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DEPORTATIONSExile by Agreement: Guyana and U.S. Expansion of Third-Country Deportations
On September 5, Guyana received six people expelled from the United States who were not Guyanese. There are many questions yet to be answered about the Guyana case, and the answers to these questions will determine whether Guyana’s arrangement is a temporary humanitarian placement with real legal protections, or a new outpost in an expanding system of globalized deportation.
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IMMIGRATIONDHS Disputes Report on Immigration Enforcement Impact
By Jim Talamonti, The Center Square
Researchers say heightened federal immigration enforcement corresponded with about $1.26 billion in foregone retail and restaurant activity in Cook County, but the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dismissed the correlation between a good economy and illegal immigration.
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ICETrump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
By Megan Rose and Andy Mannix
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that Trump officials quashed those plans.
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DEPORTATIONSWhere Have the Workers Gone? 2 Million Foreign-Born Men Have Left the Country, Analysis Says
By Marty Schladen
Economists, policymakers and journalists have been puzzling over why so many workers between 25 and 54 have been leaving the labor force over the past two years. Happening amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportations, many were probably forced to leave.
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IMMIGRATIONImmigration Enforcement: More Than 175,000 Visas Revoked in 20 Months
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square
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.
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DEPORTATIONSWith New Tactics, ICE Reaches New High in Monthly Arrests
By Tim Henderson
Federal immigration agents are employing new tactics — from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest — to boost their arrest numbers, leading to a new high of 51,000 arrested immigrants in July.
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IMMIGRATIONTrump Official Urges Governors to Help with Immigration Arrests of “Worst of the Worst”
By Kevin Hardy
The nation’s top immigration official said arrests would prove safer with the cooperation of city and state law enforcement.
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DEPORTING TERRORISTSDormant Tribunal to Hear First Case in 30 Years
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.
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DEPORTING TERRORISTSHow the Alien Terrorist Removal Court Could Be Good for the U.S. Immigration System
By Jess Dawgert
Given the Trump administration’s politicization of immigration, there is ample reason to be skeptical of the motives behind DOJ’s use of this tribunal. However, regardless of motive, the activation of the ATRC could end up being a key step toward positive changes in due process for noncitizens and it may help underscore that the immigration system needs to be reformed.
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IMMIGRATIONIs Debanking the New Immigration Policy?
By Nicholas Anthony
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.
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DEPORTATIONSTrump Administration Ramps up Pressure on Indefinite Immigrant Detention
By Tim Henderson
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.
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DEPORTATIONSICE Is Arresting Relatives Who Come Forward to Take Custody of Migrant Children in Federal Shelters
By Uriel J. García and Alex Nguyen
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.
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ICEImmigrants, DHS agents and traffic stops: Violent outcomes repeat across the U.S.
By Ariana Figueroa
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.
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ICETrump Presses ICE to Continue Traffic Stops Despite Fatal Shootings
By Ariana Figueroa
President Donald Trump directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to resume traffic stops Wednesday, reversing a one-day pause on the policy after officers killed two immigrants who were in their vehicles in Texas and Maine.
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IMMIGRATIONRepeal All Immigration Laws Stripping Court Review
By David J. Bier
In Mullin v. Doe, the Supreme Court upheld DHS’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians. The Supreme Court held that whether DHS violated the law does not matter because Congress stripped courts of jurisdiction even to review the statutorily mandated process behind DHS decision. The case shows why a future Congress should systematically repeal laws that bar judicial review.
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