Tag Archives: Immigration

The Supreme Court opens its new term Monday with a docket that could reshape the law on immigration, gun rights, religious freedom and climate liability, while setting the stage for additional fights over President Donald Trump’s agenda and the November midterm elections. The justices will consider challenges to state bans …

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own.  The decision will allow the Trump administration to carry out its aggressive deportation method of quickly removing immigrants to one of the countries — some with …

An immigration enforcement agent shot and injured a man in Austin on Sunday, city officials said. Police nor the U.S. Department of Homeland Security identified the man. But Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch, an Austin immigration lawyer, said she was hired to represent the man and that he was released from the hospital …

Rep. María Elvira Salazar is now warning President Donald Trump that his immigration crackdown has gone too far. But the Florida Republican’s new campaign message comes after years of supporting many of the same enforcement policies she is now criticizing. “Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone …

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July, the highest monthly total of President Donald Trump’s second term, as the administration expands its mass deportation campaign through traffic stops, local police partnerships and community arrests. ICE recorded 49,571 arrests in July, a 15% increase from 43,021 in …

Fentanyl seizures decreased by 39% during the first year of the second Trump administration after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shifted the Department of Homeland Security’s criminal investigations arm to conducting immigration enforcement, according to a report government investigators published Friday.  Agents with Homeland Security Investigations, a subagency of DHS’s …

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend between $10 million and $20 million on gloves capable of delivering painful electric shocks to help agents control people who resist arrest, according to a Department of Homeland Security procurement notice. The planned purchase of so-called G.L.O.V.E. devices — short for Generated …

Federal immigration agents who fatally shot a Houston-area man during a traffic stop this week were attempting to locate different suspects, according to the Department of Homeland Security, a revelation that has intensified scrutiny of the deadly encounter and prompted renewed calls for an independent investigation. The Department of Homeland …

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested approximately 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June, according to data obtained by a person familiar with the figures, marking one of the most aggressive phases yet in President Donald Trump’s renewed campaign to increase deportations. The arrests, which occurred …

President Donald Trump signed a nearly $70 billion immigration funding package into law Wednesday, providing billions of dollars in additional funding for federal immigration enforcement agencies through the end of his term and beyond while rejecting Democratic efforts to impose new restrictions on their operations. The legislation delivers major funding …

The Senate approved a $70 billion immigration funding package early Friday morning after Republicans overcame weeks of delays and internal divisions over a controversial Trump administration settlement fund that nearly derailed the legislation. The bill passed 52-47 shortly before 5 a.m. and would provide funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

The Trump administration announced Friday a sweeping immigration policy that could force many immigrants already living legally in the United States to leave the country before applying for permanent residency, dramatically reshaping the green card process and further tightening legal immigration pathways. Under new guidance issued by U.S. Citizenship and …

A federal appeals court Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that disallowed immigrants claiming asylum at the southern border. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that immigration law allows those fleeing persecution to apply for asylum. “Congress did not intend to …

The Trump administration has approved just one applicant for its new “gold card” visa program, months after opening applications for the high-priced pathway to U.S. residency, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. Testifying before a House subcommittee on Thursday, Lutnick said the program — which requires a $1 million payment …

The Justice Department this week acknowledged it made a “material mistaken statement of fact” in federal court by incorrectly citing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo to justify arrests at immigration courthouses. In a letter filed Tuesday, government lawyers told U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel that a May 2025 ICE …