Immigration

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314 articles shownof 314 totalLast updated 2026-08-08 05:08 UTC
us politics 6 1h ago 3 min read

DHS Plans to Hire Private Investigators to Track Down Deported Migrants Overseas

DHS is proposing a $9 million contract to hire private investigators who will locate deported immigrants in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, photograph their homes, and hand-deliver notices for unpaid immigration fines. The agency has already assessed more than $84 billion in civil fines, even as it simultaneously tells migrants that leaving the country voluntarily will wipe those debts clean.

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us politics 7 11h ago 4 min read

ICE Is Arresting Visa Overstayers and Asylum Applicants at Airports, Even With Pending Cases

Immigration lawyers and advocacy groups say ICE is increasingly detaining travelers at airports who have pending asylum applications, expired DACA renewals, or work permits, not just people with final deportation orders. DHS says a pending case or work permit does not equal legal status, and that's legally accurate. The catch is thousands of people are stuck waiting years for the government to process the very applications that would fix their status.

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es politics 7 11h ago 4 min read

1,000 Unaccompanied Migrant Minors Still Stranded in Ceuta After Border Surge, Aid Groups Report Abuse

Roughly a week after a Spanish court ruling triggered a mass crossing into Ceuta, an estimated 1,000 unaccompanied minors remain in the enclave, and aid workers say some have been beaten, assaulted, or sexually abused. Spain has opened emergency shelters and plans to relocate minors to the mainland, but nobody, including Spanish officials, agrees on how many people are actually still there.

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us politics 3 1d ago 3 min read

A California Mother Lost Her 15-Year-Old Son to a Fentanyl-Laced Pill. She Turned Her Grief Into Advocacy for Border Enforcement.

Anne Fundner's son Weston died at 15 after taking a counterfeit pill he believed was Percocet; it was laced with fentanyl. Fundner has since spoken publicly about his death, including at the 2024 Republican National Convention and, according to the Daily Signal, standing beside President Trump when he signed the HALT Fentanyl Act into law. She spoke again Saturday at Heritage Action's Southwest Sentinel Summit.

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de defense 6 1d ago 4 min read

German Court Gives Afghan Migrant Life Sentence for Munich Car-Ramming That Killed Mother and Daughter

A Munich court sentenced Farhad N., a 25-year-old Afghan asylum seeker whose claim was rejected in 2017, to life in prison for driving into a trade union march in February 2025, killing a mother and her two-year-old daughter and injuring dozens. The court's finding of "particular gravity of guilt" makes parole after 15 years unlikely, closing out a case that reshaped Germany's immigration debate ahead of last year's election.

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us politics 7 1d ago 4 min read

Judge Lifts Stay, Ending TPS for Up to 350,000 Haitians as Deportation Push Ramps Up

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes lifted her stay Wednesday, formally ending Temporary Protected Status for roughly 330,000 to 350,000 Haitians, complying with the Supreme Court's June ruling. Work permits already expired, deportation proceedings are starting, and a discrimination claim over the decision continues in court while a bipartisan bill sits stalled in the Senate.

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us economy 4 1d ago 3 min read

Left-Leaning Think Tank Puts Price Tag on Trump Mass Deportation Plan: $2,358 Per Taxpayer

The Economic Policy Institute built a calculator estimating mass deportation would cost the average taxpayer $2,358, and Axios ran with it. The number comes from a group with an openly progressive bent that opposes the policy on economic grounds, not a neutral government scorekeeper, so treat it as one side's estimate, not gospel.

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us politics 7 2d ago 4 min read

HHS Set to Pay Houston Law Firm $150 Million to Represent Migrant Kids, Two of Its 24 Lawyers Do Immigration Work

The Trump administration is set to award a $150 million, one-year contract to Burke Law Group, a Houston firm co-founded by a former Trump EPA and Interior appointee, to represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration proceedings. The award comes days after HHS let a contract with nearly 100 legal aid nonprofits lapse without paying them roughly $65 million they say they're owed. Whatever the merits of the old system, handing a job this specialized to a firm with almost no immigration bench strength deserves real scrutiny.

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us politics 7 2d ago 4 min read

DHS Demands Access to Maine Protesters' Private Signal Chats in Federal Lawsuit

DHS is using discovery in a First Amendment lawsuit to try to get its hands on neighborhood Signal group chats that Maine residents used to track ICE activity. Plaintiffs' attorneys are refusing to hand over the larger community chats, calling the request itself a constitutional violation. This is a legitimate fight over how far government surveillance can reach into private citizen organizing, regardless of what you think of the underlying immigration protests.

