24 h. ago Noem warns more immigration raids are coming to America’s biggest cities: ‘We do intend to add more’

Noem says other cities should call the Department of Homeland Security to implement the policies the Trump administration put in place in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

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3 d. ago Kim Kardashian criticised by Homeland Security after slamming Trump's ICE raids

Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin has hit out at Kim Kardashian, labelling her "misinformed and detached from...reality" after the celebrity criticised Donald Trump's ICE raids

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3 d. ago Colleges face financial struggles as Trump policies send international enrollment plummeting

Signs of a decline in international students have unsettled colleges around the U.S., but some schools are especially vulnerable

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4 d. ago Trump proposed getting rid of FEMA, but his review council seems focused on reforming the agency

President Donald Trump has floated the idea of “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which manages federal disaster response

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5 d. ago Trump administration asks military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations

The Trump administration has asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, the base said, signaling a push to expand its law enforcement crackdown to other cities

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6 d. ago US deportation flights hit record highs as carriers try to hide the planes, advocates say

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flights reach record highs, the airlines running the trips have taken steps to make it more difficult to track the planes used to carry shackled people across the country and around the world

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7 d. ago Handshakes and hope but little progress: a short history of Trump

US president is keen for a fourth meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but has little to show from the previous three encountersDonald Trump’s unshakeable belief in his ability as a peacemaker has raised the prospect of another attempt to solve one of the world’s most implacable crises: North Korea’s continuing development of nuclear weapons.During an occasionally fractious meeting with Lee Jae Myung in the White House on Monday, Trump did at least agree with South Korea’s liberal president on the need to engage with the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Feds fight to keep 'Alligator Alcatraz' open amid legal battle as 3rd challenge is filed

The federal government has asked a Miami judge to pause her order to close an immigration detention center in Florida's Everglades, known as "Alligator Alcatraz."

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7 d. ago White South African 'refugee' farmer praises US work ethic having fled his homeland after Trump said Afrikaners were facing 'racial discrimination'

The first batch of 59 Afrikaners, a white minority in South Africa , who opted to flee for the US arrived in May after the White House fast-tracked their refugee applications.

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9 d. ago What to know: Four ways ICE is training new agents and scaling up

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, is key in President Donald Trump's plan for mass deportations

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1 week ago 'South Park' targets federal takeover of Washington, DC, police in latest episode

The team at “South Park” is continuing its comic assault on the Trump administration

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1 week ago As hurricane season collides with immigration agenda, fears increase for those without legal status

Immigrants face increased risks this hurricane season due to aggressive immigration enforcement

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1 week ago DHS Secretary says entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop people from climbing it

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the entire southern border wall with Mexico is being painted black to deter illegal immigration

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1 week ago Nebraska’s governor announces plan for immigrant detention center in state's rural southwest corner

Nebraska Republican Gov_ Jim Pillen has announced plans for an immigration detention center in the state’s rural southwest corner, to be known as the “Cornhusker Clink.”

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2 w. ago Trump administration speechwriter linked to hate speech online

Eric Lendrum, of Department of Homeland Security, likened US conservatives to Jews in Nazi GermanyUS politics – live updatesA speechwriter for the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has come under scrutiny after he was linked to hate speech online.Eric Lendrum compared the circumstances of American conservatives to that of enslaved people and Jewish people in Nazi Germany, and in his podcast claimed that the racist great replacement conspiracy theory was “real”, the news outlet Notus reported. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Photos of the National Guard and federal agents in Washington

After President Donald Trump's announcement that his administration would take over Washington’s police department for at least a month, hundreds of members of the National Guard began to arrive in the capital.

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3 w. ago White House UFC cage fight will take place on the South Lawn, Dana White says

‘All I care about is the Octagon on the lawn and the fight happening with the backdrop being the White House and the Washington Monument,’ UFC CEO says

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3 w. ago Black accounts worker who sued bosses for racial discrimination after she didn't get a birthday card from colleagues loses case

Black accounts worker Benabel Marston sued Excel Hospitality for race discrimination after colleagues at the Gatwick Hilton didn't give her a card on her birthday, but lost her case.

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3 w. ago Homeland Security removes age limits for ICE recruits to boost hiring for Trump deportations

The Department of Homeland Security has removed age limits for new hires at the agency responsible for immigration enforcement

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3 w. ago The US supreme court paved the way for Texas’s gerrymandering mess | Steven Greenhouse

In a 2019 case, John Roberts said federal courts shouldn’t intervene in such matters. Trump’s team is taking advantageWith Texas Republicans rushing to fulfil Donald Trump’s wish to gerrymander to the max, many Americans are no doubt wondering why there isn’t some referee to stop this hyperpartisan race to the bottom that is poisoning our democracy. The supreme court should be the referee that puts a halt to this ugly, undemocratic mess, but in a shortsighted, 5-4 ruling in 2019, the court’s conservative majority essentially told state legislatures that anything goes when it comes to gerrymandering. Their message was: no matter how extreme the gerrymandering, we’ll look the other way.Writing the majority opinion in that case, Rucho v Common Cause, chief justice John Roberts declared that gerrymandering was a political matter that federal courts shouldn’t intervene in (unless it involves racial discrimination). Many legal experts said the conservative justices were defaulting on the ...

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