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The US Department of Homeland Security has announced an interim rule to stop the automatic extension of Employment Authorisation Documents (EAD) of migrant workers, a move that is likely to impact thousands of foreign employees, including Indians who make up a large portion of the expat workforce. In a statement on Wednesday, the Department said "Aliens who file to renew their EAD on or after Oct. 30, 2025 (Thursday), will no longer receive an automatic extension of their EAD." This means, EADs automatically extended before October 30 won't be affected. With the new rule, there will be more "vetting and...

Woman in Chicago thought having kids in her car would shield her from arrest while she impeded ICE operations. She thought wrong.“I got kids in my car!”“We warned you.”

The U.S. government is on track to deport 600.000 illegal migrants by the end of the year, White House deportation czar Tom Homan confirmed Tuesday. “As we get more agents on, you will see arrests increase two, three times,” Homan told Fox News on Tuesday. “You’re going to see the numbers skyrocket.” “I just count from January 20 to now ….. under Trump’s presidency, by time of the new year, we’ll be over 600,000 deportations,” Homan told an Axios interviewer, adding: The majority are criminals, and the data proves it. And who are the other 30-35 percent? Those are national...

The Department of Homeland Security initially reported that hits had been put out on ICE agents, and now a massive hit has reportedly been issued for a top member of President Donald Trump's cabinet, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. A Minnesota man allegedly offered a reward of $45,000 to anyone who could deliver her "dead or alive." Our sister site Hot Air reported that a 29-year-old anarchist was arrested after the FBI got a tip about the wanted poster he allegedly made on TikTok that included a sniper ring in the middle of Bondi's head.🚨Tyler Avalos of MN accused of...

U.S. Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, who appeared in federal court on Tuesday sporting his trademark dark green uniform and crew cut, seems likely to become a regular presence there. U.S. District Court judge Sara Ellis ordered Bovino, the Border Patrol sector chief overseeing the agency’s operations in Chicago and previously in Los Angeles, to appear in federal court each weekday at 6 p.m. to report on daily immigration operations. She also ordered that he turn over all agents’ use of force reports from Sept. 2 through Oct. 25, as well as the bodycam footage corresponding to those reports, by...

The Department of Homeland Security announced that 1.6 million people who were in the United States illegally have self-deported, and another 500,000 have been deported. The department has been pushing self-deportations, spending millions on advertisements that showcase a $1,000 payment and a plane ticket that people who register to self-deport are given. It's unclear how much money in total has been given to people who have self-deported. Tricia McLaughlin, DHS' assistant secretary for public affairs, said the Trump administration is on pace to "shatter" current deportation records. "President Trump and Secretary Noem have jumpstarted an agency that was hamstrung and...

Is this a new trend now? ICE officers being hit by cars? 🚨2 more ICE Agents now hospitalized after another vehicle ramming attack in Arizona.The Democrat Party has marked federal agents for death and their followers are targeting them. pic.twitter.com/pq7pYhmkJe— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) October 24, 2025Here's AZ Family News on the incident: Law enforcement surrounded a home in Avondale after investigators said the two people inside rammed two ICE officers' car on Thursday morning. According to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE officers tried to pull over a pickup truck driver and a passenger but they didn't stop around 8...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Wednesday instructed DHS to conduct an immediate security review of all visas granted by the Biden administration following last week’s indictment of an alleged Hamas terrorist living in Louisiana on a fraudulent visa, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Mahmoud Amin Ya’Qub al-Muhtadi, a 33-year-old Gazan man, is being held in a Louisiana jail after federal prosecutors charged him last week with participating in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror spree before moving to America with a fraudulent visa. Cotton disclosed in his letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem that there could potentially...

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has slapped illegal aliens with nearly $10 billion in fines, aiming to pressure them into self-deporting rather than draining taxpayer resources through lengthy court battles and forced removals. According to DHS officials, more than 31,600 fine notices have been issued, totaling over $9.6 billion. The new information about the fines was revealed by DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who spoke with Breitbart News. These penalties are designed to hit illegal aliens where it hurts, their wallets, while offering grace for those who choose voluntary departure. Through the CBP Home mobile app, individuals...

U.S. District Court Judge Mary S. McElroy has issued an injunction preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from redirecting $233 million in Homeland Security Grant Program funds, following a lawsuit by a coalition of Democratic-led states. The decision comes amid concerns that the reallocations have curtailed vital counterterrorism and emergency preparedness resources. Additional states are considering joining the litigation, citing potential impacts on national security funding, as the case progresses. McElroy said, “This sort of last-minute changing of the way the funding happens, and especially when it happens right in the wake...

