U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to open a call center with a dedicated unit to search for unaccompanied minors arriving in the United States, NBC News reports. State and local police will be involved in the search for the minors. This is part of a larger…
The number of illegal border crossings between the US and Mexico fell sharply in fiscal year 2025. This is the lowest level since the early 1970s, according to internal federal data obtained by CBS News. According to preliminary data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), US Border Patrol agents…
In the vast farmlands north of Los Angeles, from Ventura County to California’s Central Valley, ICE raids have stopped most workers from going to the fields, Reuters reports. That means crops are being wasted. Lisa Tate, a sixth-generation farmer…
After President Donald Trump stepped up crackdowns on illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in the north are seeing a sharp increase in attempted border crossings, Fox News reports. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in Houlton, Maine, said…
The Trump administration has urged the Ukrainian government to accept deportees from the United States who are citizens of other countries, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. Ukraine is at war and depends on the American military and…
The Justice Department has begun prosecuting migrants who violated a newly expanded military zone on the southern border patrolled by the U.S. military, The Washington Post reports. At least 28 migrants were charged on April 28 with crossing the so-called national defense zone…
Donald Trump has deported 37 people in his first month in office, according to the Department of Homeland Security. That's down significantly from the 660 monthly average for deportations and returns in the last full year of the Biden administration,…
President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum directing the federal government to prepare the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to house tens of thousands of migrants, CNN reports. The memo says the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security should provide additional space to hold…
On January 26, US and Colombian Presidents Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro almost started a trade war over Trump's campaign to deport illegal immigrants. In the end, Washington and Bogota decided not to start it for now, the BBC reports. On January 26, two US military transport planes were supposed to deliver…
A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's new executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, CBS News reports. At a hearing on January 23, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coffenauer called Trump's order "patently unconstitutional" and said that...