34 h. ago ICE memo reveals Trump's plan to scrap bond hearings to keep millions of illegal migrants locked up

A newly-released ICE memo reveals how the Trump administration is planning to keep millions of migrants who entered the United States illegally behind bars.

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41 h. ago More than 360 arrested after ICE raid at California marijuana farms

Federal authorities say the the raids are one of the largest operations since Trump took office in January

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43 h. ago US supreme court allows Trump to resume gutting education department

Justices lift federal judge’s order that reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs in win for presidentThe US supreme court on Monday cleared the way for Donald Trump’s administration to resume dismantling the Department of Education as part of his bid to shrink the federal government’s role in education in favor of more control by the states.In the latest high court win for the president, the justices lifted a federal judge’s order that had reinstated nearly 1,400 workers affected by mass layoffs at the department and blocked the administration from transferring key functions to other federal agencies. A legal challenge is continuing to play out in lower courts. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Farmworker dies after falling from greenhouse roof during chaotic ICE raid

Jaime Alanis, 57, is the first person to die in one of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration operations

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4 d. ago Trump authorizes Ice agents to protect themselves using ‘whatever means’ necessary

Order comes after California raids resulted in clashes with protesters and a shooting outside a Texas detention centerDonald Trump has given “total authorization” to federal immigration agents to protect themselves after a series of clashes with protesters, including during a enforcement raid on a California cannabis farm.“I am giving Total Authorization for ICE to protect itself, just like they protect the Public,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday, adding that he was directing the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and border czar, Tom Homan, to arrest anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) protesters who impede immigration enforcement operations. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago 2024 book review: Trump, Biden, Harris and a turbulent election full of what

Deeply sourced narrative charts the delusions of the main players and the disastrous debate that reset the campaignDonald Trump is on a roll. The “big, beautiful bill” is law. Ice, his paramilitary immigration force, rivals foreign armies for size and funding. Democrats stand demoralized and divided. 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, by Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, is a book for these times: aptly named, deeply sourced.Kamala Harris declined to speak. Joe Biden criticized his successor in a brief phone call, then balked. Trump talked, of course.2024 is published in the US by Penguin Random House Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump team defends ICE raid at California marijuana farm where children were allegedly found working

At least one worker has died after he was chased by federal agents, according to United Farm Workers

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4 d. ago Farm worker dies a day after chaotic immigration raid at California farm

Jaime Alanis died after sustaining injuries during raid where authorities say they arrested about 200 peopleA farmworker died Friday from injuries that he sustained a day earlier in raids on two California cannabis farm sites as US immigration authorities confirmed they arrested 200 workers after a tense standoff with authorities.Jaime Alanis’s death was confirmed in a social media post by the United Farm Workers advocacy group. “We tragically can confirm that a farm worker has died of injuries they sustained as a result of yesterday’s immigration enforcement action,” the post read. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Inside the ICE offices where morale is ‘miserable’ and the deportation push has become ‘mission impossible’

‘Morale is in the crapper,’ one former agent said

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5 d. ago Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment

Precursor to a lawsuit also claims the Palestinian activist was maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemiteLawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist who was detained by the Trump administration for months, have filed a claim for $20m in damages against the administration, alleging Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests.The filing – a precursor to a lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act – names the Department of Homeland Security, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the state department. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago New Hampshire judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order

Judge certifies class-action lawsuit that’s one of many challenging order denying citizenship to those born to undocumented parents in the USUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship suffered a courtroom defeat on Thursday as a federal judge in New Hampshire blocked the controversial executive order nationwide and certified a sweeping class-action lawsuit that could protect tens of thousands of children.Ruling from the bench on Thursday, Judge Joseph LaPlante announced his decision after an hour-long hearing and said a written order will follow. The judge, an appointee of George W Bush, said a written order would follow later in the day, with a seven-day stay to allow for appeal. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump wants 10,000 more deportation agents. Experts say it’s an impossible goal — and dangerous

The administration hopes an historic injection of taxpayer cash can fix hiring challenges for an agency facing intense political and legal scrutiny, Alex Woodward reports

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7 d. ago Ice is about to become the biggest police force in the US | Judith Levine

Trump’s budget bill is creating a colossus with more resources than many national militariesOn Thursday, congressional Republicans passed Trump’s 1,000-page budget, and the president signed it on Saturday. The rich will get obscenely richer. The poor will be hungrier and sicker, work more precarious, and the planet unrelentingly hotter. The symmetry is elegant: cuts to healthcare and food programs average about $120bn each year over the next decade, while the tax cuts will save households earning more than $500,000 about $120bn a year.Trump got what he wanted. But enriching himself and his wealthy friends at the expense of everyone else has long been his life purpose. It was not until he became president, with the Heritage Foundation’s wonks, the deportation czar Stephen Miller, and six loyal supreme courtiers behind him, that he could reshape the US in his own amoral, racist, violence-intoxicated image. In fact, the latter goal may be dearer to him than the former. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Mother of injured girl tells Southport inquiry ‘our girls deserve an apology’

The public inquiry heard impact evidence from four families on Wednesday.

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7 d. ago Iranian woman living in US for 47 years released by ICE after Republican House Majority Leader intervenes

Mandonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian, 64, was detained by ICE officers last month as she gardened in the yard of her New Orleans home

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7 d. ago Supreme court lifts order blocking Trump’s federal layoffs, paving way for mass job cuts

Justices lift lower court decision that had stopped administration from firing hundreds of thousands of government employeesDan Osborn, the independent candidate who came surprisingly close to defeating Republican senator Deb Fischer in Nebraska last year, announced on Tuesday he will run for the state’s other Senate seat in 2026 against GOP senator Pete Ricketts.The industrial mechanic and former Kellogg’s strike leader lost to Fischer by less than seven points in 2024 – a remarkable result in deep-red Nebraska. Osborn received 66,000 more votes than Kamala Harris, who lost the state to Donald Trump by 20 points in the presidential race. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Mark Ruffalo calls out Joe Rogan’s criticism of Trump’s ICE raids: ‘It’s a little late now’

‘You are either not that smart or not that dumb,’ said the actor in a scathing post

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1 week ago Carnage breaks out at Portland ICE detention center as woke crowd tries to storm holding cells

Tear gas, flares and mass arrests rocked Portland, Oregon as protesters stormed an ICE detention center just hours after Trump signed his sweeping immigration bill into law.

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1 week ago Julio César Chávez arrested in US over cartel ties less than a week after Jake Paul fight

Son of legendary boxer arrested less than a week after losing fight to Jake Paul

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1 week ago Shocking moment boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr is arrested and shackled by Trump's ICE is revealed in new footage

The 39-year-old was taken into custody in the Los Angeles area on Thursday and is being processed over alleged connections to the Sinaloa Cartel.

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