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Immigration news from Live News Chat: border policy, court cases, enforcement and the people affected.

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28 Noncitizens Charged With Voting in California After DHS Said 190,000 Were on the Rolls

“I will not disenfranchise thousands of Californians based solely upon an unsupported and likely inaccurate ‘belief.'” Secretary of State Shirley Weber wrote that to the Justice…

By Mark Masterson · 4d ago · 5 min read

Immigration
After Watching the Video, Houston’s DA Says an ICE Agent Ran Over a Man on Purpose

Oct 15
Breaking News
At Least 109 Migrants Are Dead After a Boat Capsized Off Djibouti, the Deadliest Shipwreck Recorded There

Oct 11
Immigration
An ICE Officer Fired Seven Shots Into a Car in Manhattan with a 5-Year-Old Inside, and DHS Blames the Boy’s Father

Oct 9

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Born Abroad to Mexican Parents? A Guide to Mexican Citizenship

Born outside Mexico to a Mexican mother or father? Here is who qualifies for…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 22

An empty phone-booth-sized steel mesh enclosure with a keypad-locked door standing on artificial turf beneath a tent canopy, with razor-wire-topped chain-link fencing and white detention tents behind it

DHS Watchdog Confirms Alligator Alcatraz Held 79 Detainees in Phone-Booth-Sized Metal Cages

A DHS inspector general report confirms Alligator Alcatraz confined 79 detainees in 18-square-foot metal…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 15

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170,000 Salvadorans Keep Their Status Because a 1990 Law Fired When DHS Said Nothing

The Department of Homeland Security let a statutory deadline pass on September 9 without…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 12

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13,000 Nursing Assistants Lost Their Work Permits in July. There Is No Visa Category That Can Replace Them.

Six weeks after Haitian Temporary Protected Status ended, the coverage has settled into a…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 6

A long line of people of many ages waits on a sidewalk beside a federal office building, with a uniformed guard standing at a single closed glass door

Miami’s In-Absentia Deportation Orders Doubled in Two Months, the Kind That Almost Never Gets Reopened

Immigration judges in Miami started calling more than a hundred people into a courtroom…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 5

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What Killed 83 People Off Gran Canaria Was 26 Days, Not the Sea

The wooden boat that Spanish rescuers reached 65 nautical miles southwest of Arguineguín on…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 3

An unmarked white charter jet with its airstair lowered sits on a rain-slicked apron at night, seen through a chain-link perimeter fence under sodium floodlights

Because Congress Never Appropriated the Money, Nobody Can Trace the $32.3 Million in Deportation Payments

Internal government documents obtained by CBS News show that over ten days, three ICE…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 31

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ICE Did Not Need a Case Against Milo Yiannopoulos, Only the Hearing He Skipped

Milo Yiannopoulos is in ICE custody in Louisiana on a deportation order an immigration…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 28

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A Judge Ruled the Farmworker Pay Cuts Illegal. The Pay Cuts Are Still in Force.

A federal judge in California held on Wednesday that the Labor Department broke the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 28

A long row of shuttered visa interview windows in an empty consular waiting hall, chairs vacant and a discarded queue ticket on the floor

The State Department Paused Visa Appointments Worldwide Five Days After a Judge Voided Its Country List

On Friday a federal judge in Manhattan threw out the Trump administration’s ban on…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

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Rand Paul, Not the Democrats, Is Why Trump Still Has No Confirmed ICE Director

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been the operational center of this administration’s signature domestic…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 24

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ICE Spent $30.9 Million on Body Cameras and Kept the Release Button for Itself

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will finish strapping body cameras to field officers nationwide by…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 8

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A US Army combat uniform draped over a kitchen chair beside a child's cereal bowl, scattered crayons and immigration forms, with a blue-star service banner in the window

More Than 50 Military Spouses and Parents Detained as Parole in Place Slows to a Year

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36 People, One Statute: How the DOJ Turned ICE Protests Into Federal Conspiracies

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FBI Told to Stop Investigating ICE Agent Shootings as Accountability Fears Mount

Police lights and crime scene tape on a residential street in a New England town at dawn

ICE Killed a Colombian Father in Maine Who Had Legal Status and Wasn’t Even the Target

Yellow police tape reading Police Line Do Not Cross stretched across a cordoned residential street in Biddeford, Maine, with law-enforcement SUVs and an officer in the distance

One Dead in Biddeford ICE Shooting, the Second Fatal ICE Encounter in a Week

The United States Supreme Court west facade lit by late golden light under dark storm clouds, the Equal Justice Under Law pediment inscription visible above the columns

Supreme Court Hands Trump Unreviewable Power Over TPS, Clearing Removal of 350,000 Haitians and Syrians

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House Passes $70 Billion Secure America Act in Razor-Thin 214-212 Vote

Scott Pelley Says Bari Weiss Wanted 60 Minutes to Make Renee Good Look Guilty

How Immigration Attorneys Support Victims of Trafficking

How Immigration Attorneys Support Victims of Trafficking

SCOTUS

Birthright Citizenship Case Implodes in Real Time, With Trump Watching

TSA Government Shutdown Crisis ICE Agents Deployed to 14 Airports as Security Lines Hit Six Hours

TSA Government Shutdown Crisis: ICE Agents Deployed to 14 Airports as Security Lines Hit Six Hours

ICE Is Swabbing the Cheeks of American Protesters and Nobody Is Talking About It

ICE Is Swabbing the Cheeks of American Protesters and Nobody Is Talking About It

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino Ousted From Minnesota, But ICE Isn't Going Anywhere

Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino Ousted From Minnesota, But ICE Isn’t Going Anywhere

cbs news censorship trump CECOT

CBS’s Bari Weiss Kills 60 Minutes CECOT Prison Story, Sparking Staff Revolt and Censorship Accusations