6 h. ago ‘I just ask God that he’s OK’: family of Venezuelan musician sent to El Salvador prison agonizes over his fate

Arturo Suárez Trejo was caught up in Trump’s immigration crackdown in North Carolina and sent to a notorious Salvadorian prisonIn a recording studio in downtown Santiago, where the dad she has never met once sung, a four-month-old baby girl snuggles in her mother’s arms, noise-cancelling earmuffs shielding her tiny ears from the sound.Nahiara Rubí Suárez Sánchez is equally oblivious to the plight of her father, a Venezuelan musician who is thought to be languishing in a maximum-security prison thousands of miles away in El Salvador after being swept up in Donald Trump’s anti-migrant crusade. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Arizona governor vetoes bill requiring local officials to help with federal immigration efforts

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a Republican-backed bill intended to support the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown

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51 h. ago Denied, detained, deported: the people at the heart of Trump’s immigration crackdown

The White House is targeting people seen as opponents of its agenda – here are some of the most high-profile casesDonald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage “the largest deportation operation in American history”. The administration has set about further militarizing the US-Mexico border and targeting asylum seekers and refugees while conducting raids in undocumented communities and spreading fear.Critics are outraged, if not surprised. But few expected the new legal chapter that unfolded next: a multi-pronged crackdown on certain people seen as opponents of the US president’s ideological agenda. This assault has come in the context of wider attacks on higher education, the courts and the constitution. Continue reading...

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51 h. ago Denied, detained, deported: the people ensnared in Trump’s immigration crackdown

The White House is targeting people seen as opponents of its agenda – here are some of the most high-profile casesDonald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage “the largest deportation operation in American history”. The administration has set about further militarizing the US-Mexico border and targeting asylum seekers and refugees while conducting raids in undocumented communities and spreading fear.Critics are outraged, if not surprised. But few expected the new legal chapter that unfolded next: a multi-pronged crackdown on certain people seen as opponents of the US president’s ideological agenda. This assault has come in the context of wider attacks on higher education, the courts and the constitution. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Two service members killed after ‘civilian vehicle crash’ along highway that straddles southern border

Troops are deployed in the area in support of Donald Trump’s executive order to secure the US-Mexico border

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4 d. ago Two service members killed after ‘civilian vehicle crash’ near southern border

Troops are deployed in the area in support of Donald Trump’s executive order to secure the US-Mexico border

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4 d. ago Two killed in US border deployment vehicle accident near Fort Bliss

Troops are deployed in the area in support of Donald Trump’s executive order to secure the US-Mexico border

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4 d. ago Canadian universities report jump in US applicants amid Trump crackdown

UBC and others report spike in interest from US citizens as Trump withholds funds and revokes foreign student visasMore students living in the United States are applying to Canadian universities or expressing interest in studying north of the border as Donald Trump cuts federal funding to universities and revokes foreign student visas.Officials at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Vancouver campus said the school reported a 27% jump in graduate applications as of 1 March from US citizens for programs starting in the 2025 academic year, compared with all of 2024. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump administration lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave

Trump administration is cancelling immigrants’ names and legally obtained social security numbers, effectively wiping out their ability to workUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, canceling their social security numbers and effectively wiping out their ability to work or receive benefits in an effort to get them to leave the country, according to two people familiar with the situation.The move will make it much harder for those affected to use banks or other basic services where social security numbers are required. It’s part of a broader effort by Donald Trump to crack down on immigrants who were allowed to enter and remain temporarily in the United States under programs instituted by the US president’s predecessor Joe Biden. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Australian MMA coach detained in US prison nightmare amid Donald Trump's immigration crackdown

In a post on social media, Subotic who has coached the Australian national MMA side, said he had been locked in an isolation room for three hours before he was taken to prison.

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2 w. ago HCC cancels student trip to London, citing fears of Trump immigration crackdown

HCC cancels student trip to London, citing fears of Trump immigration crackdown  Houston Landing

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2 w. ago Donald Trump unveils global tariffs as he says 'Liberation Day' will 'make America wealthy again'

The UK is among the many nations expected to be hit with tariffs when exporting to the US after Donald Trump unveiled his 'Liberation Day' border taxes in the White House

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2 w. ago US justice department drops corruption case against New York mayor Eric Adams

Trump administration had been pressing Adams to crack down on immigration but both parties denied quid pro quo A US federal judge on Wednesday dismissed the Department of Justice’s corruption case against New York City’s embattled mayor, Eric Adams, after weeks of scandal about the Democratic mayor bowing to pressure from the Trump administration to cooperate on immigration crackdowns while trying to get out from under the criminal charges.Despite the judge’s decision, he said the Trump administration’s grounds for having the case dropped “smacks of a bargain”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The Western tourists locked up by US border guards: Travellers describe spending weeks in 'insane, psychological, social experiment' detention centres under Trump immigration crackdown

Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney described ICE detention as spending weeks in an 'insane psychological, social experiment'.

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3 w. ago Alarm as Florida Republicans move to fill deported workers’ jobs with children: ‘It’s insane, right?’

Governor Ron DeSantis leads push to loosen child labor laws as immigration crackdown leads to workforce shortageBeneath the smugness of Ron DeSantis, at Florida leading the nation in immigration enforcement lies something of a conundrum: how to fill the essential jobs of the scores of immigrant workers targeted for deportation.The answer, according to Florida lawmakers, is the state’s schoolchildren, who as young as 14 could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts without a break – even on school nights. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Immigrant students and scholars are being detained at remote facilities in Louisiana over objections

As U.S. authorities crack down on immigrants at universities in a fervor against pro-Palestinian protests, they quickly have shuttled some of those detained to remote facilities in Louisiana

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3 w. ago At a glance: Who has been detained or deported in a US crackdown on pro

Supporters of Palestinian causes with ties to American universities have been detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants

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3 w. ago All we know about four 'vanished' US soldiers found dead near Belarus border

NATO boss Mark Rutte was told the soldiers had died while on a training mission near the Belrus border in Lithuania – as Donald Trump tells reporters he wasn't briefed on the situation

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3 w. ago Trump officials pause some green card applications in immigration crackdown

Approved refugees reportedly affected by freeze on processing after Trump demands more aggressive vettingUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has paused the processing of certain green card applications as the US government continues to implement a hardline immigration agenda.CBS News reported that approved refugees are part of the processing freeze, as the White House enacts an effort to more aggressively vet immigrants to the US. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Doubt over US holidays for Brits as Trump introduces 'enhanced vetting'

Brits heading through to America are facing 'aggressive' questioning at the border, as custom officials enforce enhanced vetting' following Trump's immigration crackdown

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