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Trump Administration to Target Visas of Up To 200,000 Foreign Citizens Applying for Asylum

25 août 2026 à 10:45
The State Department, in a move that could affect as many as 200,000 visa holders and asylum applicants, has begun its review. Cancellations could occur in waves.

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“Obtaining a visa in order to seek asylum is fraud — which is grounds for visa revocation,” Tommy Pigott, a State Department spokesman, said in a statement.

Trump Administration Aims to Revoke Visas of Foreign Citizens Applying for Asylum

24 août 2026 à 23:37
The State Department, in a move that could affect as many as 200,000 visa holders and asylum applicants, has begun its review. Cancellations could occur in waves.

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“Obtaining a visa in order to seek asylum is fraud — which is grounds for visa revocation,” Tommy Pigott, a State Department spokesman, said in a statement.

Judge Orders U.S. to Return Deported Man at Risk of Torture

24 août 2026 à 17:01
The Mexican man was sent to his home country after assisting federal law enforcement by testifying against Mexican drug cartels.

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The U.S. border wall seen from Tijuana, Mexico.

U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Sailor Says Father Was Arrested by Border Patrol

24 août 2026 à 14:02
The sailor, Joshua Aviles, was on his way home from the Middle East aboard the beleaguered aircraft carrier when he learned his father had been detained.

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Joshua Aviles, right, with his father, Luis Manuel Aviles, in 2025, shortly before Joshua shipped out for the Middle East aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.

U.S. Agreed to Pay Liberia $5 Million in Connection with Deportees, Documents Say

21 août 2026 à 16:56
The Trump administration approved the payment after Liberia said it would consider taking migrants from other countries.

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A plane carrying deportees from the United States at Roberts International Airport in Liberia on Thursday.

First U.S. Deportees to Arrive in Liberia Amid Growing Backlash

20 août 2026 à 16:52
The five men were part of the first group of deportees to be sent to the West African nation by the Trump administration. The Liberian government has not clarified their status.

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Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. The U.S. deportation deal with Liberia is one of the largest so-called third-country deportation agreements struck by the Trump administration so far.

Trump Officials Scrap Effort to Recruit Pentagon Lawyers to Represent Migrant Children

19 août 2026 à 20:08
The reversal of the plan, which had not been publicly disclosed, comes amid mounting confusion about how the administration is protecting the rights of unaccompanied minors.

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Migrants entered the Paso Del Norte International Bridge for their Customs and Border Protection appointments in early 2025.

Judge Orders New Oversight of Immigrant Children’s Detention

18 août 2026 à 20:01
After reviewing claims of persistent safety and sanitary failures, the court named two experts to monitor detention conditions across several facilities.

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Detainees held at the South Texas Family Residential Center waved signs during a demonstration in Dilley, Texas, in January.

Liberia Agrees to Take 1,200 Deportees From U.S.

18 août 2026 à 17:54
The arrangement is one of the largest known deals that the Trump administration has struck to expel migrants who cannot be sent back to their home countries.

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The first group of 20 deportees is expected to arrive in Liberia on Thursday, the country’s government said in a statement. It asserted that its agreement with the United States was “not a transaction with a quid pro quo.”

Family Presses for Information About Fatal ICE Shooting in Maine

18 août 2026 à 04:22
The Department of Homeland Security said there would be an investigation. But so far little has been disclosed about the killing last month.

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Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian immigrant, was killed by a federal agent on July 13 in Biddeford, Maine.

Border Construction in Big Bend Is Halted After Drawing Criticism

17 août 2026 à 15:30
The Trump administration has been carving a path through some of the beloved national park’s major natural attractions.
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    The U.S. is building an archipelago of overseas detention sites where deportees are often held indefinitely without charge.
     

No Way Out

17 août 2026 à 00:57
The U.S. is building an archipelago of overseas detention sites where deportees are often held indefinitely without charge.

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Roberto Mosquera is being held in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini.

Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport.

16 août 2026 à 12:05
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.

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Galina Bobreneva and her husband, Brent Jindra, at their home in Redwood City, Calif.

What Is Happening at the Border in Big Bend National Park?

15 août 2026 à 09:06
Over the objections of environmentalists, local sheriffs and some state leaders, the Trump administration appears to be moving ahead with border infrastructure in one of Texas’ most beloved parks.

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Construction workers cleared a road in Big Bend National Park earlier this month.

