Embedded Files
Next Meeting - 08/11/25, 7 PM, Ozark-Dale Library
Focus On Border Security And Immigration (Post 2024 Election):
Miami Herald: Florida has no formal hurricane plan for Alligator Alcatraz
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311504616.html
Comment: "After weeks of requests from politicians and media, the state of Florida said it has no formal, completed plan for how to handle a hurricane at Alligator Alcatraz, the new immigrant detention site in the heart of the Everglades."
Comment: "The governor has repeatedly said the tents and trailers at the site are equipped to handle hurricane winds to Category 2 strength — up to 110 mph — and that people onsite would have to be evacuated if more intense winds were expected. The facility already relies on generators for on-site power."
"Neither Guthrie nor the governor mentioned anythign about flood risks at the site, which already had water seeping into the air conditioned tents where detainees are housed after a particularly heavy rainstorm on opening day."
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311504616.html#storylink=cpy
NBC News: FEMA to send states $608 million to build migrant detention centers
Comment: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration’s push to expand capacity to hold migrants."
Comment: "FEMA is starting a 'detention support grant program' to cover the cost of states building temporary facilities, according to an agency announcement. States have until August 8 to apply for the funds, according to the post."
Comment: Please refer to another article:
‘A more vulnerable nation’: FEMA memos lay out risks of plan to cut $1B in disaster and security grants | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/politics/fema-propose-cuts-disaster-security-grants
Meanwhile, FEMA is proposing to cut $1 billion for grants to communities and first responders to prepare for disasters and improve security against terrorists and cyber attacks. Where would you rather FEMA spend its money, migrant detention centers or disaster help for Americans and our security?
apnews.com: Photos of the US troop deployment at new militarized zones on the border with Mexico
Comment: While the photos are impressive, do you realize that the border costs are being borne by American taxpayers that are facing massive federal deficits and safety net program cuts? Does Trump's "emergency declaration" really justify all these military actions and their associated costs?
The Guardian: Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/florida-teen-immigration-arrest
The Guardian: Afghan translator who worked for US military detained by Ice in Connecticut
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/23/afghanistan-war-translator-ice-connecticut
Comment: "An Afghan wartime translator granted a US immigration visa after risking his life to help US troops has been detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents, in the latest sign that the Trump administration is willing to flout legal agreements and promises to allies in pursuit of its unprecedented immigration crackdown."
CNN: 2,000 National Guard troops expected to be called up to assist at ICE detention facilities, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/politics/2000-national-guard-troops-assist-ice-detention
Comment: In addition to numerous other issues, there is the question of who will pay for these troops. Will the cost come out of the ICE budget, individual state budgets, or the DoD budget?
Stephen Miller Called Out for ‘Completely Made-Up’ ICE Figures
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-miller-called-completely-made-233901036.html
Comment: "Stephen Miller’s figures that one million immigrants have already self-deported are false, according to a senior fellow from a pro-immigrant nonprofit organization."
"Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, from American Immigration Council, called Miller’s claims 'a completely made-up figure' in an interview with Slate’s podcast Amicus."
Video: Inside ICE's expanded operations amid record funding and rising concerns - July 21, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aGMD-vh25c
ICE head says agents will arrest anyone found in the U.S. illegally, crack down on employers of unauthorized workers - CBS News
Comment: "In an exclusive interview with CBS News, the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said his agents will arrest anyone they find in the country illegally, even if they lack a criminal record, while also cracking down on companies hiring unauthorized workers."
"Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, said his agency will prioritize its 'limited resources' on arresting and deporting 'the worst of the worst,' such as those in the U.S. unlawfully who also have serious criminal histories."
"But Lyons said non-criminals living in the U.S. without authorization will also be taken into custody during arrest operations, arguing that states and cities with 'sanctuary' policies that limit cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement are forcing his agents to go into communities by not turning over noncitizen inmates."
Comment: Does it seem to you that ICE is focusing more on meeting Stephen Miller's arrest quotas than arresting 'the worst of the worst'? Even in cities without 'sanctuary policies,' since when is local law enforcement responsible for federal immigration enforcement?
RECENT REPORTING MAKES THE ACCURACY OF THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE QUESTIONABLE
The Daily Beast: ICE Secretly Deported Grandpa, 82, Over Lost Green Card
Please also see:
theguardian.com: Homeland security denies reports that Ice ‘secretly deported’ Pennsylvania grandfather
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/22/luis-leon-ice-pennsylvania-grandfather
AL.com: Arrests of Alabama immigrants soar as local deputies become ‘mini-immigration officers’
Additional Military Bases in New Jersey, Indiana Set to Host Migrant Detention Camps | Military.com
Comment: "The Department of Homeland Security is planning to house migrants at two new military installations as the Trump administration increasingly turns to the armed forces to bolster its aggressive immigration crackdown."
Comment: "The move is part of a broader pattern of the administration militarizing its immigration enforcement. In recent weeks, California National Guard troops and Marines have assisted federal agents in immigration raids, operations that have swept up U.S. citizens."
Comment: ICE just received a massive increase in funding, yet the military is also being tasked to address Trump's immigrant detention and deportation efforts. Do you think that the military and it's resources should be focused on national defense instead?
Video: ICE director explains Medicaid data use and agency's efforts "to gain intelligence" - July 18, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCNk14g4zYo
AP News: Border Patrol hiring spree offers lessons as another immigration agency embarks on massive growth
https://apnews.com/article/border-patrol-ice-hiring-9e23d677bb47d581dabbb4a1f8c5aa32
Comment: "With Immigration and Customs Enforcement now preparing to add 10,000 employees within five years to assist with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, the Border Patrol’s torrid expansion in the early 2000s serves as a cautionary tale. Hiring and training standards were changed and arrests for employee misconduct rose. Pressure to turbo-charge growth can also lead to attrition."
" 'If they don’t uphold pretty rigorous standards and background checks, you can end up hiring the wrong people, and then you pay a huge price in how the public perceives them,' said Gil Kerlikowske, who was commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol’s parent agency, from 2014 to 2017."
Lawmakers tried to lock down money meant to improve troops' lives so it can't go to immigration and border ops. It didn't work.
Stephen Miller faces pushback after weird claims about immigrant crime in Minneapolis
Comment: "As crime rates fall, why are Trump administration officials pretending that public safety is getting worse? Because of the twisted politics of fear."
Comment: "There’s no great mystery here: The Trump administration wants people to be afraid, because the more Americans are scared, the more they’re likely to endorse a mass-deportation campaign."
"For the White House, in other words, the politics of fear is overriding every other consideration, including the temptation to brag about — and perhaps even try to take credit for — a heartening national trend."
DeSantis under fire for using disaster funds to build migrant detention jail
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/17/ron-desantis-disaster-funds-alligator-alcatraz
Comment: "Officials in Florida diverted crucial disaster preparedness and response resources to support the hasty construction of the so-called Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention jail by the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, a newly published report has claimed."
"Some of the $20m in contracts analyzed by Talking Points Memo (TPM) before they inexplicably disappeared from the Florida department of financial services website went to donors or political allies of DeSantis, the report said."
Opinion: Immigration whiplash is hurting American businesses during a labor crisis
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-immigration-whiplash-hurting-american-193000538.html
Comment: "Over the last month, American businesses have faced a destabilizing whiplash of immigration enforcement proposals. What began as a reported pause on raids targeting farms, hotels and other industries quickly reverted to aggressive action — with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents returning to fields and factory floors just days later."
"These shifts are more than policy tweaks — they are actively undermining the ability of American employers to operate, staff, and grow during a severe labor shortage that is on track to become much worse."
Homan hints Trump farmworker policy is coming
https://www.yahoo.com/news/homan-hints-trump-farm-worker-030202894.html
Comment: "White House border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday that the Trump administration is considering possible changes to its immigration enforcement policy as it relates to farm and hospitality workers."
Politico: Trump launches next round of third country deportations with new flight to Eswatini
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/16/trump-third-country-deportations-eswatini-00455757
Comment: "The Trump administration deported five migrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba and Yemen to the small Southern African nation of Eswatini on Tuesday, continuing 'third country deportations' after the Supreme Court allowed the administration to maintain the practice last month."
Comment: "While previous administrations have also used third country removals as a deportation mechanism, the Trump administration’s practice of sending deportees to places like El Salvador, notorious for its CECOT mega-prison, and conflict-ridden South Sudan, has drawn scrutiny from immigration lawyers and advocates who have warned of the potential dangers of sending deportees to countries with known human rights violations."
