Immigration

Immigration coverage — policy, enforcement, the border, the courts, asylum, and the labor and economic angles — from a balanced set of sources.

421 articles shownof 421 totalLast updated 2026-09-07 05:51 UTC
us politics 8 4h ago 4 min read

ICE Arrests Top 50,000 for Second Straight Month as DHS's 70% Criminal Claim Collides With Its Own Data

ICE booked more than 50,000 arrests in both July and August, the highest totals in agency history, but data obtained by the Deportation Data Project show 55% of those arrested in August had no criminal convictions or charges of any kind — a status distinct from unlawful presence itself, which is a civil immigration violation. DHS keeps repeating a 70% criminal-conviction figure that immigration researchers say hasn't been accurate since May 2025, while the White House says the noncriminal label ignores foreign rap sheets on cases like an MS-13 member wanted for murder in El Salvador.

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us politics 8 14h ago 4 min read

Trump Administration Widens Immigration Enforcement: Welfare Reporting Rules, Voter Fraud Charges, and Deputized State Troopers

The Trump administration is squeezing illegal immigration on three fronts at once: forcing every state agency to report illegal immigrants on welfare, prosecuting non-citizens for voting, and deputizing state troopers as immigration agents under a 1996 law. The scale-up has already produced a case where a U.S. citizen was wrongly deported in Texas, a genuine cost of moving this fast.

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in defense 6 17h ago 3 min read

India and China Hold First-Ever Corps Commander Talks in Arunachal Pradesh as Border Diplomacy Widens

Since NSA Ajit Doval met Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing on August 25-26, India and China have pushed to open new military channels along the disputed border. Sunday's Corps Commander meeting at Wacha in Arunachal Pradesh is the first of its kind outside Ladakh, but reports of Chinese activity near Taksing and Beijing's ongoing PLA purge are reasons to keep expectations in check.

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fr economy 6 20h ago 4 min read

EU's Biometric Border Checks Now Fully in Force, but Enforcement Remains Spotty

The EU's grace period for suspending EES fingerprint and facial-scan checks expired Sunday, September 6, despite airline and travel industry pleas for an extension. Brussels didn't budge, but France's software problems, unfinished fingerprinting kiosks at Dover and St Pancras, and reported unofficial exemptions in Greece mean the rules aren't being applied the same way everywhere. That's the real problem: a security system meant to track who's in the country and for how long is being enforced unevenly, which defeats the point.

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in politics 5 21h ago 4 min read

Ex-Election Chief Says India's Voter Roll Cleanup 'Eliminated' 14-15 Crore Names, Demands ECI Reveal How Many Were Illegal Immigrants

Former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi says India's nationwide voter-roll cleanup deleted 14-15 crore names but the Election Commission still hasn't disclosed how many of those were illegal immigrants, the stated reason for the exercise. Maharashtra's draft rolls alone show roughly two crore fewer voters than before. The Election Commission has not released a breakdown to back up either side of this fight.

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us politics 7 22h ago 4 min read

DHS Says ICE Arrested 121 People at Memphis Bar, One of the Largest Single-Day Raids of 2026

Federal and state agents raided El Corralón bar in Memphis before dawn on Sunday, August 31, and DHS says 121 people were arrested under an operation it calls Corral Light. DHS named five detainees with criminal records, while advocates say families were torn apart and at least 16 children lost a parent, and a public search warrant tied to the raid covered gambling and drugs, not immigration.

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cn economy 6 1d ago 3 min read

South Africa's Illegal Chrome Mines Killed 14 Migrant Workers in August. The Trade Still Feeds China's Steel Mills.

A soil collapse at an abandoned mine near Rustenburg killed 14 people, most believed to be undocumented migrants, on August 13. The disaster exposes a chrome-mining black market that feeds South Africa's legal exports to China, and no one has been charged for running it.

