The Trump Administration Asked To Restart Nearly 20,000 Suspended Immigration Cases — As It Faces An Existing Backlog
“The administration has sought out creative ways to find and remove people already in the system.”
Immigrant Families Are Being Housed Under A Bridge As The Border Patrol Chief Warns Of An Immigration “Breaking Point”
CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan announced 750 officers will be reassigned to the southern border.
The Trump Administration Is Expanding Its Controversial Policy Of Making Asylum-Seekers Wait In Mexico
A congresswoman who represents the Texas border area called the policy "shameful" and warned it is "endangering lives."
ICE Can Access Hundreds Of Millions Of License Plate Scans To Follow Immigrants, These Documents Show
The ACLU says the technology "fuels [ICE's] deportation machine."
The Trump Administration Studied Plans To Deter Immigrants At The Southern Border, This Document Shows
"‘Deterrence’ was what they were planning for,” said a former senior Homeland Security adviser who reviewed the document.
ICE Officials Shared And “Liked” Ilhan Omar And Anti-Immigrant Conspiracy Theories
One post discovered by BuzzFeed News described the Muslim congresswoman as a “trojan horse” who came to the US because of a “refugee outbreak.”
Immigrants Who Were Rejected For Asylum Have The Right To A Federal Judge Review, A Court Ruled
"It’s the first case to hold that asylum-seekers in the border area are entitled to their day in court."
The Trump Administration Will Pause Its Hiring Of Immigration Judges Amid A Massive Backlog Of Cases
The pause deals a blow to an administration that has long complained that the immigration court backlog has led to wait times stretching months and years.
The Trump Administration Plans To Expand Its Policy To Keep Asylum-Seekers In Mexico
People seeking asylum, which is legal to request when crossing the border, generally claim to be fleeing persecution in their home countries.
Emails Show US Border Officials Didn’t Receive “Zero Tolerance” Guidance Until After The Policy Was Enacted
“The takeaway is that there was no planning or prep for this,” said a former DHS official.
“Could You Please Check His Status?”: Records Show How A US-Born Marine Ended Up In ICE Custody
Communications obtained by the ACLU of Michigan show how a local police captain flagged Jilmar Ramos-Gomez to ICE. “He was a veteran?!” a local prosecutor objected to police.
Trump Said He Ordered His Administration To Withhold Wildfire Aid To California. FEMA Says He Never Did.
The president tweeted that he was cutting off disaster assistance to wildfire survivors to punish California officials. But no record of such an order exists.
The ACLU Has Sued The Trump Administration For Keeping Migrants Seeking Asylum In Mexico
The first asylum-seeking Central American families — five families made up of four women, one couple, and 10 children — were sent back to Mexico from the US on Wednesday.
Being An Immigration Judge Was Their Dream. Under Trump, It Became Untenable.
“It has become so emotionally brutal and exhausting that many people I know are leaving or talking about finding an exit strategy,” said one immigration judge. “Morale has never, ever been lower.”
ICE Wanted To Deport 21 Savage On An “Aggravated Felony” Charge — But They Just Dropped It
The rapper, whose real name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, is still going through deportation proceedings.
A Record Number Of Immigrants Are Detained In The US. Blame Trump’s “Draconian” Policies, A Former ICE Official Says.
“This record high number results entirely from the draconian enforcement policies of the Trump Administration."
No One Has To Prove The Allegations In An Interpol Red Notice. But They Were Enough For ICE To Separate This Mother From Her Family.
The US agrees that a so-called “red notice” from Interpol isn’t an arrest warrant and can often be abused. Yet ICE used the existence of one as the reason to detain a mother from El Salvador.
The Trump Administration Will Start Sending Some Asylum-Seekers Back To Mexico
A US official critical of the policy said it would lead migrants to “revert to sneaking in rather than going to ports of entry” and cause “more deaths in the desert.”
Immigration Staffers Were Warned Not To Leak Information To The Public
One USCIS official said the directive was puzzling. “If they want to stop people from talking to the press, they got to stop being so scandalous.”
US-Born Marine Veteran Detained By ICE Was Carrying His US Passport When He Was Arrested
Jilmar Ramos-Gomez also was carrying a driver’s license and military ID, said the ACLU, which wants to know how he ended up in ICE custody for three days.