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A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump Administration from deporting Guatemalan children in HHS custody to their home country. US District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, said Trump’s claim he is reunifying the migrant children with their parents “crumbled like a house of cards.” The government of Guatemala has now formally requested that these children be returned home. The children, who do not have a parent in the US, were in the care of the Health and Human Services Department. The Trump Administration worked with the Guatemalan government to devise a plan to safely return the children to...

Trump administration border czar Tom Homan fired up the crowd at Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit Saturday night when a heckler asked Homan, “Are you an MS-13 member?“ But the heckler’s comments added fuel to Homan’s fire as he delivered fiery closing remarks, saying, “Tom Homan is going to run the biggest deportation operation this country has ever seen. Take it to the bank.” “U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A,” the crowd chanted as Homan exited the stage. About five minutes into Homan’s speech, he was interrupted by a heckler who was escorted out by security, lighting a fire for the rest...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Fears are growing among the Chicago area's immigrant community on Mexican Independence Day, with several reports of arrests on Monday. Democratic Congresswoman Lauren Underwood said since the ICE surge in operations in the Chicago area began on September 6, 250 individuals have been taken into custody. Underwood said the individuals who are detained are transferred to detention centers in Indiana and Wisconsin. People are working to find out where those who were detained are being held Tuesday morning. The immigration facility in Broadview is supposed to be a main processing hub immigration arrests. Democratic state Senator Karina...

BOSTON (AP) — Immigrants are being detained while going to work, outside courthouses, and at store parking lots in Metro Boston as President Donald Trump targets so-called sanctuary cities in his effort to ramp up immigration enforcement. As families hole up in homes — afraid to leave and risk detainment — advocates are reporting an increased presence of unmarked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles sitting in parking lots and other public areas throughout immigrant communities, where agents appeared to target work vans. One man captured a video of three landscapers who were working on the Saugus Town Hall property...

BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can end legal protections for around 430,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the latest twist in a legal fight over Biden-era policies that created new and expanded pathways for people to live in the United States, generally for two years with work authorization. The Trump administration announced in March it was ending the humanitarian parole protections. “We recognize the risks of irreparable harm persuasively laid out in the district court’s...

As ICE steps up raids in California, some illegals flee back to Mexico leaving rooms empty and sending rents down for shops and people. And the BBB has allocated another nearly $500 Billion to ICE to employ even more agents to enforce immigration laws.

The mission continues at Alligator Alcatraz. The media was wrong. The leftist judge has been overturned. Florida will keep leading the way.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly authorized sending as many as 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges. The move was reported by the Associated Press, based on what the wire service said was an Aug. 27 memo it reviewed. The military will begin sending groups of 150 attorneys – military and civilian — as early as next week, the memo also states. The move comes as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration, which has resulted in arrests, deportations and related court issues. There are now as many as 3.5 million cases...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges: report From thepostmillennial.com 2:05 PM · Sep 2, 2025

In light of an opinion issued Tuesday by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, the American Civil Liberties Union said that eight Ohio counties don’t have legal contracts with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement. That being the case, the ACLU of Ohio said, those detainees must be released. However, one Ohio sheriff’s office said its contract with the feds meets the legal standards Yost laid out. Another said he’ll fix any problems, but he’s not releasing anybody. For its part, Yost’s office declined to answer questions. After taking office in January, President Donald Trump swiftly began implementing his policy of mass...

An Obama judge issued an injunction on Thursday ordering Florida not only to halt the arrival of new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz but to begin dismantling the facility. The Sunshine State isn't rolling over, and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' office indicated that President Donald Trump's deportation campaign will continue as planned. Quick background After DeSantis tasked state leaders with identifying places for a new detention facility to temporarily house outbound criminal noncitizens, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier made a public pitch in favor of "Alligator Alcatraz" — "an old, virtually abandoned airport facility" in the Everglades that could serve as...

A federal judge abused his authority in pursuing contempt proceedings against Trump administration officials for removing alleged Venezuelan gang members from the United States in violation of a court order, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was split 2-1, with two Trump appointees in the majority and an Obama appointee dissenting. The decision overturns Washington-based Chief Judge James Boasberg's finding of probable cause that officials could be held in criminal contempt.

BREAKING: Border Czar Tom Homan says ICE aims to secure 100,000 BEDS for illegal aliens and says they've deported over 300,000 illegals in 2025. WOW! "We won't stop until we have 100,000 beds. Everyone we arrest needs a bed for due process, where they see an immigration judge. They may stay days or months, but we need beds for the largest deportation operation in history." "I checked the numbers today. We've already surpassed 300,000 removals, historic despite four months of inaction under Joe Biden." "With the Big, Beautiful Bill, more boots on the ground, detention beds, and transportation contracts, watch...

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) crackdown has been very noticeable under Donald Trump’s second term. Naturally with an immigrant population of 15.8% of the total population there has been massive pushback in the US against the deportations. One such person in this crusade has been Angelica Vargas. Not only does she track ICE movementsin her area, but has also set up a GoFundMe page seeking help…

🚨 Game-changer alert. What if I told you the feds don’t need permission from sanctuary mayors or woke governors to start mass deportations? They just need one thing: the Declaration of Taking Act (40 U.S.C. § 3114). It’s called “quick-take” eminent domain, and it gives the federal government the power to seize jail space IMMEDIATELY—before any court ruling. Once a simple legal document is filed and compensation is deposited, ICE and DHS can take over city or county jails at 2:00 AM. No waiting. No permission. No delays. ⸻ 💣 THE PLAN: Midnight Federalization 1. DOJ files a 1-page declaration...

Once a hub of migrant passage, the El Paso–Juárez corridor has fallen eerily quiet.Trump’s tariff threats have stunned industry on the Mexican side of the border, with factories laying off thousands of workers. EL PASO, TEXAS — Juan Ortíz trudged through 100-degree heat along the U.S.-Mexico border, weighed down by a backpack full of water bottles that he planned to leave for migrants trying to cross this rugged terrain. Only there hadn’t been many migrants of late. When Ortíz started water drops in this especially dangerous stretch of desert near El Paso nearly two years ago, he sometimes encountered dozens...

AVON, Ind. — Federal immigration authorities made 20 arrests during a traffic blitz in Avon on Tuesday, sources tell FOX59/CBS4. Those sources said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) worked with the Avon Police Department to conduct several dozen traffic stops throughout the town to detain illegal immigrants. There are no police reports from Avon police documenting the arrests and they do not appear in the Hendricks County Jail public log. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed they were part of the operation. “We did not conduct traffic stops as the FBI is not authorized to conduct those,” a spokesperson...

An appellate court ruled the Trump administration can move forward with ending temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghan and Cameroonian nationals. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is allowed to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 10,000 Afghans and Cameroonians while a court challenge against the move continues to play out in court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday. The court determined that while CASA — an immigration advocacy group suing DHS — has a plausible case, there is not enough evidence to block the TPS phaseout while the court challenge continues. “We agree with...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press. The information will give ICE officials the ability to find “the location of aliens” across the country, says the agreement signed Monday between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security. The agreement has not been announced publicly. The extraordinary disclosure of millions of...

Another round of immigration judges began receiving emails on Friday informing them they are being let go, NPR has learned, adding to the growing list of immigration court personnel cut by President Trump amid his efforts to speed up deportations of immigrants without legal status. Fifteen immigration judges learned Friday that they would be put on leave and that their employment would terminate on July 22, according to two people familiar with the firings and a confirmation from the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), a union that represents immigration judges. The two people spoke on condition of...