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Election Nov 2024 - April 30, 2025
Election Nov 2024 - April 30, 2025
The following are news articles (from the Nov 2024 Election - April 30, 2025) that were once listed on our website. Much of the information is still relevant, but it was taken off the www.dalecodemocrats.com website to reduce storage requirements and for brevity. This is a good source for history and can be used to help explain some of the current actions of today.
‘I don’t have a place to self-deport to’: US citizen and lawyer gets DHS letter telling him to get out of America
https://www.yahoo.com/news/don-t-place-self-deport-165224962.html
Mother Jones: “A Mockery of Due Process”: The Men Who Could Be Sent to El Salvador Next
The Guardian: US charges migrants over entering military ‘buffer zone’ on Mexico border
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/29/migrants-charged-us-mexico-border
Politico: Feds reveal how immigration squad targeted thousands of foreign students
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/immigration-foreign-students-00317437
ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-invades-wrong-home-makes-165441707.html
NBC News: Attorneys dispute Trump officials' claim that deported moms willingly took their U.S. citizen children
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/deported-moms-citizen-children-cancer-trump-officials-rcna203398
The Guardian: Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/ice-unaccompanied-immigrant-children
Axios: What to know about the U.S. citizen children removed with their mothers
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/us-citizen-children-deported-ice-honduras
ABC News: DOJ argues deportations to El Salvador didn't violate court order against 3rd country removals
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-argues-deportations-el-salvador-violate-court-order/story?id=121249971
USA Today: ICE to spend up to $45 billion on contractors for immigrant detention, deportation
Trump DOJ Ordered ICE to Invade Homes Without Search Warrant
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-doj-ordered-ice-invade-183305239.html
The Guardian: Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/ice-immigration-detention
US Citizen Wrongly Detained by the Border Patrol Says Government’s Account Is False – Mother Jones
Axios: Afghan refugees in Iowa told to leave the U.S.
https://www.axios.com/local/des-moines/2025/04/23/afghan-refugees-deportation-emails-iowa
Comment: Back to the Taliban after helping U.S. Armed Forces?
Orders to leave the country — some for US citizens — sow confusion among immigrants - ABC News
American citizens wrongly detained in Trump administration’s immigration crackdown | PBS News
How Trump's immigration crackdown could hit U.S. citizens
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/23/trump-immigration-crackdown-us-citizens
DHS Secretary Threatens Fines Up to $1,000 Per Day, Imprisonment, and Deportation for Unlawful Presence in the U.S.
https://share.newsbreak.com/crf6ud6e
Mother Jones: How We Reported “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”
The Hill: Homan: Deported migrants have ‘less’ due process but ‘no one’s removed just because of a tattoo’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5258540-border-czar-deportation-tattoos/
Comment: No one seems to know what the criteria for removal is. Please take a look at the number of US citizens detained by mistake. Without due process, it appears that these folks can be deported to an El Salvadorian prison based on someone's whim.
Florida Phoenix: Feds blame U.S. citizen for his arrest under suspended immigration law
Comment: US citizen is arrested by ICE and somehow it's his own fault?
AP News: Federal judge orders US to restore visas of 2 international students in Oregon
The Guardian: US citizen wrongfully arrested by border patrol in Arizona held for nearly 10 days
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/us-citizen-jose-hermosillo-border-patrol
NBC News: What to do if you're a U.S. citizen and immigration authorities tell you to leave the country
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizens-email-notice-to-deport-rcna201862
Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/g-s1-61385/supreme-court-block-deportations
Visas affected for multiple international students studying in Alabama
https://www.wsfa.com/2025/04/19/visas-affected-multiple-international-students-studying-alabama/
International students are being told by email that their visas are revoked and that they must ‘self-deport.’ What to know
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/19/us/visa-revoked-students-trump-ice/index.html
Supreme Court "perfectly clear" on returning deported Maryland man: Appeals court
Attorneys for Venezuelan detainee imprisoned in El Salvador say his detention is 'lawless' - ABC News
Boasberg finds ‘probable cause exists’ to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating orders on deportation flights | CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/boasberg-contempt-deportation-flights/index.html
Trump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report
https://share.newsbreak.com/co7vqsf9
Video Captures Man Dragged Out of Car After Window Is Smashed by ICE Agent. His Lawyer Says They Have the Wrong Guy
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/video-captures-man-dragged-car-191316678.html
Citizen who was ordered to leave the U.S. in 7 days says she's heard nothing from federal officials
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/citizen-ordered-leave-us-dhs-rcna201451
President of El Salvador says he won't return mistakenly deported man to U.S.
