• How Trump's immigration policies are affecting caregivers and nursing homes

    How Trump's immigration policies are affecting caregivers and nursing homes

    Aug 11, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    ... to early next year. In a recent statement, the Department of Homeland Security said: "President Trump and Secretary Noem are restoring common sense to our immigration system and returning TPS to its original status, temporary." Edelyne Jean: Come here. Come here. William Brangham: Back outside Orlando, nurse Edelyne Jean is ...

  • Some Florida officers are continuing to charge people under halted immigration law

    Some Florida officers are continuing to charge people under halted immigration law

    Aug 11, 2025 08:32 PM EDT

    ... court filing, immigrants' rights advocates who filed the lawsuit questioned whether state officials are using the blocked law to justify holding detainees at an isolated immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Attorneys for the advocates provided the court an email apparently sent by an Immigration and ...

  • Jesuit priest describes seeing ICE agents target migrants at immigration court

    Jesuit priest describes seeing ICE agents target migrants at immigration court

    Aug 04, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    The Trump administration has made sweeping changes to the country’s immigration system. In recent months, ICE agents have been arresting migrants outside courtrooms and courthouses. William Brangham spoke with Father Brian Strassberger, a Jesuit Priest who serves migrants on both sides of the border, about what he saw at an immigration court hearing in Harlingen,...

  • As immigration courts face backlog, DOJ cuts dozens of judges

    As immigration courts face backlog, DOJ cuts dozens of judges

    Jul 22, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... deportation? Ximena Bustillo: According to the data that's publicly available by the Department of Homeland Security, about 70 percent of people who are in immigration detention generally have been arrested and are in immigration detention broadly were without criminal convictions. That is a very clear distinction to make. And ...

  • IRS to share personal data with immigration agents to aid deportation efforts

    IRS to share personal data with immigration agents to aid deportation efforts

    Jul 17, 2025 10:30 PM EDT

    The Trump administration is giving personal data to immigration authorities to aid its crackdown. The AP reported ICE is getting access to Medicaid data and ProPublica found the IRS is building a program that would give immigration agents unprecedented access to sensitive taxpayer data, including home addresses. William Brangham discussed more with Christopher Bing of...

  • Idaho farmer calls for new look at immigration policy amid raids

    Idaho farmer calls for new look at immigration policy amid raids

    Jul 16, 2025 10:25 PM EDT

    ... clips. Man: Every time you see food on your table, every time you see or you enjoy a really good steak, you should think about immigration as good, those jobs that sometimes you don't think about it. We are grateful for this country. Immigrant shouldn't mean bad. William ...

  • 17 immigration court judges have been fired by the Trump administration across 10 states, union says

    17 immigration court judges have been fired by the Trump administration across 10 states, union says

    Jul 16, 2025 08:16 PM EDT

    READ FULL: The criminal complaint against a Milwaukee judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities Immigration court judges are also dealing with a massive backlog of roughly 3.5 million cases that ballooned in recent years. Cases can take years to weave their way to a final determination, with ...

  • Poll shows how U.S. views of immigration have changed since Trump took office

    Poll shows how U.S. views of immigration have changed since Trump took office

    Jul 11, 2025 03:20 PM EDT

    ... to decrease the number of people who come to the U.S. from other countries, more want immigration levels kept the same than want higher immigration levels. About 4 in 10 say immigration should be kept at its current level, and only 26% say immigration should be increased. The poll ...

  • Mixed messages on immigration raids from Washington fuel farm workers' fears

    Mixed messages on immigration raids from Washington fuel farm workers' fears

    Jul 07, 2025 03:02 PM EDT

    ... according to a 2023 letter signed by dozens of state lawmakers. Hundreds of Bernardo's supporters showed up for her most recent check-in with immigration officials. “It’s really difficult because every time I come here, I don’t know if I’ll be going back to my family ...

  • What to know about Julio César Chávez Jr.'s arrest by U.S. immigration officials

    What to know about Julio César Chávez Jr.'s arrest by U.S. immigration officials

    Jul 04, 2025 02:30 PM EDT

    Chávez was detained in front of his home on Wednesday and will be deported to Mexico, where he faces organized crime charges, authorities said.