Embedded Files
Next Meeting: 10/13/25, 7 PM, Ozark-Dale Library
Focus On Border Security And Immigration (Post 2024 Election):
What immigration lawyers want you to know about ICE and criminal warrants
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/us/criminal-civil-ice-warrant-explained
Appeals Court Overturns Ruling That Blocked Deportation of 500,000 Migrants
Comment: "An appeals court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can begin deporting around 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela."
Comment: "DHS ordered half a million migrants to self-deport, issuing termination notices to nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who had entered the country under 'humanitarian parole' programs that started under the administration of former President Joe Biden."
"This marked the first mass revocation of humanitarian parole, according to the Associated Press (AP)."
With Hyundai raid, Trump’s immigration crackdown runs into his push for foreign investment
Comment: "President Donald Trump’s push to revitalize American manufacturing by luring foreign investment into the U.S. has run smack into one of his other priorities: cracking down on illegal immigration."
"Hardly a week after immigration authorities raided a sprawling Hyundai battery plant in Georgia, detained more than 300 South Korean workers and showed video of some of them shackled in chains, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung warned that the country’s other companies may be reluctant to take up Trump’s invitation to pour money into the United States."
The Guardian: Irish woman with green card faces US deportation over $25 bad cheque
Comment: "An Irish grandmother who has lived in the US for most of her life and holds a green card is facing deportation because she wrote a bad cheque for $25 in 2015."
"Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was detained in July after landing in Chicago on a flight from Dublin and is being held in isolation in a detention centre in Kentucky. She has lived in the US since 1977, has five children and grandchildren, and ran a horse farm in Troy, Missouri."
"Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he '100%' regretted voting for Donald Trump as president."
"He said she had been detained on a misdemeanour relating to a $25 cheque she signed a decade ago and for which she made restitution and received probation."
Comment: Do you believe that ICE is going after the "worst of the worst."
Attorney says detained Korean Hyundai workers had special skills for short-term jobs
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-us-georgia-raid-hyundai-24d990562f5ac20e7d3e983a77a4f7ff
Comment: "A lawyer for several workers detained at a Hyundai factory in Georgia says many of the South Koreans rounded up in the immigration raid are engineers and equipment installers brought in for the highly specialized work of getting an electric battery plant online."
"Atlanta immigration attorney Charles Kuck, who represents four of the detained South Korean nationals, told The Associated Press on Monday that many were doing work that is authorized under the B-1 business visitor visa program. They had planned to be in the U.S. for just a couple of weeks and 'never longer than 75 days,' he said."
" 'The vast majority of the individuals that were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that were South Korean were either there as engineers or were involved in after-sales service and installation,' Kuck said."
Comment: If one assumes the lawyer's statements are true, do you think ICE's action at the Hyundai plant might discourage future foreign investment in the U.S.?
Reuters: US to target more businesses after Hyundai raid, top official says
The Hill: What happened to Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ wall?
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5486806-unfinished-wall-trump-presidency/
Comment: "Trump promised a 'big, beautiful wall' stretching along the 1,954 miles of the southern U.S. border, which he once claimed Mexico would pay for. What he delivered in his first term was about 450 miles of fencing, the majority of it replacing existing structures. The vision of a continuous wall was never realized."
Comment: "The result is a half-finished wall that perfectly symbolizes Trump’s tenure: loud, polarizing, and poorly executed in the end."
"This is the political genius of Trump and also his greatest weakness. He lights so many fires at once that it becomes nearly impossible to track them all. For a campaigner, that creates constant motion, endless headlines and the feeling of momentum. For a president, it guarantees that nothing is ever fully completed."
NBC Boston: ‘It's just insane. It's not normal': Healey responds to new ICE enforcement effort
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/ice-immigration-enforcement-in-boston-massachusetts/3804305/
Comment: ICE targets Boston and the governor responds.
Comment: "Gov. Maura Healey lashed out against the Trump administration in an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday, saying expanded ICE activity in Massachusetts and other states 'insane,' and 'not right'."
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is conducting a follow-up to a surge in May called Operation Patriot 2.0, a senior spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which ICE is a part of, told NBC10 Boston on Saturday. The May operation, Operation Patriot, resulted in nearly 1,500 people being arrested, officials said at the time."
Comment: " 'I'm a former prosecutor, a former attorney general. I've said many, many times, including to Trump, that I support as attorney general, and now as governor, everything we can do on public safety,' she said. 'But what we have seen from ICE and the administration isn't about public safety, it's about political theater, about a political power grab and an attempt to intimidate.' "
" 'We've seen construction workers, nannies, landscapers, healthcare aids -- these are the people being taken in huge numbers, taken away from their families. It is not the kind of effort Donald Trump has said it was about.' "
" 'But again, this is about show, it's a show of force, it's political theater. The same reason you see the National Guard on streets in cities in America. It's just not right. It's not helpful to public safety. It undermines the efforts of local law enforcement and it's taking guardspeople with really important missions away from those missions, all to be part of some political theater... It's just not right what's happening across America right now.' "
CNN: Trump administration launches immigration enforcement surge in Massachusetts
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/politics/immigration-enforcement-surge-in-massachusetts
Politico: Immigration appeals court expands mandatory detention for millions
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/05/immigration-mandatory-detention-00548660
Comment: "A powerful Justice Department appeals panel has declared that anyone in deportation proceedings who entered the U.S. without legal authorization is not entitled to be considered for release on bond by an immigration judge."