Justice Dept. Dismisses Threats Case in Minnesota Days Before Trial

14 août 2026 à 20:40
The government said it could not prove that a man accused of threatening federal agents had committed a crime, adding to the scores of cases in the administration’s deportation efforts that have unraveled.

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On Jan. 14, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot a Venezuelan migrant following a high-speed chase in Minneapolis, protesters broke into a couple of vehicles that belonged to F.B.I. agents.

Trump’s Justice Dept. Targets Smaller Fraud Cases

14 août 2026 à 05:02
As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.

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Justice Department officials have internally declared that each assistant U.S. attorney should have at least 25 open cases at all times.

Appeals Court Sidesteps Key Question Over Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act

13 août 2026 à 17:49
The court dismissed a case over the Alien Enemies Act in a messy conclusion to a long-running legal battle that had seemed destined to end up before the Supreme Court.

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President Trump issued a proclamation in March 2025 drawing on the sweeping powers of the Alien Enemies Act to deport people accused of being members of a Venezuelan gang.

Trump’s Immigration Policy Echoes 1920s Crackdown, but This Time Congress Isn’t Involved

13 août 2026 à 14:08
U.S. leaders limited immigration amid economic and social turmoil. Historians see similarities to Trump’s crackdown, with a catch: He’s doing it without Congress.

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President Calvin Coolidge signing the restrictive Immigration Act of 1924 on the White House South Lawn.

U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown

13 août 2026 à 14:15
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

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People marched through downtown Minneapolis in late January to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

ICE Agent Who Pushed Activist to the Ground Near Chicago Pleads Guilty

12 août 2026 à 22:28
The agent, Adam Saracco, was charged with misdemeanor after the altercation at a gas station near Chicago last year during the Trump administration’s crackdown there.

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Federal agents outside the immigrant detention center in Broadview, Ill., last year amid protests over President Trump’s enforcement actions near Chicago.

ICE Plans to Give Officers Gloves That Can Deliver Electric Shocks

12 août 2026 à 15:19
The Department of Homeland Security described the gloves as a “de-escalation device,” but critics said they could encourage agents to use more force.

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The government could spend up to $20 million to equip immigration officers with the gloves.

He Was Deported to Eswatini in Southern Africa. He May Never Go Free.

12 août 2026 à 09:08
As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.

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Roberto Mosquera in detention in Eswatini.

5 Things to Know About Angie Craig, Democratic Senate Hopeful in Minnesota

Par : Tim Balk
11 août 2026 à 20:46
Ms. Craig, a moderate Democratic congresswoman, flipped a swing House seat in 2018 to become Minnesota’s first openly gay member of Congress.

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Representative Angie Craig’s supporters say she would be a strong general-election candidate in a Democratic-leaning state.

Can Immigration Agents Stop People Based on Appearance?

Jazmine Ulloa, our national reporter covering immigration, describes body-camera footage and other court evidence that federal agents used slurs and racially profiled people during immigration sweeps.

Why Rumors About Morocco Followed Spain’s Ceuta Migrant Surge

11 août 2026 à 10:44
Claims swirled that Morocco, perhaps spurred by Israel and the United States, organized a recent border disaster. That unproven speculation, experts said, was exacerbated by the region’s complicated history.

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Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa waiting on a beach for humanitarian assistance after about tens of thousands of people, mostly from Morocco, surged across the border into Ceuta, Spain, this month.

How Social Media Sparked a Refugee Crisis Between Spain and Morocco

11 août 2026 à 09:23
A wave of disinformation online contributed to a surge of migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta who were trying to reach Europe, resulting in about 90 deaths.

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Moroccan border guards and boats patrolling the coastline on the border with Spain in Fnideq, Morocco, this month.

New Evidence Shows Federal Agents Using Racial Slurs During Immigration Sweeps

11 août 2026 à 09:14
Body-camera video and other court evidence capture federal agents using slurs and targeting Latinos while bypassing white bystanders during immigration sweeps in Chicago and Los Angeles

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Federal agents making an arrest in Minneapolis in January.

Migrant Crisis Reveals Vast Differences Between Ceuta and Its Moroccan Neighbor

Ceuta, Spain, and Fnideq, Morocco, are physically separated by only a mile, but they are intertwined by family and trade. A recent border crisis is the latest chapter in their story.

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A border fence divides Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, seen from Fnideq.
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