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us politics 6 1d ago 4 min read

DHS Orders ICE Attorneys to Seek Early Dismissal of Weak Asylum Claims

DHS issued guidance Sept. 3 telling ICE lawyers to file motions asking immigration judges to toss asylum claims that fail to meet legal standards before a full hearing even happens. Judges still decide, not ICE, but critics worry the fast-track could catch legitimate cases before applicants get to testify.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

A Haitian Student's Suicide, a Trooper's Death, and the EU's Pivot Toward Deportation Hubs

Pierre Damas Bel, a 20-year-old Haitian honors student in Ohio, died after walking into highway traffic following the loss of his Temporary Protected Status and the fitting of an ICE ankle monitor. His death drew heavy national coverage, while the July killing of Pennsylvania trooper Michael Pahira by a Haitian trucker got almost none outside local outlets. Both cases sit against a backdrop of five European nations now moving toward the same kind of hardline deportation policy the U.S. adopted.

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us politics 8 1d ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets Trump's Mail-Voting Overhaul Take Effect as DHS Faces Questions Over ICE and Polling Places

The Supreme Court cleared Trump's executive order rewriting mail-ballot rules for enforcement before the midterms, ruling the harm was too speculative to block it. Meanwhile House Democrats are demanding DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin explain the legal basis for possibly sending federal agents near polling sites, something no federal law authorizes and DHS has not defended under oath.

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de economy 7 2d ago 4 min read

Denmark, Germany, Austria, Greece and the Netherlands Agree on Model for Migrant 'Return Hubs' Outside the EU

Five EU countries signed off on a common blueprint Friday for shipping rejected asylum seekers to facilities in non-EU nations, with a first deal targeted for early 2027. The host countries haven't been named, the UN refugee agency says nobody's briefed it yet, and human rights groups are already calling it a legal minefield.

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us politics 7 2d ago 4 min read

ICE Officer Christian Castro Pleads Not Guilty in First Federal Prosecution Tied to Minneapolis Immigration Crackdown

Christian Castro, an ICE deportation officer, pleaded not guilty Friday to six federal counts of lying about the January shooting that wounded Venezuelan immigrant Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis. He walked free on a $75,000 unsecured bond after video contradicted his story about a broom-and-shovel attack, and after ProPublica reported DOJ leadership overruled its own prosecutor to keep the charges light.

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us politics 7 2d ago 4 min read

DHS Voter Fraud Surge Turns Up 30 Cases Across Three States, Not the 24,000 Claimed

DHS launched a multi-state criminal investigation into noncitizen voting on Tuesday, September 1, but subpoenas issued so far in Georgia, Washington and Wisconsin cover just 30 people combined. An immigrant rights group has already sued to block the underlying database matching, calling it a threat to naturalized citizens.

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us politics 4 3d ago 4 min read

White House Launches Five Retro Arcade Games Pushing Trump's Border, MAHA, and Savings Agenda

The White House website added an Arcade section Thursday with five low-res games modeled on Tetris, Snake, Flappy Bird, and Tapper, each built around a Trump policy from border walls to school lunches. Democrats and border-advocacy groups called it tone-deaf given rising heating oil and food prices, while a White House official said it's meant to contrast Trump's 'winning' with what it called Democrats' 'dark socialist vision.'

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us politics 7 3d ago 5 min read

House GOP Cuts Pre-Midterm Session to One Week as DHS Surges Agents Into Voter Fraud Hunt

House Republican leaders scrapped the final two weeks of September votes on Thursday, meaning lawmakers work just four more days before Election Day. Separately, DHS confirmed it is expanding Homeland Security Investigations operations into at least nine states and seeking a contractor to collect voter records nationwide, even as Heritage Foundation data cited in the reporting shows documented noncitizen voter fraud is rare.

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us health 6 3d ago 4 min read

80+ Migrants Feared Dead After Boat Drifts 27 Days to Canary Islands

A boat that left Gambia on August 7 carrying roughly 127 people was found adrift off Gran Canaria on September 3, with only 44 survivors and five bodies recovered. Spanish officials and the NGO Caminando Fronteras say more than 80 people, including a baby, are feared dead on one of the deadliest known crossings of the Atlantic migration route this year. The tragedy lands one day after Morocco's navy intercepted 201 more migrants trying to reach the same islands, underscoring how this route keeps getting deadlier even as overall EU migration numbers fall.