"The ruling upends a decadeslong understanding of federal law and could subject millions of immigrants to mandatory detention — a loss of liberty that advocates say could cause many to voluntarily leave the country even if they have meritorious cases to remain."
"It also conflicts with recent federal court rulings finding the administration’s efforts to expand immigration detention violate the law and due process."
"Previously, foreigners who entered illegally but could show they had been living in the U.S. for more than two years could ask an immigration judge for release on bond. But decision Friday from the Board of Immigration Appeals concludes that detention is mandatory for anyone in deportation proceedings who entered the U.S. 'without inspection'.”
Comment: Note that this ruling is from an appeals panel that answers to the Justice Department and Pam Bondi. We wonder what a real judge, one who has to consider the U.S. Constitution, has to say about mandatory detention and universal denial of bond.
Video: Judge blocks Trump from ending TPS for Venezuelans and Haitians - September 5, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM-TjXGXSO0
NBC News: Migrants and Democrats are skeptical of Noem's $200 million 'self-deportation' TV ad campaign
Comment: "Last month, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem praised a new Trump administration effort to persuade undocumented immigrants to return to their homelands on their own. She said a new two-year, $200 million television ad campaign, a $1,000 cash stipend to pay for plane tickets home and a new 'CBP Home' app were prompting undocumented people to self-deport."
" 'If they wait until we arrest them and we remove them, they’ll never get the chance to come back to the United States,' Noem said when she was asked about the program at a news conference. 'We know thousands and thousands of people have used the app.' ”
"Migrants and Democrats, though, question the effectiveness of the campaign, which remains unclear six months after its launch. Noem, who promised last month to release the exact number of people who have self-deported using the app, hasn’t done so."
"The Department of Homeland Security didn’t respond to repeated requests for the figures."
"Democrats question the cost of the TV ads, as well. And undocumented migrants and advocates told NBC News they don’t trust Noem, her ads and Customs and Border Protection’s new CBP Home app."
ABC News: Many parents of Guatemalan minors nearly deported from US did not want children returned: Memo
Comment: "Many parents of the dozens of Guatemalan minors who were set to be deported over the weekend by the Trump administration before a last-minute halt said they did not request their children’s return to their home country, according to a memo from the government of Guatemala."
"One parent told officials that if her daughter was returned, she 'would do everything possible to get her out of the country again because she had received death threats and could not live in Guatemala,' according to the memo."
"The removal of the unaccompanied minors was temporarily blocked on Sunday by a federal judge -- a move that came as the children were sitting on planes."
"At a hearing over the weekend, a Department of Justice attorney argued that the Trump administration was removing the children in accordance with the law and at the request of the Guatemalan government and the legal guardians of the children."
"Attorneys representing the children moved to file a preliminary injunction on Wednesday, arguing that the minors remain at risk of being sent to Guatemala without a final order from an immigration judge."
Video: Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations likely heading to Supreme Court - September 3, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fCcgXaqDWk
Politico: DHS ends temporary protected status for some 200,000 Venezuelans in the US
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/03/dhs-ends-protected-status-venezuelans-us-00543039
Comment: The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it will terminate “temporary protected status” for Venezuelans, removing a designation that has allowed more than 200,000 Venezuelan citizens to reside in the U.S. because of the turmoil in their home country."
"The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it will allow temporary protected status to expire on Sept. 10. It argued that preserving the designation 'directly undermines the Trump administration’s efforts to secure our southern border and manage migration effectively' given the large number of Venezuelans who entered the United States without the proper legal procedures."
Comment: "The decision also coincides with mounting worries that the United States may launch military operations against Venezuela in the name of combating drug trafficking and potentially overthrowing the government of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. has deployed ships and soldiers to waters near Venezuela and on Tuesday struck a drug boat leaving Venezuela. It is unclear if the moves are linked."
NBC News: Why a court order barring ICE from targeting people based on their race isn't being enforced
CNN: They left Cuba seeking the American Dream. ICE sent them home in shackles
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/americas/cuba-deportees-us-ice-intl-latam
Comment: Wonder how this ICE action is perceived in some neighborhoods of Miami Florida?
Comment: Marco Rubio's parents were immigrants from Cuba.
The Guardian: ‘Trump’s private army’: inside the push to recruit 10,000 immigration officers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/immigration-hiring-push-trump-private-army
Video: President's Trump crackdown on immigration causing concern about ICE agents visiting DC schools - September 2, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doHAtSSxkl0
Hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children can stay in the U.S. for now, judge says
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/31/nx-s1-5524312/federal-judge-block-guatemalan-children-deportation
Comment: "A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from expelling hundreds of Guatemalan children who crossed the U.S. border alone. Although the government had not obtained legal permission to remove the children, some of their lawyers said, Guatemalan children were already loaded on planes on a tarmac while the judge conducted a hearing about the situation on Sunday, a U.S. attorney confirmed."