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us politics 7 2d ago 4 min read

Judge Fines DHS $500 a Day for Ignoring Order to Image Agents' Phones in LA Immigration Case

A federal judge in California found the Trump administration in civil contempt for stalling a January order to forensically copy personal phones used by immigration agents during LA-area sweeps. The government has paid $3,500 so far and says it will appeal, arguing the Supreme Court already limited the court's authority in this case.

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us politics 7 2d ago 4 min read

CBP Wants to Pay Private Investigators to Photograph Deported Immigrants' Homes Abroad

Customs and Border Protection is soliciting contractors to track down deported immigrants in Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala and document their homes to collect on fines that can run into the millions of dollars, according to contract records reviewed by Wired. The fines stem from a 1996 law revived under Trump that DHS says has generated over $84 billion in penalties, and legal advocates say the collection push raises real due-process questions.

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us politics 6 2d ago 4 min read

Alberta's Oct. 19 Referendum Has 10 Questions. One Is Secession. Nine Are About Immigrants.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith called a referendum for Oct. 19 with one question on leaving Canada and nine others on immigration and provincial autonomy. Neighbors are now flying dueling flags over it, and immigration lawyers say the ballot language is confusing enough that voters may not understand what they're actually approving.

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us politics 6 2d ago 3 min read

HHS Launches Hotline Campaign for 479,000 Migrant Children Who Entered the U.S. Alone Under Biden

HHS is rolling out a 30-second bilingual PSA this week directing unaccompanied migrant children who entered the U.S. before January 2025 to a national hotline for trafficking and abuse victims. The push follows an August 2024 inspector general report finding roughly 320,000 of these kids couldn't be located, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says authorities have now found more than 148,000 of them.

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us politics 6 3d ago 3 min read

Sen. John Curtis Introduces Bill Letting States Sponsor Their Own Migrant Worker Visas

Utah Republican John Curtis and Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly introduced a bill Monday letting states petition the federal government for their own guest-worker visa programs, with a path to legal status for participants. Backers call it a fix for labor shortages. Critics, including Heritage Foundation immigration analyst Lora Ries, call it a new pathway to legalization dressed up as a pilot program.

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pk sports 4 3d ago 4 min read

Five Commonwealth Games Athletes Go Missing in Glasgow, Police Say, With Some Seeking Asylum

Four Ugandan boxers and one Pakistani boxer skipped their flights home after the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games wrapped up Sunday. Police Scotland says it's working with the Home Office to sort out what happened. This is the same playbook as 2014, when Glasgow last hosted the Games and dozens of athletes vanished the same way.

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us politics 4 3d ago 3 min read

Haitian Migrant Paroled Under Biden Charged With Raping Two Women in Salt Lake City

Moise Sainteran, admitted to the U.S. in September 2023 under Joe Biden's Haitian parole program, faces rape and sexual assault charges in two separate Salt Lake City incidents in July and August. ICE says his legal status expired when the Trump administration ended the parole pipeline in April 2025, and the agency wants local jail officials to hand him over instead of releasing him.

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il politics 6 3d ago 4 min read

Ex-Attorney Testifies Israeli Confessions Behind Sarsour Deportation Case Were Coerced

A former defense attorney testified in Chicago immigration court that Wisconsin mosque leader Salah Sarsour was tortured into confessing to crimes in Israel decades ago, and was never convicted of ties to a terrorist group. DHS wants him deported as a foreign policy threat over those old convictions, even though he has no U.S. criminal record.

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fr health 6 3d ago 4 min read

173 Migrants Rescued After Channel Boat Catches Fire, All Set to Return to France

A boat carrying migrants across the English Channel caught fire Tuesday morning, forcing a mass rescue by French and British vessels. The final count grew from an initial 157 to 173 rescued, with 11 minor injuries and no deaths reported. Everyone pulled from the water is being sent back to France.

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us politics 3 3d ago 3 min read

2018 Video Shows El-Sayed Backed Driver's Licenses for Illegal Immigrants

A resurfaced 2018 interview shows Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed arguing it was discriminatory to deny driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. El-Sayed hasn't publicly addressed the resurfaced comments or said whether he still holds that position eight years later. The clip lands as immigration enforcement and state ID access remain live fights in Michigan and nationally.

