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May 23, 2026
Trump Is Setting His Sights on Restricting Legal Immigration
After a year focused on immigrants here illegally, the Trump administration is now making it harder for legal migrants to stay in the country. It is a risky pivot.
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May 22, 2026
U.S. to Block Entry to More Noncitizens Who May Have Been Exposed to Ebola
The Trump administration announced plans to expand a ban on entering the United States to legal permanent residents who had been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda or South Sudan.
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May 19, 2026
Trump Moves to Admit 10,000 More White South Africans as Refugees
The Trump administration argues that an “emergency refugee situation” in South Africa merits bringing more Afrikaners to America, at a cost of some $100 million.
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May 13, 2026
Trump Administration to Tap Longtime ICE Official to Lead Agency
David Venturella’s appointment is in line with a push by Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, to keep his department under the radar and out of headlines.
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May 12, 2026
Florida Plans to Close ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Vendors Are Reportedly Told
The Department of Homeland Security has determined the state-run immigration detention facility is too expensive, and some private vendors have struggled to front costs.
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May 8, 2026
Trump Administration Targets 12 Immigrants to Revoke Citizenship
The targeted Americans are accused misdeeds that can qualify them to lose citizenship, but denaturalization has rarely been invoked in the past.
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May 7, 2026
Trump Administration Weighs Citing ‘Emergency’ to Admit More White South Africans as Refugees
The move would further solidify the U.S. refugee program as a pipeline for the white minority from South Africa.
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May 7, 2026
Federal and State Officials Discuss Closing Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The immigrant detention center in the Everglades, which Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, opened last July, may be too expensive to keep operating.
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May 7, 2026
Federal and State Officials Consider Closing Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The immigrant detention center in the Everglades, which Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, opened last July, may be too expensive to keep operating.
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May 4, 2026
D.H.S. Intelligence Office Did Not Properly Secure Smartphones, Watchdog Says
The department’s inspector general found a heightened risk of cyberattacks in mobile devices used by staff of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. The department acknowledged shortcomings.
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April 29, 2026
They Left for the School Bus. ICE Picked Them Up Instead.
A school transfer disrupted two brothers’ visas, their lawyer said, leaving them vulnerable to arrest and unsettling their Mississippi school community.
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April 27, 2026
ICE Warehouse Plan Faces Delay Over Lack of Environmental Reviews
Officials have argued in court filings that the projects are exempt from federally required assessments, but are scrambling after a judge disagreed.
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April 25, 2026
Under Trump, Green Card Seekers Face New Scrutiny for Views on Israel
In guidance to immigration officers, the administration describes participating in pro-Palestinian protests and criticizing Israel as “overwhelmingly negative” factors.
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April 23, 2026
Trump Administration Aims to Strip Citizenship From Hundreds of Naturalized Americans
The Trump administration is assigning denaturalization cases to regular prosecutors, which could lead to a surge of people stripped of U.S. citizenship.
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April 17, 2026
She Made Sure Her Baby Was Born an American. Then Federal Agents Separated Them.
Diana Acosta Verde, who came into the United States illegally when she was six months pregnant, had to leave her baby at a hospital while she returned to a detention center.
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April 17, 2026
Acting ICE Director Says He Plans to Resign in May
Todd Lyons said he would leave to spend more time with his family. He has spoken about a surge in threats against ICE officers, saying that he knew the reality firsthand.
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April 11, 2026
Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students
The immigration judges’ abrupt dismissals marked the latest efforts by the Trump administration to reshape the country’s immigration courts.
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April 9, 2026
How Trump Purged Immigration Judges to Speed Up Deportations
Judges are ordering an unprecedented number of people deported after coming under significant pressure from the administration to do so or risk losing their jobs.
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April 7, 2026
ICE Agents Shoot Into a Car, Injuring a Suspect in Northern California
A federal official said the agents were pursuing a “wanted gang member” who tried to run one of them over. No confirmation of that account was immediately available.
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April 5, 2026
Stephen Miller Is Still Pursuing His Immigration Agenda, but More Quietly
The architect of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign wants “a moratorium on immigration from third world countries until we can heal ourselves as a nation.” The chaos in Minneapolis has not...
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April 4, 2026
Trump Wants to Make Deportation Deals. Autocrats Are Ready to Listen.
The White House has turned deportations, a signature domestic issue, into a major piece of foreign policy. Here’s what we know about the program.
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April 4, 2026
Arrest of Wisconsin Mosque Leader Was Tied to Trump Antisemitism Campaign
Immigration lawyers and former federal officials say the case of Salah Sarsour echoes those against other pro-Palestinian activists.
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April 2, 2026
D.H.S. Inspector General Inquiry Focuses in Part on Corey Lewandowski
The investigation comes as administration officials have fielded complaints about how Kristi Noem’s top adviser, Corey Lewandowski, dealt with companies seeking federal contracts.
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March 31, 2026
Senators Seek Answers From Trump Administration About Airport Immigration Arrests
Airport security officials have been sharing passenger data with immigration agents, but the program received little attention until videos captured a woman and her daughter being detained at San F...
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March 30, 2026
A New Boss Takes Over Homeland Security With Less Flash but Same Mission
Markwayne Mullin, the incoming D.H.S. secretary, faces a difficult balance: a public reset of the agency while delivering on President Trump’s deportation agenda.
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March 27, 2026
Will ICE Change Under Its New Leader?
Markwayne Mullin, the new homeland security secretary, has promised a different approach, but how much change is likely? Our reporter Hamed Aleaziz describes what we know.
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March 26, 2026
ICE Agents at Some Airports Begin Checking IDs in Security Lines
It was unclear whether having agents helping with screening passengers would improve wait times. Some travelers expressed worries.
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March 25, 2026
Inside Trump’s Secret Deal to Deport Migrants to Cameroon
In Cameroon, the Trump administration found a partner it could pressure into accepting covertly deported migrants.
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March 25, 2026
T.S.A. Tipped Off ICE Agents Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport
Transportation Security Administration officials told ICE that a mother and daughter under a detention order had planned to fly domestically, federal documents show.
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March 24, 2026
Gregory Bovino’s Final Days: Harsh Words and Few Regrets
He was the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. But as he begins a retirement that was not entirely voluntary, the Border Patrol leader says he did not go far enough.
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