4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (734+ words) WASHINGTON "Three developments dropped inside the machinery of federal immigration law in the past two weeks. None of them made the front page. All of them will change lives. They arrived quietly " in court filings, regulatory agendas, and the dense…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (544+ words) The new law splits the money explicitly between the two agencies at the center of the crackdown: $38 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, $26 billion for Customs and Border Protection, and $5 billion for broader Department of Homeland Security operations. Because it…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (454+ words) WASHINGTON "Eighty-five payments. That's how many employers had paid Trump's $100, 000 H-1 B visa fee in the five months since it took effect " a number so low it tells its own story about what the fee was actually designed to do. On…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (221+ words) WASHINGTON "The number is $240 billion. That is the rough sum of what congressional Republicans " using a combination of the regular budget process, emergency maneuvers, and a procedural end-run called reconciliation " intend to pour into federal immigration enforcement by the time…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago  (184+ words) WASHINGTON " Beth Davidson is running on her spine. Her six-figure TV ad campaign, launched in mid-May, includes a spot titled "Never Backs Down" " a declaration that the Rockland County legislator and frontrunner in New York's competitive 17th Congressional District Democratic primary…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago  (573+ words) WASHINGTON "The Senate handed President Donald Trump $70 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol (CBP) before 5 a. m. Friday " a multi-year funding package Republicans rammed through on a party-one reconciliation vote, no Democratic support required. The final tally: 52-47. But…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (671+ words) CHICAGO, IL. "A hospital chaplain was shoved by a federal immigration agent Tuesday morning after she stepped into the street to intervene when ICE agents seized an unidentified Latino man in the South Shore neighborhood " and she's not sorry she did…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (686+ words) WASHINGTON "Markwayne Mullin walked into a Senate hearing room Tuesday morning as the new secretary of Homeland Security and walked out having refused to say, plainly and on the record, that his department will obey federal court orders. It was…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (261+ words) WASHINGTON "The federal government is moving " quietly, through the Federal Register, with almost no public attention " to turn immigration enforcement into a financial punishment system. Three separate rulemaking actions, all traceable to HR-1 or the administration's broader anti-immigration executive agenda,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1086+ words) Jean Wilson Brutus was Haitian. He arrived at Delaney Hall and was dead within 24 hours. ICE waited a week to say anything publicly. A pregnant woman currently inside the facility is in excruciating pain. She has no access to an…...