Comment: "The children the U.S. intended to remove were under the care of the Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Refugee Resettlement. Since 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services has been required by federal law to shelter and care for children who enter the U.S. without parents or guardians."
"After HHS assumes care of unaccompanied children, following their apprehension by other agencies at the border, the minors are typically not allowed to be deported without receiving the benefit of full immigration proceedings. Even in some circumstances where it is possible for unaccompanied children to be reunited with guardians in their home countries, they must still first undergo a legal process that allows the children to defend themselves and the U.S. government to confirm that the return would be in the best interest of the children, said Becky Wolozin, a senior attorney at the National Center for Youth Law, a nonprofit that has been working on the case with other groups."
" But this weekend, 'no one had advance notice that this was happening,' Wolozin said, referring to the plan by the U.S. government to deport hundreds of Guatemalan children with little warning."
" 'On just a baseline, you want the person on the other end to know when to pick them up,' Wolozin said. 'This was an enormously rushed, middle-of-the-night operation.' "
Video: New massive ICE detention center in Texas - August 29, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQHxkAr1l0M
The Guardian: DC eateries suffer as workers terrified of Ice stay home: ‘You don’t want to go outside’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/trump-ice-washington-dc-restaurants
AP News: Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert
Comment: "When President Donald Trump's administration awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation's largest immigration detention complex, it didn’t turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons."
"Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that has no listed experience running a correction facility and had never won a federal contract worth more than $16 million. The company also lacks a functioning website and lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer."
"The mystery over the award only deepened last week as the new facility began to accept its first detainees. The Pentagon has refused to release the contract or explain why it selected Acquisition Logistics over a dozen other bidders to build the massive tent camp at Fort Bliss in West Texas. At least one competitor has filed a complaint."
"The secretive — and brisk — contracting process is emblematic, experts said, of the government’s broader rush to fulfill the Republican president's pledge to arrest and deport an estimated 10 million migrants living in the U.S. without permanent legal status. As part of that push, the government is turning increasingly to the military to handle tasks that had traditionally been left to civilian agencies."
"A member of Congress who recently toured the camp said she was concerned that such a small and inexperienced firm had been entrusted to build and run a facility expected to house up to 5,000 migrants."
" 'It’s far too easy for standards to slip,' said Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Democrat whose district includes Fort Bliss. 'Private facilities far too frequently operate with a profit margin in mind as opposed to a governmental facility.' ”
Comment: Does this sound fishy to you?
The Guardian: Democrats seek ‘immediate answers’ after reported arrests of firefighters by US border agents
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/28/washington-firefighters-arrests-detention-border
Comment: Patty Murray, the Washington senator, has called for the Trump administration to provide 'immediate answers' about reports that two firefighters were detained by border agents as they were responding to a wildfire in the state."
"Federal immigration authorities on Wednesday staged an operation on the scene of the Bear Gulch fire, a nearly 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) blaze in the Olympic national forest, where they arrested two people who were part of a contract firefighting crew, the Seattle Times first reported. The fire is the largest currently burning in the state."
Comment: Arrests of firefighters at a wildfire blaze? Really? Do you think that perhaps some folks need to get their priorities straight?
Border Patrol agents arrest fire crew members at Washington wildfire
CNN: Trump administration plans big immigration enforcement operation in Chicago as soon as next week
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/politics/immigration-enforcement-chicago-national-guard
ABC News: After failing to get felony indictment, feds charge DC sandwich thrower with a misdemeanor
Comment: "Federal prosecutors have charged the man accused of throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol agent in Washington, D.C., earlier this month with a misdemeanor after a grand jury refused to indict him on a more serious felony assault charge on Wednesday, according to court records filed Thursday."
Comment: A felony assault charge for throwing a sandwich? Really? Sounds like the grand jury had a little sense in this crazy world we live in now.
Government Executive: Trump freezes most training for non-ICE federal law enforcement
Comment: "The federal government's primary training center will only accommodate immigration enforcement hires through the end of the year."
Comment: "The Trump administration is pausing training at the federal government's primary law enforcement academies for anyone not related to immigration enforcement, saying the change is necessary to meet the president’s 'immediate priorities.' ”
Comment: "More than 75 law enforcement federal law enforcement agencies train at FLETC, which maintains its primary campus in Glynco, Georgia. Those agencies range from other Homeland Security Department components like Border Patrol and the Transportation Security Administration to the National Park Service, military police and inspectors general offices across government."
Comment: Please note the impact to other law enforcement agencies, as Trump compulsively focuses on immigration enforcement. What will be the consequences for these other agencies and to the citizens they protect?
NBC News: Trump eases rules for hiring temporary immigration judges
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-eases-rules-hiring-temporary-immigration-judges-rcna227711
Comment: "The Justice Department can now hire attorneys without immigration law experience to help reduce case backlogs; critics cite concerns over inexperience and possible 'political bias.' "
Government Executive: DOJ to grant itself authority to tap any attorney to serve as an immigration judge
Comment: "The Trump administration will on Thursday grant itself new permission to hire any attorney to serve as an immigration judge on a temporary basis, eschewing longstanding restrictions on who could serve in those roles."
