Embedded Files
Next Meeting - 07/14/25, 7 PM, Ozark-Dale Library
Focus On Border Security And Immigration (Post 2024 Election):
Trump gives data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials | AP News
https://share.google/bZnhB3YBQEYXKuUxk
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."
Routine check-ins in Alabama lead to ICE detentions, Sen. Tuberville confirms
https://share.google/NHSUH3DZtBvAD8pIA
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://share.google/xtlErRyDSJDndMFR5
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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