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us defense 5 4d ago 4 min read

DHS Secretary's 24-Year-Old Coast Guard Jet Loses Engine Mid-Flight, Lands Safely at Reagan National

A Coast Guard C-37A carrying Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin lost its right engine and made an emergency landing at DCA on Wednesday, September 2. Nobody was hurt, but the plane is the same aging aircraft DHS flagged as unsafe last year, and the $200 million replacement jets Congress is still fighting over have only partly arrived.

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us politics 6 4d ago 4 min read

USCIS Adds Credit-Check Authorization to Green Card Sponsor Form, Effective With No Grace Period

USCIS quietly swapped out Form I-864, the Affidavit of Support required in family-based green card cases, on August 31, 2026. The new version lets the agency pull consumer credit data on sponsors, and there was zero grace period, meaning anyone who filed the old form on or after that date got rejected outright.

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us politics 8 4d ago 4 min read

DOJ Says All State Agencies, Not Just Welfare Offices, Must Report Illegal Immigrants to DHS or Lose Funding

A new Justice Department legal opinion, dated September 1, says every agency in a state government, not just the welfare office, must report people it knows are in the country illegally or risk losing TANF and SSI funding worth more than $16.4 billion a year. The move reverses a 1998 Clinton-era opinion that limited the reporting duty to the specific agencies running those programs.

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cn economy 8 4d ago 4 min read

Nepal Moves to Rebuild Border Flood-Warning System as Death Toll Climbs Past 1,200 and a Minister Demands China Pay Up

Since the August 26 glacial collapse that has killed well over 1,100 people across Nepal and Tibet, Kathmandu is quietly rebuilding the early-warning system that got washed away, while a Nepali minister has floated demanding compensation from China even as the prime minister publicly thanked Beijing for aid. The government still can't agree on exact casualty numbers, which shifted by the hour Wednesday.

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us politics 8 4d ago 4 min read

State Department Preparing to Revoke Up to 200,000 Tourist and Business Visas From Asylum Seekers

The State Department is coordinating with DHS to pull B-1/B-2 visas from up to 200,000 foreigners who sought asylum after entering on tourist or business visas between 2016 and 2026, according to The Associated Press and confirmed by State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott. It would be the largest mass visa revocation in U.S. history, won't mean instant deportation, and will almost certainly get sued over.

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us health 8 5d ago 5 min read

Nepal-Tibet Glacier Disaster Death Toll Passes 1,000 as Scientists Reveal Year-Old Warning About the Same Border Region

A week after a bedrock-and-glacier collapse tore through the Nepal-Tibet border, the confirmed death toll has climbed past 1,000 with thousands still missing, according to the Associated Press. Chinese researchers had warned a year earlier that the same watershed was at risk of another glacial flood, and the U.S. Geological Survey now says the initial 'earthquake' reading was wrong, it was a 5.2-magnitude landslide.

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us economy 6 5d ago 4 min read

Tropical Storm Edouard Makes Landfall Near Texas-Louisiana Border, NHC Drops Hurricane Watch

Edouard came ashore near Johnson Bayou, Louisiana at 2:20 p.m. Central time Tuesday with 60 mph winds, just short of hurricane strength, before the National Hurricane Center discontinued its hurricane and storm surge watches. The bigger threat now is rain: up to 9 inches in spots, with flash flooding likely in Houston and southwest Louisiana. It's one of four named storms active across two ocean basins Tuesday, a stretch scientists tie to a developing El Niño pattern.

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us politics 8 5d ago 4 min read

Congress Splits Along New Lines Over DHS Surveillance Summonses, Flock Camera Network, and a Federal Citizenship Database

Democrats want a watchdog probe into DHS using customs law to secretly pull phone and account records on journalists and unions. Republican Josh Hawley is separately investigating Flock Safety's 120,000-camera license plate network. Add a lawsuit over a new federal citizenship database for the midterms, and Washington has three live surveillance fights running at once, cutting across the usual party lines.

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es economy 7 5d ago 4 min read

Italy and Spain Extend Border Checks Again as Ceuta Fallout Splits Schengen

Italy extended its suspension of open borders with Spain for another 15 days on Monday, and Spain matched it, after 70,000-plus migrants crossed into Ceuta on July 30 in a single day. Ten of 29 Schengen countries now run some form of internal border checks, and the EU heads into an October summit with its new migration pact facing its first real stress test.

