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Judge Blocks Immigration Arrests Inside Some Churches
A federal judge on Monday blocked immigration agents from conducting enforcement operations in houses of worship for Quakers and a...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 252 min read
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Arizona Considers Using Bounties to Aid Trump Deportations
Arizona's legislature is set to vote on legislation to pay police $2,500 for every illegal immigrant they help deport, marking it the...
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Feb 251 min read
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Manhattan Hotel Called ‘the New Ellis Island’ will Stop Housing Migrants by June
The former Roosevelt Hotel, a century-old building in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, will stop operating as a shelter this summer, The...
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Feb 252 min read
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Mass-Deportation Proposal Pitched to White House Calls for ‘Processing Camps’ and a Private Citizen ‘Army’
A mass-deportation proposal circulated by Trump allies was pitched to the White House by a group of prominent military contractors,...
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Feb 251 min read
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States Threaten Officials Resisting Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Republican state lawmakers seeking to aid President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration are threatening local officials who resist...
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Feb 242 min read
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ICE Director Removed As Agents Fail To Make Deportation Targets
The Trump administration removed the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement one month into his tenure, as White House...
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Feb 222 min read
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U.S. Designates Eight Latin American Groups as ‘Foreign Terrorist Organizations’
The United States government is formally designating eight Latin American organized crime groups that also operate in the U.S. to be...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 202 min read
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Can NYC Mayor Flout Sanctuary Law, Bring ICE Back To Rikers?
Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that he is preparing an executive order that would welcome U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement...
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Feb 202 min read
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Court Rejects Trump Emergency Appeal of Birthright-Citizenship Ruling
Saying that courts have never recognized an exception to birthright citizenship, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 202 min read
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Some Migrant Children Navigate Court Alone, After Federal Cuts to Legal-Services Organizations
“Children so young their feet can’t touch the floor when they sit in courtroom chairs have been left without representation in...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 202 min read
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Uncovering Facets of ‘Secretive Migrant Mission’ at Guantanamo Bay
Many details are still unknown about how the United States is implementing President Donald Trump’s recent order to expand operations to...
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Feb 203 min read
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Three Venezuelan Migrants Deported Following Successful Legal Challenge To Trump's Guantanamo Transfers
Three men held in immigration custody for over a year and facing the possibility of transfer to Guantánamo Bay asked a federal court to...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 192 min read
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Coming Vote On Sanctuary City Bill Will Test Democratic Party
The close relationship between congressional Democrats and immigration advocacy groups has been strained since the election as lawmakers...
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Feb 182 min read
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Amid 3.7M Case Backlog, Trump Fires Immigration Judges
The Trump administration fired a slew of immigration judges as part of the sweeping moves to cut thousands of government workers. The...
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Feb 182 min read
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Immigrant Arrests Drop To 600 Daily After Hitting 1,179 in January
President Trump has launched an all-of-government immigration crackdown with the urgency of a wartime effort, a mobilization comparable...
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Feb 172 min read
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Trump’s Immigration Effort Leaves Migrant Shelters Nearly Empty
Migrant shelters that helped nearly a thousand asylum seekers per day at the height of migrant crossings a few years ago are now nearly...
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Feb 142 min read
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Pope Francis Says Mass Deportations 'Will End Badly,' Rebukes Migrant Crackdown
Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations of migrants , warning that the...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 131 min read
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DOJ Sues New York Over Law Allowing Undocumented Immigrants to Get Driver's Licenses
The second Donald Trump administration brought a civil action against New York over provisions in the state’s “Green Light” law, which...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
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ACLU Sues For Access To Migrants Flown To Guantanamo Bay
Civil rights attorneys sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to gain access to detained migrants who they say have been flown to...
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Feb 132 min read
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Some Migrants Guarded by Military, in Guantanamo Prison Where Al Qaeda Suspects Held
Dozens of Venezuelan migrants sent by the Trump administration to the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are being guarded by...
Crime and Justice News
Feb 132 min read
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