The Trump administration is tapping several other agencies to help deport and arrest those without legal status — a novel step that is prompting some pushback.
Republican lawmakers in some states are threatening local officials with lawsuits, fines and jail time if they resist President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration. Lawmakers in more than 20 states have filed legislation targeting so-called sanctuary polices that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
MSNBC had aired stories falsely claiming the doctor performed mass hysterectomies on female detainees at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Georgia.
A new executive order aims to prevent taxpayer money from supporting people in the U.S. without legal status and targets federal funding for cities and states that support sanctuary policies.
On the Friday, Feb. 14 edition of Georgia Today: the Georgia Senate wants to force local governments to cooperate with federal immigration authorities; the Trump administration fires one-tenth of the employees at the Atlanta based CDC; and Georgia poet Tony Whedon has a new collection.
A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows growing support for some restrictions on immigration. Still, many elements of President Trump's sweeping crackdown are unpopular with Democrats and independents.
In a strongly worded letter to Catholic bishops in the United States, Pope Francis is taking to task the Trump administration's stance on migrants, calling it a "major crisis."
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.
It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.
As the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationally, Sheriff’s offices in Georgia are slowly doing the same as mandated by a state law passed last year.
The agreements potentially help the Trump administration address a key sticking point in immigration enforcement since not everyone in the U.S. illegally can be easily sent back home.
Changes to hiring and retention practices grew the department by 19,000 people in four years. But former officials warn that's still not enough for Trump's ambitious policy goals.