Axios: Bill would prevent ICE from detaining or deporting U.S. citizens
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/16/ice-us-citizens-detention-racial-profiling
Comment: "A new proposal in Congress would stop federal immigration agents from detaining and possibly deporting U.S. citizens."
"Why it matters: U.S. citizens aren't supposed to be arrested or detained unless agents allege they're breaking laws. But reports of citizens of Latino descent being detained — or stopped and asked to prove citizenship — are rippling through Latino communities nationwide."
"Critics say reports of ICE detaining citizens are instances of racial profiling and overzealous policing — something the U.S. Department of Homeland Security angrily denies."
Comment: "An Axios review of news reports, social media videos and claims by advocacy groups about raids since President Trump took office found several instances in which U.S. citizens alleged they were wrongfully detained."
Comment: " 'The fact that Democrats ... feel the need to even introduce an amendment that says ICE cannot deport U.S. citizens is bats**t crazy,' Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) said on the House floor."
Video: Inside the app that shows if ICE agents are nearby - July 15, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsKwThTZdzU
The Guardian: Irish tourist jailed by Ice for months after overstaying US visit by three days: ‘Nobody is safe’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/irish-tourist-ice-detention
Comment: "He had planned to return to Ireland in December, but was briefly unable to fly due to a health issue, his medical records show. He was only three days overdue to leave the US when an encounter with police landed him in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) custody."
ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos: Millions of undocumented immigrants will no longer be eligible for bond hearings, according to ICE memo
NPR: More immigration judges are being fired amid Trump's efforts to speed up deportations
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5467343/immigration-judges-doj-trump-enforcement
Comment: "The terminations landed after Congress approved a mega-spending bill that allocated over $3 billion to the Justice Department for immigration-related activities, including hiring more immigration judges. The funding and additional personnel are aimed at alleviating the growing case backlog, which is nearly 4 million cases. Hiring and training new judges can take more than a year."
Comment: " 'It's outrageous and against the public interest that at a time when the Congress has authorized 800 immigration judges, we are firing large numbers of immigration judges without cause,' said Matt Biggs, president of the IFPTE union. 'This is hypocritical — you can't enforce immigration laws when you fire the enforcers.' "
Comment: Do you think that perhaps the Trump administration is not as interested in enforcing immigration law as it is in implementing Trump administration immigration related objectives?
CNN: Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/13/politics/deportations-backfiring-trump-analysis
Comment: "The nearly monthlong survey conducted in June found Americans disapproved of Trump’s handling of immigration by a wide margin: 62% to 35%. And more than twice as many Americans strongly disapproved (45%) as strongly approved (21%)."
Comment: "And all told, Trump’s second term has actually led to the most sympathy for migrants on record in the 21st century, per Gallup. Fully 79% of Americans now say immigration is a 'good thing,' compared with 64% last year."
Trump admin to appeal order barring race-based immigration arrests alleged in LA area
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/12/trump-immigration-race-based-order-california-arrests
Comment: "The White House says it plans to appeal a federal order requiring the Trump administration to stop immigration arrests without probable cause after a suit alleged it targeted California residents based on race, language and work."
Comment: Does this mean that the Trump administration thinks that racial profiling and arrests without probable cause are OK?
Judge orders Trump administration to stop immigration arrests without probable cause in Southern California | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/california-immigration-arrests-probable-cause
Comment: "A federal judge on Friday found that the Department of Homeland Security has been making stops and arrests in Los Angeles immigration raids without probable cause and ordered the department to stop detaining individuals based solely on race, spoken language or occupation."
Comment: Do you think the judge's decision might have been made easier by very recent comments from border czar, Tom Homan?
White House border czar suggests ICE can detain people based on ‘physical appearance’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maddow-blog-white-house-border-160020254.html
Comment: "In his latest Fox News appearance, Homan said: 'Look, people need to understand, ICE officers and Border Patrol don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them. They just need totality of the circumstances, right? They just go through the observation, get our typical facts — based on the location, the occupation, their physical appearance, their actions.' "
Comment: "What's more, Homan's on-air comments sparked quick pushback from Capitol Hill. Rep. Daniel Goldman said via Buesky that the border czar's assessment was 'patently false.'
"The New York Democrat added, 'DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry. But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone. This lawlessness must stop.' "
Comment: Do you think Homan's comment that "physical appearance" can justify physical detainment and questioning constitutes racial profiling?
Politico: Americans have made a U-turn on immigration since 2024 election
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/trump-immigration-crackdown-poll-00448342
Comment: "New polling from Gallup shows record-high support for immigration, potentially complicating the president’s strongly anti-immigration policy."
The Guardian: US border czar says he doesn’t know fate of eight men deported to South Sudan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/trump-immigration-tom-homan-south-sudan-deportees
Comment: "Men from Mexico, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar were removed from the US and flown to the war-torn country"
Comment "Tom Homan, the US border czar, has said he does not know what happened to the eight men deported to South Sudan after the Trump Administration resumed sending migrants to countries that are not their place of origin, known as third countries."
Axios: "Not Amnesty Lite": Trump's new plan for migrant worker visas
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/11/trump-immigration-farmworkers-visas
Comment: "Under pressure from worried farmers and hotel owners, the Trump administration is launching a program to streamline issuing visas for temporary, migrant workers to try to make sure fruits get picked, meat is packed and lodgings are cleaned."
"Why it matters: President Trump's immigration crackdown has put his administration between a MAGA rock and a special-interest hard place."
Comment: Doesn't this sound like a knee jerk reaction to a problem that should have been anticipated in advance of his unprecedented purge of hard working immigrants?
KTLA: Border Patrol agent accused of assaulting Long Beach police officer, entering women’s bathroom
Comment: "A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent appeared in a Los Angeles County courtroom Friday to face felony charges for assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest while off-duty and armed with a department-issued handgun."
"According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, Hodgson was drunk inside a restaurant when he followed a woman into the women’s restroom. The woman alerted restaurant management and reported that Hodgson’s firearm and magazine were visible."
Video: ICE agents handcuff and detain 71-year-old U.S. citizen - July 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2eV8L9WYwI
NBC News: Trump's immigration enforcement record so far: High arrests, low deportations
Meet the new national police force
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/09/politics/ice-cbp-police-los-angeles-immigration
Comment: "The agency of mask-wearing officers who aren’t afraid to smash windows, detain lawmakers and pluck nonviolent undocumented immigrants off the street is about to become the best-funded federal police force."
Comment: "ICE will have more funding in the coming years than any other federal law enforcement agency, according to Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at pro-immigrant American Immigration Council."
"The new law allocates $75 billion for ICE through 2029 to order as many as 10,000 new agents and to build detention facilities for more than 100,000 additional people."
" 'It makes ICE a higher-funded law enforcement agency than the entire FBI, ATF, DEA, US Marshals Service and Bureau of Prisons combined,' Reichlin-Melnick explained, after averaging that $75 billion across the next four years, more than doubling ICE’s budget in each of those years."
The Guardian: Ice is about to become the biggest police force in the US | Judith Levine
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/09/ice-immigration-police-trump-budget-bill
DHS used anonymous pro-Israel site to target activists for deportation, agency says in court
Comment: "Pro-Palestinian events attended by those in the database are often described on the site as 'anti-Israel' or 'pro-Hamas,' and the association said activists included on the site are often depicted as being in support of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas."
"The association also highlighted a video in which Canary Mission encouraged people to report those engaging in pro-Palestinian activism and threaten their job prospects. The video tells viewers, 'It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees.' ”
"Canary Mission has stirred up controversy even among pro-Israel advocates. In 2018, nine pro-Israel groups and over 100 students signed an open letter condemning it."
Pro-Israel website was used to find names of student protesters to investigate, senior ICE official says | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/politics/ice-homeland-security-canary-mission
Comment: " 'Most' of the names of student protesters Immigration and Customs Enforcement was asked to investigate earlier this year were plucked from a pro-Israel website that aims to blacklist pro-Palestinian students and academics, an agency official told a federal court Wednesday."
"The testimony from Peter Hatch, a senior official in ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations, came during the third day in a trial in Boston over the Trump administration’s so-called ideological deportation policy, which a group of university professors say has chilled their protected political speech."