Comment: Did the Trump Administration, through Stephen Miller, instruct the El Salvadorian president to take this position? He was in Washington, meeting Trump.
ProPublica: Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.
NBC Boston: DHS told her to leave the country. She's a citizen — and an immigration attorney
AP News: US still won't say whether it will return mistakenly deported man, despite Supreme Court decision
Axios: Mistakenly deported man's attorneys demand his return using Trump's own words
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/13/trump-maryland-man-deported-el-salvador
Los Angeles Times: IRS plan to give data to ICE could wallop California, where many immigrants pay taxes
Comments: Undocumented immigrants currently pay federal and applicable state taxes throughout the United States, but they may be reluctant to do so in the future for fear that filing information will be turned over to ICE.
CNN: A Maryland mother was detained by ICE nearly two weeks ago. So far, no evidence has been provided
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/us/maryland-mother-ice-trump-gang/index.html
Politico: Trump administration says wrongly deported man is alive in El Salvador prison
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/12/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-alive-00287678
Comment: "The U.S. government continued to refuse to provide any details about whether it has taken any steps to return him to the United States."
NBC News: Visas revoked for students at universities in Southern states amid crackdown
Trump authorizes military to take control of federal land along the border
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-authorizes-military-control-federal-011119618.html
Politico: Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants
AP News: What we know about the Social Security Administration listing thousands of living immigrants as dead
Trump to end protected status for Afghans and Cameroonians
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-end-protected-status-afghans-012449875.html
Comment: Does this mean that those Afghans who assisted the U.S. military in Afghanistan will be shipped back to face the wrath of the Taliban?
AP News: Federal judge sides with Trump in allowing immigration enforcement in houses of worship
https://apnews.com/article/trump-churches-immigration-enforcement-82e5d40e8dad512a23732e9185879eeb
NPR: The controversial and obscure law being used against immigrant student protestors
NPR: Supreme Court says Trump officials should help return wrongly deported Maryland man
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5358421/supreme-court-abrego-garcia-deportation-decision
For world's wealthy, a 'gold card' path to American citizenship is almost here
https://www.yahoo.com/news/worlds-wealthy-gold-card-path-224442546.html
"Thought crimes": Rubio lays out government's justification for deportations based on "beliefs"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/thought-crimes-rubio-lays-governments-220640187.html
NPR: Trump administration lays out its evidence against detained activist Mahmoud Khalil
Judge allows requirement that everyone in the US illegally must register to move forward - ABC News
Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/carnegie-mellon-student-visa-revoked-interview/
Comment: Includes video.
The Guardian: US government has revoked more than 600 student visas, data shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/how-many-student-visas-revoked
More than 300 student visas revoked as the government expands reasons for deportation
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/09/us/us-immigration-student-visas-revoked
USCIS (.gov): DHS to Begin Screening Aliens’ Social Media Activity for Antisemitism
Comment: The question becomes, what constitutes "antisemitism"? If one argues against the Government of Israel or for Palestinian rights, does DHS label this "antisemitism"? Unless there are clear guidelines for those making this determination, this screening seems ripe for abuse.
The Guardian: Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/ice-todd-lyons-deporation-amazon
Comments: There are 2 differences: (#1) These are people not packages. (#2) Unlike Prime, we (the taxpayer) have to pay for "shipping."
