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Supreme Court clears way for Trump administration to revive restrictive immigration policy

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

The justices, in a 6-3 decision, overturned a lower court order blocking the practice that limited the number of people who could apply for asylum each day.

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to end legal protections for Haitians and Syrians

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

The 6-3 decision overturns lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries.

WATCH: Mullin testifies before House committee on DHS oversight

By Associated Press

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was on Capitol Hill facing questions from the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday.

Judge says Trump administration can't make immigration arrests at courthouses

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

It is the second setback for courthouse arrests since May when a judge in New York barred them at immigration courts in that city.

Federal officials plan to offload some warehouses purchased for immigrant detention

By Heather Hollingsworth, Ryan Foley, Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retreating from a plan to use warehouses to hold up to 10,000 people on a single site, dropping a key piece of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $38-billion plan to rapidly expand detention…

Federal appeals court allows Trump to resume expanded use of speedy deportations

By Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press

The ruling was a big victory for the Republican administration, which views the expansion of so-called expedited removal as a key tool for carrying out its mass deportation policy.

8 convicted of terrorism charges in Texas immigration center shooting sentenced to decades in prison

By Jamie Stengle, Philip Marcelo, Associated Press

One demonstrator who shot and wounded a police officer during a protest outside a Texas immigration center July 4 has been sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.

Critics fear new Tennessee law could cut off life-saving care for immigrant children

By Stephanie Sy, Karina Cuevas

Major surges of ICE agents have largely faded from public view, but immigration crackdowns are still ongoing in many communities, especially where there is cooperation with state and local authorities. A new law in Tennessee goes further than any other…

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Pope tells traffickers of migrants in the Canary Islands: Stop, repent or face God's wrath

By Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV warned people smugglers on Friday that they will face God's wrath for exploiting the desperation of migrants, demanding they stop and repent during his final day in this epicenter of the African migration route to Europe.