ICE facility in Louisiana reports its second detainee death in two months, days after an inspection found filthy conditions and excessive force.
Milwaukee mosque leader has lost 30 pounds in immigration detention as lawyers say guards disrupt his prayers and deny halal food.
Federal judge strikes down Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, ruling he imposed a tax without congressional authorization.
Central African Republic agrees to take U.S. deportees from other countries, the latest African deal that rights groups say sidesteps court protections.
Defense Secretary Hegseth uses a D-Day speech in Normandy to denounce an “invasion” of migrants on Europe’s beaches, then skips the main commemoration honoring the Allied dead.
Brawl erupts at Newark’s Delaney Hall detention center a day after Mayor Baraka pulled city police, with GEO Group guards pepper-spraying protesters.
Whistleblower says DHS and DOGE pushed to mark 2.7 million living people as dead before Social Security lawyers refused as illegal.
Judge John McConnell blocks Trump’s freeze on immigration benefits for 39 travel-ban countries, finding national security claims masked anti-immigrant animus.
ICE releases Guatemalan asylum seeker Andrea Pedro-Francisco after four months without surgery for a dangerous ovarian cyst, following a senator’s call to DHS.
ICE will stop reporting detainee deaths that occur within 30 days of release, ending a rule that captured fatalities tied to detention conditions.
DHS watchdog finds staff at a Louisiana ICE jail used a banned chokehold and stabbed a detainee with a pen amid unsafe, unsanitary conditions.
DHS Secretary Mullin appears to undercut his agency’s year-long fight to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, telling senators the US would be “happy to send him” to Costa Rica instead.
New Jersey Governor Sherrill says ICE is still barring her from Delaney Hall, where detainees report inhumane conditions during an ongoing hunger strike.
Chicago US Attorney Boutros admits he personally addressed a grand jury before it indicted immigration protesters on a third attempt.
St. Paul declines to charge anti-ICE church protesters for lack of evidence, even as the Justice Department prosecutes 39 of them under the FACE Act.
DHS Secretary Mullin restores ICE officer training to 584 hours, reversing a cut made during last year’s hiring surge.
New Jersey sues GEO Group in state court after inspectors were allowed into only the food service areas of the Newark migrant jail where detainees report tuberculosis and untreated illness.
Detainees at New Jersey’s largest ICE jail reach day 10 of a hunger strike demanding freedom, as Jeffries tours the facility and calls for it to be shut down.
State Department will cut the number of African embassies that can process U.S. visas from nearly 50 to 20, forcing applicants to travel across borders.
Newark Mayor Baraka imposes an indefinite nightly curfew around the Delaney Hall ICE detention center after days of escalating clashes between protesters and police.
Judge orders the pregnant Ghanaian woman and her disabled son out of detention at Dulles, and the government flies them home under a five-year reentry bar.
Civil rights groups sue ICE over conditions at the country’s largest immigration detention camp, in Texas, where three detainees have died and inspectors logged nearly 50 violations.
White House launches a space-themed website mocking immigrants as extraterrestrials that lists more than 700 locations where arrests were made of people born in the United States.
New Jersey Governor Sherrill sends State Police to build a buffer zone outside Newark’s Delaney Hall, and ICE agrees to pull back.
Justice Department sues Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington for refusing to issue undercover license plates to ICE agents.
ICE arrests six protesters outside Newark’s Delaney Hall as detainees report being pepper-sprayed and beaten inside during a 300-person hunger strike.
CBP detains pregnant Ghanaian woman and her 4-year-old son at Dulles for over a week after she arrived on a tourist visa for the boy’s medical care.
Trump administration plans to send Americans exposed to Ebola to Kenya for treatment rather than bringing them home to specialized U.S. facilities.
Supreme Court reverses ruling that would have let immigration judges challenge DOJ rules requiring permission for public speeches on immigration.
Ten ICE detainees have died by suicide since Trump returned to office, AP investigation finds, as detention population spiked 50% to 60,000.
Minneapolis police chief O’Hara resigns over evidence tampering as Hennepin County prosecutes federal agents from Operation Metro Surge.
ICE denies Governor Sherrill entry to Newark’s Delaney Hall and pepper-sprays protesters on Memorial Day, fourth day of 300-detainee hunger strike.
San Francisco becomes first major U.S. city without a primary immigration court after Trump purges 19 of 21 judges in one of the nation’s most asylum-friendly jurisdictions.
OMB orders agencies to report all federal spending on 49 nonprofits doing DEI, LGBTQ+, immigration, civil rights, environmental and humanitarian work, including funding under active litigation.
Federal judge dismisses human smuggling indictment against wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia as “vindictive and selective,” citing DOJ retaliation for his successful return.
USCIS forces visa holders seeking green cards to leave the U.S. and apply from abroad, ending longstanding practice used by roughly 1 million annually.
US-bound Americans from Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan must enter through Dulles only after Trump’s administration cut $11.5 billion in virus monitoring.
Trump-appointed U.S. attorney drops Chicago immigration protest case with prejudice after judge scrutinizes prosecutor meeting with grand juror outside proceedings.
Senate Republicans punt $72 billion ICE funding past Trump’s June 1 deadline after McConnell rejects $1.8 billion DOJ slush fund.
Nine doctors warn 23-year-old Guatemalan woman in El Paso ICE detention urgently needs ovarian surgery she was scheduled for days before Operation Metro Surge arrest.
ICE tightens access to overcrowded Arizona holding facility on second surprise oversight visit, requiring 24-hour notice for congressional staff and barring Mesa councilmember.
ICE arrests Honduran national at 26 Federal Plaza Tuesday, less than 24 hours after federal judge banned civil immigration arrests at New York City courts.
DOJ sues Connecticut over law banning ICE masks and requiring agent ID, after Ninth Circuit struck down similar California rule on Supremacy Clause.
Trump orders banks to flag undocumented customers opening accounts or seeking loans, scaled back from mandatory citizenship collection after industry lobbying.
FBI seeks $36 million contract for nationwide license plate reader access across all 50 states and territories, no warrant required for queries.
Trump administration raises refugee ceiling from 7,500 to 17,500 to admit more white South Africans while keeping other vulnerable populations excluded.
Federal judge bans ICE from arresting people in three Manhattan immigration courthouses, ruling Trump policy reversal likely “arbitrary and capricious.”
Hennepin County charges ICE officer Christian Castro with four felony assault counts for firing through Minneapolis home’s front door during Jan. 14 chase.
Massachusetts Gov. Healey refuses DOJ demand to issue ICE agents confidential license plates that would mask their identities during enforcement.
Trump-supporting Georgia town of Social Circle sues DHS and ICE in federal court to block the planned 10,000-bed detention center that would triple its population.