Axios: Migrant detainees should be in El Salvador prison "for the rest of their lives," Noem says
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/09/kristi-noem-migrants-trump-ice-prison
Comment: "Noem's remark reflects the Trump administration's harsh approach to noncitizens it views as criminals or gang members — in this case, arresting and deporting them to a foreign, maximum-security prison without giving them a court hearing."
NBC News: Federal judges limit Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for some deportations
CBS News: U.S. judges in Texas, New York block DOJ from removing plaintiffs in Alien Enemies Act deportation case
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-texas-blocks-doj-deportation-plaintiffs-in-alien-enemies-act/
IRS will share taxpayer data with DHS about immigrants illegally in US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/irs-dhs-sign-data-sharing-172058788.html
“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights
DHS revokes parole for hundreds of thousands who entered via the CBP One app - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/dhs-parole-revoked-app-00007326
PBS: Homeland Security revokes legal status for migrants who entered U.S. using CBP One app
NBC News: How a Chicago Bulls hat led to a Maryland dad being mistakenly shipped to an El Salvador prison
Axios: Report: Most migrants sent to mega-prison have no apparent criminal record
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/report-migrants-salvadoran-mega-prison-no-record
Turns Out Trump Lied About Those Deportations to El Salvador
https://share.newsbreak.com/ciodtl01
CNN: Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce Alien Enemies Act for rapid deportations for now
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/politics/supreme-court-deportation-flights-trump/index.html
The Guardian: Deported over a speeding ticket? Dozens of US students’ visas abruptly revoked
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-student-visas-deportation
AP News: Colleges around the US say some international students’ visas are being revoked
AP News: Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador does not need to be back in U.S. tonight, Supreme Court rules
Duke basketball star Kahman Maluach among South Sudanese who could be deported due to new Trump policy
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna199998
Trump Border Czar Tried to Deport His Own Neighbors. It Didn’t Work.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-czar-tried-deport-212424822.html
AP News: Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was ‘wholly lawless’
https://apnews.com/article/ice-trump-immigration-el-savador-5d2f7b919cb1a4ed5ce31d44f391d8f5
US revokes all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/rubio-south-sudan-visas-f2716e1871d8d1422546fdc447bac215
Reuters: Judge orders return of wrongly deported Maryland man to US from El Salvador
‘It is time for you to leave the United States’: Ukrainians receive erroneous email from Department of Homeland Security
https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-leave-united-states-ukrainians-203630942.html
Video captures ICE agents detaining Alireza Doroudi, Iranian born Alabama doctoral student
NPR: He's a decorated war vet but a convicted criminal. ICE wants to deport him
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5350880/ice-deportion-army-vet-citizenship
Syracuse.com: Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘cruel,’ ‘horrifying’ ICE dairy farm probe in Northern NY
Comment: Children attended school in Sackets Harbor, NY near the US/Canadian border. Sackets harbor residents are outraged and plan to rally for the children outside the Sackets Harbor home of Tom Holman, Trump's ICE czar.
CNN: Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison
Miami Herald: U.S. deports another 17 alleged gang members to El Salvador prison amid legal firestorm
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article303156981.html
ABC News: Some foreign college students are being targeted for deportation. What rights do they have?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/foreign-college-students-targeted-deportation-rights/story?id=120262362
Reuters: Judge blocks Trump administration from stripping deportation protections for Venezuelans
NPR: Police say ICE tactics are eroding public trust in local law enforcement
ICE Is Canceling Students’ Legal Status Without Informing Them or Their Schools: Report
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-canceling-students-legal-status-195630226.html
The Associated Press: US immigration officials look to expand social media data collection
The Guardian US: When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton
CNN: A PhD student was snatched by masked officers in broad daylight. Then she was flown 1,500 miles away
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-university-arrest-saturday/index.html
ABC News: Southwest border mission has cost $330M so far -- with over $40M for Guantanamo Bay alone: Sources
Trump’s southern border military mission cost over $300 million in first 6 weeks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-southern-border-military-mission-110036364.html
The Associated Press: Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation
Comment: This sounds like a recipe for abuse. Does this mean that if you take an unpopular political position, someone with a different political position can arrange for you to be deported? If you just say the wrong thing, without infringing on someone else's rights, can you be labeled a terrorist and be deported (without due process)?
