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Brittany Gibson

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ICE says all its offices will have body cams in 60 days
Half of all ICE field offices across the U.S. now have body cameras for agents, with the rest expected to get them within 60 days, according to the Department of Homeland Security.Why it matters: C...
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How a fuming Trump reversed ICE's pause on vehicle stops
Late Tuesday at the White House, a livid President Trump complained to advisers about the Department of Homeland Security's decision to pause the type of vehicle stops by ICE agents that had led to...
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Trump hits a wall on voter fraud
President Trump's voter fraud crusade is crashing into the limits of his power ahead of November's midterm elections.Why it matters: Trump has made cracking down on alleged mass voter fraud a prior...
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Supreme Court backs Trump on stricter asylum rules
The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to turn away asylum seekers at the southern border who haven't yet crossed into U.S. territory.Why it matters: The Court's...
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U.S. loosens Iran's travel restrictions for next World Cup match
The Iranian soccer team will be allowed to travel to the U.S. two days before its next World Cup match in Seattle.Why it matters: There are strict travel restrictions on the Iranian delegation duri...
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The clock is ticking on Trump's border wall
The closer you look at Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin's declaration that the border wall will be finished by this time next year, the harder it is to make the numbers work. Why it mat...
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Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files in two counties
ICE investigators are going straight to local election officials for individual voter files, and they obtained them in two counties, according to emails shared with Axios. Why it matters: Presiden...
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Scoop: ICE detention numbers slip
ICE has empty detention bed space and the average daily number of detainees has slid to 58,000, Axios has learned from two sources familiar with the data.Why it matters: ICE went on a $38 billion b...
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Iran faces Trump's World Cup gauntlet
The U.S.-Iran war is forcing FIFA to navigate a diplomatic and logistical mess before the World Cup even kicks off Thursday.Why it matters: Iranians are largely banned from traveling to the U.S. ri...
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Federal inspector reports chokehold, pen stabbing at ICE facility
A surprise federal inspection found a prohibited chokehold, an officer who stabbed a detainee with a pen, and other issues that threatened health and safety at one of the largest ICE detention faci...
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The last holdouts from the Kristi Noem era of the Department of Homeland Security
Some of the most senior officials who survived the purge after former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's departure have been associated with the contracting practices that now face intense s...
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Scoop: Trump escalates citizenship crackdown
The Trump administration is temporarily moving immigration lawyers to the Justice Department to speed up efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans, Axios has learned.Why it matters: D...
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Trump copies Obama's playbook on counting deportations
The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed after crossing the border in its deportation statistics, a change that will put it closer to its goal of one million deportat...
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Trump abandons Dreamers despite past sympathy
President Trump talks sympathetically about the country's 500,000 Dreamers — but his administration is putting them in the crosshairs for deportation.Why it matters: The recipients of the Obama-era...
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Trump officials sue Catholic diocese in bid to seize land for border wall
A holy site home to a 29-foot-tall limestone statue of Jesus Christ is in the crosshairs of President Trump's border wall construction plans. Why it matters: The Trump administration is now suing a...
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The Trump administration's claim of "zero" border crossings is falling apart
The Trump administration's flat-out claim that no one is illegally crossing the southern border is starting to fall apart.Why it matters: The rush of migrants seeking asylum has stopped. But smuggl...
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ICE targets Plan B after backlash to mega-jails plan
ICE is in talks to buy turnkey immigration detention facilities from its biggest vendors as local backlash derails its plan to rapidly renovate warehouses into large-scale detention spaces .Why it ...
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Trump's mandatory ICE detention policy struck down in appeals court
A federal appeals court struck down the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy on Wednesday.Why it matters: The Miami, Florida-based 11th Circuit ruling is the latest case to weigh the a...
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Trump's mandatory ICE detention policy struck down in appeals court
A federal appeals court struck down the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy on Wednesday.Why it matters: The Miami, Florida-based 11th Circuit ruling is the latest case to weigh the a...
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Migrants blame Kristi Noem in appeal to Supreme Court
Hundreds of thousands of migrants are placing a last-ditch bet on Wednesday that the Supreme Court will side with them over former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Why it matters: Noem term...
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Trump's border wall deal you can't refuse
REDFORD, Texas — The Trump administration delivered a blunt message to angry landowners at a rare in-person meeting on Tuesday:Work with us on the border wall, or we'll build it anyway. Why it matt...
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