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News Articles: US Immigration

Pope Leo XIV presides over a Mass in St. Peter's Square.

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Pope Leo calls out 'extremely disrespectful' treatment of migrants in the U.S.

The U.S.-born pope has spoken out several times against his native country's treatment of migrants in the U.S.

November 18, 2025
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  • Jason DeRose
Stephany Gauffeny talks to NPR on Sept. 27 about her husband Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, a victim of the Sept. 24 shooting at an Dallas ICE facility.

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  • USPS

'I want his name to be known:' Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out

Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

September 27, 2025
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Kilmar Abrego Garcia (C) and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura (Center Right) enter a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office on Monday in Baltimore, Maryland. The U.S. Government is threatening to deport Garcia, a Maryland construction worker from El Salvador, to Uganda after he rejected a plea deal to be charged with Human Smuggling and deported to Costa Rica.

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  • USPS

Kilmar Abrego Garcia detained by ICE during Baltimore check-in

The detention, which was expected, happened after Abrego Garcia walked into the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Baltimore for a check-in after being released from custody on Friday.

August 25, 2025
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Senator Chris Van Hollen, right, sits with Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the Salvadorian citizen deported by the Trump administration — in El Salvador on April 17, 2025.

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  • USPS

Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from federal custody pending criminal trial

The case of Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man originally from El Salvador, raised basic questions of due process in Trump's crackdown on undocumented immigrants after he was arrested and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, violating a U.S. immigration judge's 2019 order prohibiting his deportation to his home country.

August 22, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Samuel Kangethe arrives with his luggage at the Detroit Metro Airport on August 17, 2025.

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  • USPS

Too much to pack, not enough hugs: A Kenyan man's last 48 hours in America

Samuel Kangethe has lived in the U.S. for nearly two decades, but an unresolved immigration case has made him deportable. He's decided to return to Kenya, leaving his wife and three children behind.

August 19, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Samuel Kangethe cooks in his home on July 3 in Lansing, Michigan.

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  • USPS

'At least I'm safe': A Kenyan immigrant opts to leave the U.S. on his own terms, leaving children and wife behind

The Trump administration has given an ultimatum to immigrants without legal status: Leave voluntarily, or you'll be detained and deported. This has forced some immigrant families in the U.S. to grapple with very hard choices.

August 09, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
An activist marches during a 2023 rally in Washington, D.C. for temporary protected status for Central American migrants to allow them to stay in the United States.

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  • USPS

Federal judge delays expiration of TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Nepalese

The Trump administration has said the conditions in the three countries have improved, therefore the immigrants can return back to their homelands. But federal Judge Trina Thompson suggested Trump's motives are discriminatory.

August 01, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
An exterior view of Fred D Thompson Federal Building & Courthouse during the arraignment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on June 13, 2025 in Nashville, Tenn.

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  • National

A judge ordered Abrego Garcia released. His future remains uncertain

Despite the court order, if released from prison, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is likely to be immediately taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

June 25, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Dan Stein poses for a portrait at his home in Rockville, Md., on May 13.

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  • National

From the fringes to the mainstream: Meet the hard-line anti-immigration activist who helped shape Trump's agenda

The former leader of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Dan Stein, retired this year after more than 40 at the helm of the organization. The right-wing group has long fought to reduce immigration and for tougher border controls. Under President Trump, Stein's once-fringe ideas are now being enacted.

June 23, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
U.S. National Guard stand protect buildings Tuesday in Los Angeles.

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  • National

Immigration enforcement ramps up, tensions persist in big cities

Cities prepare for nationwide protests on Saturday.

June 11, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Thousands of people marched throughout the streets of Manhattan Tuesday night as part of a series of nationwide rallies against President Trump's immigration sweeps and the deployment of the U.S. military in California.

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  • National

Protests grow across the U.S. as people push against Trump's mass deportation policies

Protests of President Trump's immigration policies grew across the U.S. on Tuesday, with rallies held in New York City, Chicago and Seattle.

June 11, 2025
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán and
  • Jasmine Garsd
Juan Vega Paredes, a Dominican man who was arrested by immigration authorities in Puerto Rico in January, poses for a portrait in his home in San Juan, Puerto Rico on June 3, 2025.

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  • National

'You barely see people out': How immigration raids are reshaping daily life in Puerto Rico's Dominican enclave

Puerto Rico's Dominican immigrant community is on edge following a series of immigration raids, which started in January. People have stopped going to work, sending kids to school, or attending medical appointments. What was once a lively barrio is now mostly quiet in the wake of the crackdown.

June 07, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
People place white carnation flowers on the fence of the Krome Detention Center during a vigil protesting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and mass deportations in Miami on May 24, 2025.

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  • National

In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers

ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.

June 05, 2025
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  • Jasmine Garsd
Rümeysa Öztürk (center) after being released from ICE custody Friday evening. Accompanied by Nora Ahmed, legal director of the ACLU of Louisiana (left) and  Öztürk's attorney, Mahsa Khanbabai (right).

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  • USPS

Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk freed from immigration detention

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.

May 09, 2025
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  • Adrian Florido
People take part in a rally and a protest in solidarity with Rumeysa Ozturk and Mohsen Mahdawi outside New York Federal Court as the court hears the U.S. government request to appeal the decisions in their cases in New York, United States on May 06, 2025.

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  • National

Federal court rules Rümeysa Öztürk must be transferred to detention in Vermont

Rümeysa Öztürk has been detained at a federal facility in Louisiana after being arrested on the street in Sommerville, Massachusetts on March 25 by six plainclothes agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

May 07, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
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