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Daily News Lesson August 11 2025

Jesuit priest describes seeing ICE agents target migrants at immigration court

Learn more about how ICE agents are targeting migrants at immigration courts, as described by a Jesuit priest who witnessed it firsthand

FILE PHOTO: Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) look on after executing search warrants and making some arrests at an agricultural processing facility in Canton

Daily Video August 22 2019

ICE immigration raids took this school superintendent by surprise

Use this lesson plan to learn more about the ICE immigration raids in Mississippi and how schools have been affected.

The Statue of Liberty is seen on Liberty Island in New York Harbor

Daily Video August 21 2019

How the Statue of Liberty poem provides a lesson in immigration history

Use this NewsHour lesson plan to learn about the Trump administration's changes to immigration policy and how it relates to the Statue of Liberty's famous inscription.

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