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ru defense 8 5d ago 3 min read

Russia Hits Ukraine-Romania Border Crossing and Odesa Port Infrastructure in Overnight Barrage

Russian drones and missiles shut down the Orlivka ferry crossing into Romania and hit export infrastructure in Odesa overnight into September 1, part of a combined attack Ukraine's Air Force says included 218 Shahed-type drones and multiple missile types. One person was killed in Kherson, five others were injured, and Ukraine's main Black Sea trade route keeps taking hits.

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us politics 5 Aug 31 4 min read

DHS Disputes Sen. Chris Murphy's Claim That ICE Arrested Parents at Danbury School Bus Stops

Sen. Chris Murphy says ICE agents arrested parents at Danbury, Connecticut school bus stops and deliberately waited until kids boarded to make the kids ride home to an empty house. DHS says that's fiction, points to one named arrest that happened away from any bus stop, and Murphy hasn't produced evidence for the specific bus-stop timing claim. Both sides agree ICE ramped up enforcement in Danbury during back-to-school week, they disagree on almost everything else.

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us economy 7 Aug 30 4 min read

DHS Moves to End H-1B Grace Period and Block Spousal Work Permits as $103,265 Fee Fight Drags On

Since DHS posted its $103,265-per-petition H-1B fee for Federal Register publication on August 25, the administration has advanced two more restrictions: killing the 60-day grace period workers get to find a new job, and potentially barring H-4 spouses from working at all. None of it is final law yet, but the direction is clear.

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us health 8 Aug 30 4 min read

UN Says Sudan Drone Strikes Killed Over 1,100 Civilians in 2026 as Fighting Spreads to Blue Nile and Ethiopia's Border

A UN Security Council briefing on August 24 put a hard number on Sudan's drone war: 1,400 civilians killed in the first six months of 2026, more than 1,100 of them by drone strikes. The fighting has now spread into Blue Nile state, pushed refugees over the border into Ethiopia, and triggered a cholera outbreak in West Kordofan that aid groups can barely reach.

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us politics 5 Aug 30 4 min read

Five Years After Kabul Fell: Afghan Allies Still in Immigration Limbo, Afghan Women Still Losing Ground

Five years after the Taliban retook Kabul on August 15, 2021, roughly 70,000 Afghans evacuated to the U.S. still lack permanent legal status, according to World Relief and AfghanEvac. Meanwhile Afghanistan has become what CNN calls one of the world's worst humanitarian crises, with girls barred from school past sixth grade and U.S. aid to the country dramatically cut under the Trump administration.

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cn health 8 Aug 30 4 min read

Nepal Army Breaks Through Flooded Tunnel Wall as China Sends Rescue Specialists, New Landslide Lake Forces Evacuation Near Tibet Border

Since the Aug. 26 glacial collapse, confirmed deaths in Nepal and Tibet have reached 750 with 3,044 still missing. The newest development: Nepal's army drilled into the upper section of a mud-choked tunnel at Trishuli 3A and started pumping in air, while China flew in nine tunnel specialists and a fresh landslide lake forced Chinese rescuers near the border to retreat to safety.

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us defense 6 Aug 30 4 min read

19 Migrant Remains Found in Arizona Desert in July, the Highest Monthly Total in Two Years

The Pima County Medical Examiner and Humane Borders recorded 19 migrant deaths in the Arizona desert last month, the highest monthly count since 2024, even as Border Patrol encounters have collapsed under President Trump's enforcement policies. Advocates say deterrence is pushing migrants into deadlier terrain; the numbers also show 2025 had the lowest annual death toll since tracking began in 2000.

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us politics 7 Aug 30 4 min read

US Sends Relative of US-Allied Afghans to Central African Republic, Expands Third-Country Deportation Pipeline

Since Liberia took its first U.S. deportation flight on August 20 and ICE diverted six migrants to a hotel-prison in Equatorial Guinea days later, the third-country deportation program has grown further: a flight landed in Bangui on Saturday carrying an Afghan man whose brothers worked with the U.S. military, while thousands of Mexican nationals are now being routed through Guatemala and Honduras to block re-entry. Rights lawyers call it a loophole around asylum protections. DHS calls it lawful enforcement of the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.