The Guardian US: US issues broad order to consulates to vet student visas over ‘terrorist activity’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/student-visa-applications-denials
The New Republic: Homeland Security Secretary’s El Salvador Stunt Just Got Worse
https://newrepublic.com/post/193304/homeland-security-secretary-noem-video-el-salvador-stunt-worse
A Venezuelan soccer player was wrongfully deported, lawyer says : NPR
The IRS plan to expose data on undocumented workers threatens nearly $100 billion in tax collections | Fortune
The New Republic: ICE Deported Someone to El Salvador Megaprison Over Paperwork Error
https://newrepublic.com/post/193284/ice-deported-man-el-salvador-megaprison-paperwork-error
Tampa Bay Times: ICE tells one Florida county it has deportation orders for 10,000 of its residents
USA TODAY: US citizens getting pulled aside: Travelers fear scrutiny at the border is rising
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2025/03/26/american-travelers-us-borders/82641005007/
Mother Jones: “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”
CNN: Tattoos, flyers and deleted photos: The limited evidence the Trump administration is using to try to deport migrants
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/us/migrant-deportation-trump-evidence/index.html
Trump administration stops processing some green cards 'to do more vetting'
ProPublica: Under Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-warrantless-arrests-chicago-law
CNN: Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/business/florida-child-labor-laws/index.html
Axios: IRS sharing immigrants' data with ICE threatens billions in tax revenue
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/25/ice-irs-undocumented-immigrants-taxes
ABC News: Venezuelans deported last week included 8 women who were returned to US, court filings say
https://abcnews.go.com/US/venezuelans-deported-week-included-8-women-returned-us/story?id=120111090
Forbes: What To Know About Andry: 31-Year-Old Makeup Artist Falsely Deported To El Salvador Prison, Lawyer Says
Federal News Network: Homeland Security makes cuts to offices overseeing civil rights protections
IRS nearing agreement to use its data to help ICE locate undocumented migrants
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/politics/irs-ice-data-undocumented-immigrants/index.html
USA TODAY: Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
The Guardian US: White House reportedly halts funding for legal aid for unaccompanied migrant children
CNN: ‘They’ve never been afraid before’: Why some green card holders’ concerns are growing
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/us/green-card-visa-holders-deportation-fears-cec/index.html
BBC.com: Trump revoking protections for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians and other migrants
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33706jy774o
The Associated Press: Homeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
Yahoo News: Despite refugee status in the U.S., young Venezuelan was deported to Salvadoran prison
https://news.yahoo.com/despite-refugee-status-u-young-210047920.html
The Associated Press: Detentions of European tourists at US borders spark fears of traveling to America
Why experts fear the men who were sent to El Salvador's megaprison may never make it out
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/venezuelans-deported-el-salvador-detention-abuses-rcna197125
Comment: Includes Video.
