2 h. ago Faces of Trump’s deportation push: The people falling victim to the immigration crackdown

Asylum-seekers, international students and activists alike tell Josh Marcus about their age of uncertainty under Trump

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6 h. ago Pedro Almodóvar calls Trump ‘greatest mistake of our time’ as he receives Chaplin award

Celebrated Spanish director slams Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants and trans rights

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7 h. ago Takeaways from AP's report on how Trump's immigration crackdown resonates in the Texas Panhandle

Confusion and fear are rippling through the immigrant communities of the Texas panhandle, where newcomers have come for generation to work in its immense meatpacking plants

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7 h. ago Immigrants working legally in the Texas Panhandle live in limbo under Trump's crackdown

Confusion and fear are rippling through the immigrant communities of the Texas Panhandle, where newcomers have come for generations to work in its immense meatpacking plants

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

These are some of the people ensnared by the administration’s unprecedented measures to target people it believes oppose its agendaDonald Trump retook the White House vowing to stage “the largest deportation operation in American history”. As previewed, the administration set about further militarizing the US-Mexico border and targeting people requesting asylum and refugees while conducting raids and deportations in undocumented communities, detaining and deporting immigrants and spreading fear.Critics are outraged, if not surprised. But few expected the new legal chapter that unfolded next: a multipronged crackdown on certain people seen as opponents of the US president’s ideological agenda. This extraordinary assault has come in the context of wider attacks on higher education, the courts and the constitution. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Trump news at a glance: children targeted in immigration crackdown

The moves have prompted alarm about what one critic called ‘backdoor family separation’ – key US politics stories from Monday 28 AprilAs part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, unaccompanied minors are now being targeted for deportation, with the Department of Homeland Security engaging in “welfare checks” on children who arrived in the US alone, usually across the US-Mexican border.The moves have sparked fears of a crackdown and prompted alarm about what one critic called “backdoor family separation”. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago Trump signs orders stepping up immigration crackdown and ‘unleashing America’s law enforcement’ – US politics live

Executive orders target sanctuary cities, give legal help for police accused of misconduct and require truck drivers to speak EnglishHere is an extract from The Atlantic’s piece on Trump’s first 100 days – in an interview secured after initially being canceled by the president over previous reporting from the journalists, who then reached the president on his cellphone – detailing some of the key development’s of his second term so far.The president seemed exhilarated by everything he had managed to do in the first two months of his second term: He had begun a purge of diversity efforts from the federal government; granted clemency to nearly 1,600 supporters who had participated in the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, including those caught beating police officers on camera; and signed 98 executive orders and counting (26 of them on his first day in office). He had fired independent regulators; gutted entire agencies; laid off great swaths of the federal workforce; and...

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42 h. ago How dream vacations became ‘like a horror movie’ amidst Trump’s border crackdown

Tourists traveling to the Land of the Free are being locked up upon landing. James Liddell has detailed some of the most high-profile cases since President Trump’s return to the White House

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44 h. ago ‘Border czar’ touts Trump’s immigration successes and blasts Biden for ‘unsecuring’ border

The White House is taking credit for unprecedented drops in illegal crossings, which have virtually disappeared due to Trump’s harsh border crackdown

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46 h. ago Trump to step up immigration crackdown with extra powers for law enforcement – US politics live

Press secretary says president also to sign executive orders increasing pressure on sanctuary cities and statesHere is an extract from The Atlantic’s piece on Trump’s first 100 days – in an interview secured after initially being canceled by the president over previous reporting from the journalists, who then reached the president on his cellphone – detailing some of the key development’s of his second term so far.The president seemed exhilarated by everything he had managed to do in the first two months of his second term: He had begun a purge of diversity efforts from the federal government; granted clemency to nearly 1,600 supporters who had participated in the invasion of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, including those caught beating police officers on camera; and signed 98 executive orders and counting (26 of them on his first day in office). He had fired independent regulators; gutted entire agencies; laid off great swaths of the federal workforce; and invoked 18th-century ...

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2 d. ago The tourists whose dream American vacations were destroyed by Trump’s border crackdown

Tourists traveling to the Land of the Free are being locked up upon landing. James Liddell has detailed some of the most high-profile cases since President Trump’s return to the White House

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4 d. ago College journalists wrestle with transparency as students fear deportation for speaking out

College journalists across the U.S. are navigating a surge in requests to remove previously published content amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on student protesters and what critics describe as unprecedented attacks on campus speech

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5 d. ago The rule of law in Trump’s America and what it means for Mel Gibson’s guns – podcast

The US justice department says it did not fire a former pardon attorney, Liz Oyer, after she refused to recommend reinstating Mel Gibson’s gun rights.But Oyer tells Jonathan Freedland a different story, one she believes points to a wider crackdown by the Trump administration on the rule of law in AmericaArchive: ABC News, Face the Nation, CBS News, CNN, PBS, NBC News, Fox News, WHAS11 Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Divided Supreme Court finds some deadline flexibility for immigrants who agree to leave U.S.

A divided Supreme Court ruled that immigrants who agree to leave the country are allowed some deadline flexibility in a case that was argued before President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

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8 d. ago 'I was locked up under Donald Trump's brutal border crackdown

Rebecca Burke, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, southeast Wales, was detained in the US for three weeks because of a visa mix-up - and was held "in horrendous conditions"

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8 d. ago The innocent tourists locked up under Donald Trump's US border crackdown: How holidays have turned to nightmares as the number of rich European visitors plummet

For many, visiting America is the dream of a lifetime. But for some, that dream has turned into a nightmare, and instead of spending relaxing days on the beach, they have been locked up for weeks in jail.

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1 week 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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1 week 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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1 week ago Lawsuit challenges revocation of visas for international students

A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students who have been stripped of their visas in a Trump administration crackdown that has left more than a thousand fearful of deportation

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1 week 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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