Iranian mother released from ICE detention after Republican House Majority Leader intervenes
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/us/iranian-woman-ice-custody-release-scalise-hnk
Comment: Do you think the result would have been the same if she hadn't had all the community support and special help from the Republican House Majority Leader? What about the other hard working immigrants who have lived here for many years and have contributed to our communities?
Axios: The states where many hospital workers are immigrants
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/08/hospital-workers-immigrants-states-map
Comment: "The nation's hospitals rely heavily on an immigrant workforce — in some states, more than a quarter of hospital workers are either naturalized citizens or noncitizen immigrants, per census data analyzed by KFF."
Comment: The immigrant hospital workforce is currently less in Alabama.
The Guardian: ‘Reality TV spectacle’: outrage as federal agents raid LA neighborhood with horses and armored cars
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/los-angeles-park-federal-officers-national-guard
Comment: "Dozens of federal officers in tactical gear and about 90 California national guard troops descended on a historic immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles on Monday – mounting a sweeping show that local leaders denounced as a 'reality TV spectacle' and intimidation tactic.
"The troops were deployed to a mostly empty MacArthur Park in the neighborhood of the same name for about an hour, some on horseback and others in armored military vehicles. Agents were also operating an armored vehicle with a mounted rifle."
"It wasn’t immediately clear that any arrests were made. But the operation on Monday morning has drawn widespread criticism from city leaders, who have characterized the militarized immigration raid as an intimidation tactic."
NPR: Migrants deported from U.S. to Salvadoran prison remain under U.S. control
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/08/g-s1-76491/migrants-salvadoran-prison-under-u-s-control
Comment: "The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the Venezuelan men who were deported from the U.S. to a notorious Salvadoran prison, contradicting public statements by officials in both countries."
Migrants who were sent to CECOT are the responsibility of US, El Salvador tells UN - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/migrants-cecot-responsibility-us-el-salvador-tells/story?id=123551909
Comment: "The claims appears to contradict what U.S. officials have been saying."
Comment: " 'The government of El Salvador has confirmed what everyone already knew: the United States controls the fate of the Venezuelans sent to CECOT without due process,' Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the ACLU told ABC News in response to the U.N. report. 'Unbelievably, the U.S. government didn't provide this information to us or the court.' "
Reuters: Trump to end deportation protections for thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans
Comment: "The action, effective on September 6, will end Temporary Protected Status for an estimated 72,000 Hondurans and 4,000 Nicaraguans who have had access to the legal status since 1999, according to a pair of Federal Register notices."
How Trump's tax cut and policy bill aims to 'supercharge' immigration enforcement
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/g-s1-75609/big-beautiful-bill-ice-funding-immigration
Comment: "The massive package sets aside about $170 billion to support the Trump's administration's border and immigration goals, which includes detaining and deporting a record number of people from the U.S."
"Earlier this week, White House border czar Tom Homan told reporters that Congress needed to pass the bill in order for the federal government to buy more detention beds."
Comment: "The final bill allocates $45 billion for immigration detention centers, as well as about $30 billion to hire more ICE personnel, for transportation costs, and to maintain ICE facilities, among other spending. It comes as detention centers operate beyond their capacity."
"The American Immigration Council estimates that the new funding could expand detention capacity to 'at least 116,000 beds.' "
Comment: Since $170B works out to be about $500 for every man, woman, and child in this country ($170B/340M people), do you think this is the best use of our tax dollars?
Opinion: The worst ‘invaders’ in history. MAGA’s demonization of immigrants is preposterous.
https://share.newsbreak.com/dx1cdobc
Comment: "The justification for these actions started off as benignly as cracking down on illegal immigrants. Then it turned into criminals. And now everyone from Vice President JD Vance to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is using the term 'invader.' This preposterous descent from immigrant to invader shows just how afraid Republicans are of demographic changes in this country, even if those changes help this country thrive."
Comment: "These are the first invaders in history to actually make a country stronger and more profitable. It turns out that President Trump and company ran out of criminals to deport but still need photo ops to look like they are accomplishing something. The running out of criminals part is no joke. About 93 percent of the people arrested in these Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids don’t have any violent convictions."
"So in order to keep this narrative, the Trump administration has decided to reframe immigration at large. You see, coming to this country and working is now considered an invasion. That’s where the Republicans are. Not immigration reform. Not fixing a broken system. Not getting the backlog fixed. Not a Ronald Reagan-style amnesty. And surely not punishing the people that hire undocumented labor."
AP News: US expands militarized zones to 1/3 of southern border, stirring controversy
Comment: "The move places long stretches of the border under the supervision of nearby military bases, empowering U.S. troops to detain people who enter the country illegally and sidestep a law prohibiting military involvement in civilian law enforcement. It is done under the authority of the national emergency on the border declared by President Donald Trump on his first day in office."
Axios: Local officials grow wary of helping ICE detain immigrants
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/02/local-officials-ice-detain-immigrants-trump
Comment: "A growing number of local law enforcement officials are alarmed about their jails and prisons holding immigration detainees without warrants, saying it exposes their departments to legal risks."
ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos: Newlywed Palestinian woman released from ICE custody after months in detention
The Guardian: Ice raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: ‘We need the labor’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/01/ice-raids-crops-california-farms
AL.com: Alabama immigrants usually face deportation without a lawyer: ‘Huge problem’
Comment: " 'It’s a huge problem here that there aren’t enough attorneys,' said Allison Hamilton, who runs the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice. Hamilton said a lot of people are being put into expedited removal, don’t have access to due process and can’t adequately defend themselves."
"Taken together, she believes many Alabama immigrants without attorneys face an increased risk of unjust deportations."
ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos: Trump vowed to deport the 'worst of the worst' -- but new data shows a shift to also arresting non-criminals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-vowed-deport-worst-worst-new-data-shows/story?id=123287810
The Guardian: Two more Ice deaths put US on track for one of deadliest years in immigration detention
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/us-ice-detention-deaths
Comment: "Cuban person, 75, reportedly died in immigration detention last week, marking 13th migrant death in Ice jails in 2025"
Axios: Axios Explains: Inside ICE's superpowers
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/29/axios-explains-inside-ice-superpowers
Comment: "Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created after the 9/11 attacks, its agents have operated with vastly more enforcement power, less transparency and fewer guardrails than local police."
Newsweek: Border Agents Blast Into Home With Children Inside During California Raid: Report
https://www.newsweek.com/border-agents-explosives-california-huntington-park-2092186
NPR: What is birthright citizenship and what happens after the Supreme Court ruling?
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/nx-s1-5448863/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-ruling
Comment: "After the Supreme Court issued a ruling that limits the ability of federal judges to issue universal injunctions — but didn't rule on the legality of President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship — immigrant rights groups are trying a new tactic by filing a national class action lawsuit."
"The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two immigrant rights organizations whose members include people without legal status in the U.S. who 'have had or will have children born in the United States after February 19, 2025,' according to court documents."
The Guardian: Iranian woman, who has lived in US for 47 years, taken by Ice while gardening
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/ice-detains-woman-iran-new-orleans
Comment: "Kashanian arrived in the US in 1978 on a student visa and later applied for asylum, citing fears of persecution due to her father’s ties to the US-backed Shah of Iran. Her asylum request was ultimately denied, but she was granted a stay of removal on the condition she comply with immigration requirements, a condition her family says she always met."
Reuters: Trump administration to end deportation relief for Haitian migrants
Largest Military Border Zone Yet to Be Created in Texas as Part of Air Force Base
Comment: "Another stretch of federal land along the Rio Grande River in South Texas is being transferred to the Air Force, creating the largest militarized border area to date as part of the Trump administration's efforts to issue harsher legal punishments to migrants who cross into the U.S."
"The new military zone is located in Cameron and Hidalgo Counties in Texas and will be transferred from land overseen by the International Boundary and Water Commission, an entity that settles boundary and water treaty issues between the U.S. and Mexico."
Comment: "Kavanagh told Military.com in an interview that she sees the expansion of the military zones as a dangerous precedent, which could pave the way for even non-federal lands to be militarized in the future."
Comment: The new military zone is quite a distance from the air force base it is supposed to be a part of. How do you feel about the military being given immigration enforcement authority in a larger portion of the United States?
Military eyes 100-mile defense zone near Yuma
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/06/27/military-eyes-100-mile-defense-zone-near-yuma/
Comment: "U.S. officials have confirmed to CNN that a 100-mile stretch of land near the Yuma border will be designated as a National Defense Area, effectively giving military personnel authority to detain migrants who cross into the zone temporarily."
