Illegal immigration

IMMIGRTIONTrump Administration’s Immigrant Detention Policy Broadly Rejected by Federal Judges
By Cassandra Burke Robertson
In response to the Trump administration’s practice of rounding up and jailing immigrants without a hearing — a departure from fundamental constitutional protections — federal judges have systematically rejected the administration’s attempt to drastically expand who can be locked up without a hearing while awaiting deportation proceedings.
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IMMIGRATIONMore Industries Want Trump’s Help Hiring Immigrant Labor After Farms Get a Break
By Tim Henderson
Restaurants, construction and landscaping businesses have lost the most workers, a Stateline analysis found. Now, industries with large immigrant workforces are asking for relief as they combat labor shortages and raids.
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DEPORTATIONS5% of People Detained by ICE Have Violent Convictions, 73% No Convictions
By David J. Bier
President Trump’s deportation agenda does not match the campaign promises that he made – he said he would focus on deporting “the worst of the worse” – nor the rhetoric from his officials. The opposite is the case: for example, 73 percent of people booked into ICE custody this fiscal year had no criminal conviction. Of the small number of those convicted of a crime, the majority had vice, immigration, or traffic convictions. The problem: the diversion of effort and resources to find and deport noncriminal undocumented migrants has reduced the ability of DHS and the FBI to pursue investigations into terrorist financing; child exploitation and human trafficking; and drug and gun crimes.
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MIGRATIONNet Migration to the U.K. Has Dropped to Pre-Brexit Levels – Why It May Not Be Enough to Satisfy Voters
By Mihnea Cuibus
As numbers of migrants fall and restrictions on immigration are implemented, are high public concerns about immigration also likely to come down, reducing pressure on the government? Not necessarily, for several reasons. Hence, migration is likely to be a central political issue for the foreseeable future.
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DEPORTATIONTrump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
By A. C. Thompson and J. David McSwane
Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
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PRIVACYDHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks
By Jen Fifield and Zach Despart
It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.
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IMMIGRATIONDetails of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks of Trump Administration’s Use of Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
By Jen Fifield
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and privacy, experts say.
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FAKE EMERGENCIESWhite House’s Video About Supposed “Mess” in Chicago Consists Mostly of Stitched-Together Outdated Video Pieces from Six Other States
The White House released a video which, it claimed, showed unruly and violent conduct by Chicagoans in confrontations with police and ICE gents, thus justifying Trump’s order to send 300 Texas National Guard troops to deal with “the mess” in Chicago. But most of the released video had nothing to do with Chicago: It consisted of stitched-together pieces of video footage from six other states, with some of the video fragments filmed in 2023 and 2024, when Biden was president.
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IMMIGRATIONWe Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
By Nicole Foy
The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by immigration agents. We found more than 170 cases this year where citizens were detained at raids and protests. More than 20 citizens have reported being held for over a day without being able to call their loved ones or a lawyer. In some cases their families couldn’t find them.
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CLIMATE & MIGRATION4 Key Facts About Climate Change and Human Migration
By Ula Chrobak
How does climate change affect human migration and what does it mean for border policies? Learn about the complex relationship between weather and cross-border migration across different demographic groups, and the role for future policies.
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IMMIGRATIONReport: Feds Allowed 1,000s of Juvenile Gang Members, Criminals to Become Citizens
By Bethany Blankley, The Center Square
Congress has created several programs to allow illegal border crossers claiming to be minors to remain in the U.S. Despite years of documented abuse of the programs, Congress continues to fund them to the tune of billions of dollars.
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IMMIGRATIONThe “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy
By Molly Redden
The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the far right has been building this case for years.
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BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIPWhat Is Birthright Citizenship and Could the Supreme Court End It?
By Diana Roy
The Trump administration’s efforts to nullify birthright citizenship for millions of U.S.-born children could overturn a nearly 160-year legal precedent.
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IMMIGRATIONStates Are Telling Sheriffs Whether They Can — or Can’t — Work with ICE
By Tim Henderson
Cooperation between sheriffs and ICE lies at the heart of Trump’s immigration policy.
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HUMAN TRAFFICKINGStates Push to Combat Human Trafficking Amid Federal Funding Cuts
By Amanda Hernández
States are moving to strengthen protections against human trafficking, but some advocates warn that some programs might not have the resources to help survivors.
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