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News Articles: immigration policy

Unaccompanied minors walk towards U.S. Border Patrol vehicles after crossing over from Mexico on May 09, 2023, in El Paso, Texas.

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  • Politics

ICE officers granted access to unaccompanied minors database

Trump administration officials say the move was necessary "to build a culture of child safety and accountability." But advocates say they fear the administration will use it for immigration enforcement. 

February 14, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
A church displays a sign saying, "Immigrants & Refugees Welcome" in New York.

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  • Religion

27 religious groups sue Trump administration over immigration enforcement policy

27 religious groups are suing the federal government in response to the Trump administration's policy giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at "sensitive locations" like churches.

February 11, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Ventre
Deborah Boardman appears before a Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing regarding her nomination to be a United States District Judge for the District of Maryland, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, Wednesday, May 12, 2021.

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  • National

Maryland federal judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order

The preliminary injunction blocks President Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship. The White House is expected to appeal.

February 05, 2025
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Inmates sit in a cell at El Salvador's Counter-Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT) mega-prison, where hundreds of gang members are incarerated, in Tecoluca  on Jan. 27. The Trump administration says it is considering El Salvador's offer to accept U.S. prisoners — including some U.S. citizens — in its jails.

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  • Law

Would it be legal for Trump to send U.S. citizens to El Salvador's jails?

President Trump says he would deport American criminals to El Salvador "in a heartbeat" if it were legal. An ACLU attorney tells NPR that such an idea "would be blatantly unconstitutional."

February 05, 2025
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Crowds gathered along a main thoroughfare in Gainesville, G.a on January 29, 2025 to protest ICE and President Trump's expedited removal policy. The protest followed a weekend of sweeps by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security across Georgia.

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  • Politics

'There is a lot of fear': Latinos gather in North Georgia to protest against mass deportations

This week, some of the first people in Georgia without legal citizenship were reported to be detained by federal agents under Trump’s expedited removal policy, prompting hundreds from the Latino community in Hall County to gather to support each other and speak out against recent federal immigration policy changes.

January 31, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
A deportation officer with Enforcement and Removal Operations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office conducts a brief before an early morning operation on Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York.

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  • National

How districts are responding after Trump cleared the way for immigration arrests at schools

President Trump put an end to a policy that restricted federal agents from making immigration arrests at certain locations, including schools. It's already affecting school staff, kids and parents.

January 27, 2025
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By:
  • Robin Young and
  • Hafsa Quraishi
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a meeting with other Republican governors and President-elect Donald Trump, at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach earlier this month.

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  • News

DeSantis faces pushback by fellow Republicans on his call for an immigration session

Republican leaders in the state legislature say they support President Trump's pledge to combat illegal immigration but want to deal with it and other issues identified by DeSantis on their schedule, not his.

January 26, 2025
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  • Greg Allen
2007: Immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano of Mexico defied a deportation order and took sanctuary for months in an apartment above the Adalberto United Methodist Church in Chicago. A new Trump administration policy no longer regards churches as "sensitive" areas where authorities should not pursue people in the country illegally. Arellano remains in the U.S.

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  • National

Churches have a long history of being safe havens — for immigrants and others

For centuries, houses of worship have served as havens for people needing refuge — and, in recent decades, sanctuary from the U.S. government.

January 26, 2025
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  • Bill Chappell
Asylum-seekers wait for news on the CBP One appointments at El Chaparral crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Tuesday.

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  • National

President Trump's suspension of asylum marks a break from U.S. past

Lee Gelernt with the ACLU said the action goes "way beyond anything that even President Trump has tried in the past."

January 23, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde arrives as President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance look on during the Service of Prayer for the Nation Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday.

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  • Religion

Bishop confronts Trump during sermon at inaugural prayer service

At a sermon preached to President Trump at Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Mariann Budde asked him to "have mercy" on people who are "scared," including LGBTQ children.

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Jason DeRose and
  • Sarah Ventre
Amica Center for Immigrant Rights (formerly known as CAIR Coalition) attorney, Atenas Burrola Estrada speaks during an presentation on immigration enforcement at a school in Washington, DC on January 10, 2025.

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  • National

Immigrants and advocacy organizations brace for Trump's Day One actions

Days before Donald Trump takes office with the promise of mass deportation, immigrants are bracing for Trump's potential first actions. Some are staying away from going to work, while immigrant advocacy organizations have launched "know your rights" campaigns across the country.

January 18, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Hondurans David Melgar, 28, his wife Gabriela Maradiaga, 26, and their son Tailer Melgar, 8, have their paperwork checked by CBP agents atop the Paso del Norte Bridge to be allowed into the United States for their CBP One appointment in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico on Monday, December 9, 2024. The family waited only a few weeks to get the appointment in southern Mexico.

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  • Politics

Trump's promise to end CBP One app worries migrants waiting in Mexico

Incoming president Donald Trump has vowed to end the CBP One app, which people outside the U.S. use to book appointments to petition for asylum.

December 19, 2024
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Rodney Scott, former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, speaks following a border tour with former Vice President Mike Pence, Monday, June 13, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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  • National

Trump nominates Rodney Scott to lead Customs and Border Protection

Rodney Scott at CBP and Caleb Vitello at ICE would work alongside Stephen Miller, who was named deputy chief of staff for policy and Tom Homan, also tapped to be a "border czar."

December 06, 2024
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Migrants wait to climb over concertina wire after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas.

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  • National

Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on U.S.-Mexico border

A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Eagle Pass, Texas.

November 28, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
President Donald Trump speaks at Snap-on tools, April 18, 2017, in Kenosha, Wis.

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  • Science

Foreign nationals propel U.S. science. Visa limits under Trump could change that

The incoming Trump administration is likely to crack down on the H-1B visas used by tech companies and research institutions to hire top talent from other countries.

November 23, 2024
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  • Jon Hamilton
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