Why the Pentagon is moving a Navy destroyer from the Middle East to the Texas coast | Texas Standard
Tracking the foreign nationals detained by ICE as tourists or U.S. residents
The Associated Press: Immigrants disappear from US detainee tracking system after deportation flights
https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportations-gang-venezuela-0cf2c3a26d7f4bafa87ad6ca5a640313
ProPublica: An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage
The Guardian US: German man with green card ‘violently interrogated’ by US border officials
ABC News: 'Many' alleged gang members deported by Trump didn't have criminal records in the US: ICE
ABC News: Families of migrants who believe their relatives were deported by ICE say they weren't gang members
https://abcnews.go.com/US/families-migrants-relatives-deported-ice-gang-members/story?id=119892593
Axios: Trump's historic test of immigrants' speech rights
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/trump-khalil-immigrants-speech-rights
Trump’s Guantánamo fiasco cost taxpayers $16m
https://share.newsbreak.com/c30logb9
Trump administration empties Guantánamo of migrants, flies all back to US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-empties-guant-namo-151815331.html
Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE and sent to Arizona facility in chains after visa was revoked, family says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/canadian-entrepreneur-detained-ice-sent-155852577.html
NBC News: U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents
The Guardian US: Kristi Noem names new Ice leadership and vows to punish media ‘leakers’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/kristi-noem-ice-immigration
Immigrant caregivers fear deportation under Trump
NBC News: U.S. citizen detained by ICE questions vote for Trump: 'Just following Hispanic people'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/us-citizen-hispanic-detained-ice-questions-vote-trump-rcna195406
ABC News: Mass exodus of immigration officials could delay millions of deportations
Vance says Trump hopes to build the entire southern border wall by 2029 - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vance-hegseth-gabbard-visit-southern-border-texas/
NBC News: Border Patrol accused of detaining legal residents in Northern California racial profiling lawsuit
NJ.com: Newark mayor threatens to shut down work at ICE detention facility
NPR: Up to 3,000 more U.S. troops are ordered to the border with Mexico
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/01/nx-s1-5314368/more-border-troops-mexico
ABC News: 'The confinement is unbearable': Migrants describe being held at Guantanamo
NPR: ICE will reopen a major detention center in New Jersey as it eyes a broader expansion
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/27/nx-s1-5311966/ice-detention-expansion-new-jersey
Axios: CoreCivic signs deal with ICE to expand immigrant detention capacity
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/27/private-prison-corecivic-ice-detention-immigrants
DHS announces undocumented immigrants registry that includes fingerprints
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/trump-immigrants-registry-jail-fine-threat
Forbes: DOJ Memo Bad News For Employers Of H-1B Visa Holders And Other Immigrants
NPR: DHS memo lays out plans to detain migrants at Fort Bliss and other U.S. bases
Fortune: Senate stays up all night to push $340 billion GOP package for Trump’s mass deportations and security measures
https://fortune.com/2025/02/21/senate-all-night-340-billion-gop-budget-trump-mass-deportations/
Comment: Nice to see the GOP working so hard to spend $340 billion!
Trump administration reverses its previous decision and reinstates legal aid for migrant children
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-reverses-previous-decision-222050870.html
Facing pressure from Trump, Costa Rica and Honduras join Panama as stopovers for foreign deportees | AP News
The Associated Press: Top immigration enforcement official reassigned amid frustrations over mass deportation effort
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-ice-trump-deportation-4efd094b7b353e4350493986cd6975c2
3 migrants beat the Trump administration in court. They got deported the next day
https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-migrants-beat-trump-administration-113347707.html
U.S. pauses immigration applications for certain migrants welcomed under Biden
ABC News: 'Criminal' migrants are 'not welcome,' according to new multimillion-dollar ad from DHS
https://abcnews.go.com/US/criminal-migrants-new-multimillion-dollar-ad-dhs/story?id=118911856
The Guardian US: Trump administration fires 20 immigration judges with no explanation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-fires-immigration-judges
The Hill: Border patrol to stop usage of body cameras in the field: Report
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5297896/elon-musk-doge-pentagon-dod
ABC News: Males detained by ICE to be housed in federal prisons, new memo says
https://abcnews.go.com/US/males-detained-ice-housed-federal-prisons-new-memo/story?id=118850412
The Associated Press: US deports immigrants to Venezuela after judge blocked transfer to Guantanamo Bay
Trump Deportations Hit Major—and Costly—Snag
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-deportations-hit-major-costly-145327942.html
Families sue after loved ones likely sent to Guantanamo.