Comment: How do you feel about the military being given immigration enforcement authority in a larger portion of the United States?
Florida National Guard to deploy 100 soldiers to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ to provide security - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
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New top Oversight Democrat: Stephen Miller ‘biggest piece of s‑‑‑’ in US
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Comment: "Rep. Robert Garcia (Calif.), the newly elected top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, laid into White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller Thursday over his support for President Trump’s robust immigration crackdown."
Stephen Miller owns stock in ICE contractor Palantir — a company powering deportations
https://share.newsbreak.com/dr39z345
Comment: "White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, the architect of much of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda, owns up to $250,000 dollars in stock in government contractor Palantir, according to disclosures."
Comment: "In April, the firm won a $30 million Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract to deliver an operating system tracking and managing deportations, as well as granting 'near real-time visibility' on those who 'self-deport.' "
Video: Family members outraged as U.S. citizen detained by federal agents in downtown LA on way to work
https://share.newsbreak.com/dr39fyzy
The Hill: Behind the mask: What are ICE agents hiding?
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5366944-behind-the-mask-what-are-ice-agents-hiding/
The Guardian: The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/trump-administration-updates-today
NPR: What to know about 'Alligator Alcatraz,' Florida migrant detention center in progress
We asked experts whether ICE agents can arrest people without warrants or not. Here's what we learned
https://www.yahoo.com/news/asked-experts-whether-ice-agents-013000221.html
Cato Institute: 65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions
https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convictions-93-no-violent-convictions
Comment: "ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics and priorities is defending violent criminals. But violent criminals are not ICE’s primary focus. Indeed, it now has no focus altogether. That’s the essence of mass deportation: it is indiscriminate, unfocused, and chaotic."
Axios: Trump suggests farmers may get to keep undocumented workers after all
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/trump-immigration-raids-farms
Comment: The immigration whiplash continues. What will be the position tomorrow?
Axios: Trump's border czar: Immigration raids at farms, hotels to continue
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/19/trump-immigration-raids-farms-hotels-border-czar
Comment: "Following a week of immigration whiplash, President Trump's border czar Tom Homan confirmed Thursday that immigration raids will continue in the agriculture and hospitality industries."
Comment: Does anybody else think this policy will change once again, when Republican farmers and hotel owners start to complain louder about labor shortages?
Audio & Transcript: Afghan who helped U.S. military arrested by ICE after routine immigration hearing
npr.org/2025/06/19/nx-s1-5432808/afghan-who-helped-u-s-military-arrested-by-ice-after-routine-immigration-hearing https://share.google/dRvsjACfs4EanNTJn
Axios: The immigrants caring for the nation's elderly are losing their jobs
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/trump-immigration-nursing-homes
Comment: "The White House immigration crackdown is hitting the long-term healthcare industry, as nursing homes and care providers lose foreign-born employees and struggle to hire."
"Why it matters: These folks care for the disabled and for the country's fast-growing elderly population, and they're already in short supply."
CNN: DHS reverses course, allowing immigration raids to resume at farms, hotels, restaurants
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/homeland-security-immigration-raids-resume
Mother Jones: Trump’s Medicaid Cuts Will Fund His Failed Border Wall
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/trump-medicaid-border-wall-spending-bill/
Axios: ICE is in a deep cash crisis amid the immigration crackdown
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/ice-cash-crisis-immigration-crackdown-trump
Comment: "President Trump's immigration crackdown is burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month."
Comment: "Lawmakers say ICE's parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is at risk of violating U.S. law if it continues to spend at its current pace."
"That's added urgency to calls for Congress to pass Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill,' which could direct an extra $75 billion or so to ICE over the next five years."
"It's also led some lawmakers to accuse DHS and ICE of wasting money. 'Trump's DHS is spending like drunken sailors,' said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the DHS appropriations subcommittee."
Takeaways from AP’s reporting on shuttered prisons, mass deportation push and no-bid contracts
Comment: "The Trump administration wants to increase its budgeted capacity of about 41,000 beds for detaining migrants to at least 100,000 beds and maybe — if private prison executives’ predictions are accurate — more than 150,000."
Comment: And, who is going to pay for all this?
Trump orders Ice to expand deportation of migrants - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2kpk817vo
Comment: "In a post on Truth Social, Trump called on federal agencies to 'do all in their power' to deliver 'the single largest mass deportation programme in history', naming Los Angeles, Chicago and New York as specific targets."
Comment: Why do you think Trump forgot about 'red state' targets like Miami and Houston?
NBC News: After Omaha, Nebraska largest worksite immigration raid, a community works to recover
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/omaha-immigration-workplace-raid-aftermath-rcna212931
Trump pauses ICE arrests at farms, hotels and other key industries | AP News
Comment: "The shift suggests Trump's promise of mass deportations has limits if it threatens industries that rely on workers in the country illegally. Trump posted on his Truth Social site Thursday that he disapproved of how farmers and hotels were being affected."
Ice arrests of migrants with no criminal history surging under Trump | US immigration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/ice-arrests-migrants-trump-figures
Comment: "Guardian analysis sharply contradicts president’s claim that officials are targeting ‘criminals’ for deportation from US"
Trump gives data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-deportation-immigrants-trump-4e0f979e4290a4d10a067da0acca8e22
Comment: "President Donald Trump’s administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data -- including the immigration status -- on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown."
Hiding in the fields - farm workers fearing deportation stay in California's shadows - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c989zrggn14o
Routine check-ins in Alabama lead to ICE detentions, Sen. Tuberville confirms
https://www.wvtm13.com/article/ice-roundups-in-alabama-leave-family-members-distraught/65050505
Comment: "Immigration organizations call this a concerning move that sends the wrong message to those who want to follow the law and are trying to immigrate the right way."
ICE ramps up immigrant arrests in courthouses across U.S.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/12/ice-courthouse-arrests-trump
Comment: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — often dressed in plainclothes — are now arresting immigrants at courthouses nationwide, sometimes moments after their hearings end."
CNBC: Trump administration tells 500,000 immigrants to 'self-deport' after revoking protections
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/trump-immigrants-venezeula-cuba-dhs.html
Trump administration tells migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela that their legal status is terminated | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/politics/migrants-cuba-venezuela-haiti-nicaragua
Comment: "The termination notice was addressed to nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who came to the United States through a Biden-era parole program."
Comment: "The Biden administration announced in 2023 that it would grant parole to qualified migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who submitted to review by authorities rather than attempting to enter the country illegally. Applicants were required to have an American sponsor or US-based sponsor who’s lawfully present in the country and clear security vetting."
Cheap milk and immigration: A blunt farmer’s uncomfortable truth about NY’s dairy industry - syracuse.com
syracuse.com https://share.google/ZTbfGQe54wQiNiHDD
Troops begin detaining immigrants in national defense zone at border in escalation of military role | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-enforcement-military-892da97c4764f93cd746a15ec37b54ca
Comment: "U.S. troops have begun directly detaining immigrants accused of trespassing on a recently designated national defense zone along the southern U.S. border, in an escalation of the military’s enforcement role, authorities said Wednesday"
NBC News: Some Los Angeles officials fear Marines' 'rules of force'
Comment: "Police and elected officials say the troops and Marines sent by the Trump administration aren't properly trained to interact with civilians. A judge will decide whether to limit their duties."
ABC News: Photos show National Guard with rifles on ICE enforcement missions
Comment: "California is suing, saying troops are engaged in illegal law enforcement."
Trump admin tells immigration judges to dismiss cases in tactic to speed up arrests
Comment: "The judges, who work for the executive branch, have been instructed to grant dismissals quickly; ICE has been arresting people after their cases are dismissed."
Politico: House appropriators decry ‘egregious’ ICE funding mismanagement
Comment: "Republicans are urging the Trump administration not to spend money it doesn’t have to fund its immigration enforcement efforts."
You won’t beat ICE with violence
Comment: "As Trump flails for a justification to turn the force of the most powerful military in the world on its own citizenry, a tiny but disproportionately destructive element of the L.A. protests is essentially acting in service of Trump’s ambitions to crush dissent."
