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News Articles: Immigration law

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Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end humanitarian status for some migrants

The move to grant a stay in the case means that the Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted temporary parole under the program known as CHNV would lose their temporary legal status to be in the U.S.

May 30, 2025
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Rep. Kasey Carpenter of Dalton on the Georgia House Floor. In 2024, he voted against House Bill 1105, the Georgia Criminal Alien Track and Report Act of 2024. He believes changes to the law are needed during the 2026 General Assembly. (Screenshot)

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State Rep. Kasey Carpenter on Immigration Reform

This week on Lawmakers Huddle: immigration laws have come under increased scrutiny with the arrest and detention by ICE of a 19-year-old college student in Dalton. Donna Lowry spoke with Republican state Rep. Kasey Carpenter to discuss his interest in immigration reform. 

May 29, 2025
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By:
  • Donna Lowry
Demonstrators protesting a bill that would've allowed schools to deny students based on immigration status at the Tennessee Capitol in Nashville.

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  • National

Republicans say they will still push education based on legal status

The Tennessee Legislature aimed to challenge a 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that established a right to education for all students. Republican lawmakers still hope to overturn that.

May 01, 2025
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By:
  • Marianna Bacallao
Signs direct traffic to the immigration court parking lot in Chicago, Ill., in August 2024.

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  • Law

Trump wants to bypass immigration courts. Experts warn it's a 'slippery slope.'

The administration's recent actions to fire immigration judges and other steps are chipping away at what was already an imperfect system in administrative courts.

April 29, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
The Bluebonnet Detention Center is shown on Thursday in Anson, Texas

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  • National

Venezuelans subject to removal under wartime act have 12 hours to contest

An ICE official said in court documents that people are subject to deportation if they don't say they want to challenge their removal within 12 hours after being notified about their rights.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Pro-Palestinian students hold up Palestinian flags during UMass Amherst graduation ceremonies in May 2024. They left the graduation event in protest.

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  • National

Foreign students say the threat of Trump's executive orders is getting real

President Trump warned international students that if they support groups the U.S. deems terrorist organizations, "we will find you, and we will deport you." It's left many student activists anxious.

March 03, 2025
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By:
  • Tovia Smith
A photo from an FBI affidavit shows, from left, Pablo Zuniga Cartes, Ignacio Zuniga Cartes and Bastian Jimenez Freraut, along with an unidentified person whose face is redacted. The FBI says the image, procured from an iCloud account, was taken minutes after a Milwaukee Bucks player's home was burglarized.

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  • National

Seven Chilean men are charged with stealing millions from high-profile athletes' homes

Seven Chilean men face federal charges related to a string of burglaries at the homes of six high-profile athletes. NFL quarterbacks Pat Mahomes and Joe Burrows were among the targets.

February 19, 2025
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  • Bill Chappell
The Florida House of Representatives shown here during the special legislative session this week that led to the passage of laws aimed at assisting President Trump's plans for mass deportations.

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  • News

On a second try, Florida Republicans agree on a law to assist Trump's deportations

The bill passed after Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow Republicans ended a public dispute. It includes a mandatory death penalty for capital crimes committed by people without legal status.

February 13, 2025
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  • Greg Allen
President Joe Biden issued executive actions restricting asylum eligibility for most people who cross the border unauthorized on Tuesday, June 4.

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  • National

Biden's plan will shield undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation

Executive actions from the White House will offer parole to up to half a million immigrants

June 18, 2024
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Manuel Vazquez, owner of Coya's artisan ice cream, poses for a photo as he carries a tray of ice pops in the kitchen of his shop in Fort Myers, Fla.

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  • National

Anguish and fear in Florida amid rising anti-immigrant sentiment

Florida passed one of the toughest immigration laws in the country nearly a year ago. Many are thinking about leaving the state and those who stayed behind say it's made life terrifying.

April 25, 2024
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
Bessy Hernandez, 73, sells fruits and vegetables at the Tropicana Flea Market produce stand. Hernandez's sales have dropped 40 percent in recent months as a result of the new Florida immigration law.

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  • Politics

Sales are way down at a Florida flea market. A new immigration law could be to blame.

Florida's new strict immigration law threatens the state's economy and could hurt political ambitions for some GOP candidates. Vendors at a popular flea market are already seeing the impacts.

August 03, 2023
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
Border Patrol agents detain a group of migrants in El Paso, Texas, near the border wall after they entered the U.S. from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in February.

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  • Politics

Immigration advocates warn of midterm risks for Democrats if Title 42 isn't lifted

With voter enthusiasm among Democrats already lagging going into the midterms, immigration advocates say they will dampen it more by not calling for the 2020 public health order to be lifted.

April 27, 2022
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Pamela and Afshin Raghebi celebrate a birthday together. Afshin, who was born in Iran, has been stuck overseas, away from his U.S. citizen wife, for more than two years after he flew abroad for an interview at a U.S. Consulate as part of his green card application.

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  • National

Legacy Of President Trump's Travel Ban Will Be Hard For Biden To Erase

President-elect Biden plans to end the Trump administration's travel ban on Muslim-majority countries on Day 1. But immigrant advocates say the lasting effects of the policy will be harder to undo.

January 20, 2021
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Protesters gather for a news conference in Atlanta earlier this year, shortly after the release of a complaint by whistleblower Dawn Wooten, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga.

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  • Law

U.S. Agrees To Pause Deportations For Women Alleging Abuse At ICE Facility

Dozens of immigrant women have said they received unwanted gynecological procedures at Irwin County Detention Center. Yet even as authorities investigate, the accusers have been in danger of removal.

November 24, 2020
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  • Colin Dwyer
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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  • National

ICE Almost Deported Immigrant Woman Who Says She Got Unwanted Surgery While Detained

As explosive allegations were coming to light about immigrant women who say they've been subjected to unwanted hysterectomies and other procedures, one of those detainees was nearly deported.

September 17, 2020
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  • Joel Rose
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