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Immigration

Federal judge scolds Justice Department lawyers for citing an apparently AI-fabricated case while opposing an ICE detainee’s release petition.

DHS lets immigration officers weigh food, housing, and health benefit use against green card applicants, reversing a 2022 rule limiting reviews to cash welfare.

Plainclothes ICE agents abandon a 57-year-old Vietnamese man half-handcuffed on the Las Vegas airport floor after a bystander starts filming.

Family and court records show the ICE officer who killed a Colombian man in Maine has a history of violent threats and abuse allegations.

Federal judge blocks State Department from revoking visas and green cards of researchers targeted solely for working in content moderation and disinformation fields.

Trump overrules DHS Secretary Mullin’s pause on ICE traffic stops one day after it began, following MAGA criticism the shootings response looked weak.

Hundreds rally at ICE’s Scarborough, Maine facility a day after agents killed Johan Sebastián Guerrero, with the state Senate president telling ICE to leave her state

ICE agents are ordered to pause most traffic stops a day after killing Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine, the second fatal shooting in a week.

Man running from an ICE stop at a Florida gas station is struck and killed by a tractor-trailer crossing State Road 16.

Protesters pack Sen. Collins’ Biddeford office chanting vote her out after ICE killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, targeting her deciding vote for $70 billion in ICE funding.

Bank regulators direct lenders to treat undocumented immigrants as elevated credit risks, telling banks to weigh deportation in loan decisions.

Feds hand Minnesota prosecutors long-withheld evidence in the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, six months after federal agents shot them.

ICE shoots and kills a 26-year-old Colombian man in Biddeford, Maine, who DHS Secretary Mullin admits was not the agents’ intended target.

Hundreds march in Houston demanding ICE release footage of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing and free the 3 witnesses held in immigration detention.

Justice Department tells Milwaukee its ban on masked federal agents is unconstitutional, demanding assurances by July 17 that the city won’t enforce it.

Arizona organizers train 250 election observers to respond if National Guard troops or ICE agents show up at polling places during the midterms.

DHS waives the 1899 flood safety law at the center of a Texas lawsuit two weeks after Presidio sued over levee changes for the border wall.

Passengers say ICE shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo from the sides with no agent in front of his van, contradicting the agency’s self-defense claim.

Federal judge orders GEO Group to let Washington inspectors inside its Tacoma ICE facility after years of refusal and 3,500 uninvestigated complaints.

Justice Department sues Maryland over its new law limiting police cooperation with ICE, the 21st federal suit against state sanctuary policies.

ICE’s acting director tells Rep. Sylvia Garcia that agents who killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo were not targeting him and wore no body cameras.

Trump says he’ll ask the Supreme Court to rehear the birthright citizenship case it decided against him, a request not granted in decades.

Harris County DA asks the public for video of ICE’s killing of a Houston worker, saying federal authorities are excluding local investigators entirely.

Judge fines ex-Judge Dugan $5,000 with no prison for helping an immigrant avoid ICE arrest, rejecting prosecutors’ 15-to-21-month recommendation.

ICE officer kills Mexican construction worker during Houston traffic stop as DHS repeats the “weaponized his vehicle” claim that video undercut in Renee Good’s killing.

Lawsuit alleges ICE hand-delivered confidential asylum files of pro-democracy protesters and religious minorities to Iran’s government, continuing even after the U.S. went to war with Iran.

ICE’s internal watchdog office has opened 131 investigations of online critics while its detention facility inspection reports fell nearly half since 2023.

The contractor ICE hired for emergency medical claims processing has collected $44.6 million while paying detention health providers nothing in nine months.

Rochester man sues DHS alleging agents violated the First Amendment by tracking him to a hotel over an angry email criticizing ICE’s former director.

House Speaker Johnson urges Congress to restrict birthright citizenship over “birth tourism” days after the Supreme Court ruled the 14th Amendment protects it.

A medical examiner’s report shows Camp East Montana staff dismissed a detainee’s suicide attempt as manipulation and repeatedly skipped his antipsychotic drugs before his death, ruled a homicide.

Fourteen Minnesota protesters plead not guilty to federal conspiracy charges as prosecutors say they need 90 extra days to process 20 terabytes of evidence.

ICE detains more than 10,000 people in five days after the White House demands higher arrest rates, a quiet surge doubling the daily pace to 2,000.

A federal judge blocks Virginia’s ban on law enforcement masks hours before it was set to take effect, ruling states cannot regulate how federal agents operate.

ICE detains a 56-year-old Nigerian nun walking to Sunday Mass in South Texas, releasing her only after members of Congress intervene with the DHS secretary.

Federal judges sentence seven more people for terrorism over the shooting at a Texas immigration detention center protest, a week after eight others got up to 100 years.

A federal judge in Iowa holds an ICE officer in contempt for “astonishing” defiance of a court order, as a second judge warns the agency against treating detainees as “bargaining chips.”

The Justice Department sues Rhode Island and Massachusetts over tuition breaks for noncitizen students, bringing to twelve the states it accuses of discriminating against U.S. citizens.

The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment, holding that children born on U.S. soil to undocumented or temporary residents are citizens.

Homeland Security Secretary Mullin tells migrants to return to Haiti and Syria days after the Supreme Court cleared their removal, even as the State Department warns Americans not to visit.

Federal agents track a vacationing ICE critic to his New York City hotel over an angry email he sent the agency in January.

Trump nominates former state trooper Lance Schroyer to lead ICE, which has gone without a Senate-confirmed director since 2017.

ICE agents enter a Syracuse polling place to confront a poll worker over an Instagram post naming the agent who killed protester Renee Good, demanding she delete it, but she refused.

Senator Wyden warns the administration is preparing to fast-track the removal of more than 500 unaccompanied migrant children, a year after a judge halted a similar overnight attempt.

DeSantis declares the Everglades migrant lockup “Alligator Alcatraz” a success as he confirms its shutdown after less than a year and at least $1 billion in contracts.

A Tennessee judge temporarily blocks the state from handing immigration enforcement the names of about 400 chronically ill undocumented children before a law forcing the disclosure takes effect.

The Supreme Court clears the way for Trump to physically block migrants at the border from setting foot on U.S. soil and seeking asylum.

A federal judge throws out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against four New Jersey sanctuary cities, ruling it had no standing because state law already bars the cooperation it sought to end.

A federal judge permanently blocks key parts of Trump’s election order, including a proof-of-citizenship requirement to vote, ruling the president has no constitutional power over elections.

A divided Sixth Circuit rules the Justice Department cannot force Michigan to hand over unredacted voter files, the latest court to reject the administration’s nationwide voter-data demand.

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