May 01 Trump’s nominee to lead ICE announces retirement By Jill Colvin, Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Thomas Homan, who was acting director since Trump took office, spearheaded a 40 percent surge in deportation arrests and established policies to make immigration arrests at courthouses and detain pregnant women. He has been one of the administration's most outspoken… Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch 3:21 Suing California, Sessions vows to ‘use every power’ to stop state laws on immigration enforcement By PBS News Hour Attorney General Jeff Sessions accused the state of California on Wednesday of "using every power it has and some it doesn't to frustrate federal law enforcement" on the issue of immigration. The Justice Department is suing the state for three… Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch 5:29 For some immigrants, deportation means death By PBS News Hour President Donald Trump continues to crack down on undocumented immigrants, including those that have not been convicted of a violent crime. But the U.S. does not monitor the fate of deportees, who have been kidnapped, extorted, sexually assaulted or even… Continue watching
Dec 05 Border arrests fall to 45-year low, but deportations soar in Trump’s first year By Elliot Spagat and Jill Colvin, Associated Press After Trump took office, ICE arrests surged 40 percent from the same period a year earlier. Continue reading
Dec 02 San Francisco defends sanctuary status as backlash mounts By Paul Elias and Janie Har, Associated Press The attacks on San Francisco and other cities with similar immigration policies began moments after a jury acquitted a Mexican man of killing a woman on a popular pier. Continue reading
Nov 04 10-year-old immigrant with cerebral palsy released By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press .S. authorities on Friday released a 10-year-old immigrant girl with cerebral palsy who had been detained by border agents after surgery because she is in the U.S. without legal permission. Continue reading
Jun 26 Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio goes on trial for defying court order on immigration enforcement By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's criminal trial opened Monday over his defiance of the courts in traffic patrols that targeted immigrants, marking the most aggressive effort to hold the former lawman of metro Phoenix accountable for tactics that critics say racially… Continue reading
May 08 Under sanctuary city ban, Texas officials face penalties for not complying with immigration laws By Joshua Barajas Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill in a live broadcast on Facebook. Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch 3:32 Half targeted by ICE had traffic convictions or no record By PBS News Hour Shortly after President Donald Trump took office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement began arresting hundreds of immigrants in visible raids across the U.S. Internal documents, obtained by the Washington Post, show that half had either traffic convictions or no criminal record. Continue watching
Apr 20 Cities, states try to protect immigrants’ data from federal officials By Jen Fifield, Stateline In the face of stepped-up deportation efforts, many unauthorized immigrants worry that state and local programs that are designed to help them could instead be used by federal agents to identify and expel them from the country. Continue reading