"The change gives Attorney General Pam Bondi wide latitude in selecting officials to oversee asylum and other cases pending before the Executive Office of Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that runs the nation’s immigration courts. That authority could provide President Trump with additional power to withhold legal status from immigrants and expedite his mass deportation efforts."
Comment: "Adriel Orozco, senior policy counsel at the American Immigration Council, said the Trump administration was putting the integrity of the nation’s immigration courts in jeopardy."
" 'There is an attempt here to more quickly address the backlog of the immigration court and prioritize speed over justice,' Orozco said, adding the administration wants 'more immigration judges on the bench and probably more immigration judges that align with [its] ideologies.' ”
"Because the judges will be up for renewal every six months, he added, the TIJs will have an added incentive to ensure they are 'meeting the expectations of leadership.' ”
AP News: US deportation flights hit record highs as carriers try to hide the planes, advocates say
https://apnews.com/article/ice-deportation-immigration-flights-f61941d31adf43a6a01cccc720f3bb01
Comment: "Immigration advocates gather like clockwork outside Seattle’s King County International Airport to witness deportation flights and spread word of where they are going and how many people are aboard. Until recently, they could keep track of the flights using publicly accessible websites."
"But the monitors and others say airlines are now using dummy call signs for deportation flights and are blocking the planes’ tail numbers from tracking websites, even as the number of deportation flights hits record highs under President Donald Trump. The changes forced them to find other ways to follow the flights, including by sharing information with other groups and using data from an open-source exchange that tracks aircraft transmissions."
"Their work helps people locate loved ones who are deported in the absence of information from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which rarely discloses flights. News organizations have used such flight tracking in reporting."
"Tom Cartwright, a retired J.P. Morgan financial officer turned immigration advocate, tracked 1,214 deportation-related flights in July — the highest level since he started watching in January 2020. About 80% are operated by three airlines: GlobalX, Eastern Air Express and Avelo Airlines. They carry immigrants to other airports to be transferred to overseas flights or take them across the border, mostly to Central American countries and Mexico."
Comment: Do you think the families would like some idea of where their loved ones are being deported to? How would you feel if your family member was "disappeared?"
U.S. Customs and Border Protection accessed Illinois license plate data - Axios Chicago
Comment: "The U.S. Customs and Border Protection accessed data collected from Illinois license plate readers, a violation of state law."
Comment: "ALPR camera operator Flock Safety gave CBP access to Illinois license plate camera data, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced this week."
"Illinois' cameras were among 80,000 cameras that the immigration agency tapped into, according to 404 Media."
Comment: "Giannoulias' office initiated an audit in June after reports found that Texas law enforcement accessed Flock data from police departments across the country to look into a woman who left the state to get an abortion."
Comment: "What they're saying: 'While it is true that Flock does not presently have a contractual relationship with any U.S. Department of Homeland Security agencies, we have engaged in limited pilots with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to assist those agencies in combatting human trafficking and fentanyl distribution,' company CEO Garrett Langley said in a statement."
" 'As of last week, all ongoing federal pilots have been paused,' the statement added."
"What's next: Giannoulias has asked local police departments to re-examine their agreements with Flock and whether they've violated the Illinois Trust Act, which bars local police from collaborating with federal authorities on immigration enforcement without a court warrant."
Comment: Customs and Border Protection acting indiscriminately without a warrant? Does this sound OK to you?
AP News: Feds fight to keep ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ open amid legal battle as 3rd challenge is filed
https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-ice-detention-center-0ab308d83d59d86fe18a802100a19fe3
AP News: What to know: Four ways ICE is training new agents and scaling up
Experts explain your rights – as an immigrant or a bystander – if you’re caught up in an ICE raid | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/23/us/immigrant-bystander-rights-ice-raid
Abrego Garcia's attorneys say government trying to coerce him to accept guilty plea or face deportation to Uganda
Comment: We can't speak to the question of guilt or innocence. That should be left up to a jury. However, if Garcia's lawyers' claims are true, threats of deportation to Uganda seem like prosecutional misconduct. The government should prove its case in a court of law, not coerce a guilty plea by threatening deportation to Uganda.
NPR: She's cared for America's elderly for decades. Trump wants her gone by Sept. 8
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5502439/trump-immigration-tps-health-care
CBS News: DeSantis appeals judge's order blocking expansion of Florida's '"Alligator Alcatraz" detention site
Comment: "Gov. Ron DeSantis' administration quickly appealed a federal judge's ruling Thursday that sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, requiring operations to wind down at a controversial immigrant detention facility in the Everglades."
Video: Florida must stop expanding Alligator Alcatraz immigration center, judge says - August 21, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rigIT3_FAQ
Video: Immigration courts lose judges amid ICE arrests - August 21, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN2xCi89WWQ
Pentagon asks civilian employees to join ‘volunteer force’ to aid Ice deportations | Trump administration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/trump-hegseth-pentagon-ice
Comment: "The Pentagon is recruiting civilian employees to join Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign and asking staff to sign up for deployments to immigration enforcement facilities across the United States."