The Guardian: Los Angeles, city of immigrant protests: why it’s no surprise LA rose up against Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/11/los-angeles-protest-history
The Hill: Terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghans is an abomination
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5343684-us-dhs-afghan-refugees-tps/
What happened on June 9 and 10 during the L.A. immigration raid protests
https://www.latimes.com/california/live/los-angeles-protests-immigration-raid-updates
vox.com: Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture, in DHS v. D.V.D.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture
Comment: "Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured."
ProPublica: Local Police Join ICE Deportation Force in Record Numbers Despite Warnings Program Lacks Oversight
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-deportation-police-287g-program-expansion
Comment: "Since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, U.S. immigration officials have deputized a record number of local police to function as deportation agents, despite repeated warnings from government watchdogs since 2018 that the program does not adequately train and oversee officers."
What really happened outside the Paramount Home Depot? The reality on the ground vs. the rhetoric
Trump administration to send national guard to Los Angeles amid Ice protests | Los Angeles | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/07/immigration-raids-los-angeles
Comment: "California governor calls move ‘purposefully inflammatory’ and says it will ‘escalate tensions’ amid immigration crackdown "
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, newly returned to US, appears in court on charges of trafficking migrants
https://abcnews.go.com/US/mistakenly-deported-kilmar-abrego-garcia-back-us-face/story?id=121333122
Comment: "The decision to pursue the indictment against Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, sources briefed on Schrader's decision told ABC News. Schrader's resignation was prompted by concerns that the case was being pursued for political reasons, the sources said."
Comment: " 'They'll stop at nothing at all -- even some of the most preposterous charges imaginable -- just to avoid admitting that they made a mistake, which is what everyone knows happened in this case,' said attorney Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg."
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, brought back to U.S. to face human smuggling charges.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-indicted-us-el-salvador/
Comment: The U.S. Justice Department will get a chance to prove its charges in court (not in exaggerated public statements from Pam Bondi), and Abrego Garcia will get a chance to defend himself in court. If the Justice Department had evidence to support its charges, why didn't it prosecute the case to begin with, rather than deporting Abrego Garcia to El Salvador without due process?
NPR: DHS memo details how National Guard troops will be used for immigration enforcement
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/06/nx-s1-5425421/dhs-national-guard-immigration-enforcement
Comment: "DHS officials requested 20,000 National Guard troops three weeks ago, but this memo details what duties those troops will be asked to perform."
Comment: "Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told the committee that while the service is preparing to provide the forces, he had no details on what the troops would be doing, and said he would not deploy the Guard 'for any unlawful purposes.' There are a number of unanswered questions, officials say, including whether sending troops from one state to another is lawful."
CNN: Mahmoud Khalil responds to charges against him for the first time in new legal filings, and describes the ‘irreparable harm’ of his detention
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/us/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-case-charges
Comment: "The declaration from Khalil comes after a New Jersey federal judge ruled last month that the government’s use of an obscure immigration law to detain and deport him is 'likely unconstitutional.' ”
Comment: " 'Why should protesting this Israel government’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?' "
NPR: In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers
ICE arrests record number of immigrants in single day, including hundreds at scheduled appointments
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna210817
Comment: "Many of the people arrested at appointments had been released under a program for those deemed not to be threats to public safety."
NPR: Private prisons and local jails are ramping up as ICE detention exceeds capacity
Comment: "ICE Detention is currently funded at $3.4 billion, but lawmakers in Congress have proposed increasing that number by more than tenfold. The GOP megabill, which passed the House in late May, allocates $45 billion for ICE detention. It now heads to the Senate."
US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants
Comment: "Exclusive: Ice officers told to get ‘creative’ with arrests, including of undocumented people encountered by chance"
A sweeping new ICE operation shows how Trump's focus on immigration is reshaping federal law enforcement
Comment: "Drawing those numbers from other law enforcement agencies, though, has been a source of tension among some officials, who feel they have been taken off other core national security missions, according to three additional law enforcement and military officials."
AP News: Supreme Court to hear private prison company appeal in suit over immigration detainee $1-a-day wages
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-private-prison-be916d5e11f5b08395439d978f1659ee
ICE Officials Don’t Know Who to Arrest, Thanks to Stephen Miller
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-officials-don-t-know-192934472.html
Comment: "The official told the conservative outlet that Miller didn’t want ICE to narrow its field to just undocumented immigrants with criminal records. 'Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. 'Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?' ' the official recalled."
"When one ICE official pushed back against Miller’s call to widen the deportation dragnet, citing border czar Tom Homan’s claims that ICE’s deportation efforts would target criminals, the deputy chief of staff seemed confused."
US immigration authorities collecting DNA information of children in criminal database
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/31/cbp-dna-collection-children-immigrants
VIDEO: ‘Billion dollar border industrial complex’ blossoms under Trump’s deportation program - May 31, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4pQ1rf007Q
CBS News: Supreme Court will let Trump administration end program protecting 500K Cubans, Nicaraguans, Haitians and Venezuelans
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-el-salvador-deportees-criminal-convictions-cecot-venezuela
Commented: "Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws."
NBC News: ICE releases health worker arrested at airport despite living in the U.S. legally for 50 years
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/ice-releases-health-worker-us-legally-50-years-rcna209975
CNN: Exclusive: Kristi Noem said a migrant threatened to kill Trump. Investigators think he was set up
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/politics/kristi-noem-migrant-arrested-threatening-trump
Axios: ICE officials ousted amid demands for more immigrant arrests
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/29/ice-firings-immigrant-arrests
House budget bill cuts benefits, raises fees tied to immigration : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/28/nx-s1-5403815/congress-reconciliation-immigrants-benefits
Scoop: Stephen Miller, Noem tell ICE to supercharge immigrant arrests
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/immigration-ice-deportations-stephen-miller
Stephen Miller Totally Lost it and Yelled at Immigration Officials for Not Making Enough Arrests
Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem demand ICE agents increase arrests to 3,000 per day: report
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephen-miller-kristi-noem-demand-131916023.html
NPR: Rubio says U.S. will 'aggressively' revoke visas for many Chinese students
Pentagon Diverts $1 Billion from Army Barracks to Fund Border Mission | Military.com
Comment: "The Pentagon is shifting $1 billion meant for maintaining and renovating Army barracks to instead fund its surge of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that coincides with the service's gradual deprioritization of quality-of-life initiatives for soldiers."
Ethics Watchdog Raises Flags Around Border Czar's Ties to Private Detention Giant
https://share.newsbreak.com/d9v4i4ab
The Guardian: Trump administration tells border shelters helping migrants may be illegal
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/25/trump-administration-immigrants-shelters
AL.com: Alabama worker says ICE dragged him from job despite being US citizen: ‘Color of our skin has become a crime’
Maryland father mistakenly deported to Salvadoran prison really did flee to avoid MS-13 gang, his teacher and a classmate said
https://www.yahoo.com/news/maryland-father-mistakenly-deported-salvadoran-211432915.html
U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-citizen-real-id-handcuffed-214202859.html
Federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students' legal status | AP News
NBC News: Judge orders Trump administration to allow attorneys access to Venezuelan man in Salvadoran prison
NBC News: Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status for thousands of Venezuelans
NBC News: U.S. citizen children sent with deported parents face major hurdles trying to return, advocates say
USA Today: Donald Trump slams Supreme Court ruling blocking deportation without a court hearing
AP News: Judges dismiss national security charges against immigrants who enter new militarized zone at border
https://apnews.com/article/military-trespassing-cases-dismissed-6c4a83f4d1fd9674e5b49d4a23dc91be
Exclusive: DHS civil rights office opened investigation into Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest days before office was dissolved | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/politics/homeland-security-mahmoud-khalil-investigation
Comment: Coincidence?
NPR: DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist in deportations
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/15/nx-s1-5399656/national-guard-immigration
Comment: Where will the funds to pay these troops come from? Which agency or state budget?
Federal judge dismisses trespassing charges against 98 people arrested in new military buffer zone along Southwest border - ABC News
Reuters: US military zones on Mexico border sow legal confusion
Heinrich pushes Defense Secretary Hegseth for answers on NM’s new military zone • Source New Mexico
NBC News: FBI field offices ordered to shift agents to immigration crackdown
Comment: "The shift will likely reduce federal law enforcement resources devoted to counterterrorism and counterintelligence. A separate effort will reduce white-collar crime probes."
AP News: ICE head recognizes Congress’ role in visiting detention facilities, even unannounced
Comment: Has that recognition been communicated to ICE enforcement officers blocking access to the NJ facility and to Kristi Noem who "said members of Congress should have requested a tour of an immigration detention facility?"
