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Immigration

A federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants at immigration courthouses nationwide, ruling the agency skipped required rulemaking and showed ‘a complete lack of decision-making.’

Eight activists get up to 100 years for a Texas ICE-facility attack that wounded a police officer, the first sentences under Trump’s antifa terrorism designation.

Federal judge rules Trump’s national voter database illegal and orders it dismantled, finding agencies knew it violated privacy law but built it anyway.

Federal judge quashes Justice Department subpoenas targeting Governor Walz and other Minnesota leaders, ruling the demands were an unconstitutional effort to coerce immigration enforcement.

Secretary of State Rubio orders a Colombian asylum-seeker detained for criticizing a Trump-endorsed candidate in Colombia’s election, calling his advocacy a threat to U.S. foreign policy.

A Trump-appointed judge orders the Milwaukee mosque president freed from ICE detention, finding his arrest may have been retaliation for his pro-Palestinian advocacy.

Federal immigration authorities held an 8-year-old U.S. citizen in a Brooklyn shelter for nearly seven months, ignoring his birth certificate and releasing him only after a lawsuit and a judge’s ruling.

ICE moves to sell or give away seven of the 11 warehouses it bought for $700 million to expand detention, abandoning a signature Noem initiative after lawsuits and an inspector general probe.

Federal prosecutors drop charges against Paul Johnson, a Minnesota protester allegedly beaten unconscious and shackled to a hospital bed for five days, the 20th of 36 ICE-surge cases abandoned.

ICE signs a $10 million contract to buy immigrants’ taxpayer ID data from a private broker months after courts blocked the IRS from sharing it.

ICE blocks New Jersey Democrats from speaking with Delaney Hall detainees after a dozen prior tours allowed it, requiring 24-hour written notice.

DHS empties the Everglades “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp for hurricane season, citing a soft structure that opened mid-storm-season last July.

Virginia defends its July 1 bans on masked federal agents and local ICE cooperation as the Justice Department sues to overturn them.

A Tennessee law drafted with Stephen Miller will report roughly 400 chronically ill immigrant children to ICE if they keep getting lifesaving state-funded care past June 30.

Social Security chief Bisignano tells Congress the agency has not marked living people as dead, after a whistleblower described a DOGE and DHS plan to do exactly that.

Federal prosecutors indict 15 Minnesota anti-ICE protesters on conspiracy charges that allege no specific act of violence, months after dropping half their earlier surge cases.

Iran’s World Cup coach says the team was ordered out of the country hours after its opening match, with staff denied U.S. visas.

DHS Secretary Mullin refuses to rule out deploying ICE agents to polling places during the midterms, citing possible threats.

Homeland Security says foreign influencers need work visas to make money posting from the World Cup, threatening FIFA’s deals with dozens of TikTok and YouTube creators.

The Trump administration agrees to resume asylum processing for 39 countries after a judge ruled there was no excuse for defying his earlier order.

A U.S. military strike kills Tren de Aragua leader Héctor Guerrero Flores inside Venezuela, in a joint operation its government confirms.

Federal magistrate acquits former New York City comptroller Brad Lander of obstruction from his arrest while trying to inspect ICE holding rooms, finding his testimony credible.

Federal judge tells Trump officials there is no excuse for ignoring his order to restart asylum processing frozen for 39 countries, demanding a compliance report within 24 hours.

Justice Department drops assault charges against a St. Paul man ICE agents shot at after five of six agents contradicted the official account.

Government watchdog finds wasted millions, a homicide and destroyed evidence at the largest U.S. immigrant detention camp, warning a $38 billion expansion risks repeating every failure.

House passes $70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol by a 214-212 vote, funding the agencies through the end of Trump’s term without Democratic support.

Salt Lake City and county sue to stop ICE from turning an 830,000-square-foot warehouse into a 10,000-bed detention center.

Border czar Homan vows the largest ICE deployment New York City has ever seen after Hochul signs immigrant-protection laws.

New Jersey Governor Sherrill says federal officials blocked her from speaking to Delaney Hall detainees during a tightly controlled tour.

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.

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