Axios: Trump White House tells Congress it needs border cash now
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/11/white-house-congress-border-funding-reconciliation
Florida tycoon is behind oil-for-migrants deal U.S. reached with Venezuelan strongman
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-tycoon-behind-oil-migrants-182522184.html
The Associated Press: Trump says some white South Africans are oppressed and could be resettled in the US. They say no thanks
https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-afrikaners-0120efec17122b47e3371e0e39fe1db8
NBC News: Evangelical leaders challenge Trump's immigration and foreign aid policies amid calls for unity
Federal prisons to house ICE detainees as Trump furthers immigration crackdown - Government Executive
ABC News: Denver ICE raids targeting 100+ gang members yielded one alleged gang member: Sources
https://abcnews.go.com/US/denver-ice-raids-targeting-100-gang-members-yielded/story?id=118574573
Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights | Military.com
POLITICO: ‘Frankly Insane’: Trump’s Plan to Ship Migrants to Guantanamo Could Quickly Collapse
NPR: Mass deportations will depend on local police. Only some are offering to help
The Guardian: El Salvador offers to hold deportees and incarcerated US citizens in its jails
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/04/el-salvador-deportees-incarcerated-us-citizens
NPR: The first group of migrants has been sent to Guantánamo, but legal challenges loom
Just Security: What Just Happened: At Guantanamo’s Migrant Operation Center
https://www.justsecurity.org/107405/what-just-happened-guantanamo/
NBC News: Trump's stepped-up immigration arrests escalate need for more detention space
Tallahassee Democrat: 'Day Without Immigrants' shuts down several Tallahassee, Quincy spots in solidarity
NBC News: Men in two states are accused of impersonating ICE officers
Reuters: ICE aims to lower US immigration detention standards to encourage more sheriffs to aid crackdown
US to start to moving migrants to Guantanamo 'hopefully within 30 days,' Homan says
ABC News: Guantanamo could be used to hold up to 30,000 migrants
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/guantanamo-hold-30000-migrants/story?id=118243755
The Associated Press: Judge extends court-monitoring agreement for children in Customs and Border Protection custody
Reuters: US military deportation flight likely cost more than first class
Federal agents in immigration raids told to be camera-ready as hundreds arrested
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/immigration-raids-federal-agents-uniform/index.html
Trump administration launches nationwide immigration enforcement blitz
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-launches-immigration-enforcement-172629537.html
AL.com: Albertville anti-ICE protest ‘deeply concerning,’ Alabama official says: ‘A game of dangerous rhetoric’
USA TODAY: Trump revives push to denaturalize US citizens
Military.com: Inside the Military's Scramble to Move Troops to the Mexico Border
ABC News: DOJ orders federally funded legal service providers to stop providing support at immigration courts
NBC News: Quaker groups file suit over end of policy restricting ICE arrests in houses of worship
ABC News: DHS allows US Marshals, DEA and ATF to carry out immigration enforcement
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-allows-us-marshals-dea-atf-carry-immigration/story?id=118022307
DeSantis faces pushback by fellow Republicans on his call for an immigration session
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/26/nx-s1-5272694/desantis-florida-immigration-special-session-trump
NJ.com: ICE agents stormed business, blocked exits while making arrests in N.J.’s largest city
Axios: ICE can raid churches and schools to arrest immigrants under new policy
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/21/trump-deportation-ice-churches-schools-raids
Trump shuts down US-Mexico border for asylum seekers, leaving migrants in limbo
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-us-mexico-border-migrants/index.html
How cities across the US are preparing for Trump’s immigration crackdown
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/us/immigration-trump-state-policy-ice/index.html
NPR: Bishop confronts Trump during sermon at inaugural prayer service
PBS NewsHour: How a Fox News report fueled false claims by Trump and others about the New Orleans suspect
The Hill: Undocumented immigrants pay more than their fair share of taxes
Canada's ambassador says Trudeau told Trump the Canadian border can't be compared to Mexico's
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/canadas-ambassador-us-says-trudeaus-201707820.html
Trump’s New ‘Border Czar’ Tells Democrats To ‘Get The Hell Out Of The Way’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-czar-tells-democrats-015441809.html
Wall Street isn’t buying Trump’s deportation threats or Elon Musk’s spending cut claims
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-isn-t-buying-100048935.html
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