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News Articles: immigration policy

Churchgoers pray during service at the Evangelical church Sunday, May 11, 2025, in Tampa, Florida. The service focused on celebrating the mothers in attendance, as well as Maurilio Ambrocio's continued detention in an immigration facility. 

(Lexi Parra for NPR)

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In Florida, an immigrant pastor's detention sends a community reeling

In one weekend in May, more than a 1,000 immigrants were arrested in Florida. The massive crackdown has Trump supporters asking why their neighbors were detained and must be deported.

May 20, 2025
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
District Court Judge Shelley Joseph leaves Boston federal court in April 2019 for allegedly helping a man in the country illegally evade immigration officials as he left her Newton, Mass., courthouse.

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  • USPS

Wisconsin judge's case is rare but not unprecedented. There's another near Boston

Massachusetts Judge Shelley Joseph was accused of helping an undocumented immigrant evade authorities more than seven years ago. Her case is still unresolved.

May 17, 2025
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  • Tovia Smith
U.S. Army soldiers patrol the U.S.-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, on Jan. 24. The Trump administration has often used the word invasion to describe illegal immigration, but that framing has not been fully tested in court until now.

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  • USPS

Historical precedent: Courts wrestle with White House's 'invasion' claim

Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for the Trump administration's use of a wartime deportation authority.

May 16, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Michigan Air National Guard troops listen as President Trump speaks during a visit with Michigan Air National Guard Troops on April 29 at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich.

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  • USPS

DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist in deportations

If approved, the move would be the first time Guard troops at the national level have been asked to assist in the removal of migrants in the U.S. without legal status.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Bowman
Relatives of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. who were flown to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government, which alleged they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, protest outside the United Nations building in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 22, 2025.

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  • Law

Federal judge OKs use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans

A federal judge says President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are shown to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

May 14, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Newly arrived South Africans listen to representatives from Homeland Security and the State Department deliver welcome statements in a hangar at Atlantic Aviation Dulles near Washington Dulles International Airport on May 12, 2025 in Dulles, Va.

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  • USPS

First Afrikaners arrive in U.S. under radically redrawn refugee program

The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.

May 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Salvadoran guards escort alleged members of the 'Tren De Aragua' and Mara Salvatrucha gangs who were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador.

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  • Law

U.S. intelligence memo says Venezuelan government does not control Tren de Aragua gang

The memo weakens President Trump's argument for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants.

May 07, 2025
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  • Jasmine Garsd and
  • Greg Myre
Thousands of international students studying at U.S. universities have had their visa records terminated by the Trump administration, sometimes for infractions as minor as a traffic violation.

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  • National

Minor infractions lead to big problems for international students

After weeks of confusion, the Trump administration confirmed that it terminated visa records for thousands of international students because of past brushes with law enforcement, many of them minor.

May 05, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
An Avelo Airlines jet on the tarmac at Hollywood Burbank Airport in 2021. The budget airline is set to begin operating deportation flights next month for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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  • National

Budget airline Avelo faces backlash for signing up to fly deportation flights for ICE

Facing financial headwinds, budget carrier Avelo Airlines struck a deal to operate deportation flights for ICE. Now it's dealing with angry customers and politicians at its hub in Connecticut.

April 30, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
Pro-Palestinian activists rally for Mohsen Mahdawi and protest against deportations outside of ICE headquarters in New York City on April 15. Mahdawi, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstrations last year at Columbia University, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security during his naturalization interview in Vermont.

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  • National

Federal judge orders release of Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi

A federal judge in Vermont ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia University who was arrested at his US citizenship interview and ordered deported.

April 30, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
The relatives of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. who were flown to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government protest outside the United Nations building in Caracas, Venezuela, in April. President Trump invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to deport the men without due process — one of several ways he is attempting to deliver on campaign promises to "launch the largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America."

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  • National

Here are the top 5 immigration changes from Trump's first 100 days

Trump has made many changes to immigration policy in his first 100 days. Here are five you should know about.

April 30, 2025
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  • NPR Immigration Team
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt (right) speaks as border czar Tom Homan looks on during a White House briefing on Monday.

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  • National

The White House threatens sanctuary cities in another EO, but courts are skeptical

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at identifying sanctuary cities, part of a broader effort to target jurisdictions that limit cooperation with ICE.

April 28, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
Students and educators attend a rally at Northwestern University one week before the Trump administration said it will restore the records of international students deleted from a crucial database. That move had thrown into doubt many students' ability to stay in the U.S.

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  • National

Government says - for now - it will restore international students' status

International students had filed dozens of lawsuits after the government removed them from a database crucial for maintaining their legal status.

April 25, 2025
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  • Adrian Florido
Atlanta immigration attorney Charles Kuck, center, argued on behalf of some 133 international college students who for now have no way to continue their studies. "There's no doubt that this administration wants foreign students outside the United States, especially those from countries it does not be desirable," Kuck said. "What we see as a result is the terror in these students."

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  • News

ICE is reversing terminations of international students’ status after hundreds join Atlanta lawsuit

In a change of policy, ICE will restore the student status of international students whose visas were suddenly revoked.

April 25, 2025
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  • Chase McGee and
  • Sarah Kallis
One day before her court hearing, Yasmelin Valazquez is hospitalized at John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in Indio, Calif., on April 9, 2025. Zaydee Sanchez/NPR

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  • National

A day in the life of one migrant seeking to stay in the U.S.

Yasmelin Velazquez has waited 10 months for her immigration court date. But a last-minute hospitalization and confusion over Trump's changing immigration policies lead to more hurdles and anxiety.

April 14, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
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