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Judge issues injunction restricting immigration arrests in nation’s capital

A federal judge late Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from making widespread immigration arrests in the nation’s capital without warrants or probable cause that the person is an imminent flight risk. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington granted a preliminary injunction sought by civil liberties and immigrants rights groups in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. An email to the department after hours Tuesday was not immediately returned. Officers making civil immigration arrests generally have to have an administrative […]

todayDecember 3, 2025 1

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Los Angeles County officials approve emergency declaration over immigration raids

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County officials voted Tuesday to declare a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids. The move allows the LA County Board of Supervisors to provide rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the crackdown on immigrants. The immigration raids that ramped up over the summer have spread fear in immigrant communities, prompting many to limit their […]

todayOctober 15, 2025 1

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Chicago prepares for an influx of National Guard troops and immigration agents

Chicago community leaders forged ahead Wednesday with preparations for the influx of National Guard troops and immigration agents the city is expecting, advising residents about their rights and organizing protests with fresh urgency. Details about the operation are scant, but President Donald Trump has amped up the rhetoric about crime in the nation’s third-largest city, saying an immigration crackdown and National Guard deployment are planned despite the objections of local leaders and a federal court ruling that a similar deployment in Los Angeles was illegal. The preparations seem familiar in […]

todaySeptember 4, 2025

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Chicago mayor defies Trump’s immigration crackdown plan for the city

The mayor of Chicago pushed back Saturday against what he called the “out-of-control” Trump administration’s plan to surge federal officers into the nation’s third-largest city, which could take place within days. The Chicago Police Department will be barred from helping federal authorities with civil immigration enforcement or any related patrols, traffic stops and checkpoints during the surge, according to an executive order signed by Mayor Brandon Johnson. The mayor directed all city departments to guard the constitutional rights of Chicago residents “amidst […]

todayAugust 31, 2025 2

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Congressman tells Black Trump ICE official blocking immigration oversight that he hopes spirit ‘haunts your soul’

A Black ICE official got a mouthful after members of Congress were denied entry to a facility where undocumented Maryland residents are being detained under the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks, and U.S. Reps. Kweisi Mfume, Glenn Ivey, Johnny Olzewski Jr., and Sarah Elfreth—all Democrats representing the state of Maryland—entered the George H. Fallon federal building in Baltimore on Monday to conduct an oversight visit. The lawmakers said they were touring the […]

todayJuly 30, 2025 1

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Jamal Bryant says we must ‘have an agenda for the diaspora’ in the fight against Trump’s immigration policies

Jamal Bryant is advocating for more than just the rehabilitation of DEI initiatives at Target. During a recent panel discussion with Symone Sanders at the NAACP’s 116th national convention, Pastor Bryant stressed to audiences that the Trump administration’s rapid changes to immigration policies impact Black communities just as much as they can impact Hispanic communities.  “We have been deluded into believing that immigration is a Latino and Mexican issue,” he said. “There are 500,000 Haitians [who] are unprotected, 250,000 Jamaicans […]

todayJuly 17, 2025

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‘The math ain’t mathin’: Jasmine Crockett calls out the double standard in Trump’s immigration policies

Rep. Jasmine Crockett does not believe the Trump administration is trying to restore integrity and security to the immigration process. And this week, the Texas representative came to the House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Restoring Integrity and Security to the Visa Process” with receipts.  “The idea that Trump and my Republican colleagues want to restore integrity and security in the visa process is actually a joke,” she shared. “Since we’re talking about integrity, I’m confused as to why my Republican […]

todayJune 26, 2025 1

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As legal fight over Guard deployment plays out, Noem vows to continue Trump’s immigration crackdown

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged to carry on with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown despite waves of unrest across the U.S. Hours after her comment Thursday, a judge directed the president to return control to California over National Guard troops he deployed after protests erupted over the immigration crackdown, but an appeals court quickly put the brakes on that and temporarily blocked the order that was to go into effect on Friday. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled a […]

todayJune 13, 2025 1

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US Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted on federal charges from skirmish at New Jersey immigration center

U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted Tuesday on federal charges alleging she impeded and interfered with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center while Newark’s mayor was being arrested after he tried to join a congressional oversight visit at the facility. Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced the grand jury indictment in a post on X. “While people are free to express their views for or against particular policies, they must not do so in a […]

todayJune 11, 2025 1