immigration

Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from ICE detention

By Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

A 5-year-old boy and his father must be released by Tuesday from the Texas center where they’ve been held after being detained by immigration officers in Minnesota, a federal judge ordered Saturday.

Appeals court rules Noem's decision to end protections for Venezuelans in U.S. was illegal

By Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press

A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that the Trump administration acted illegally when it ended legal protections that gave hundreds of thousands of people from Venezuela permission to live and work in the United States.

Shooting deaths climb in Trump's mass deportation effort

By Joshua Barajas

Outrage has grown nationwide over the violent and sometimes deadly tactics used by federal immigration officers in communities across the country.

Sen. Collins says ICE has ended large-scale operations in Maine after talks with Noem

By Patrick Whittle, Kimberlee Kruesi, Associated Press

“There are currently no ongoing or planned large-scale ICE operations here,” Sen. Susan Collins said in a statement. “I have been urging Secretary Noem and others in the Administration to get ICE to reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in…

Where Congress stands on the DHS funding fight

By Lisa Desjardins

The killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis has sparked anger and dominated political thought since it happened Saturday.

Trump's immigration crackdown led to drop in U.S. population growth rate last year

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

The 0.5% growth rate for 2025 was a sharp drop from 2024's almost 1% growth rate, which was the highest since 2001 and was fueled by immigration.

A second U.S. citizen was killed by federal forces in Minneapolis. Here's what we know

By Joshua Barajas

The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, the second U.S. citizen to be killed by federal forces in Minnesota this month, has intensified the public outrage over tactics used by immigration agents in the state and united unlikely bedfellows in calling…

Families protest 5-year-old boy held at Texas facility separated from detained father

By Valerie Gonzalez, Associated Press

Dozens of immigrant families protested Saturday behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

Man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown, National Guard activated

By Jack Brook, Steve Karnowski, Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

A federal immigration officer shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigid streets and ratcheting up tensions in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.

'We're being terrorized.' What Mainers are seeing as ICE launches operation in the state

By Joshua Barajas

Mainers are grappling with the increased presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their cities as the state becomes the latest target for President Donald Trump's mass deportations agenda.