Immigration News

Fri, March 28, 2025:
FEMA has frozen nearly $10 billion in disaster aid for nonprofits including hospitals as it seeks to identify funding that could be used to help undocumented migrants – Politico
Trump blocked from deporting migrants to countries where they’re not citizens; federal judge said deportees must first have “meaningful opportunity” to seek humanitarian protection in U.S. – WP

Sat, March 22, 2025:
ICE and IRS near deal to use tax records to ramp up deportations of undocumented migrantsWP “Under the draft agreement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be able to submit names and address to the IRS to cross-reference with confidential taxpayer databases…. The IRS has for years told undocumented workers that their tax information is confidential and that it is safe to file income tax returns without fear of being deported. About half — possibly more — of the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country file income tax returns to document their payments to the U.S. government, according to researchers.”

Fri, March 21, 2025:
DHS shuts down internal watchdog agencies that advocated for immigrantsWP

Wed, March 19, 2025:
Trump team makes plans for military to hold migrants at border; If enacted, miles of buffer zone would become a temporary military installation, giving U.S. troops their most direct role yet in the president’s enforcement mission. – WP

Thurs, March 13, 2025:
Trump asks SCOTUS to okay partial plan to end birthright citizenshipWP

Fri, March 7, 2025:
Trump Immigration Policy Ending Protection For 1.8 Million ImmigrantsForbes

Wed, March 5, 2025:
Trump officials are reopening a sprawling detention center in Texas to hold migrant children and their parents WP

Fri, Feb 28, 2025:
ICE memo details how Trump officials will try to deport more than 1 million migrants admitted during Biden administrationWP

Wed, Feb 26, 2025:
Trump prepares to use controversial 1798 “Alien Enemies” law to speed deportationsCNN

Tues, Feb 25, 2025:
Trump proposes selling $5 million “gold cards” to wealthy immigrants – WP
Judge blocks Trump’s executive order suspending refugee admissions to the U.S.Politico
Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantanamo detentionWP

Thurs, Feb 20, 2025:
Trump Cuts Protections for Haitians, Putting Them on Track for DeportationNYT

Wed, Feb 19, 2025:
Nearly half of new migrant detainees have no criminal recordNBC

Sunday, Feb 16, 2025:
Relatives and records cast doubt on Guantanamo migrants being “worst of the worst”WP

Friday, Feb 14, 2025:
Musk companies relied on undocumented workers while he pushed for border crackdownBloomberg
The Trump administration toughened requirements for sponsors of migrant children, a move that could make it more difficult for minors who cross the border alone to be released from federal custody and united with family members. NYT

Tues, Feb 11, 2025:
Faith groups are suing Trump Administration to stop ICE raids at houses of worshipWP

Mon, Feb 10, 2025:
Advocay groups sue Trump over freeze on refugee admissions programWP

Thurs, Feb 6, 2025:
DOJ sues Illinois and Chicago for allegedly interfering with immigration crackdown – WP

Wed, Feb 5, 2025: ‘Frankly Insane’: Trump’s plan to ship migrants to Guantanamo could quickly collapsePolitico

Tues, Feb 4, 2025: Can the right to asylum be saved?WP

Mon, Feb 3 2025: Guantanamo Bay prepares for President Trump’s migrant surgeNYT

Sun, Feb 2, 2025: DHS to end protection for 350,000 Venezuelans who fled autocracy – WP

Wed, Jan 29, 2025
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Trump says U.S. will hold migrants at GuantanamoNYTimes

Mon, Jan 27, 2025:  Johnson vows “no daylight” between Congress, Trump on tariff-immigration threatsPolitico

Thurs, Jan 23, 2025:
Judge blocks Trump’s “blatantly unconstitutional” order ending birthright citizenship CNN
Federal judge blocks Trump order on birthright citizenship – Roll Call

Wed, Jan 22, 2025: DOJ issues memo threatening to prosecute officials who resist immigration crackdownCNN

Wed, Jan 22, 2025 Flights canceled for refugees scheduled to travel to USCNN

Tues, Jan 21, 2025: Cities brace for raids after Trump allows immigration arrests at schools, churches
“The administration also moved to disband the Biden-era Family Reunification Task Force, which worked to reunite children who were split up from their parents under Trump’s first-term family separation policy. Roughly 4,600 migrant children were separated from their parents during the Trump administration. As of March, about 70% had been reunited with their families, according to a DHS status report…. In a separate move, the administration reinstated the controversial ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols. The program forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated in the US immigration courts. Most migrants subjected to the policy were ultimately denied asylum…. During Trump’s inauguration celebrations on Monday, the administration abruptly ended the CBP One app system, which had allowed migrants to schedule appointments along the southern border. The decision effectively closed legal avenues for most asylum seekers.” – Bloomberg

Tues, Jan 21, 2025: 24 states, cities sue over Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenshipCNN

Mon, Jan 20, 2025:
Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border and revived a policy called Remain in Mexico, which requires migrants seeking asylum to live in northern Mexican border cities during U.S. court proceedings. He also called for resuming construction of the border wall… and pausing refugee resettlements for four months.” – WSJ

Wed, Jan 8, 2025: Congress hasn’t passed a major immigration bill since 1986, but the dynamics are changingWashPost

Thurs, Dec 12, 2024Why Trump can’t just end birthright citizenship – Bloomberg

Wed, Dec 11, 2024: Recent immigration surge has been largest in U.S. historyNYTimes

Mon, Dec. 9, 2024:
Republicans start making immigration plans for next year Roll Call
How many millions of American kids migh see their parents deported by Trump-WashPost

Tues, Nov 26, 2024: Trump eyes funding showdown w/ sanctuary cities over immigration; allies of the president-elect discuss pulling funding from ChicagoWashPost

Thurs, Nov. 21, 2024:  Effects of immigration on federal budgetCBO