"The defense department has posted a job listing requesting volunteers for civilian federal employees apply to join a “volunteer force” supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) operations. On Wednesday, the department reportedly emailed civilian employees asking them to take up this opportunity."
Comment: Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security has been given a budget of $170B for immigration enforcement and border protection, and the Pentagon has been asked to provide "volunteers". Really? Is the entire U.S. government going to be tasked with eliminating foreigners, at the expense of other important government functions, like national security?
Trump administration to review all 55m US visa holders for potential rule violations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/21/trump-administration-visa-vetting
Comment: "State department says all people who hold valid US visas are subject to ‘continuous vetting’, including of social media"
Comment: "US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which handles requests to stay in the US or become a citizen, said it would expand vetting of the social media postings of applicants and that 'reviews for anti-American activity will be added to that vetting'."
Comment: "Historically, the notion of anti-Americanism has primarily focused on communism. But since taking office in January, the Trump administration has moved aggressively to deny or rescind short-term visas for people deemed to go against US foreign policy interests, especially regarding Israel."
"Indeed, the latest guidance on immigration decisions said that authorities will look at whether applicants 'promote antisemitic ideologies'."
"The Trump administration has accused students and universities of antisemitism and support for terrorism over participation in protests in support of Palestinian rights and against Israel’s military assault on Gaza, charges denied by the activists."
AP News: Trump administration is reviewing all 55 million foreigners with US visas for any violations
https://apnews.com/article/trump-visas-deportations-068ad6cd5724e7248577f17592327ca4
Comment: "The Trump administration said Thursday it is reviewing more than 55 million people who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation, part of a growing crackdown on foreigners who are permitted to be in the United States."
"In a written answer to a question from The Associated Press, the State Department said all U.S. visa holders, which can include tourists from many countries, are subject to “continuous vetting,” with an eye toward any indication they could be ineligible for permission to enter or stay in the United States."
"Should such information be found, the visa will be revoked, and if the visa holder is in the United States, he or she would be subject to deportation."
"Since President Donald Trump took office, his administration has focused on deporting migrants illegally in the United States as well as holders of student and visitor exchange visas. The State Department’s new language suggests that the continual vetting process, which officials acknowledge is time-consuming, is far more widespread and could mean even those approved to be in the U.S. could abruptly see those permissions revoked."
Comment: Wonder how this new policy will impact international tourism and international business relationships?
CBS News: U.S. broadens search for deportation agreements, striking deals with Honduras and Uganda, documents show
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-deportation-agreements-honduras-uganda/
Comment: "Internal government documents obtained by CBS News show the Trump administration has expanded its campaign to persuade countries around the world to aid its crackdown on illegal immigration by accepting deportations of migrants who are not their own citizens."
"The documents indicate Uganda in East Africa recently agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. who hail from other countries on the continent, as long as they don't have criminal histories. It's unclear how many deportees Uganda would ultimately accept under the arrangement with the U.S. government."
"Honduras' government has also agreed to receive deportees from other Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, including families traveling with children, the documents show. The government of Honduras agreed to a relatively small number of deportations — just several hundred over two years — but the documents indicate it could decide to accept more."
Comment: Since the third party countries have refused to accept criminals, it's clear that these deportees are not criminals and are certainly not the "worst of the worst" as the Trump administration likes to tout.
NPR: Some Florida farmers reduce crops as deportation fears drive workers away
Comment: "In a typical year, about half his workforce is without legal status. The other half usually come through an agricultural visa called the H2A. But this year, F. is taking no risks: He's not hiring any strawberry pickers who are in the U.S. illegally."
"But he says he can't afford to hire more H2A visa workers — the costs have been going up for years. 'I'm drastically cutting down production next year,' he says, 'to 35% of what I usually do.' "
"Economists have warned that Trump's ongoing deportation campaign will hurt the U.S. economy, especially sectors that rely on migrant labor. Just in the last four months, agricultural employment has fallen by 155,000 workers, the biggest dip in nearly a decade."
Video: U.S. to probe "anti-American" views of people applying for immigration benefits - August 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo84zIOGrxI
DHS Secretary Noem says entire southern border wall will be painted black to stop people from climbing it - CBS News
Comment: "Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday that the entire wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is going to be painted black to make it hotter and deter illegal immigration — an idea she said was 'specifically at the request' of President Trump."
"Noem spoke during a visit to a portion of the wall in New Mexico, where she also picked up a roller brush to help out with the painting."
"She touted the height of the wall as well as its depth as ways to deter people seeking to go over or under the walls. And Noem said Homeland Security was going to be trying black paint to make the metal hotter."
Comment: Do you think Trump and DHS have considered that migrants might just wait to climb in the early morning before the sun heats up the metal? Although gloves might make it a little more difficult to climb, that's another way to beat the heat of the metal fence. And the painting of the wall will cost how much extra?
