Category: Executive & Enforcement
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“So far this year, 3,800 children have been detained by U.S. Immigration and Enforcement officers, said Krystal Gomez, managing attorney with the nonprofit Texas Immigration Law Council.” This from an article in Border Report on Jan 21, 2026. Assume this means since the beginning of the government’s fiscal year, October 1, 2025, through some time in…
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The Guardian provided this article, “Who is on the front line of Donald Trump’s Immigration Crackdown?” which shows uniforms from several federal agencies that are supporting ICE in the immigration crackdown.
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David LeBlang, of the Miller Center at University of Virginia, has written an article, “Spanberger chooses evidence, not spectacle,” about newly-elected Governor Abigail Spanberger’s Executive Order 10 which reverses (previous) Governor Yougkin’s Executive Order 47 which mandated local jurisdictions and state organizations sign 287(g) agreements with ICE.
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The CATO Institute reports on tactics the US government is using to arrest ICE observers.
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Here’s a good summary of the Border Wall Contracts that will extend or enhance the US/MX border wall.
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Read this Travel Ban Explainer by Immigration Monitor (a credible guide to global immigration). This lists countries with full and partial travel bans that affect various kinds of immigration and non-immigration visas – and the rationale for restricting travel and visas from these countries. Some exceptions make be available for some people with these reasons:…
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The CATO Institute wrote this article, The Government Unconstitutionally Labels ICE Observers as Domestic Terrorists, and describes incidents that have taken place throughout the country where ICE agents have threatened to arrest people for filming, following or observing ICE arrests.
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This article refers to a Washington Post article that describes the DHS/ICE plan to establish a new network of warehouses to hold and process people who will be deported during 2026 : 15 small processing center warehouses (holding 500-1500 persons) in these locations: 7 larger holding center warehouses (housing 5,000 – 10,000 persons) in
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This is a good summary article about what has been happening at the border and throughout the US on surveillance and how it related to immigrant deportations. Written by POGO (Project on Government Oversight)
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This aricle, ICE is Opening Shuttered Prisons as Detention Centers, (written and podcast of Morning Edition from NPR) describes the nationwide effort to create more detention space (counted as “beds”) throughout the country. This is to hold more immigrant detainees who are unauthorized and/or under consideration for deportation.
Immigration Insight 