Mexican cartels have reportedly placed bounties on United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Chicago, offering to pay up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced in a Tuesday statement that it had obtained “credible intelligence” that Mexican criminal networks are working with domestic extremist groups to coordinate a “tiered” bounty system. Mexican cartels are working with street gangs in Chicago and groups like Antifa “to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents,” according to the DHS. The federal agency alleged that cartels “have disseminated a...

On Wednesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin discussed deportation numbers. McLaughlin said, “Congress has given us this funding…to be hiring more than 10,000 new ICE enforcement officers. I know about 5,000 have been hired. So, we are certainly on our way, but we expect those numbers to rise.”

Federal law enforcement officials suspect Mexican criminal organizations are funding a scheme to pay thousands of dollars in cash bounties for the killings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, with payouts allegedly increasing based on an employee’s rank and actions. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday announced the alleged bounty system offers $2,000 for gathering intelligence or doxxing agents — including photos and family details — $5,000 to $10,000 for kidnapping or non-lethal assaults on standard immigration officers, and up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials. "Under President [Donald] Trump and [DHS Secretary Kristi...

An alleged Chicago gang leader living in the United States illegally and accused of soliciting the murder of a high-ranking U.S. Border Patrol commander has been indicted by a federal grand jury. Juan Espinoza Martinez, 37, is charged with a single count of murder for hire over an alleged bounty placed on U.S. Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, the commander at large. The indictment states that Martinez, a Mexican citizen, "knowingly used a facility of interstate commerce, namely, an Apple Model 16 cellular telephone... and Snapchat, with intent that a murder be committed." He was arrested this week and remains...

An 8-foot security fence surrounding the Broadview, Illinois Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility has been removed at the order of a U.S. District Court judge. Judge Lashonda Hunt ordered the removal of the security fence last Friday, claiming that the temporary fence was on municipal land without permission and allegedly violated local ordinances by blocking emergency vehicles. Hunt had ruled that the fence violated safety code because the gate was 16 feet wide, rather than the 20-foot requirement adopted by the village under the International Fire Code. The judge’s order stated: “DHS’s Beach Street gate creates a quasi-federal...

Los Angeles County leaders declared a local state of emergency in the region Tuesday, according to local officials. News of the proclamation was shared in a news release online by LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath's office. The measure was said to be a response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across LA County, which is home to more than 10 million people and one of the U.S.'s largest immigrant populations. The county can now offer to support residents financially who have been impacted by the raids, including rent relief and accessing state funds for any legal aid. "What’s happening...

There is credible intelligence that members of Mexican drug cartels have offered a "tiered" bounty system for hits against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Two weeks ago, the Justice Department charged a member of the Chicago-based Latin Kings with putting a bounty on Greg Bovino, the CBP Commander overseeing the surge operations in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland. Drug cartels have "disseminated a structured bounty program to incentivize violence against federal personnel," according to a press release from DHS. The federal agency alleges cartels...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to a rule adopted during Democratic former President Barack Obama's administration allowing the spouses of people with H-1B visas for highly-skilled jobs to work in the United States. The justices denied a petition, opens new tab by Save Jobs USA, which represents American tech workers who it says were displaced by foreign labor, to review a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that said the Department of Homeland Security had the power to adopt the rule in 2015. Following its usual practice, the...

The White House began conducting mass layoffs on Friday amid a prolonged government shutdown, including slashing an entire department under the U.S. Department of the Treasury.The entire staff at the Community Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) received a layoff notice on Friday, an administration official confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation. The program’s elimination comes as White House officials repeatedly warned that the administration would pursue mass firings and budget cuts if Democrats did not reverse course and reopen the government. (RELATED: Democrats Are Terrified Of Trump’s Shutdown Slasher — And They Should Be) The agency employs 102 full-time staff,...

After country singer Zach Bryan teased a new song condemning ICE raids, the Department of Homeland Security [DHS] responded by using one of his past hits in a recruitment video. Bryan previewed a new song, "Bad News," in an Instagram post that quickly went viral. The song includes lyrics lamenting "the fading of the red, white and blue," and that "ICE is gonna come bust down your door." John Rich, a fellow country music star famous for the smash-hit "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" was one of many who derided the song, joking that "Nashville is full of guys...