Miami Herald: ‘Psychological warfare’: Internal data shows true nature of Alligator Alcatraz
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article311718011.html
Federal agents open fire at San Bernardino family during enforcement operation, DHS says | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/us/federal-agents-open-fire-san-bernardino-enforcement-hnk
The Bulwark: My Career Opportunities With ICE - by Bill Lueders
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/my-career-opportunities-with-ice
Comment: Sometimes, sarcasm is the best way to illustrate a point.
Video: The number of ICE flights is skyrocketing — but the planes are harder than ever to track - August 14, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlRypvEB76Q
Trump administration hits hurdles as it builds a key immigrant detention facility
Comment: "Later this week, the Trump administration is set to open a sprawling new immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss in Texas that is slated to eventually become the largest in the nation."
"The opening comes after months of setbacks, including two investigations into possible improper bidding, two canceled contracts and, most recently, a death on the construction site."
"The facility, which will open with capacity to hold 1,000 people, is a key part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s moves to more than double the space it has nationwide to detain immigrants as the Trump administration pushes for more arrests and the agency prepares for a historic influx of cash."
Comment: Do you think this is the best use of your tax dollars?
Video: DACA recipient with no criminal record detained by ICE - August 13, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmjzb5ebcpQ
The Guardian: ‘Petri dish for disease’: attorney raises alarm of possible Covid outbreak at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/12/attorney-covid-outbreak-alligator-alcatraz
Comment: "An outbreak of a respiratory disease, possibly Covid-19, is running rampant through the remote Florida immigration jail known as 'Alligator Alcatraz', according to the attorney of an infected detainee removed from the camp last week."
"Eric Lee said he was told by his client Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez that conditions at the facility had deteriorated significantly since Thursday as more migrants held there by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency experienced symptoms."
Comment: "Protesters at the gates of the jail in the heart of the Florida Everglades have recorded a number of instances of ambulances arriving and leaving."
"Lee said the hastily erected tented camp, which Democratic lawmakers have decried for holding thousands of undocumented detainees in cages as they await deportation, is a 'petri dish for disease'."
Politico: Judge orders ICE to stop forcing detainees to sleep on dirty concrete floors
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/ice-manahttan-detention-conditions-ruling-00505986
Comment: "A federal judge ordered the Trump Administration Tuesday to improve the conditions for ICE detainees in Manhattan after a lawsuit filed by a Peruvian immigrant complained of cramped and unsanitary holding cells."
Comment: "The judge’s order comes amid broader national concerns about the conditions ICE detainees have been subjected to amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation and pressure to ramp up arrests. Facilities meant for short-term detention have become overcrowded and used for more prolonged confinement, with strains on supplies and access to attorneys. A federal judge in California ruled last month that conditions at a temporary facility in Los Angeles were similarly deficient, requiring ICE officials to provide for more robust access to detainees’ lawyers."
Axios: These industries are the most reliant on noncitizen workers
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/12/noncitizen-foreign-workers-industries
Comment: "The U.S. construction, agriculture/mining and accommodation/food services industries have the greatest shares of foreign-born noncitizen workers, per census data."
"Why it matters: President Trump earlier this summer acknowledged that his massive immigration crackdown is 'taking very good, long time workers away from' the farming and hotel industries, and promised changes."
"Yet there's still no major policy decision from the White House, which must balance economic realities with MAGA demands to deport as many people as possible."
By the numbers: Foreign-born noncitizens — including those who are legal residents or have work visas — make up 8.3% of the country's civilian workforce age 16 and older, based on a 2019-2023 average of U.S. Census Bureau estimates."
Comment: "Zoom in: Around 40% of crop farmworkers lack work authorization, per USDA estimates."
"The latest: Farmers 'are getting frustrated with the delays' on a big White House plan for undocumented workers, Politico reports, while some farm workers say they're being 'hunted like animals' in immigration raids, per The Guardian."
Comment: "The bottom line: Both undocumented workers and the industries relying on them are still largely in limbo."
Tampa Bay Times: To dodge federal rule, some immigrants are shuffled in and out of Florida jails
Comment: "This directionless odyssey — similar to what some other detainees across Florida have faced in recent months — happened because of rules limiting the number of days an undocumented immigrant can be held in a local facility before federal officials must take custody."
"With the Trump administration’s push for 'mass deportation' filling federal detention beds, detainees are being transferred from facility to facility because the switch restarts the clock and gives federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents more time to pick them up."
"Multiple immigration attorneys described the shuffle to the Orlando Sentinel, and law enforcement leaders in Orange and Pinellas counties confirmed the practice."
"But the attorneys say it’s a maddening tactic that often leaves them struggling to locate the immigrants and denies detainees access to family members and due process."
Comment: Rules? What rules? If ICE is willing to ignore habeas corpus and due process, do you think they are worried about this particular "rule"?
NPR: Asylum-seekers thought they were following the rules. Now some are told to start over
Comment: "The Trump administration is stripping protections of some asylum applicants who filed as far back as 2019."
Comment: "The reason, according to the letters: These asylum-seekers, many of whom entered between 2019 and 2022, did not receive a mandatory screening, known as a "credible fear" interview, at the border."