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us politics 8 Aug 29 4 min read

U.S. Sends First Deportees to Liberia, Preps Revocation of Up to 200,000 Asylum-Seeker Visas

Since Mexican deportees started getting rerouted through Guatemala and Honduras in April, the Trump administration has expanded third-country removals all the way to Liberia and is now preparing to yank tourist and business visas from up to 200,000 people who filed asylum claims. Mexico is objecting, a migration researcher calls the rerouting punitive, and the administration says it's using every lawful tool to keep its deportation promise.

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us politics 8 Aug 29 3 min read

Judge Rules Trump Administration Unconstitutionally Targeted Pro-Palestinian Students for Deportation

A federal judge in San Jose ruled Friday, August 28, that the Trump administration's use of immigration law to deport noncitizen students over pro-Palestinian speech violates the Constitution, siding with The Stanford Daily's student journalists. That ruling lands weeks after a separate federal judge tossed the administration's own antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard, meaning two different Democrat-appointed judges have now rejected two opposite prongs of the administration's campus Israel-Gaza legal strategy.

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us tech 7 Aug 29 4 min read

The CIA Is Feeding ChatGPT-Written Reports to Local Cops Through DHS Fusion Centers

Documents obtained by Reason show the CIA's Open Source Enterprise used GPT-4.1 to write daily security reports during this year's World Cup, then routed them to the Washington State Fusion Center for local police. The reports contain nothing classified, just AI summaries of foreign news, but they show how deep AI has already burrowed into the domestic intelligence-sharing pipeline with almost no public debate.

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us economy 8 Aug 29 4 min read

DHS Moves to Kill 60-Day Grace Period for Fired H-1B Workers, Adds $103,265 Visa Fee

DHS is pushing two separate rules that would hit H-1B workers and their employers hard: a proposal to end the 60-day grace period fired visa holders get to find a new job, and a $103,265 fee on new H-1B petitions. Neither is final. Both are headed for public comment before they can take effect.

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us politics 4 Aug 28 4 min read

Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE, DHS Says He Had a Final Deportation Order Since July

ICE picked up British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos at the New Orleans airport on Thursday. DHS says an immigration judge issued him a final removal order on July 22 after he skipped his own hearing, and he's now sitting in a Louisiana detention facility waiting on deportation.

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us politics 6 Aug 28 4 min read

DOJ Sues Arizona, Washington, New Mexico and Oregon Over In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants, Bringing Total to 21 States

The Justice Department sued four more states Thursday, arguing their in-state tuition laws for illegal immigrants violate a 1996 federal statute barring states from favoring noncitizens over out-of-state U.S. citizens. Courts have already sided with DOJ in five states. The dollar gaps are real and the law is clear, but this fight isn't over.

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us politics 7 Aug 28 4 min read

Border Wall Crews Enter Tohono O'odham Land Under Armed Escort as New Mexico Sues CBP Over Groundwater

CBP contractors and roughly 20 armed, masked federal officers moved onto Tohono O'odham Nation land in Arizona this week to start border wall construction, despite a tribal blockade attempt. Separately, New Mexico's state engineer sued the federal government and its contractors, alleging they drilled unpermitted wells and stole groundwater to build 180 miles of wall in the state. Both fights show the same pattern: a federal judge cleared the wall to proceed, and local authorities are now scrambling to police the fallout on the ground.

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us economy 7 Aug 28 4 min read

DHS Wants to Make the $103,265 H-1B Fee Permanent, Public Comments Due September 24

After a federal judge struck down Trump's original $100,000 H-1B fee as an illegal tax, DHS came back with a $103,265 fee under a different legal theory: this one funds immigration services instead of restricting entry. Universities and nonprofits are exempt this time, but companies hiring skilled foreign workers still face a bill DHS itself projects will generate $8.8 billion a year, and lawyers on multiple sides say it's headed back to court.

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us economy 6 Aug 27 4 min read

Nearly One Million Indians Now Stuck in US Employment Green Card Backlog, Report Finds

A new analysis from the National Foundation for American Policy puts the U.S. employment-based green card backlog at 1.2 million people, with Indians making up 79 percent of it. An Indian applicant filing this year could wait an estimated 179 years for an EB-2 green card. This isn't bureaucratic incompetence, it's decades-old law colliding with modern demand, and no amount of faster USCIS processing fixes it.

