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News Articles: immigration, illegal immigration, immigration reform, undocumented immigrants

President Donald Trump is cheered by supporters at the Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Jan. 25, 2025.

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Trump supporters welcome the first steps in his immigration crackdown

President Trump kicked off his second term with a dramatic crackdown on immigration. Critics call those moves cruel and unnecessary. But many of Trump's supporters are applauding these early steps.

February 08, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
A pedestrian walks past the flag of Puerto Rico and the colorful door to the sanctuary apartment of Chicago's Adalberto Memorial United Methodist Church in Chicago in 2021. The church has provided shelter to immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

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  • National

Justice Department sues Chicago and Illinois over 'sanctuary' laws

The federal lawsuit accuses those jurisdictions of "making it more difficult for, and deliberately impeding, federal immigration officers' ability to carry out their responsibilities." 

February 06, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Roy in his school in Chicago on Jan. 23, 2025.

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  • National

The prospect of immigration agents entering schools is sending shockwaves among communities

President Trump got rid of a decades-old policy that prevented agents from arresting migrants without legal status in sensitive places, such as schools. Most districts are drawing a line in the sand.

February 04, 2025
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
President Trump signs the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 29.

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  • Politics

Trump signs first bill of his second presidency, the Laken Riley Act, into law

The bill is named for a Georgia nursing student who was killed last year by a Venezuelan man without legal status who had a criminal record.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on Jan. 28, in Washington, DC.

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  • News

Trump ends extension of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants

The move to revoke the extension of temporary protected status would make hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans eligible for deportation.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
A U.S. Army soldier monitors the border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, last week. President Trump ordered 1,500 more active military personnel to the southern border, part of a broad immigration crackdown during his first week in office.

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  • National

Trump's immigration orders are a blueprint for sweeping policy changes

President Trump began his immigration crackdown with a flurry of executive orders. Immigration experts say they lay out how he hopes to transform enforcement at the southern U.S. border and beyond.

January 27, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
A migrant at the U.S.-Mexico border shows the CBP One App from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency that is used to apply for an appointment to apply for asylum.

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  • National

Trump officials empower DHS to expel migrants allowed under 2 Biden programs

Immigration officials now have permission to quickly expel migrants temporarily admitted via the CBP One App and a separate program for certain people fleeing Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

January 24, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara speaks at a press conference on June 16, 2023 at the U.S. District Court building in Minneapolis.

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Local governments across U.S. signal they won't aid Trump migrant crackdown

Local government officials around the U.S. signal they won't assist — and in some cases they'll actively oppose — the Trump administration's efforts to conduct a massive deportation of migrants.

January 24, 2025
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  • Brian Mann
President Trump signs executive actions and orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday, hours after taking office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States.

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U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order

The ruling bars U.S. agencies from implementing the order to end birthright citizenship for children born to migrants in the U.S. temporarily or without legal status while the case is under review.

January 23, 2025
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  • Brian Mann
Emil Bove, now the acting deputy attorney general, at a sentencing hearing for President Trump in New York state court earlier this month.

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  • National

DOJ threatens to prosecute local officials for resisting immigration enforcement

In a new memo, a Justice Department official seeks to realign the department's positions on immigration with President Trump's executive actions — and threatens local officials who don't cooperate.

January 23, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
A Customs and Border Protection officer guards the middle of the Paso Del Norte bridge in El Paso, Texas, on Nov. 4, 2018.

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  • National

Democratic attorneys general sue over Trump's order to end birthright citizenship

A group of 18 state attorneys general signed on to a lawsuit filed Tuesday seeking to block the administration's move, describing it as unconstitutional.

January 21, 2025
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Children of the Rivera family look toward the sky while waiting to be apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after crossing over into the U.S. in June 2024 in Ruby, Ariz.

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  • Politics

Trump to make historic move toward revoking birthright citizenship

Trump wants to reinterpret the phrasing of the 14th Amendment to mean that the federal government would not recognize automatic birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents without legal status.

January 20, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Migrant families live in tents at the Movimiento Juventud 2000 shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, back in April 2022, when the U.S. border restrictions known as Title 42 and "Remain in Mexico" were still in effect.

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  • National

Trump reinforces use of his 'Remain in Mexico' policy

The policy, which was created and implemented during the first Trump administration in 2019, resulted in tens of thousands of migrants waiting for extended periods in Mexico.

January 20, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Jasmine Garsd
Richie poses for a portrait behind a restaurant last month in Fremont, Neb. Richie left El Salvador earlier this year and crossed to the U.S. through the CBP One app. He is now working at a factory in town. His wife and daughter are still in El Salvador.

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  • National

Immigrants drive Nebraska's economy. Trump's mass deportations pledge is a threat

Nebraska is one of the top meat producers in the U.S. It also has one of the worst labor shortages. The incoming Trump administration has promised mass deportations on an unprecedented scale. We asked Nebraskans what that could mean.

January 17, 2025
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd
Rodney Scott, former chief of the U.S. Border Patrol, speaks following a border tour with former Vice President Mike Pence, Monday, June 13, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

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  • National

Trump nominates Rodney Scott to lead Customs and Border Protection

Rodney Scott at CBP and Caleb Vitello at ICE would work alongside Stephen Miller, who was named deputy chief of staff for policy and Tom Homan, also tapped to be a "border czar."

December 06, 2024
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

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