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Mass Deportations
May 20, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Ropes Banks Into His Immigration Crackdown With Wild Order
He wants their help tracking immigrants.
May 18, 2026
Hafiz Rashid
ICE Agent Charged With Four Counts of Assault in Minneapolis
The Hennepin County District Court charged ICE’s Christian J. Castro after he fired his gun at a Venezuelan immigrant and then lied about it.
May 18, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Has Separated Even More Families Than We Realized
Tens of thousands of U.S.-born children are no longer with their families.
May 15, 2026
Edith Olmsted
ICE Charges Ahead With Building Megaprisons
The Department of Homeland Security is converting warehouses into detention centers.
May 14, 2026
Matt Ford
Trump Offers U.S. Citizenship to 32 Million Venezuelans
Taking another zany plan by the president seriously because he cannot possibly do so.
May 11, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Is Stephen Miller’s Time at White House Finally Coming to an End?
Donald Trump is turning to Miller less and less.
May 11, 2026
Edith Olmsted
People Are Calling 911—Only to End Up in ICE’s Clutches
Local law enforcement agencies are cooperating with Donald Trump.
May 8, 2026
Edith Olmsted
ICE Beat Teen at Gunpoint Before Realizing They Had Wrong Person
ICE then dropped the teenager off at a completely random location.
May 7, 2026
Finn Hartnett
ICE Arrests Disney Cruise Staff in Child Porn Investigation
Nearly 30 staffers were detained as part of an investigation into child sexual exploitation material.
May 7, 2026
Timothy Noah
Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine Isn’t Helping Native-Born Workers
The first major study of Trump’s crackdown’s effect on labor markets shows it’s only making things worse for the U.S.-born workers it’s supposed to help.
May 5, 2026
Edith Olmsted
GOP Finds Way to Give ICE Even More Money—With Way Less Accountability
Senate Republicans are putting forward a new reconciliation package for immigration enforcement.
May 1, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s FBI Reassigned a Quarter of Entire Agency onto Immigration
Donald Trump’s priorities are not exactly what keeps Americans safe.
April 29, 2026
Matt Ford
Trump’s Quixotic Push to Denaturalize U.S. Citizens
While the push is another example of the administration’s anti-immigrant animus, it does not have a free hand to kick masses of naturalized citizens out of the country.
April 28, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Kids Forced to Appear Alone in Court as Trump Ramps Up Deportations
The significantly decreased timelines puts incredible stress on the unaccompanied children, who sometimes wet themselves in court out of fear.
April 28, 2026
Petala Ironcloud
The Tribal Organizations That Won’t Quit ICE
Public pressure campaigns have successfully forced Native corporations to divest from contract work with the controversial agency. But not always.
April 27, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Judge Says Some Women Are Just a “Warm, Wet Hole”
Melissa Isaak is part of Donald Trump’s newly appointed class of immigration judges.
April 27, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump Pushes Bonkers Strategy to Make ICE More Popular
Nice.
April 27, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump’s New Immigration Judges Include a Men’s Rights Lawyer
Donald Trump’s newly hired immigration judges have very little relevant experience.
April 20, 2026
Edith Olmsted
Trump Secretly Overhauled Citizenship Agency to Focus on Deportations
One new team is focused entirely on “denaturalization.”
April 15, 2026
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Six Republicans Break Ranks to Oppose Trump on Immigration
With the six representatives’ help, House Democrats were able to force a vote on Haitians’ Temporary Protected Status in the U.S.
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