Reuters: US homeland chief says illegal immigration levels could warrant suspending habeas corpus
Noem's claim that Afghan refugees can safely return to their Taliban-ruled homeland is 'just absurd,' advocates say
Comment: "Lawmakers, including some Republicans, said the administration was jeopardizing the lives of those who had stood by the United States.
As white South Africans arrive, Trump admin. ends temporary protected status for Afghans
DoD shifts billions from personnel and facilities accounts to fund border mission
NBC News: Immigration agents break SUV window while detaining man after church on Mother's Day
Comment: "The man who recorded the footage told Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra that he heard the mother screaming, 'He has his papers, he has his license!' "
Pentagon spent at least $21 million on flights to Guantanamo, which currently holds 32 migrants
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna206187
Comment: "Democrats condemned the Guantanamo effort as a wasteful 'political stunt' by President Donald Trump and his allies."
NPR: Aggressive immigration enforcement makes musicians rethink U.S. tours
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/g-s1-65451/international-musicians-tours-visa-issues-border-patrol
DHS terminates temporary protected status program for Afghans - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/12/temporary-protected-status-afghans-00342250
The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-chartering-plane-bring-001830982.html
Comment: Chartering a plane to bring in white South Africans, while flying Latin American deportees out?
The Guardian: US grants asylum to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, reports say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/us-grants-asylum-to-54-white-afrikaner-south-africans
Comment: MAWA? Make America White Again?
The Hill: Trump signs executive order launching self-deportation program
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-asks-supreme-court-allow-172424965.html
NPR: Many Afghans living in the U.S. fear being tortured or killed if they get deported
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5366662/afghanistan-tps-immigration-asylum-seekers
U.S. intelligence agencies contradict Trump's Tren de Aragua claims
Comment: "A declassified memo says Venezuela's government isn't orchestrating the gang's operations in the U.S., undercutting Trump's rationale for deporting immigrants to El Salvador."
NPR: Trump expands military use at the southern border. Are there legal limits?
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/06/g-s1-63778/military-border-zone-posse-comitatus-explained
‘What Are They Doing Illegal?’ Officer Says Before Arresting Pro-Palestine Students
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doing-illegal-officer-says-arresting-173638766.html
NPR: Rwanda says it's in 'early stages' of talks with U.S. to take in deported migrants
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/05/nx-s1-5387506/rwanda-talks-us-deportation-migrants
Comment: How many of the deported migrants were originally from Rwanda? !!!
Comment: "Even without the expense, critics say Rwanda's abysmal rights record under President Paul Kagame means it's no place to resettle people."
Trump administration says it'll pay immigrants in the US illegally $1,000 to leave the country
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-says-pay-immigrants-145104484.html
Comment: Before applying or self deporting, do you think it might be wise to have an immigration lawyer take a look at any written documentation that describes this offer?
Forbes: Rubio Makes Immigration Threat To Revoke Student, H-1B And Other Visas
Afghans who helped the U.S. fight the Taliban should not be deported to Afghanistan
AP News: Iranian students at the University of Alabama say immigration crackdown echoes repression at home
‘I don’t have a place to self-deport to’: US citizen and lawyer gets DHS letter telling him to get out of America
https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-t-place-self-deport-165224962.html
Mother Jones: “A Mockery of Due Process”: The Men Who Could Be Sent to El Salvador Next
The Guardian: US charges migrants over entering military ‘buffer zone’ on Mexico border
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/migrants-charged-us-mexico-border
Politico: Feds reveal how immigration squad targeted thousands of foreign students
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/immigration-foreign-students-00317437
ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-invades-wrong-home-makes-165441707.html
NBC News: Attorneys dispute Trump officials' claim that deported moms willingly took their U.S. citizen children
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/deported-moms-citizen-children-cancer-trump-officials-rcna203398
The Guardian: Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/ice-unaccompanied-immigrant-children
Axios: What to know about the U.S. citizen children removed with their mothers
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/us-citizen-children-deported-ice-honduras
ABC News: DOJ argues deportations to El Salvador didn't violate court order against 3rd country removals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-argues-deportations-el-salvador-violate-court-order/story?id=121249971
USA Today: ICE to spend up to $45 billion on contractors for immigrant detention, deportation
Trump DOJ Ordered ICE to Invade Homes Without Search Warrant
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-doj-ordered-ice-invade-183305239.html
The Guardian: Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/ice-immigration-detention
US Citizen Wrongly Detained by the Border Patrol Says Government’s Account Is False – Mother Jones
Axios: Afghan refugees in Iowa told to leave the U.S.
https://www.axios.com/local/des-moines/2025/04/23/afghan-refugees-deportation-emails-iowa
Comment: Back to the Taliban after helping U.S. Armed Forces?
Orders to leave the country — some for US citizens — sow confusion among immigrants - ABC News
American citizens wrongly detained in Trump administration’s immigration crackdown | PBS News
How Trump's immigration crackdown could hit U.S. citizens
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-immigration-crackdown-us-citizens
DHS Secretary Threatens Fines Up to $1,000 Per Day, Imprisonment, and Deportation for Unlawful Presence in the U.S.
https://share.newsbreak.com/crf6ud6e
Mother Jones: How We Reported “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”
The Hill: Homan: Deported migrants have ‘less’ due process but ‘no one’s removed just because of a tattoo’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5258540-border-czar-deportation-tattoos/
Comment: No one seems to know what the criteria for removal is. Please take a look at the number of US citizens detained by mistake. Without due process, it appears that these folks can be deported to an El Salvadorian prison based on someone's whim.
Florida Phoenix: Feds blame U.S. citizen for his arrest under suspended immigration law
Comment: US citizen is arrested by ICE and somehow it's his own fault?
AP News: Federal judge orders US to restore visas of 2 international students in Oregon
The Guardian: US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-border-patrol
NBC News: What to do if you're a U.S. citizen and immigration authorities tell you to leave the country
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizens-email-notice-to-deport-rcna201862
Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/g-s1-61385/supreme-court-block-deportations
Visas affected for multiple international students studying in Alabama
https://www.wsfa.com/2025/04/19/visas-affected-multiple-international-students-studying-alabama/
International students are being told by email that their visas are revoked and that they must ‘self-deport.’ What to know
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/us/visa-revoked-students-trump-ice/index.html
Supreme Court "perfectly clear" on returning deported Maryland man: Appeals court
Attorneys for Venezuelan detainee imprisoned in El Salvador say his detention is 'lawless' - ABC News
Boasberg finds ‘probable cause exists’ to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating orders on deportation flights | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/boasberg-contempt-deportation-flights/index.html
Trump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report
https://share.newsbreak.com/co7vqsf9
Video Captures Man Dragged Out of Car After Window Is Smashed by ICE Agent. His Lawyer Says They Have the Wrong Guy
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/video-captures-man-dragged-car-191316678.html
Citizen who was ordered to leave the U.S. in 7 days says she's heard nothing from federal officials
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/citizen-ordered-leave-us-dhs-rcna201451
President of El Salvador says he won't return mistakenly deported man to U.S.
Comment: Did the Trump Administration, through Stephen Miller, instruct the El Salvadorian president to take this position? He was in Washington, meeting Trump.
ProPublica: Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.
NBC Boston: DHS told her to leave the country. She's a citizen — and an immigration attorney
AP News: US still won't say whether it will return mistakenly deported man, despite Supreme Court decision
Axios: Mistakenly deported man's attorneys demand his return using Trump's own words
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/13/trump-maryland-man-deported-el-salvador
Los Angeles Times: IRS plan to give data to ICE could wallop California, where many immigrants pay taxes
Comments: Undocumented immigrants currently pay federal and applicable state taxes throughout the United States, but they may be reluctant to do so in the future for fear that filing information will be turned over to ICE.
CNN: A Maryland mother was detained by ICE nearly two weeks ago. So far, no evidence has been provided
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/us/maryland-mother-ice-trump-gang/index.html
Politico: Trump administration says wrongly deported man is alive in El Salvador prison
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/12/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-alive-00287678
Comment: "The U.S. government continued to refuse to provide any details about whether it has taken any steps to return him to the United States."
