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News Articles: immigration policy

Over the past year, many<strong> </strong>federal law enforcement agents conducting immigration arrests have been concealing their faces under masks, and vehicles being used in what appear to be immigration-related arrests do not have license plates.

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  • Investigations

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How agents make immigration arrests

Immigration enforcement officers are sometimes forgoing license plates or otherwise masking their cars while apprehending migrants across the U.S.

October 31, 2025
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By:
  • Chiara Eisner and
  • Ximena Bustillo
In this photograph taken on September 2, 2025, Afghan refugee girl Shayma is pictured during an interview with AFP at her residence in Islamabad. Her family had been scheduled to fly to the U.S. in February, before the Trump administration suspended most refugee admissions.

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  • USPS

Trump administration sets lowest-ever cap on refugee admissions to U.S.

The lowest cap on refugees since the program was established in 1980 comes as the U.S. prioritizes resettling Afrikaners from South Africa.

October 30, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
National Guard soldiers block protesters during an ICE immigration raid at a cannabis farm on July 10 near Camarillo, California.

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  • National

Trump ties crime with immigration, blurring the lines with Guard deployment

As President Trump pushes to get National Guard troops patrolling American cities, his administration has, in effect, blurred the lines between the military, traditional law enforcement and immigration enforcement.

October 17, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
People arrive at an ICE recruitment job fair at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 15.

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  • USPS

Fired feds, Trump lovers and veterans: Meet the people applying for ICE jobs

At a recent DHS career expo in Provo, Utah, many attendees hoped to get hired to help with the Trump administration's deportation efforts.

September 26, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performing onstage in San Juan on July 11 during the first night of his 30-show residency in Puerto Rico.

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  • Arts & Life

Bad Bunny skipped touring the states. Will other performers follow suit?

Artists from abroad are worried that the current climate is making American tours not worth the time and effort.

September 18, 2025
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Immigrants make up a large share of workers caring for older adults and people with disabilities. Now some who had legal authorization to live and work in the U.S. are losing those protections.

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  • Business

She's cared for America's elderly for decades. Trump wants her gone by Sept. 8

The Trump administration has moved to end temporary protected status for immigrants from Honduras and other countries. Among them are health care workers tending to older and disabled people.

August 22, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Tom Torres has worked as a mechanic at the Kraft Heinz plant in Holland, Mich., for 13 years. He says President Trump's immigration policies have forced out hardworking employees at the plant.

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  • Business

Factories from GE to Kraft Heinz lose immigrant workers, stressing those who remain

Trump campaigned on helping American workers through his immigration policies. Now that he's revoked work authorization for thousands of immigrants, those left behind are feeling taxed by their absence.

August 11, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
Demonstrators gather in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 when the Court heard arguments on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals after the Trump administration tried to wind it down.

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  • USPS

DHS is urging DACA recipients to self-deport

"DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country," said DHS assistant press secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who then encouraged "every person here illegally" to self-deport.

July 29, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
The Department of Justice logo is displayed before U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi arrives for a news conference at the agency on May 6 in Washington, D.C. The department announced in a June memo that it is aggressively prioritizing efforts to strip some Americans of their U.S. citizenship.

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  • USPS

DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship

Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually used in only the most serious and rare of cases: dealing with Nazis or war criminals.

June 30, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Juliana Kim
Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, from left, J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, and Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, June 12, 2025. For Republicans, the hearing is a chance to amplify an issue important to President Donald Trump and perhaps regain control of the sanctuary narrative after DHS published a list of jurisdictions it identified as hostile to immigration law enforcement, and then pulled it down a…

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  • National

Denounced by GOP lawmakers, blue state governors defend immigration policies

GOP lawmakers on Thursday blasted Democratic immigration policies as coddling violent criminals. Democrats portrayed Trump's escalating migrant sweeps as a dangerous assault on civil liberties.

June 12, 2025
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  • Brian Mann
National Guard troops stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center on Sunday in Los Angeles. Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard against the wishes of city leaders following two days of clashes with police during a series of immigration raids.

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  • National

Trump mobilizes Marines and more National Guard troops for duty in LA

U.S. Northern Command says the infantry battalion would be supporting the National Guard troops "who are protecting federal personnel and federal property in the greater Los Angeles area."

June 09, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Bowman
Texas National Guard troops try to untangle an immigrant caught in razor wire after he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 31, 2024. The Trump administration now plans to use Guard troops for law enforcement activities, including "night operations and rural interdiction," as well as "guard duty and riot control" inside immigrant detention facilities.

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  • National Security

DHS memo details how National Guard troops will be used for immigration enforcement

The memo obtained by NPR says troops would be used in activities, including in "night operations and rural interdiction," as well as "guard duty and riot control" inside detention facilities.

June 06, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Bowman and
  • Ximena Bustillo
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security sign is displayed at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters on May 18 in Washington, D.C.

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  • USPS

Homeland Security pulls down list of 'sanctuary' cities and counties after backlash

The list included dozens of cities and counties that DHS said was in noncompliance with federal statutes and had come under intense criticism from some mayors and law enforcement.

June 02, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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  • National

White House agrees to keep migrants in Djibouti for now, blasts federal judge's ruling

The judge says the administration "unquestionably" violated his earlier order, which stated migrants cannot be deported to a country other than their own without having adequate notice and a chance to object.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
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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  • USPS

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
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