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Immigration

Bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission votes 5-1 to tell clerks how to handle ICE, Homeland Security or FBI agents at polls, after clerks asked for guidance.

Justice Department sues California to set aside mail ballots from voters it calls likely noncitizens, as its 48-hour deadline lapses.

Judge clears fired FEMA finance chief, ruling Musk and then-DHS Secretary Noem knowingly spread false claims she approved migrant hotel payments.

Federal appeals court unanimously blocks California law requiring ICE and other federal agents to wear visible ID, ruling states can’t regulate federal operations.

Fresno prosecutors charge ICE agent with felony assault and elder abuse after he allegedly attacked a 72-year-old and his daughter who confronted him on their lawn.

ICE rejects congressional watchdog’s call to switch on agents’ body cameras automatically when weapons are drawn, a feature Customs and Border Protection already uses.

Justice Department gives California 48 hours to set aside mail ballots from voters it calls likely noncitizens or face suit, three weeks before Election Day.

Probe behind search of Democratic Rep. Omar’s home targets her birth date on teenage citizenship papers, sources say, raising possibility of stripping her citizenship.

Homeland Security agents search Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home three weeks before her reelection, after DHS Secretary Mullin said last month “something’s going to happen.”

Cook County, Illinois, opens walk-in flu and COVID vaccine clinics to residents regardless of immigration status or insurance, with ads countering vaccine myths.

Justice Department sues Denver over its ban on masked officers, passed to unmask ICE agents, saying “the Federal Government gets to decide.”

Senate Democrats’ inspectors find 445 government workers and zero jailed immigrants at Guantánamo in August, after more than $100 million spent on the operation.

Off-duty ICE agent from Texas, found asleep on a Fresno lawn, attacks a 72-year-old man and his daughter before the man shoots him, police say.

ICE logged 60 encounters with Minneapolis protesters and observers in a secret “Agitator Log” despite its then-director telling Congress “there is no database for protesters.”

ICE emails discuss loading voter roll data into ELITE, the Palantir-supported tool agents use to pick deportation targets, to investigate voter fraud.

ICE’s deputy director accuses Pennsylvania Democrat Janelle Stelson without evidence of hiring an immigrant arrested for indecent exposure in her House race against Rep. Perry.

ICE agent fires seven shots into a car with a five-year-old in the back seat, hitting the Manhattan driver in the neck, NYPD says.

Labor Department bars Microsoft, Adobe and others from sponsoring green cards at the summit where Trump gives Microsoft’s Indian-born CEO a national technology medal.

Homeland Security proposes making colleges pay $70,000 for each international student in a work-training program, after a federal judge struck down its $100,000 H-1B fee.

Arlington, Virginia, man left with a brain hemorrhage after an August ICE arrest files a $35 million claim against DHS, the first step toward suing.

ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.

Federal court abruptly cancels hearing for mistakenly deported Kilmar Ábrego Garcia over sending him to Liberia, though Costa Rica agreed to take him.

ICE knew an Army study found shock gloves cause intense pain and fear before signing a $16.7 million deal for 6,000 pairs, records show.

US citizen shot five times by Border Patrol in Chicago sues, saying a reconstruction shows the agent fired his last shot from behind her car.

Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem’s donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.

Thousands chant “ICE out now” as Springsteen sings for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, killed by federal agents, at Maryland’s Power to the People festival.

Trump tells Ohio rally Springfield is better off without Haitians as the city mourns a Haitian student whose family blames his suicide on an ICE ankle monitor.

Miramar, Florida, ICE field office built for 56 jails up to 150 for days without beds or medical care, a class action alleges.

Filing alleges an ICE agent logged Maine ICE watchers’ photos and plates in a Palantir-built database, though ICE told Congress it keeps no protester database.

Federal judge halts Big Bend border barrier construction until a lawsuit is decided, two days after Homeland Security lifted its own pause.

Justice Department sues Maryland the day its ban on masked officers, including federal agents, takes effect, citing the state attorney general’s own warning.

Family of Renee Good, killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, sues the US, the agent and Trump officials, alleging a civil-rights conspiracy.

ICE memo bars vehicle chases and limits stops to trained officers with body cameras after fatal shootings, CNN reports, though ICE says nothing changed.

ICE plans to hire 5,000 more officers, a 17% jump, after four straight months of record arrests topping 50,000 in August, NewsNation reports.

Human rights groups ask a UN panel to call ICE’s removal of 16,000 jailed immigrants with deportation orders from its online locator an enforced disappearance.

Federal judge voids Justice Department conditions tying domestic violence and sexual assault grants to Trump’s immigration, DEI and gender identity policies.

Federal prosecutors charge the man an ICE agent shot in Austin with assaulting an officer, saying his side mirror struck the agent.

Trump nominates the State Department official who runs its “Office of Remigration” for third-country deportations as ambassador to Cameroon, which takes deportees under the deals.

California Gov. Newsom bans federal agents and local police from using electric shock gloves, as a Trump-appointed federal prosecutor tells DHS to “disregard” the law.

Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting immigrants to countries not their own without meaningful notice, over three liberal justices’ objections, with arguments set for December.

White House funds pro-Trump TV ads with Customs and Border Protection money, WSJ reports, after budget chief Vought shifted $20M to Homeland Security, Democrats say.

State Department revokes visas of 27 Latin American officials, mostly Bolivian prosecutors and judges, citing corruption, as Trump-friendly leaders say the targets hindered their crackdowns.

At least 10 people detained at North Carolina sheriff’s checkpoint where Latino drivers were asked where they were born, advocacy group says.

Texas troopers arrest Austin City Council candidate while he walks his dog, on a riot charge from protests after immigration agents shot a delivery driver.

Prosecutor in failed case against six Chicago-area ICE protesters retires, saying US Attorney Boutros ordered her to try again after grand jurors rejected it.

Supreme Court lets Homeland Security check voters’ citizenship against Social Security records before the midterms, reviving a database a judge ruled violates privacy law.

Trump moves to cancel $810 million Congress approved by running out the clock, as Republican Appropriations Chair Collins calls it a “clear violation” of law.

Kansas Republican Sens. Moran and Marshall urge DHS Secretary Mullin to coordinate with local police after unannounced ICE stops in southwest Kansas.

Congressional watchdog faults ICE’s $45 billion detention expansion for waste, including $43 million at Guantanamo, where it held an average of 16 people a day.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own, after an appeals court revived a ban.

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