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us politics 7 Aug 27 4 min read

DHS Ties Election Grant Money to Paper Ballot Audits, Cites Chinese Parts in Voting Machines

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin sent a letter to the White House Transparency Task Force saying states must run random hand audits of at least 5% of paper ballots to get full federal election security grants, warning that Chinese-made components in machines from ES&S, Hart InterCivic and Dominion pose supply-chain risks. A senior administration official told reporters there's no evidence China has ever altered a U.S. vote count, and the security concern over Chinese parts has been publicly known since at least 2019.

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in politics 6 Aug 26 4 min read

India and China Announce 8-Point Border Consensus Ahead of Xi's Expected New Delhi Trip

Ajit Doval and Wang Yi wrapped up the 25th round of Special Representatives talks in Beijing with an eight-point agreement on boundary delimitation, new military hotlines and border trade. It's a real step forward after the 2020 Ladakh standoff, but it's paperwork about future talks, not a settled border, and Beijing hasn't even confirmed Xi Jinping is coming to India.

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us politics 7 Aug 26 4 min read

ICE Arrests Hit 49,571 in July, a Second-Term Record, as 287(g) Deals With States Multiply

ICE arrested 49,571 people in July, the highest monthly total since Trump's second term began, according to Deportation Data Project figures reported by the Associated Press. The jump came from expanded state and local cooperation deals, not another round of viral raid videos. Texas, Florida, California and Georgia accounted for more than half the arrests, and the total detained since inauguration has topped 610,000 people.

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us politics 7 Aug 25 4 min read

DHS Told Nevada It Has Only 185 Confirmed Noncitizen Voters, Not the 16,000 It Publicly Claimed

DHS officials told Nevada election officials on a call that the 250,000-plus noncitizen voter figure Trump touted in a primetime address was never verified, and the real confirmed number for Nevada is 185, not 16,000. That's a real gap between political rhetoric and the department's own data, and voters deserve the actual list, not a press release.

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us politics 8 Aug 24 4 min read

State Department Preparing to Revoke Up to 200,000 Business and Tourism Visas Tied to Asylum Claims

After revoking 175,000 visas since Trump took office, the State Department is now preparing a second, much bigger action: pulling B1 and B2 visas from up to 200,000 people who sought asylum after entering as tourists or business travelers. It would be the largest mass visa revocation in US history, according to the Associated Press, and it hasn't happened yet.

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us politics 7 Aug 24 4 min read

ICE Arrests 1,328 Illegal Immigrants in Two-Week DC-Area Operation, Nearly 400 Had Criminal Records

ICE arrested 1,328 illegal immigrants in Virginia and Maryland over a 14-day span in August, an operation federal sources call one of the agency's most successful. Almost 400 of those arrested had criminal convictions or pending charges, including a murder warrant, rape, and kidnapping. Democratic-led jurisdictions with sanctuary-style policies were the operation's focus.

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us politics 7 Aug 24 4 min read

DHS Proposes $103,265 H-1B Fee Through Formal Rulemaking After Court Killed the $100,000 Version

After a Massachusetts federal judge vacated Trump's $100,000 H-1B fee as an illegal tax in June, DHS published a new proposed rule Monday setting the fee at $103,265, this time through the formal rulemaking process the court said was missing the first time. The 30-day comment period opens now, with a final rule possible by year's end.

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us politics 6 Aug 24 4 min read

Border Patrol Arrests Father of Sailor Serving Aboard USS Abraham Lincoln

Luis Manuel Aviles, a 19-year Key West resident from Nicaragua with a work permit, was arrested by Border Patrol during a traffic stop while his son served his ninth month aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. DHS says the law doesn't bend for military families; the family says he has no criminal record and did everything right.

