of World Cup.
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Dave Venturella is set to serve as acting ICE Director following the departure of Todd Lyons, according to a DHS spokesperson.
The Florida immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" is expected to close soon, according to multiple sources.
At the airport in La Lima, Honduras, planeloads of migrants arrive every day—many without their children.
Lawyers say new evidence suggests Trump admin 'engineered' outcome of case against pro-Palestine Columbia student.
During the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, while he was devastating American society with mass deportations and shredding the global economic order with arbitrary tariffs, he also found the time to make himself chairman of the board of…
Behold this utter bullshit, uttered by the Trump administration’s “border czar” Tom Homan: White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday he’s “sure” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have detained U.S. citizens, “but we don’t deport them.” …
Sierra Leone receives nine West African migrants expelled by the United States under its strict immigration crackdown.
The White House has intentionally retreated from its in-your-face deportation approach after confrontations between federal and state officials in multiple...
Lawsuit says admin gave contracts to just 2 firms — one of which faced legal issues and claims of shoddy work.
ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data.
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Protestors and New Jersey State Police clash outside Delaney Hall, a private prison being used as an ICE detention center, in Newark ICE agrees to restore visitation for detainees at Delaney Hall, which had been suspended more than a week. [ more › ]
More than half of the 15 Latin Americans deported in April to Congo under the Trump administration’s widely criticized crackdown on migrants have returned to...
The policy, issued during the Biden administration, directed the agency to review and report all detainee fatalities, including those that occurred post-release.
ICE never needed officers to disguise themselves with masks and strip themselves of identification before Trump took office for the second time. What ICE is doing now isn’t what ICE was doing during Trump’s first term, even though it’s the same hateful bigot …
Former immigration judge Andrea Sáenz and American Immigration Council’s Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on the conditions at Delaney Hall and other ICE detention centers across the U.S. The post “Warehousing Human Beings” appeared first on The Intercept.
After calling out the DHS last year for using her song, Olivia Rodrigo recently reflected on the experience. The 3x Grammy winner recalled feeling “enraged” at seeing a “deeply disturbing” ICE propaganda video in November that featured her 2023 song ‘All-Amer…
A Georgian immigrant who officials said died last week in ICE custody is the 50th person to die in ICE detention during the second Trump administration.
Congress narrowly voted to fund President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda, giving the Department of Homeland Security $70 billion over the next three years. The house voted 214 to 212 in favor of the reconciliation bill Tuesday, following the Senate's …
According to a new report by the Guardian, the girls have disappeared—and their babies with them.
Since the opening of Camp East Montana in Texas last year, immigration lawyers and rights advocates have expressed concerns about conditions inside the facility.
Immigrant advocates warn the funding bill offers few guardrails for ICE and CBP amid Trump's mass deportation campaign.
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Add Ariana Grande to the list of artists who will never collab with Donald Trump on a TikTok video. The 3x Grammy winner recently slammed the White House for using her 2024 song ‘Bye’ in a video promoting the Trump-signed Secure America Act, which would fund …
Only 3% of individuals detained by ICE during the first 14 months of the second Trump administration had a violent felony conviction, according to an ABC News analysis.
Relatives and advocates of migrants who have been detained by ICE are decrying the targeting of immigrants who have no criminal history.
The detention center was the first new facility to open under the second Trump Administration. Protesters won’t stop until it is shut down. Ian Frazier writes.
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A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyd…
ICE’s crackdown in Minneapolis left deep scars on the besieged city, says a new Human Rights Watch report. The post ICE’s Unseen Toll in Minneapolis: Suicide Helpline Calls More Than Doubled During Surge appeared first on The Intercept.
Federal officers shot Ricardo Parias eight months ago during an ICE operation to detain him. His lawyer says he is still in pain, highlighting gaps in oversight and care in DHS facilities.<br>
A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants throughout the United...
A panel of judges has overturned a previous ruling that found measures violated constitutional right to due process.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants throughout the United States, not just near the border.
Writing for the court majority, Justice Samuel Alito that under the TPS law, the president has unreviewable authority to end the program, without intervention from the courts.
Independent journalist Karl Loftus has spoken to dozens of ICE agents about carrying out Donald Trump's immigration agenda.
86% of farmworkers in the U.S. are foreign born, and 45% are undocumented.
More than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find surviv...
Detainees ended a hunger and labor strike shortly after ICE updated its detention standards
As the Supreme Court today weighs the Trump administration's effort to revoke birthright citizenship, NPR looks at what else the White House has done to curb illegal and legal migration.