"The interview is conducted by an asylum officer once someone has been detained or has arrived in the United States. It is meant as an opportunity for a person to describe any fear of persecution they may face if they are returned to their home country."
"The U.S. didn't have enough asylum officers to do credible fear interviews for every person crossing the border, given the huge influx of border-crossers starting with the COVID-19 pandemic, at the end of the first Trump administration and during the Biden administration, experts told NPR. Now it appears that the new Trump administration is dismissing applications, effectively making people start over on a process they began years ago."
"This round of asylum case dismissals is the latest effort by the Trump administration to strip protections from those who have been in the U.S. for years. In the past few months, the administration has limited the ways in which people can seek asylum, has made the process more expensive and is now reviewing already filed claims and dismissing them if parts of the complex application are missing. But as officials expand the scope of whom they are arresting, detaining and deporting, lawyers fear their clients who have been waiting years for their asylum interviews may get caught up in the effort to conduct mass deportations."
NBC News: ICE is leaning hard on recruitment, but immigration experts say that could come at a price
Comment: "The agency enforcing President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations is promising new recruits maximum $50,000 signing bonuses over three years, up to $60,000 in federal student loan repayments and retirement benefits. ICE announced this week it is waiving age requirements ...."
Comment: "The possibility of monetary benefits and the celebrity endorsement have experts concerned. They fear the recruitment push could endanger public safety if it takes local police away from their communities, removes important personnel from other critical missions or cuts corners in the rush to hire."
"Immigration and law enforcement experts also said the hiring push does not reflect the public safety threat posed by unauthorized immigrants, as recent data shows many people who have been arrested by ICE during the Trump administration do not have criminal histories. One in 5 people ICE apprehended in street arrests was a Latino with no criminal history or removal orders, according to an analysis of new ICE data by the Cato Institute, a libertarian public policy think tank."
AP News: Homeland Security removes age limits for ICE recruits to boost hiring for Trump deportations
Comment: "In an interview with Fox & Friends, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said applicants could be as young as 18."
Comment: "As part of that campaign the agency is offering an eye-catching bonus of up to $50,000 for new recruits as well as other benefits like student loan forgiveness and abundant overtime for deportation officers."
Comment: What human rights violations do you think an economically desperate 18 year old might consider to justify a $50,000 bonus, especially when hidden by a mask? The military conducts psychological testing of its enlistees. Will ICE require psychological testing of its enlistees, before turning them loose on our streets?
ABC News: 'Operation Trojan Horse' immigration raid involving Penske rental truck draws pushback
Comment: "Los Angeles officials said they are considering 'all legal options' after federal agents were seen jumping out of a Penske rental truck during a controversial immigration raid."
Comment: "More than a dozen undocumented immigrants were arrested near a Home Depot in Westlake on Wednesday, federal officials said, in what was dubbed 'Operation Trojan Horse.' "
"The operation came days after a federal appeals court upheld a temporary restraining order against indiscriminate federal immigration stops and arrests in seven Southern California counties, including Los Angeles."
"Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said the city is 'considering all legal options' following the raid, which she claimed 'looks like the exact same thing that we were seeing' before the temporary restraining order was issued."
" 'It's hard for me to believe that that raid was consistent with the court order that said you cannot racially profile, you cannot racially discriminate,' the mayor said during a press conference Wednesday."
NPR: Federal judge halts construction at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz'
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5495636/judge-halts-construction-alligator-alcatraz-florida
Video: Border Patrol told to stop deporting migrants under Trump asylum ban - August 5, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWXe5bNAKSw
Comment: Watch all of this video, and then decide if you are you as confused about details of this ruling as some are?
Trump teases new policy for migrant farm labor - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/05/trump-teases-new-policy-for-migrant-farm-labor-00493683
Politico: DOJ is walking back the White House’s goal to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/03/white-house-doj-immigration-quota-mismatch-00490406
Comment: "It’s another discrepancy between what White House advisers say and the administration’s legal posture."
Comment: "Stephen Miller was unequivocal: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would seek to arrest 3,000 or more immigrants per day, a staggering target that he said was necessary to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda."
Comment: "But when federal judges pressed for details about that figure last week, the administration denied any such quota existed. The contradiction came in a lawsuit that alleged the intense pressure to rack up arrests had led ICE to conduct illegal sweeps in Los Angeles."
"It’s not the only case that has featured the 3,000-arrest-per-day target as a crucial piece of evidence that the administration’s single-minded drive to rack up arrests may have prompted immigration authorities to cut corners or break the law."
Court limits Trump's asylum crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/court-limits-trump-asylum-crackdown-us-mexico-border/
Comment: "A panel of federal judges on Friday limited President Trump's effort to close the U.S. asylum system at the southern border, saying his administration can't unilaterally suspend laws that bar the U.S. from deporting migrants to places where they would face persecution or torture."
"The ruling centers on a proclamation issued by Mr. Trump just hours after he returned to the White House in January, ordering the closure of the asylum system. U.S. border officials have relied on the order to summarily expel those entering the country illegally, without allowing them to request asylum. Mr. Trump justified the sweeping measure on the grounds that the country is facing an 'invasion' of migrants."
