Category: Executive & Enforcement
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This article shares details of the border wall contracts that have been signed by Department of Homeland Security.
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The National Immigration Law Center has provided this explainer of the anti-immigrant policies in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill. These changes include:
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This article from the CATO Institute shows the breakdown of the 25,000 government employees (from both federal and state-specific organizations) who have been diverted from their jobs to support ICE.
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Alex Nowrasteh of the CATO Institute has just published an article entitled “Trump Bashed Other Countries for their Immigrant Crime Rates. Here’s why he didn’t mention the US” which clearly states that the crime rates for U.S. citizens are higher than for either legal immigrants or unauthorized residents of the U.S.
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This press release, from America’s Voice, summarizes a report from Economic Insights and Research Consulting which describes the impact that deportations have had on the economy. The report shows significant changes to (1) agriculture, (2) construction, and (3) leisure/hospitality. Read the press release here You can download the paper Warning Signs of the Economic Harms…
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This article, Civil rights jobs have been cut. Those ex-workers warn of ICE detention violations, describes lay-offs of key administrators in ICE no longer ensuring legal standards in detention centers.
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A recent report from Harvard University and Physicians for Human Rights states that immigrant detainees who are in solitary confinement for more than 15 days is considered torture. See the U.S. map with numbers in solitary confinement for the past year.
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Intelligencer has written this article (The New Court Tactic Helping ICE Deport Immigrants) about how federal prosecutors are dismissing immigration cases in court which renders the person seeking relief unauthorized and open to deportation. ICE, in the courthouse, can detain these immigrants.
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WASHINGTON— The Department of Homeland Security is announcing a final rule, effective Oct. 2, 2025, to streamline the filing process for certain temporary agricultural worker petitions.The new rule allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to begin processing petitions for H-2A temporary agricultural workers while the Department of Labor reviews the requested employment to ensure it would…
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In this article and 28-minute video, the Border Report (reporters Rudy Mireles and Sandra Sanchez) from Harlingen, Texas provides a quick explainer of some immigration basics: Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, Title 8 (US Immigration Law), ICE, family separations, immigration courts, and a former immigration judge talking about reviewing the cases of unaccompanied minors.…
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