NBC News: Visas revoked for students at universities in Southern states amid crackdown
Trump authorizes military to take control of federal land along the border
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-authorizes-military-control-federal-011119618.html
Politico: Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants
AP News: What we know about the Social Security Administration listing thousands of living immigrants as dead
Trump to end protected status for Afghans and Cameroonians
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-end-protected-status-afghans-012449875.html
Comment: Does this mean that those Afghans who assisted the U.S. military in Afghanistan will be shipped back to face the wrath of the Taliban?
AP News: Federal judge sides with Trump in allowing immigration enforcement in houses of worship
https://apnews.com/article/trump-churches-immigration-enforcement-82e5d40e8dad512a23732e9185879eeb
NPR: The controversial and obscure law being used against immigrant student protestors
NPR: Supreme Court says Trump officials should help return wrongly deported Maryland man
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision
For world's wealthy, a 'gold card' path to American citizenship is almost here
https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-wealthy-gold-card-path-224442546.html
"Thought crimes": Rubio lays out government's justification for deportations based on "beliefs"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thought-crimes-rubio-lays-governments-220640187.html
NPR: Trump administration lays out its evidence against detained activist Mahmoud Khalil
Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward - ABC News
Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/carnegie-mellon-student-visa-revoked-interview/
Comment: Includes video.
The Guardian: US government has revoked more than 600 student visas, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/how-many-student-visas-revoked
More than 300 student visas revoked as the government expands reasons for deportation
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/09/us/us-immigration-student-visas-revoked
USCIS (.gov): DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism
Comment: The question becomes, what constitutes "antisemitism"? If one argues against the Government of Israel or for Palestinian rights, does DHS label this "antisemitism"? Unless there are clear guidelines for those making this determination, this screening seems ripe for abuse.
The Guardian: Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon
Comments: There are 2 differences: (#1) These are people not packages. (#2) Unlike Prime, we (the taxpayer) have to pay for "shipping."
Axios: Migrant detainees should be in El Salvador prison "for the rest of their lives," Noem says
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/09/kristi-noem-migrants-trump-ice-prison
Comment: "Noem's remark reflects the Trump administration's harsh approach to noncitizens it views as criminals or gang members — in this case, arresting and deporting them to a foreign, maximum-security prison without giving them a court hearing."
NBC News: Federal judges limit Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for some deportations
CBS News: U.S. judges in Texas, New York block DOJ from removing plaintiffs in Alien Enemies Act deportation case
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-texas-blocks-doj-deportation-plaintiffs-in-alien-enemies-act/
IRS will share taxpayer data with DHS about immigrants illegally in US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/irs-dhs-sign-data-sharing-172058788.html
“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
DHS revokes parole for hundreds of thousands who entered via the CBP One app - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/dhs-parole-revoked-app-00007326
PBS: Homeland Security revokes legal status for migrants who entered U.S. using CBP One app
NBC News: How a Chicago Bulls hat led to a Maryland dad being mistakenly shipped to an El Salvador prison
Axios: Report: Most migrants sent to mega-prison have no apparent criminal record
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/report-migrants-salvadoran-mega-prison-no-record
Turns Out Trump Lied About Those Deportations to El Salvador
https://share.newsbreak.com/ciodtl01
CNN: Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/politics/supreme-court-deportation-flights-trump/index.html
The Guardian: Deported over a speeding ticket? Dozens of US students’ visas abruptly revoked
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-student-visas-deportation
AP News: Colleges around the US say some international students’ visas are being revoked
AP News: Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador does not need to be back in U.S. tonight, Supreme Court rules
Duke basketball star Kahman Maluach among South Sudanese who could be deported due to new Trump policy
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna199998
Trump Border Czar Tried to Deport His Own Neighbors. It Didn’t Work.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-czar-tried-deport-212424822.html
AP News: Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was ‘wholly lawless’
https://apnews.com/article/ice-trump-immigration-el-savador-5d2f7b919cb1a4ed5ce31d44f391d8f5
US revokes all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/rubio-south-sudan-visas-f2716e1871d8d1422546fdc447bac215
Reuters: Judge orders return of wrongly deported Maryland man to US from El Salvador
‘It is time for you to leave the United States’: Ukrainians receive erroneous email from Department of Homeland Security
https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-leave-united-states-ukrainians-203630942.html
Video captures ICE agents detaining Alireza Doroudi, Iranian born Alabama doctoral student
NPR: He's a decorated war vet but a convicted criminal. ICE wants to deport him
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5350880/ice-deportion-army-vet-citizenship
Syracuse.com: Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘cruel,’ ‘horrifying’ ICE dairy farm probe in Northern NY
Comment: Children attended school in Sackets Harbor, NY near the US/Canadian border. Sackets harbor residents are outraged and plan to rally for the children outside the Sackets Harbor home of Tom Holman, Trump's ICE czar.
CNN: Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
Miami Herald: U.S. deports another 17 alleged gang members to El Salvador prison amid legal firestorm
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article303156981.html
ABC News: Some foreign college students are being targeted for deportation. What rights do they have?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/foreign-college-students-targeted-deportation-rights/story?id=120262362
Reuters: Judge blocks Trump administration from stripping deportation protections for Venezuelans
NPR: Police say ICE tactics are eroding public trust in local law enforcement
ICE Is Canceling Students’ Legal Status Without Informing Them or Their Schools: Report
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-canceling-students-legal-status-195630226.html
The Associated Press: US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection
The Guardian US: When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton
CNN: A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-university-arrest-saturday/index.html
ABC News: Southwest border mission has cost $330M so far -- with over $40M for Guantanamo Bay alone: Sources
Trump’s southern border military mission cost over $300 million in first 6 weeks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-southern-border-military-mission-110036364.html
The Associated Press: Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation
Comment: This sounds like a recipe for abuse. Does this mean that if you take an unpopular political position, someone with a different political position can arrange for you to be deported? If you just say the wrong thing, without infringing on someone else's rights, can you be labeled a terrorist and be deported (without due process)?
The Guardian US: US issues broad order to consulates to vet student visas over ‘terrorist activity’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/student-visa-applications-denials
The New Republic: Homeland Security Secretary’s El Salvador Stunt Just Got Worse
https://newrepublic.com/post/193304/homeland-security-secretary-noem-video-el-salvador-stunt-worse
A Venezuelan soccer player was wrongfully deported, lawyer says : NPR
The IRS plan to expose data on undocumented workers threatens nearly $100 billion in tax collections | Fortune
The New Republic: ICE Deported Someone to El Salvador Megaprison Over Paperwork Error
https://newrepublic.com/post/193284/ice-deported-man-el-salvador-megaprison-paperwork-error
Tampa Bay Times: ICE tells one Florida county it has deportation orders for 10,000 of its residents
USA TODAY: US citizens getting pulled aside: Travelers fear scrutiny at the border is rising
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/03/26/american-travelers-us-borders/82641005007/
Mother Jones: “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”
CNN: Tattoos, flyers and deleted photos: The limited evidence the Trump administration is using to try to deport migrants
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/us/migrant-deportation-trump-evidence/index.html
Trump administration stops processing some green cards 'to do more vetting'
ProPublica: Under Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law
CNN: Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html
Axios: IRS sharing immigrants' data with ICE threatens billions in tax revenue
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/25/ice-irs-undocumented-immigrants-taxes
ABC News: Venezuelans deported last week included 8 women who were returned to US, court filings say
https://abcnews.go.com/US/venezuelans-deported-week-included-8-women-returned-us/story?id=120111090
Forbes: What To Know About Andry: 31-Year-Old Makeup Artist Falsely Deported To El Salvador Prison, Lawyer Says
Federal News Network: Homeland Security makes cuts to offices overseeing civil rights protections
IRS nearing agreement to use its data to help ICE locate undocumented migrants
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/politics/irs-ice-data-undocumented-immigrants/index.html
USA TODAY: Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
The Guardian US: White House reportedly halts funding for legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children
CNN: ‘They’ve never been afraid before’: Why some green card holders’ concerns are growing
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/us/green-card-visa-holders-deportation-fears-cec/index.html
BBC.com: Trump revoking protections for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians and other migrants
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33706jy774o
The Associated Press: Homeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
Yahoo News: Despite refugee status in the U.S., young Venezuelan was deported to Salvadoran prison
https://news.yahoo.com/despite-refugee-status-u-young-210047920.html
The Associated Press: Detentions of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America
Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador's megaprison may never make it out
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-detention-abuses-rcna197125
Comment: Includes Video.
