In roughly 20 months, the U.S. State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas of foreign nationals who “violated the terms of their visas, committed crimes, called for violence against U.S. citizens, defrauded Americans, abused the immigration system or endangered national security,” the State Department announced. 

DHS deploys AI in immigration enforcement largely untested, undisclosed, and unreviewed, a preview of how AI could reshape executive power. DHS deploys AI in immigration enforcement largely untested, undisclosed, and unreviewed, a preview of how AI could reshape executive power. These systems are being developed and normalized first on noncitizens before expanding to all. DHS is now deploying artificial intelligence (AI) systems that already exhibit many of the governance problems AI scholars warn could emerge as more capable systems enter government.

The State-Sponsored Visa Pilot Program Act is a rare thing in immigration policy: a genuinely federalist reform that lets Washington’s one-size-fits-all approach give way to 50 different answers to 50 different labor markets. 

Congress built a narrow legal mechanism for extraordinary counterterrorism cases. For three decades, that mechanism lay dormant because it was difficult to use and politically unattractive. Now the Trump administration has forced it into the open, and the question is whether it can survive the scrutiny that comes with first use.

the Trump administration as recruited a new type of agents in its war on immigration: Financial regulators. Their weapon of choice appears to be debanking.

Seeking to stop a “flood” of court cases freeing immigrants from mandatory detention, the Trump administration is asking an appeals court to put three immigrants back in detention.

ICE agents used live rounds to shoot at 22 people since January 2025 – 19 of them involved DHS officers shooting on people in their vehicles during traffic stops. Since January 2025, federal immigration officers have killed six people, three of them U.S. citizens. Four deaths came during traffic stops.

A detailed data analysis demonstrates that the apparent crime gap between the foreign and native populations is primarily due to the fact that the immigrant profile tends to concentrate more young men—the demographic sector with the highest crime rates in any society.

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday upheld the country’s long understanding of automatic citizenship by birth on American soil, regardless of the immigration status of a newborn’s parents.