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us politics 5 3d ago 3 min read

US Resumes Venezuela Deportation Flights, Six Weeks After Earthquakes Halted Them

The US sent 147 Venezuelan migrants back to Barcelona on Monday, the first deportation flight since two 7.0-plus magnitude earthquakes killed more than 6,000 people in late June. The pause lasted roughly five weeks; deportations had been running at hundreds per week before the disaster.

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us economy 6 4d ago 4 min read

CBP Orders Border Wall Contractors to Stop Drilling Unpermitted Wells in Drought-Hit New Mexico

Customs and Border Protection told border wall contractors to stop drilling new water wells in southern New Mexico after ranchers said unregulated pumping was draining aquifers their cattle depend on. The state found at least eight wells drilled without permits, and CBP now says it will work with New Mexico and the USDA on a groundwater plan.

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es economy 7 4d ago 4 min read

60,000 Migrants Crossed Into Spain's Ceuta in 24 Hours. Sanchez Is Now Fighting Off the EU, Not Just Morocco.

Roughly 60,000 migrants poured across the Morocco-Ceuta border between July 30 and 31, and Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez spent the following days getting hammered by fellow EU leaders instead of getting their help. Spain says nearly 69,500 have since returned to Morocco, but the political damage to Sanchez, and the questions about Morocco's role, aren't going away.

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us politics 5 4d ago 3 min read

ICE Arrests Include Convicted Murderer, Three Child Sex Offenders in Weekend Sweep

ICE agents arrested illegal immigrants with prior convictions for homicide, child sexual assault and other violent crimes over the weekend, according to a DHS spokesperson cited by Breitbart News. The cases raise a real question that gets little attention: how people with existing violent felony convictions were still in the country to be arrested at all.

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us politics 6 4d ago 4 min read

Homicides Down 18 Percent in First Half of 2026, DHS and Council on Criminal Justice Data Show

Homicides fell 18 percent in the first half of 2026 versus the same period last year, and are down 51 percent from 2022, according to the Council on Criminal Justice and DHS. DHS ties the drop to deportations of criminal illegal immigrants, but the report itself doesn't isolate that as the cause, and two categories, domestic violence and sexual assault, actually rose.

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us politics 7 4d ago 4 min read

23 States Sue Trump Administration Over Plan to Share Welfare Recipients' Data With Immigration Officials

Democratic-led states and DC sued Monday to stop a federal rule letting the Administration for Children and Families share Social Security numbers and immigration status of TANF recipients with agencies including DHS. The rule is set to take effect August 11. States say it violates federal law by letting Washington override state control of the program; the administration says it's checking whether states are actually verifying eligibility.

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us politics 6 4d ago 3 min read

Cubans Fleeing Blackouts Are Skipping the U.S. Border for Brazil Instead

With Trump-era pathways to the U.S. mostly closed, Cubans applied for asylum in Brazil at a record rate last year, over 41,000 applications, according to the Brazilian government. Many fly to visa-free Guyana first, then cross into Brazil through the Amazon, a total reversal of the old northward route.

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es economy 7 5d ago 4 min read

Ceuta Death Toll Hits 72 as Spain Builds Sea Barrier and Nearly All 60,000 Migrants Return to Morocco

Since the mass border breach that began Thursday and Friday, at least 72 people are confirmed dead and roughly 48,300 of the 50,000-60,000 migrants who crossed into Ceuta have gone back to Morocco, Spanish officials said Sunday. Spain is building a 500-meter containment fence, while far-right figures who descended on the city were met with counterprotests from residents, including the city's large Muslim population.

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in defense 5 5d ago 3 min read

India Plans ₹5,000 Crore Northeast Infrastructure Push for FY27, Citing China's Border Buildup

New Delhi has drawn up a ₹5,000 crore spending plan for its northeastern states in FY27, funding roads, schools and hospitals along the China border. The money is real and the need is real, but the hospital locations aren't even picked yet, and India has a long history of border infrastructure plans moving slower than Beijing's.

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us politics 7 5d ago 4 min read

Legal Aid Contract for Migrant Children Lapses Friday as Asylum Interviews Get Fast-Tracked

A federal contract that funded lawyers for unaccompanied migrant children expired Friday, with the government owing the nonprofit contractor roughly $65 million in unpaid bills since December. At the same time, USCIS has sharply sped up asylum interview scheduling for kids who now may face those interviews without a lawyer in the room.