146 Venezuelans were deported from Texas to Caracas on June 24. Hours later, while the deportees were in a guarded hotel, powerful twin earthquakes struck.
By Nate Raymond July 2 (Reuters) - U.S.
At the time that this post was written, at least 50 individuals had died in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The deaths were due to a lack of care for people with chronic medical issues like heart…
ICE is ramping up its detentions and deportations but keeping things quiet this time, including trying to deport witnesses.
Donald Trump's Homeland Security regime has been at the center of two critical stories in the past two weeks. In the first, federal agents shot and killed a man and quickly got to work justifying the use of force under the flimsiest of pretenses. In the other…
People protest against the planned project of converting a warehouse into an ICE detention center in Roxbury, New Jersey The Trump administration last month said it would walk away from its plans in Roxbury, NJ. But a new court filing says authorities have…
Tom Homan, U.S. President Donald Trump's "border czar," served as former President Barack Obama's "ICE chief," and was honored for large numbers of deportations.
Fatal shooting in Biddeford, Maine, is latest in at least nine deaths linked to US president's immigration crackdown.
It marks a major policy shift for the immigration enforcement agency, which has faced criticism in the past year over allegations of excessive use of force.
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Two fatalities, a surge in arrests, large protests in the streets — the past two weeks of US immigration new…
In less than a week, two people have died during encounters with ICE — one in Texas and another in Maine. The incidents have put immigration enforcement back in the headlines and raised new questions about how ICE is carrying out President Donald Trump’s prom…
More than 60 people have died in ICE shootings or while in detention since Donald Trump returned to power.
Five ICE officials said orders came down to stop vehicle stops, a go-to tactic that had helped lead to a spike in immigration detentions. The post ICE Orders Halt Vehicle Stops After Deadly Shootings by Federal Agents appeared first on The Intercept.
ICE just killed two immigrants in one week. Democrats running for office need to commit to abolishing the deportation regime once and for all. The post How ICE Arrests Went Quiet — and Got Even More Deadly appeared first on The Intercept.
President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, seeming to contradict a new polic...
BIDDEFORD, Maine - The woman stood in a hallway of her apartment building, pressing her hands up against a window as she took in a scene of unfathomable viol...
Donald Trump responded to the uproar following ICE killing two men in vehicles in less than a week, writing that the agency is "doing a GREAT job."
US president backs tactic despite agency announcing temporary pause after fatal shootings in Texas and Maine.
{EMBARGOED} A new ACLU report looks at the widespread use of force in immigration enforcement since President Trump returned to office. A new spate of fatal shootings in Texas and Maine has brought renewed scrutiny about the agency's tactics.
The comments came following widespread reports earlier in the week that those stops would be put on pause after two immigrants were fatally shot by ICE agents in early July.
By Nolan D. McCaskill PORTLAND, Maine, July 16 (Reuters) - Republican U.S.
The victim's sister said he didn't have the medication he needed: "I am 100% certain that he did not receive proper care."
A newly renewed, $25 million-per-year contract with a subsidiary of Thompson Reuters further expands the power of ICE under the Trump administration.
Two plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents left a man partially handcuffed on the ground Monday after they attempted to arrest him at Harry...
Homeland Security agents aren’t just guarding the crowds at Sunday’s World Cup final in NJ/NY – they’re on the hunt for knockoff jerseys that deny FIFA and licensees a cut.
When the Trump administration announced it was lowering hiring standards and shortening the length of training for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers so that the agency could have more warm bodies to aid in President Donald Trump’s racist mass depor…
Trump Border "Czar" Tom Homan's message is clear: when masked men come for you, surrender first and ask questions after they bash your head into the pavement. Make the violence more convenient for the government, or suffer the consequences? This Republican t…
The Trump administration continues to pretend migrants don’t have due process rights. It does this despite racking up nearly 10,000 rulings to the contrary — losing in roughly 90% of the petitions brought by ICE detainees. While the Fifth Circuit continues to…
Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was fatally shot by an ICE agent two months into President Trump's second term. His mother says her family has yet to receive justice.
The Texas nun pleaded with ICE to let her go to mass and take communion. They said no. Oh, and she's also a nurse as well.
ICE and Border Patrol’s purviews have transformed from immigration enforcement to being a political tool of the White House — all under the pretext of public safety. The post Trump’s National Killer Police Force appeared first on The Intercept.