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us politics 5 Aug 23 4 min read

Fairfax Murder Suspect Was Released Into U.S. After 2024 Border Arrest, ICE Says

Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, is charged with stabbing and killing coworker Carmen Lizet Puch in Great Falls, Virginia. DHS says he was arrested at the border in 2024 and released into the country. It's the latest in a string of Fairfax County homicides involving illegal immigrant suspects, even as Gov. Abigail Spanberger pushes prison reform and voting-rights restoration for felons elsewhere in the state.";

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us politics 5 Aug 23 4 min read

Republican Congressman Bacon Breaks With Trump Over Deportation of Omaha Woman With No Criminal Record

Nebraska Republican Don Bacon says the Trump administration has 'overreached' by ordering the removal of an Omaha woman with no criminal history and no valid legal grounds for staying flagged. The White House says it's just enforcing the law Congress wrote. Both things can be true, and that's exactly the problem Bacon says Congress needs to fix.

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us defense 6 Aug 22 4 min read

Kosovo-Born Man Who Claims CIA Ties Detained by ICE, Fights Deportation in Federal Court

Blerim Skoro, a 55-year-old Staten Island cab driver, was arrested by ICE on August 3 while renewing paperwork in New Jersey. He says he spent years working for the CIA and FBI infiltrating al-Qaeda, but the government wants to deport him anyway. A federal judge has ordered the government to respond while a 2022 torture-protection ruling hangs in the balance.

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us politics 8 Aug 22 4 min read

Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump's 75-Country Immigrant Visa Ban

Judge Jeannette Vargas ruled Friday that the State Department's suspension of immigrant visas from 75 countries broke federal law and exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio's authority. In a separate case earlier this year, a Rhode Island judge vacated a related freeze on legal immigration and asylum processing from 39 countries. Different courts, different timelines, same conclusion: the administration went further than the law allows.

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us politics 7 Aug 22 4 min read

First Liberia Deportation Flight Carried Venezuelans, Cubans and Colombians, Not Liberians

The 20 deportees who landed in Liberia this week under the U.S. third-country removal deal turned out to be mostly Latin American nationals, not Africans, according to Liberia's Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah. Liberia says it screened the group, none face active criminal charges, and they're free to leave or seek asylum, but the deal's real function, moving people judges barred from deportation to their home countries onto new soil, remains contested.

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us politics 7 Aug 22 4 min read

US Deports Migrants to Liberia, Central African Republic and Other Third Countries With No Ties to Them

The Trump administration has struck roughly 30 third-country deportation deals, about 11 with African nations, sending migrants to places like the Central African Republic and Liberia they've never set foot in. Some deportees have no criminal record beyond immigration violations, while separately, Haiti has taken back 161 of its own citizens after years of legal delays.

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us politics 7 Aug 21 4 min read

New Jersey Confirms 400 Noncitizen Votes. DHS Claims of 278,000 More Remain Unverified

New Jersey's own investigation found up to 400 noncitizen votes cast after a registration glitch, proving the practice isn't a myth like some Democrats claim. But the Department of Homeland Security's bigger number, 278,000 noncitizens on rolls in four states, hasn't been backed by any released methodology, and state officials say they can't check work they've never seen.

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us politics 7 Aug 21 3 min read

US Has Sent 2,284 Mexican Deportees to Guatemala This Year to Keep Them Away From the Border, Mexico Objects

Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo confirmed 2,284 Mexican nationals have been deported through Guatemala this year, plus dozens more through Honduras, before being bused back into southern Mexico. Mexico's government says it never agreed to this and wants its citizens returned directly, but Washington is doing it anyway to make re-crossing the border harder.

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es economy 7 Aug 20 4 min read

Three Weeks After 72,000 Migrants Crossed Into Ceuta, Spain Still Doesn't Know How Many Remain

More than three weeks after a mass crossing sent up to 72,000 migrants into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta, Spanish authorities still can't agree on how many are left, city officials say 9,000 to 10,000 while the interior ministry says 5,000. Madrid is now moving to transfer hundreds of unaccompanied migrant minors to mainland Spain, a step it previously said wouldn't happen, while Ceuta's local government says it wants everyone sent back to Morocco.

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ir defense 8 Aug 20 4 min read

Emails Show ICE Let Iran's Embassy Edit Deportation Flight Manifests

Newly released emails obtained by the National Iranian American Council show U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency responsible for deportations, accepted last-minute requests from the Iranian Embassy to add or expedite names on deportation flight manifests in late 2025. Enforcing immigration law is not optional, but letting a hostile foreign government's embassy shape who gets on a plane is a legitimate operational question the Trump administration hasn't answered.

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