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A federal judge said Friday that ICE’s policy of allowing arrests at churches tramples on religious rights, and he issued an order blocking arrests unless there is an immediate threat to public safety.
SharesThe Biden administration awarded a half-billion-dollar contract to take care of migrant children to a politically connected nonprofit that had no experience handling an operation that large, an inspector general report says.
SharesAuthorities announced charges Wednesday against a longtime Customs and Border Protection officer they say was knowingly living with an illegal immigrant girlfriend, who was also his niece.
SharesThe Trump administration will withdraw the remaining ICE and Border Patrol forces in Minnesota, White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday.
SharesA federal judge ordered Homeland Security to release three illegal immigrants with homicide convictions on their criminal records and a fourth illegal immigrant convicted of sex crimes.
SharesThe public may not notice the impacts of a likely Department of Homeland Security shutdown, but it would harm the essential employees who must work without pay to secure airports, respond to natural disasters, protect U.S. coasts and thwart cybersecurity attacks, administration officials told lawmakers Wednesday.
SharesThe government’s top immigration enforcers came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to deliver their first defense after the slaying of two American citizens in Minnesota, facing vicious attacks from Democrats who compared them to Nazis and slave patrols and suggested the head of ICE faced eternal damnation.
SharesRep. LaMonica McIver challenged the head of ICE on Tuesday, asking him how he thinks he’ll fare on judgment day.
SharesDemocratic congressional leaders called the White House’s counteroffer to their immigration enforcement demands “incomplete and insufficient.”
SharesActing ICE Director Todd Lyons flatly rejected the accusation that his agency maintains a database of Americans who have protested against President Trump’s deportation efforts.
SharesRiverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican and the leading candidate in California’s governor’s race, says he will move to repeal the state’s sanctuary law that restricts localities’ cooperation with ICE if he’s elected.
SharesMinnesota’s federal judges have been so overwhelmed by the caseload of new cases challenging ICE’s detention of illegal immigrants that they’ve had to borrow judges from other states to handle the work.
SharesThe heads of the agencies carrying out President Trump’s mass deportation agenda will testify in Congress Tuesday and face questions over how they are prosecuting immigration enforcement inside American cities.
SharesThe White House on Monday sent a counteroffer to Democrats’ 10-point list of immigration enforcement demands, as the two parties negotiate a Department of Homeland Security spending bill.
SharesA federal judge on Monday issued an order blocking California from enforcing its new law barring ICE and other federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks, ruling that the state illegally targeted the feds.
SharesTaxpayers suddenly find themselves on the hook for bringing back illegal immigrants who judges say were wrongly deported.
SharesPoliticians in Democratic-led states are rushing to end cooperation with ICE, but a rebellion is brewing among conservative local officials who say they will find ways to work around the bans.
SharesThe Trump administration has quietly struck a legal settlement that not only ends one of President Biden’s mass migrant “parole” programs but could block future presidents from trying to revive them.
SharesHouse and Senate Democrats already have a long list of demands for keeping the Department of Homeland Security funded past Friday, but some have an extra caveat.
SharesDemocrats refusing to pass a Department of Homeland Security spending bill without changes to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations want to split up the bill to fund other essential agencies while negotiations continue.
SharesCalifornia’s failure to honor ICE deportation “detainer” requests has led to 4,561 migrants with criminal records being released back into communities since President Trump took office, the Department of Homeland Security said Friday as it begged the state to cooperate in turning people over.
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