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Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
San Francisco-based Salesforce has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O. Marc Benioff, once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
🔴 Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow End of Birthright Citizenship
Government lawyers asked the justices to clear the way for the president’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
“These are the worst conditions I have seen in my 20-year career,” said Paul Chavez, litigation and advocacy director at Americans for Immigrant Justice in Florida, which represents detainees. “Conditions were never great, but this is horrendous.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...
🚨 Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict.
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“You’re going to see more work site enforcement than you’ve ever seen in the history of this nation,” Thomas D. Homan, the White House border czar told reporters recently. “We’re going to flood the zone.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...
🚨 Workplace raids: The recent raids appeared to be part of a new phase of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, in which officials say they will increasingly focus on workplaces.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...
Trump to Send National Guard to L.A. to Quell Immigration Protests
Gov. Gavin Newsom called decision to call in National Guard forces “purposefully inflammatory.” Trump's order came on second day of protests and clashes over federal immigration raids in Los Angeles.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
US stops scheduling visa interviews for foreign students while it expands social media vetting
A U.S. official said Tuesday the suspension is intended to be temporary and does not apply to applicants who already had scheduled their visa interviews.
apnews.com/article/stud...
Harvard Sues Trump Administration Over Move to Bar International Students
Less than 24 hours earlier, the Trump administration had said it would block current and future international students from attending the university.
#HigherEd
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...
But the inhumanity of these immigration sweeps — the brutal glee of rounding up human beings, people who live and work in our midst — is what brings me closest to irrecoverable despair.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...
Pope Leo XIV Calls for Aid to Enter Gaza
Calling the hunger crisis in the war-torn territory “heart-rending,” the pope used his first general audience to highlight the issue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...
Gov attys given order to dismiss cases... knowing federal agents would arrest same individuals as soon as they stepped out of the courtroom
AP reporters witnessed detentions & arrests at immigration courthouses in Los Angeles, Phoenix, New York, Seattle, Chicago & Texas.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Trump admin actions to drive up deportation numbers. These efforts include expanding the group of people who can be targeted for removal, speeding up the deportation process for others and, in some cases, tightening the rules for legal immigrants.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🔴 Migrants deported to South Sudan in violation of court order
Legal team: National Immigration Litigation Alliance, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, and Human Rights First
Burmese and Vietnamese nationals identified, "likely" 10 others
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Deportation fears trigger decline in tax filings in immigrant communities
Amid a Trump administration agreement to allow the Department of Homeland Security access to sensitive IRS taxpayer data, some tax preparation firms say filings this year plummeted.
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WSJ: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Clashes With Right to Due Process
U.S. officials are denying migrants a day in court provided by the Constitution, accusing them with little proof of membership in a violent gang
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Hawaii’s Prized Kona Coffee Fields Have Become a Target for ICE
The Trump crackdown has reached the volcanic Island of Hawaii, where immigrants, some of them undocumented, are crucial to cultivating the rare coffee.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday evening for permission to deport a group of nearly 200 Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members and detained in Texas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
"then what is to stop the govt from detaining someone who really is a citizen, even perhaps a sitting judge?”
“If due process is of no moment, what is stopping the Govt from removing and refusing to return a lawful permanent resident or even a natural born citizen?”
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Human rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the US and held in El Salvador
apnews.com/article/el-s...
The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
Judge Orders Release of Tufts Student Detained by ICE
The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, had published an essay about the war in Gaza. Immigration agents arrested her and sent her to a Louisiana detention center to await deportation proceedings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
Pope Leo XVI, Born in Chicago, Is the FIRST AMERICAN PONTIFF
Robert Francis Prevost, who was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday and took the name Pope Leo XIV, is the first pope from the United States.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Federal immigration agents are detaining and deporting criminal defendants before their trials. Local prosecutors say that denies justice to communities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
“Under the House Judiciary bill, ICE would be given $45 billion to spend on detention through September 30, 2029 … This would be a staggering 365 percent increase on an annual basis over ICE’s current $3.4 billion detention budget, putting ICE’s annual detention budget at $12.4 billion.”
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Libya’s rival governments both denied on Wednesday that they had agreed to receive deported immigrants from the United States, saying this would violate the North African nation’s sovereignty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/w...
🔴 Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight
Nationalities of migrants unclear, but a flight to Libya carrying deportees could leave as soon as Wednesday
Human rights groups have called conditions “horrific” and “deplorable”
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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
U.S. will monitor immigrants’ social media for ‘antisemitic activity’
Homeland Security said such activity would be grounds to deny visa and green-card applications, alarming free-speech and immigration experts.
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Those who leave the U.S. after being in the country illegally for over a year could face a 10-year ban on reentry.
www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-off...
What to know about Cinco de Mayo 2025
#CincoDeMayo is a cultural celebration in the U.S. and is NOT Mexican Independence Day, which is September 16
Trump immigration crackdown has led some to cancel celebrations, including a Cinco de Mayo parade in Chicago.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