Why the Pentagon is moving a Navy destroyer from the Middle East to the Texas coast | Texas Standard
Tracking the foreign nationals detained by ICE as tourists or U.S. residents
The Associated Press: Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights
https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportations-gang-venezuela-0cf2c3a26d7f4bafa87ad6ca5a640313
ProPublica: An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage
The Guardian US: German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials
ABC News: 'Many' alleged gang members deported by Trump didn't have criminal records in the US: ICE
ABC News: Families of migrants who believe their relatives were deported by ICE say they weren't gang members
https://abcnews.go.com/US/families-migrants-relatives-deported-ice-gang-members/story?id=119892593
Axios: Trump's historic test of immigrants' speech rights
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/trump-khalil-immigrants-speech-rights
Trump’s Guantánamo fiasco cost taxpayers $16m
https://share.newsbreak.com/c30logb9
Trump administration empties Guantánamo of migrants, flies all back to US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-empties-guant-namo-151815331.html
Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE and sent to Arizona facility in chains after visa was revoked, family says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/canadian-entrepreneur-detained-ice-sent-155852577.html
NBC News: U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Guardian US: Kristi Noem names new Ice leadership and vows to punish media ‘leakers’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/kristi-noem-ice-immigration
Immigrant caregivers fear deportation under Trump
NBC News: U.S. citizen detained by ICE questions vote for Trump: 'Just following Hispanic people'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-hispanic-detained-ice-questions-vote-trump-rcna195406
ABC News: Mass exodus of immigration officials could delay millions of deportations
Vance says Trump hopes to build the entire southern border wall by 2029 - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vance-hegseth-gabbard-visit-southern-border-texas/
NBC News: Border Patrol accused of detaining legal residents in Northern California racial profiling lawsuit
NJ.com: Newark mayor threatens to shut down work at ICE detention facility
NPR: Up to 3,000 more U.S. troops are ordered to the border with Mexico
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5314368/more-border-troops-mexico
ABC News: 'The confinement is unbearable': Migrants describe being held at Guantanamo
NPR: ICE will reopen a major detention center in New Jersey as it eyes a broader expansion
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311966/ice-detention-expansion-new-jersey
Axios: CoreCivic signs deal with ICE to expand immigrant detention capacity
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/27/private-prison-corecivic-ice-detention-immigrants
DHS announces undocumented immigrants registry that includes fingerprints
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/trump-immigrants-registry-jail-fine-threat
Forbes: DOJ Memo Bad News For Employers Of H-1B Visa Holders And Other Immigrants
NPR: DHS memo lays out plans to detain migrants at Fort Bliss and other U.S. bases
Fortune: Senate stays up all night to push $340 billion GOP package for Trump’s mass deportations and security measures
https://fortune.com/2025/02/21/senate-all-night-340-billion-gop-budget-trump-mass-deportations/
Comment: Nice to see the GOP working so hard to spend $340 billion!
Trump administration reverses its previous decision and reinstates legal aid for migrant children
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-reverses-previous-decision-222050870.html
Facing pressure from Trump, Costa Rica and Honduras join Panama as stopovers for foreign deportees | AP News
The Associated Press: Top immigration enforcement official reassigned amid frustrations over mass deportation effort
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-ice-trump-deportation-4efd094b7b353e4350493986cd6975c2
3 migrants beat the Trump administration in court. They got deported the next day
https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-migrants-beat-trump-administration-113347707.html
U.S. pauses immigration applications for certain migrants welcomed under Biden
ABC News: 'Criminal' migrants are 'not welcome,' according to new multimillion-dollar ad from DHS
https://abcnews.go.com/US/criminal-migrants-new-multimillion-dollar-ad-dhs/story?id=118911856
The Guardian US: Trump administration fires 20 immigration judges with no explanation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-fires-immigration-judges
The Hill: Border patrol to stop usage of body cameras in the field: Report
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5297896/elon-musk-doge-pentagon-dod
ABC News: Males detained by ICE to be housed in federal prisons, new memo says
https://abcnews.go.com/US/males-detained-ice-housed-federal-prisons-new-memo/story?id=118850412
The Associated Press: US deports immigrants to Venezuela after judge blocked transfer to Guantanamo Bay
Trump Deportations Hit Major—and Costly—Snag
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-deportations-hit-major-costly-145327942.html
Families sue after loved ones likely sent to Guantanamo.
Axios: Trump White House tells Congress it needs border cash now
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/11/white-house-congress-border-funding-reconciliation
Florida tycoon is behind oil-for-migrants deal U.S. reached with Venezuelan strongman
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-tycoon-behind-oil-migrants-182522184.html
The Associated Press: Trump says some white South Africans are oppressed and could be resettled in the US. They say no thanks
https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-afrikaners-0120efec17122b47e3371e0e39fe1db8
NBC News: Evangelical leaders challenge Trump's immigration and foreign aid policies amid calls for unity
Federal prisons to house ICE detainees as Trump furthers immigration crackdown - Government Executive
ABC News: Denver ICE raids targeting 100+ gang members yielded one alleged gang member: Sources
https://abcnews.go.com/US/denver-ice-raids-targeting-100-gang-members-yielded/story?id=118574573
Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights | Military.com
POLITICO: ‘Frankly Insane’: Trump’s Plan to Ship Migrants to Guantanamo Could Quickly Collapse
NPR: Mass deportations will depend on local police. Only some are offering to help
The Guardian: El Salvador offers to hold deportees and incarcerated US citizens in its jails
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/el-salvador-deportees-incarcerated-us-citizens
NPR: The first group of migrants has been sent to Guantánamo, but legal challenges loom
Just Security: What Just Happened: At Guantanamo’s Migrant Operation Center
https://www.justsecurity.org/107405/what-just-happened-guantanamo/
NBC News: Trump's stepped-up immigration arrests escalate need for more detention space
Tallahassee Democrat: 'Day Without Immigrants' shuts down several Tallahassee, Quincy spots in solidarity
NBC News: Men in two states are accused of impersonating ICE officers
Reuters: ICE aims to lower US immigration detention standards to encourage more sheriffs to aid crackdown
US to start to moving migrants to Guantanamo 'hopefully within 30 days,' Homan says
ABC News: Guantanamo could be used to hold up to 30,000 migrants
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/guantanamo-hold-30000-migrants/story?id=118243755
The Associated Press: Judge extends court-monitoring agreement for children in Customs and Border Protection custody
Reuters: US military deportation flight likely cost more than first class
Federal agents in immigration raids told to be camera-ready as hundreds arrested
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/immigration-raids-federal-agents-uniform/index.html
Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-launches-immigration-enforcement-172629537.html
AL.com: Albertville anti-ICE protest ‘deeply concerning,’ Alabama official says: ‘A game of dangerous rhetoric’
USA TODAY: Trump revives push to denaturalize US citizens
Military.com: Inside the Military's Scramble to Move Troops to the Mexico Border
ABC News: DOJ orders federally funded legal service providers to stop providing support at immigration courts
NBC News: Quaker groups file suit over end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship
ABC News: DHS allows US Marshals, DEA and ATF to carry out immigration enforcement
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-allows-us-marshals-dea-atf-carry-immigration/story?id=118022307
DeSantis faces pushback by fellow Republicans on his call for an immigration session
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/26/nx-s1-5272694/desantis-florida-immigration-special-session-trump
NJ.com: ICE agents stormed business, blocked exits while making arrests in N.J.’s largest city
Axios: ICE can raid churches and schools to arrest immigrants under new policy
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/trump-deportation-ice-churches-schools-raids
Trump shuts down US-Mexico border for asylum seekers, leaving migrants in limbo
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-us-mexico-border-migrants/index.html
How cities across the US are preparing for Trump’s immigration crackdown
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/us/immigration-trump-state-policy-ice/index.html
NPR: Bishop confronts Trump during sermon at inaugural prayer service
PBS NewsHour: How a Fox News report fueled false claims by Trump and others about the New Orleans suspect
The Hill: Undocumented immigrants pay more than their fair share of taxes
Canada's ambassador says Trudeau told Trump the Canadian border can't be compared to Mexico's
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/canadas-ambassador-us-says-trudeaus-201707820.html
Trump’s New ‘Border Czar’ Tells Democrats To ‘Get The Hell Out Of The Way’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-czar-tells-democrats-015441809.html
Wall Street isn’t buying Trump’s deportation threats or Elon Musk’s spending cut claims
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-isn-t-buying-100048935.html
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