Video: 'Traumatizing': Security camera captures ICE detainment at North Charleston home - July 31, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PARub7b0zsI
Judge blocks expedited deportations of those who entered the U.S. legally, possibly curtailing ICE courthouse arrests - CBS News
Comment: "U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb of Washington, D.C., barred federal immigration officials from using two Trump administration directives to apply a fast-track deportation process known as expedited removal on migrants who were granted immigration parole to enter the U.S. at an official port of entry. Parole is an immigration authority that allows federal officials to admit foreigners on humanitarian grounds, and lets them live and work in the U.S. legally on a temporary basis."
"If left in place, Cobb's ruling could significantly hinder the Trump administration's aggressive efforts to ramp up its mass deportation campaign by targeting migrants allowed into the U.S. under the Biden administration through the parole authority. The Justice Department is expected to appeal her order."
"One operation in particular that could be curtailed by Cobb's ruling is a Trump administration effort to convince immigration judges to dismiss the court cases of certain migrants, so that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can arrest them after their hearings and place them in expedited removal."
Video: New analysis shows where most immigration arrests are happening - July 31, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpnetutYMwM
Judge rips Noem’s latest termination of immigrant protections: ‘Color is neither a poison nor a crime’ - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/31/temporary-protected-status-kristi-noem-ruling-00488161
Comment: "A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s bid to cancel deportation protections and work permits for more than 63,000 Nicaraguan, Honduran and Nepali immigrants, saying the decision by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appeared rooted in racism."
" 'Color is neither a poison nor a crime,' U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson said in a 37-page ruling Thursday, which postponed a Sept. 8 deadline Noem had imposed for those 63,000 immigrants to leave the country or lose Temporary Protected Status, better known as TPS."
DHS' new ICE recruitment strategy: 50K signing bonuses, student loan forgiveness and Trump posters - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/30/ice-recruitment-donald-trump-00484885
Comment: "The Department of Homeland Security is offering new Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruits signing bonuses of up to $50,000 and student loan forgiveness, as the agency — suddenly flush with cash — seeks to meet President Donald Trump’s goal of hiring 10,000 new ICE agents and deporting a million people a year."
"With the help of major funding from the megabill Trump signed into law this month, DHS on Tuesday launched a new ICE campaign titled “Defend the Homeland,” with recruitment posters featuring Trump and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, along with pay benefits aimed at drawing 'the next generation of law enforcement professionals to find, arrest, and remove criminal illegal aliens,' the agency said in a press statement announcing the effort."
Orlando Sentinel: Florida AG: Orange County must transport detainees to ICE facilities, or else
Comment: "Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is threatening to have Orange County commissioners and Mayor Jerry Demings removed from office if they don’t back down from their refusal to let corrections officers transport immigrants to federal detention facilities."
Comment: "Orange County Commissioner Nicole Wilson, who urged her colleagues to fight against efforts to force the county to work with ICE, said the county should 'push back' despite the attorney general’s threat."
Comment: "Wilson said the jail is already facing steep shortages of corrections officers, with a report earlier this year finding the jail had about a 25% vacancy rate among employees."
" 'This is commandeering our local corrections officials to run state and federal errands, at the same time they’re scrutinizing our budget that we used to pay for those officers,' she said."
Comment: " 'Felipe Sousa-Lazaballet, who had urged commissioners to reject the ICE transport proposal at the July 15 meeting alongside more than 30 speakers, said Tuesday that complying now would be falling into the governor and attorney general’s 'bullying pulpit.' ”
Comment: "At the meeting, Demings contended that having corrections officers — who are county employees — transport detainees to facilities like Alligator Alcatraz, about 240 miles south of the jail, is a bridge too far."
“ 'That’s not our responsibility. That is the federal government’s responsibility, not ours,' Demings said. 'I will not agree for our corrections staff to transport federal inmates to other facilities.' ”
"Among the complaints of commissioners were that the addendum would require the county to pay for transportation, at a time when the county is already arguing ICE is shortchanging it for housing inmates. It costs roughly $145 per day to detain someone, and the county is reimbursed $88."
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."
US workers say Trump’s immigration crackdown is causing labor shortages: ‘A strain on everybody’
Comment: "Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration is piling pressure on US factories, according to employees and union leaders, as veteran workers from overseas are forced to leave their jobs."
"As economists warn the administration’s full-scale deportation ambitions could ultimately cost millions of jobs, workers at two sites – in Michigan and Kentucky – told the Guardian that industrial giants are grappling with labor shortages."
"The US president has moved to strip more than a million immigrants of their legal status in the US, including by shutting down the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans (CHNV) Parole Program, which allowed hundreds of thousands to work legally in the country. It has meanwhile ramped up immigration arrest operations with prospective daily quotas of 3,000 arrests per day."
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
https://share.google/5xec3YrzNcvYz3rBH
New top Oversight Democrat: Stephen Miller ‘biggest piece of s‑‑‑’ in US
https://share.newsbreak.com/dt7n7fyr
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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