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es politics 8 5d ago 3 min read

Ceuta Death Toll Hits 67 as Spain and Italy Trade Blame Over Viral Migrant Surge

Since the Thursday surge that sent tens of thousands swimming into Ceuta, Spanish authorities have confirmed 67 deaths and returned most migrants to Morocco, while the political fallout between Madrid and Rome has only deepened. The core question, whether the rush was spontaneous viral hype or something organized, remains unanswered heading into Tuesday's emergency EU meeting.

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us defense 4 6d ago 3 min read

ICE Arrests Guatemalan Man Charged With Rape After Release From Massachusetts Jail

ICE agents arrested 23-year-old Rocael Ordonez-Cruz on July 21 right after Middlesex County released him from custody, weeks after Arlington, Massachusetts police charged him with rape and other sex crimes. He's an illegal immigrant with no record of legal entry, now sitting in ICE custody awaiting removal proceedings.

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us politics 6 6d ago 4 min read

New Jersey Points Noncitizens Wrongly Registered to Vote Toward State-Funded Immigration Lawyers

Since Gov. Mikie Sherrill's July 21 disclosure that a Motor Vehicle Commission software error put roughly 6,600 noncitizens on New Jersey's voter rolls, her administration has posted an FAQ site that links those same people to a $20 million taxpayer-funded legal defense fund for immigration cases. State Republicans call it backwards priorities; the administration says it's separate from the voter mess and about due process, not a program built specifically for this scandal.

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us economy 7 6d ago 4 min read

Western Union Says Immigration Crackdown Is Hitting Its Remittance Business, Stock Falls 15%

Western Union executives told investors this week that tighter U.S. immigration enforcement is shrinking remittance volumes, with U.S.-to-Mexico transfers down over 3% in Q2 2026. Shares fell 15% on the news, the clearest evidence yet that Trump-era border policy is squeezing a company that built a business model on migrant money transfers and high fees.

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us politics 7 6d ago 4 min read

DHS Cancels Over 28,000 Trucker Licenses Tied to Non-Citizens, Launches Veteran Replacement Program

The Trump administration says it has worked with states to cancel more than 28,000 commercial driver's licenses issued to non-citizens and pulled nearly 24,000 non-English-speaking drivers off the road. A new "Freedom Haulers" program will fast-track military veterans into trucking jobs to fill the gap.

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us politics 5 6d ago 3 min read

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore Creates Immigrant Rights Task Force, Advocacy Group Calls It Response to Trump Policies

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed an executive order creating a 12-month task force aimed at protecting immigrants from fraud and discrimination. Haitian Bridge Alliance praised the move and explicitly framed it as pushback against the Trump administration's immigration enforcement, though Moore's own stated purpose is narrower: fighting scams targeting immigrant communities.

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us politics 7 6d ago 4 min read

Federal Contract Dispute Cuts Off Legal Aid to 26,000 Migrant Children Starting Monday

The Office of Refugee Resettlement let a legal-services contract expire after lawyers refused to hand over confidential attorney-client information the agency demanded. As a result, roughly 26,000 unaccompanied migrant children could face immigration court alone starting Monday, and lawyers say the win rate for kids without representation is under 1%.

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es economy 7 6d ago 4 min read

Spain Calls Ceuta Migrant Surge an 'Attack,' Says 37,500 of 50,000 Already Sent Back to Morocco

Roughly 50,000 migrants crossed into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta starting Thursday after smugglers spread false claims about a Spanish Supreme Court ruling. By Friday afternoon, Spain says over 37,500 had already returned to Morocco, while Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called the mass crossing a 'violation of Spain's territorial integrity' and deployed the military.

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es economy 8 6d ago 2 min read

Ceuta Death Toll Reaches 67 as Spain Says Most Migrants Have Returned to Morocco

Spain's government says the death toll in the Ceuta border crisis has climbed to 67, with fatalities from drownings and a stampede at a breakwater barrier. Spanish authorities say most of the roughly 60,000 migrants who crossed between Thursday and Friday have already returned to Morocco, and Ceuta is installing a 500-meter containment barrier along the breakwater fence.

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us politics 6 Aug 1 2 min read

Immigration Courts Speed Up Hearings, Deportation Orders Climb

Immigration courts are moving faster, and deportation orders are rising as a result, according to AP News. Speeding up a system matters, but only if due process holds up under the new pace.