By Kristina Cooke July 28 (Reuters) - Aurora's 6-year-old daughter arrived at the U.S. border alone and spent more than half a year in a child migrant shelte...
Trump’s ICE crackdown grows with new funding and hires as deaths and abuse claims draw review.
Three people have died in the Texas detainment centre Camp East Montana since it opened last year.
Advocates warn expiring contract could leave 24,000 children without legal representation, increasing risk of expulsion.
Federal immigration officers clash with Protesters outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, on May 25, 2026. The ACLU filed dozens of claims against the U.S. government, including one tied to a clash outside Delaney Hall. [ more › ]
The Department of Homeland Security has been ramping up arrests.
Hundreds of Haitian immigrants in Ohio who had Temporary Protected Status have been summoned by the ICE for in-person "check-ins," immigration advocates say.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, according to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
According to his mother, Cornejo had diabetes and high blood pressure, and was not given medicine regularly since he was first arrested.
Second Delaney Hall detainee death in eight months prompts calls to close facility, demands for answers.
The Trump administration has been shut down more than 10,000 times by federal courts over its novel interpretation of the law — one it claims allows it to indefinitely detain migrants without giving them a bond hearing. Some of those 10,000 adverse decisions …
When the administration's goal is to see migrant children deported, it's not a good sign for the admin to then supply their lawyers.
The spouses and parents of US service members have been reportedly detained or deported.
They're deporting soldier's wives: “Military service alone does not exempt aliens from the consequences of violating U.S. immigration laws."
The White House once again turned to pop culture in characterizing their immigration strategy, this time using Spider Man imagery to portray ICE agents as “friendly neighborhood” figures and on the heroic side of deportations. An Instagram post this week, fea…
Rulings allow Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for nationals of the two countries.
Recent polling shows that only a fraction of independent voters support ICE's enforcement of immigration laws.
Lawyer Kamalpreet Chohan ran her finger down a list of 57 names of people scheduled to appear during a morning of hearings at the immigration court in Califo...
Most of the visa revocations stemmed from law-enforcement encounters involving criminal activity, the department said.
LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.
An apparent surge of ICE arrests in airport terminals has created viral videos and questions over ICE's authority to board planes without judicial warrants.
US Homeland Security is expected to buy up to $20m in gloves amid criticism of the president's immigration crackdown.
In Ohio, they're playing a visible role among religious leaders who have been organizing demonstrations
The administration has no legitimate justification for this action. It’s all about inflicting as much literal pain as possible on anyone ICE officers happen to encounter. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can …
Detainees can be seen in the windows of Newark's Delaney Hall detention facility on May 23, 2026. The Trump administration previously did not publicly disclose news of Jose Chajon-Raxon’s death. [ more › ]
Details on how ICE cooperation agreements work in practice have been hard to come by. NPR took a close look at how sheriff's deputies in Walton County, Fla., approach immigration-related arrests.
Homero Calderón's detention by ICE spotlights the massive backlog in the U.S. immigration system. <strong> </strong>
Documents from ICE’s investigation into the Sunrise Movement show an agent volunteered to build tools for “direct-action” protests. The post Secret ICE Agent Tried to ‘Entice’ Minneapolis Activists Into Confrontational Tactics appeared first on The Intercept.
The first group of 20 deportees is expected to arrive in the coming days.
Padres catching coordinator Oswaldo Pirela was detained and imprisoned by ICE in Texas this weekend despite his valid work permit.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an urgent email from Washington. The federal government wa…
Things used to be normal. We used to be doing alright here in the United States, limiting ourselves to catching people at the borders or picking up migrants with criminal charges or convictions with detainers at local jails. Now, it’s just a constant swarm al…
MONROVIA, Aug 20 (Reuters) - People deported by the U.S. to Liberia will mostly hail from Latin American countries including Cuba and Venezuela, Liberia's in...
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Guatemala has received around 2,300 Mexicans deported from the U.S. so far in 2026, President Bernardo Are...
Liberia is part of a growing list of partners under US President Donald Trump to accept third-country deportations.
Thursday marked the first deportation flight to Haiti from the US since the revocation of Temporary Protected Status.
The flight comes as TPS for Haiti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Syria, Myanmar and other countries ended following a U.S. Supreme Court order in June.
The Trump administration has ramped up deportations to third countries in an apparent bid to deter immigration.
