3 h. ago Foreign farm workers are struggling amid Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘It was terrifying’

Growing instability in the US is being exacerbated by devastation at home and alleged pressure from employersFarm worker Owen Salmon has picked apples in upstate New York for almost a decade, some 1,500 miles (2,400km) from home. In the midst of harvest season this year, Hurricane Melissa, a record-breaking category 5 hurricane, made landfall in Jamaica.“It was terrifying,” said Salmon, whose wife and two children were at home near Black River, a town on the country’s south-western coast. “For days, I couldn’t hear from them. When I finally did, I heard my roof was completely gone. My wife and kids had to run for their lives, but thank God they’re alive.” Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE agents during immigration crackdown

Omar and Trump have repeatedly clashed, with the president calling for the Congresswoman to be ‘thrown the hell out’ of the United States

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17 h. ago US immigration crackdown forces teens to caretake after parents are detained

As federal agents target families, teens are left to care for siblings – from accessing bank accounts to medical recordsVilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly leased Louisiana home when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She had just enough time to call her oldest son before they smashed the passenger window and detained her.The 38-year-old Honduran house painter was swept up in an immigration crackdown that has largely targeted Kenner, a New Orleans suburb with a large Hispanic population, where some parents at risk of deportation had rushed to arrange emergency custody plans for their children in case they were arrested. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Problems with commercial driver's licenses for immigrants found in 8 states so far

The federal government’s crackdown on commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants has now found problems in eight states in the wake of several deadly crashes

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2 d. ago ‘The holy family is in hiding’: nativity scenes at US churches push back on ICE

Displays include handcuffed baby Jesus and Mary wearing a gas mask in wake of Trump’s immigration crackdownSatirical holiday displays mocking Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown, portraying the newborn Jesus and his parents, Mary and Joseph, as victims of heavy-handed tactics by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), have appeared across the US.One striking retelling of the Christmas story, at Lake Street church in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, features baby Jesus lying in a manger in the snow – but wrapped in the kind of thin, foil blankets given out in emergencies and regularly as bedding to ICE detainees, and with his wrists zip-tied. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Court blocks the release of hundreds of immigrants arrested in a Chicago

A federal appeals court has blocked the immediate release of hundreds of immigrants detained during a Chicago-area immigration crackdown

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3 d. ago Immigration crackdown leaves teens to care for siblings after parents get detained

An immigration crackdown in Louisiana has forced some teenagers to grow up fast after their parents were arrested by federal agents

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4 d. ago Tony Blair gives Shabana Mahmood stamp of approval amid Labour leadership speculation

The former prime minister praised the home secretary’s ‘radical’ style and ‘political philosophy’ behind her immigration crackdown, comparing it to his own approach in power

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4 d. ago Trump unveils new $1million gold card for visas amid crackdown on immigration

President Donald Trump has unveiled his long-awaited 'gold card' - offering legal status and a pathway to US citizenship for customers willing to pay the $1 million price tag.

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4 d. ago Donald Trump unveils new $1million 'gold card' for visas amid crackdown on immigration

President Trump unveils a 'gold card' program, promising a new path to US citizenship for 'for all qualified and vetted people' willing to fork out $1 million each

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4 d. ago Trump launches $1m ‘gold card’ visa scheme amid immigration crackdown

Wealthy immigrants will be able to buy residency, and $5m ‘platinum card’ will exempt holders from some US taxesDonald Trump launched a new program that will allow wealthy foreign individuals to buy a US “golden visa” for $1m, and trailed a “platinum” version for $5m.“A direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted people. SO EXCITING! Our Great American Companies can finally keep their invaluable Talent,” Trump wrote on Wednesday on social media. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Trump's crackdown on immigration is taking a toll on child care workers

President Donald Trump’s push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field, which is heavily reliant on immigrants and already strained by a worker shortage

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6 d. ago Tory shadow minister praises Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown – and says it could work in UK

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp says the British public expects immigration laws to be properly enforced

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6 d. ago Tory shadow minister praises Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp says the British public expects immigration laws to be properly enforced

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7 d. ago Authorities monitor online criticism of New Orleans immigration crackdown

Officials track public sentiment, noting negative impact of ‘videos with sounds of children crying’ as parents arrestedState and federal authorities are closely tracking online criticism and protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in New Orleans, monitoring message boards around the clock for threats to agents while compiling regular updates on public “sentiment” surrounding the arrests, according to law enforcement records reviewed by the Associated Press.The intelligence gathering comes even as officials have released few details about the first arrests made last week as part of “Catahoula Crunch”, prompting calls for greater transparency from local officials who say they have been kept in the dark about virtually every aspect of the operation. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown

State and federal authorities are monitoring online criticism and protests against the immigration crackdown in New Orleans

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9 d. ago New Orleans leaders blast immigration crackdown, pointing to video of agents chasing US citizen

New Orleans’ mayor-elect says a federal immigration crackdown launched this week is already causing harm

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9 d. ago US citizen chased by ICE in New Orleans says she was targeted because ‘I’m brown’

Home security videos shows Jacelynn Guzman, 23, telling masked federal agents following her to ‘leave me alone’A US citizen who was seen on home security video being chased by masked federal agents outside New Orleans amid the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown says she surmises that she was pursued because “I’m brown”.“I have no idea why they targeted me,” Jacelynn Guzman told the Guardian reporting partner WWL Louisiana on Thursday, a day after the video in question was taken and subsequently went viral online. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago US citizen chased by federal agents in New Orleans says she was targeted because ‘I’m brown’

Home security videos shows Jacelynn Guzman, 23, telling masked officers following her to ‘leave me alone’A US citizen who was seen on home security video being chased by masked federal agents outside New Orleans amid the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown says she surmises that she was pursued because “I’m brown”.“I have no idea why they targeted me,” Jacelynn Guzman told the Guardian reporting partner WWL Louisiana on Thursday, a day after the video in question was taken and subsequently went viral online. Continue reading...

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1 week ago How one Arkansas county helps ICE make hundreds of arrests and spreads fear among immigrants

Northwest Arkansas has emerged as a hot spot in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration

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