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us politics 3 Aug 1 4 min read

Little Italy Left Off NYC's Official Immigrant Enclave Map, Blakeman Calls It Intentional, Mamdani Blames Adams-Era Map

New York City's 'Immigrant Enclaves' map lists 30 neighborhoods but skips Little Italy, Little Odessa and Astoria's Greek community, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman says that's no accident. Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the map dates back to the Eric Adams administration in 2023 and isn't meant to be exhaustive. Both things can be checked against the record, and the record says the map is old and incomplete, not that anyone's proven intent either way.

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es economy 7 Aug 1 4 min read

Italy Suspends Schengen With Spain for One Month as Ceuta Migrants Return to Morocco

With most of the roughly 50,000 migrants who crossed into Ceuta since Thursday already back in Morocco, Italy pulled the trigger anyway, suspending Schengen with Spain for a month and reinstating checks on non-EU travelers. Rome's own opposition calls it political theater aimed at a rising far-right rival, not a real response to a crisis that's already fading.

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us politics 7 Jul 31 4 min read

Trump Administration Drafts Rule Gutting Head Start Standards, Barring Immigrant Families

A draft rule from the Department of Health and Human Services would scrap most of Head Start's 133-page performance standards and add the first-ever restrictions on immigrant enrollment, according to The Nation, citing two people with direct knowledge of the document. The rule hasn't been published yet, but it's sitting at the Office of Management and Budget for review right now.

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es economy 7 Jul 31 4 min read

Spain Sends 25,000-Plus Migrants Back to Morocco as Ceuta Death Toll Hits 57

Since the 60,000-person border rush hit Ceuta Thursday into Friday, Spain says it has already returned more than 25,000 migrants to Morocco, deporting over 150 a minute. The death toll has climbed to at least 57 as officials sort out how many actually crossed and how many left voluntarily.

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us politics 5 Jul 31 4 min read

ICE Arrests Johns Hopkins Researcher at BWI Over Expired Visa

ICE agents arrested Fatima Ameaka, a Cameroon-born researcher at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health, at BWI airport on July 28 for overstaying a visa that expired in June 2024. She's in ICE custody awaiting removal proceedings, and the arrest is part of a broader push tying TSA airport data to ICE enforcement.

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us politics 6 Jul 31 4 min read

44 Migrants Dead Off Ceuta This Year as Trump Blames Spain's Government, Warns UK Is Next

Nearly 50,000 migrants pushed across the Moroccan border into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, with 14 bodies recovered in 24 hours and 44 deaths total so far this year. Trump used the crisis to warn Americans about Democrats and to tell UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham his country is being 'killed' by open borders.

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es defense 8 Jul 31 4 min read

Ceuta Death Toll Rises to 34 as Spain Deploys Military After 60,000 Migrants Cross From Morocco

Since thousands stormed the Ceuta border Thursday, the confirmed death toll has climbed to 34 and the crossing count has grown to roughly 60,000, according to Ceuta's president. Spain has now sent in troops, Sánchez is blaming trafficking networks for exploiting a court ruling, and the numbers keep getting worse by the hour.

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us politics 5 Jul 30 4 min read

Steve Hilton Makes Becerra's Missing Migrant Children Record a California Governor's Race Issue

Steve Hilton is campaigning on a DHS inspector general finding that more than 319,000 unaccompanied migrant children could not be tracked after leaving HHS custody under Xavier Becerra. The number is real and government-audited, but it conflates kids who simply weren't put into immigration proceedings with kids who are actually missing, and Becerra has pushed back on the broader framing before.

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us defense 6 Jul 30 4 min read

DHS Plans to Triple Border Surveillance Towers to 2,300 by 2034, Funded by $1 Billion in New Spending

A federal audit shows DHS wants to grow its border surveillance tower network from 830 to 2,300 by 2034, backed by more than $6 billion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The government has tried nearly identical tower programs before, and they've collapsed after burning through hundreds of millions and billions of dollars.

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es politics 6 Jul 30 4 min read

Thousands Storm Spain's Ceuta Border as Local Leader Demands National Emergency

Hundreds of migrants scaled an unguarded fence into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on Thursday, adding to roughly 1,500 who swam across in the past week. Ceuta's regional leader, Juan Jesús Vivas, says shelters for unaccompanied minors are at 2,400% capacity and wants the army deployed. Madrid is sending its interior minister Friday, but the legal tools to actually stop these crossings just got weaker.

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us politics 7 Jul 30 4 min read

USCIS Rule Lets Officers Send More Asylum Cases Straight to Immigration Court

A new USCIS rule effective this week lets asylum officers refer far more applications directly to immigration court, where denial is far more likely. USCIS Director Joseph Edlow says the change targets a system exploited for delay and work permits, not real persecution claims. Asylum approvals are already at their lowest point in at least two decades.

