• 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.

  • DEPORTATIONSAmid Trump Immigration Crackdown, Texas Reins in Border Spending and Shifts Focus to Deportations

    By Alejandro Serrano

    With border crossings at record lows, state authorities are being sent to arrest people accused of committing crimes in Texas after entering the country illegally.

  • DEPORTATIONSDeportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to the “Big Beautiful Bill”

    By David J. Bier

    The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1). will direct an astounding $168 billion of the budget to immigration and border law enforcement, and there is even more for agencies that indirectly support immigration law enforcement. But the CBO’s cost estimate is deficient in three ways, not to mention the fact that immigrants are reducing the deficit and debt, so removing them will dramatically increase future debt.  

  • DEPORTATIONSLocal Police Join ICE Deportation Force in Record Numbers Despite Warnings Program Lacks Oversight

    By Rafael Carranza and Gabriel Sandoval

    ICE officials tout an unprecedented expansion of its 287(g) Program, driven by agreements that allow local officers to function as deportation agents during routine policing. But advocates warn such agreements come at a high cost to communities.

  • DEPORTATIONS50+ Venezuelans Imprisoned in El Salvador Came to U.S. Legally, Never Violated Immigration Law

    By David J. Bier

    Shortly after the U.S. government illegally and unconstitutionally transported about 240 Venezuelans to be imprisoned in El Salvador’s notorious “terrorism” prison, a CBS News investigation found that 75 percent of the men had no criminal record in the United States or abroad. Less attention has been paid to the fact that dozens of these men never violated immigration laws either.

  • DEPORTATIONSTrump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes

    By Mica Rosenberg, Perla Trevizo, Melissa Sanchez, Ronna Rísquez, Adrián González, and Gabriel Sandoval

    Homeland Security records reveal that the Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 238 Venezuelan immigrants it sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the United States. DHS still labeled them “terrorists” and deported them.

  • CRIMESurge of ICE Agreements with Local Police Aim to Increase Deportations, but Many Police Forces Have Found They Undermine Public Safety

    By W. Carsten Andresen

    The federal 287(g) program allows ICE to train state and local authorities to function as federal immigration officers. The use of 287(g) has surged since January, and as a criminal justice scholar, I believe this surge sets a dangerous precedent for local policing, where forging relationships and building the trust of immigrants is a proven and effective tactic in combating crime. The expansion of 287(g) will erode that trust and makes entire communities – not just immigrants – less safe.