• DEMOCRACY WATCHTrump’s National Guard Deployments Reignite 200-Year-Old Legal Debate Over State vs. Federal Power

    By Andrea Katz

    If you’re confused about what the law does and doesn’t allow the president to do with the National Guard, that’s understandable. The conflict between the Trump administration and states such as Oregon and Illinois throws into relief a question as old as the Constitution itself: Where does federal power end and state authority begin?

  • DEMOCRACY WATCHUnfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

    By J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam

    Under President Donald Trump’s deportation mission, ICE officers are using force to detain and jail immigrants. The administration gutted guardrails and offices meant to rein in abusive actions. Some families say they have no idea where their loved ones were jailed after immigration raids.

  • FAKE EMERGENCIESWhat Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard

    By Rob Davis and Steve Suo

    President Donald Trump said there was a need to deploy National Guard troops to “War ravaged” Portland to protect “under-siege” ICE agents. The president’s claims were divorced from the reality on the ground. In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-spraying, and tackling protesters.

  • DEPORTATIONSRemovals from Inside U.S. Outnumber Border Deportations for the First Time Since 2014

    By Tim Henderson

    The Trump administration now expects about 600,000 total deportations in 2025, fewer than under the Biden administration’s final fiscal year, as a drop in border crossings outweighs the effect of increased deportations elsewhere.

  • ACCOUNTABILITYThere’s a Right to Record ICE Raids–and There’s No Blanket Immunity for Raiders

    By Walter Olson

    DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin have repeatedly asserted that citizens have no right to photograph or video record ICE raids or identify the officers by name. This is not an accurate description of the state of the law, and it is dangerous to tell ICE agents that they have blanket immunity whatever they do. If the agents are hearing a persistent message from their higher ups of “you’re immune no matter what you do,” it’s up to the rest of us to disabuse them of that error.

  • DEPORTATION BUSINESSTrading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

    By Avi Asher-Schapiro, Jeff Ernsthausen and Mica Rosenberg

    A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.

  • SURVEILLANCEDOJ Files Suit Against Six States That Refused to Share Voter Data

    By Barbara Barrett

    The Trump administration is seeking personal data on millions of Americans., but some states refuse to hand over the information to the government. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it is suing six states —California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania —that have refused to turn over detailed voter roll data demanded by federal attorneys earlier this year.

  • SHOOTING AT ICE FACILITYOne Detainee Dead, Two Critically Wounded After Shooting at Dallas ICE Facility

    By Uriel J. García, Colleen DeGuzman and Nicholas Gutteridge

    Officials said the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and no ICE personnel were among the victims. FBI Director Kash Patel said an anti-ICE message was found on an unspent shell casing.

  • DEPORTATIONSOne in Five ICE Arrests Are Latinos on the Streets with No Criminal Past or Removal Order

    By David J. Bier

    Illegal profiling accounts for a substantial portion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests in 2025. Mass deportation is a socially and economically damaging goal regardless, but it’s certainly not a goal for which we should sacrifice a sliver of our liberty or the Constitution. Only time will tell whether ICE and Border Patrol can continue to get away with these tactics.

  • DEPORTATIONSICE Has a New Courthouse Tactic: Get Immigrants’ Cases Tossed, Then Arrest Them Outside

    By Tim Henderson

    Inside immigration courts around the country, immigrants who crossed the border illegally and were caught and released are required to appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing. But in a new twist, the Trump administration has begun using an unexpected legal tactic in its deportation efforts. Rather than pursue a deportation case, it is convincing judges to dismiss immigrants’cases —thus depriving the immigrants of protection from arrest and detention —then taking them into custody.

  • DEPORTATIONSFewer Than Half of ICE Arrests Under Trump Are Convicted Criminals

    By Tim Henderson

    Despite Trump administration rhetoric accusing Democrats of protecting violent criminals and drug-dealing immigrants, the administration’s arrests have been catching a smaller share of criminals overall, and a smaller share of people convicted of violent and drug crimes, than the Biden administration did in the same time frame..

  • DEPORTATIONS & BUSINESSTrump’s Deportations Could Cost 6M Jobs: Report

    By Kevin Hardy

    President Donald Trump’s deportation plans could cost nearly 6 million jobs, according to a new analysis. The analysis warns that jobs held by both immigrants and US-born workers are at risk.

  • DEPORTATIONS & BUSINESSTexas Lawmaker Proposes Beefing Up Temporary Worker Program to Ease Farm Labor Shortages

    By Berenice Garcia

    The South Texas Republican’s “Bracero 2.0” legislation —named after a 1940s temporary labor program —would raise wages for migrant farmers and simplify applications for employers, amid other changes.

  • DEPORTATIONSIf Trump Wants More Deportations, He’ll Need to Target the Construction Industry

    By Tim Henderson

    As President Donald Trump sends mixed messages about immigration enforcement, ordering new raids on farms and hotels just days after saying he wouldn’t target those industries, he has hardly mentioned the industry that employs the most immigrant laborers: construction. Almost a quarter of all immigrants without a college degree work in construction.

  • GENOCIDEICE Arrests 'Leader and Perpetrator' of Rwandan Genocide

    By By Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square

    ICE officials say Vincent Nzigiyimfura, 64, residing in Dayton, Ohio, is accused of lying on applications for a green card and U.S. citizenship documents by “concealing his past role as a leader and perpetrator” of the 1994 Rwandan genocide responsible for the deaths of an estimated 800,000 of the Tutsi ethnic group, a minority group in the country.