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us politics 7 Jul 29 4 min read

Court Filing Shows Immigration Agents Used Slurs 'Tonk' and 'Wet' During 2025 LA Raids

A federal court filing from the ACLU and Public Counsel includes body camera footage and texts showing immigration agents using slurs like 'tonk' and 'wet' during last summer's Los Angeles raids. The filing asks a judge to bar agents from stopping people based on race, ethnicity or job type. DHS calls it 'performative outrage' and hasn't addressed the specific language.

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us politics 6 Jul 29 4 min read

Federal Prosecutors Charge Traveler for Wiping His Phone During a Border Search

Samuel Tunick gave CBP agents a 'duress password' that erased his phone instead of unlocking it after returning from the Dominican Republic in January 2025. Federal prosecutors charged him under a rarely used destruction-of-property law, and his case had its first hearing last week. The prosecution raises a real question: does the border search exception let the government demand your data, and can you be charged with a crime for making sure they don't get it?

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us politics 8 Jul 29 4 min read

USCIS Can Now Skip Interviews and Send Asylum Cases Straight to Deportation Court

USCIS rolled out an interim rule Tuesday letting officers refer asylum applications straight to immigration judges without an interview first. The agency says it will cut its 1.4 million-case backlog by roughly a third. Immigration attorneys say some applicants could end up in deportation proceedings without ever getting a hearing on the merits of their claim.

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us politics 5 Jul 29 4 min read

Rick Scott Bill Would Charge Employers $10,000 to File Green Card Labor Applications

Senator Rick Scott introduced the American Hiring Transparency Act, which would slap a $10,000 fee on employers filing PERM applications to sponsor foreign workers for green cards. The bill targets a known loophole where companies post job ads in obscure papers to technically satisfy the law while avoiding qualified American applicants.

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us economy 6 Jul 28 3 min read

Massachusetts Immigrant Newcomer High School Enrollment Drops 20 Percent as Federal Enforcement Ramps Up

A Brown University study finds Massachusetts high schools enrolled 5,300 immigrant newcomer students in 2024-25, down from a peak of 6,400 the year before, as federal immigration enforcement intensified. The same report finds only 6% of newcomers who arrived with low English skills graduated proficient in English, raising real questions about whether the state's schools were ever equipped to serve this population.

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us politics 7 Jul 28 4 min read

ICE Arrests Hit 43,000 in June, a Monthly Record, as Airport Detentions Spread to the Bay Area

ICE booked more than 43,000 people into detention in June, its highest monthly total under the Trump administration, according to Government Executive. Immigration lawyers in the Bay Area say the crackdown has now moved into airports, with more than a dozen travelers detained at SFO and SJC since late June.

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us politics 7 Jul 28 4 min read

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Calls Trump's Haitian Deportation Plan a Mistake as TPS Expires

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine told CBS News that ramped-up ICE arrests of Haitian migrants would hurt Springfield's economy and send people back to a country in 'virtual chaos.' Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Haitians lapses this week after the Supreme Court let the Trump administration end the program, and DeWine says most who leave won't go back to Haiti voluntarily.

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ua energy 7 Jul 28 3 min read

Ukrainian Drone Strike Knocks Russia's Tyumen Refinery Fully Offline, 2,000 KM From the Border

A July 25 drone strike set fire to key units at Russia's Tyumen oil refinery, forcing a complete shutdown of crude processing and fuel production, according to Reuters. It's the sixth major Russian refinery to go offline from drone strikes since early July, deepening domestic fuel shortages Moscow has been fighting since May.

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us politics 6 Jul 28 3 min read

Austria Deports More Migrants Than It Received New Asylum Applications, First Time in Over 20 Years

Austrian government data show roughly 7,000 deportations and removals in the first half of 2026 against about 4,900 new asylum applications, a 44% drop from a year earlier. Vienna credits tighter border controls and the suspension of family reunification for the shift, which followed the Freedom Party's record 2024 election result.

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us politics 5 Jul 28 4 min read

Becerra Faces Renewed Scrutiny Over Missing Migrant Children as California Governor's Race Heats Up

A former HHS senior adviser claims as many as 130,000 migrant children remain unaccounted for from Xavier Becerra's tenure as Health and Human Services secretary, far above earlier estimates. The claims land as Becerra runs for California governor and rival Steve Hilton pushes new whistleblower allegations of trafficking and child labor.

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