As Mayor Karen Bass shows her support for the Paramount-Warner Bros merger, Mark Ruffalo is continuing to fight the acquisition. On Friday, the 4x Oscar nominee called out the Ellisons ties to Oracle, sharing a video of the tech company’s executive vice chair…
The president's deportation agenda has failed in the courts. Now he's trying to cheat the system
The United States has deported nearly 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year and sent at least dozens more to Honduras, according to official data, a shift from the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump's second term, when such transfers were minimal.
When Luis Manuel Aviles was arrested by immigration authorities, his son was entering his ninth month on the USS Abraham Lincoln with the Navy — a vessel tha...
This week, MrWilson takes both top spots on the insightful side. In first place, it’s a comment about opportunistic ICE arrests: ICE keeps trying to find more victims to prove the false narrative of how many undocumented immigrants there are in the country, s…
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asyl...
Six people who were deported by the United States to Liberia last week resisted getting off the plane and instead were sent to Equatorial Guinea, another Af...
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has promised to deport thousands of migrants who are in the country without residence permits, mainly Venezuelan...
A judge dismissed the government's deportation case against Venkata Vasamsetty. Then ICE and DHS imprisoned her anyway.
The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States.
An advocacy group says some military families are now "living in the shadows."
You get detained by ICE. If your case goes viral? A quick release. If you're the other 99% of people? You sit in ICE detention forever.
The number of arrests last month showed a rise of roughly 15 percent over June's count.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged with shooting a man and lying about it during the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis was released fr...
New data confirms a rise in immigration arrests many in targeted communities suspected was underway. [ more › ]
The longtime far-right operator and troll, a UK citizen, is being held in a detention center about 200 miles from New Orleans.
The former Breitbart columnist is being held as an 'illegal alien' by Trump's immigration goons
"I mean bad immigrants," Yiannopoulos said in a 2016 interview with Joe Rogan. "I don't mean handsome, charming, successful, blonde-haired British immigrants...
By Sarah Morland Aug 28 (Reuters) - Nearly 200,000 people were forcibly returned to Haiti in the first eight months of this year, a U.N. official told an eme...
A second deportation flight since the termination of TPS for Haitian migrants landed on Thursday in Haiti.
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. After ending legal protections for 350,000 Haitians living in the United States, the Trump administration is…
A Trump administration official says the controversial commentator overstayed his visit in the US and will be removed.
The self-styled provocateur had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Former Trump favorite Milo Yiannopoulos found himself arrested by ICE, and MAGA is very unsure how they're supposed to feel.
The social media personality had been detained by immigration agents at an airport in New Orleans earlier in the week.
As the G20 descends on Asheville, the communities that helped rebuild after Hurricane Helene live in fear of Trump’s immigration regime. The post Western North Carolina Pleaded for Hurricane Help. It Got ICE Instead. appeared first on The Intercept.
The far-right provocateur who called for aggressive deportations was detained by ICE for his own immigration issues
On Joe Rogan in 2016 he carved out one exception: “handsome, charming, successful, blonde-haired British immigrants.” He didn’t make the cut. Milo Yiannopoulos, the far-right prov…
Milo Yiannopoulos had worked for Kanye for years, most recently as chief of staff. He’s since been deported to the UK. Kanye West and Bianca Censori step out together at the 67th Annual Gramm…
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security video shows men, handcuffed and in chains, boarding a deportation flight to Haiti this week. Critics say the Trump administration is "bragging" about sending Haitian immigrants "back to a war-torn country" after rescindi…
Milo Yiannopoulos, a British national once a vocal supporter of Donald Trump, had previously called for immigration crackdowns in the US.
Milo Yiannopoulos, who has called for ICE checkpoints at supermarkets in the US, is likely to be deported by immigration officials who described him as "an illegal alien from the United Kingdom".
His family in Afghanistan had received threats from the Taliban because of the work performed by his brothers in support of the U.S. military.
Afghan national granted protection in the US is one of dozens of people deported to war-torn Central African Republic.
ICE says the robot dogs aren't attack dogs and are intended to improve officer safety.
I can’t assume the Trump administration hoped this would happen. But I can’t believe no one in the administration (Trump, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan) isn’t secretly thrilled that this has happened. The administration managed to revoke temporary protected statu…
The Trump administration has agreed to pay at least $410 million to facilitate its so-called “third-country deportations” for immigrants. As of the end of June, 31 countries, mostly in Latin America or Africa, have made deals to take immigrants expelled from …
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on June 25, 2025, makes an arrest during an "enforcement removal operation" at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. The total in the first 18 months of Trump’s second term is more than twice that of the same spa…