by Anisha Iqbal | Jan 22, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON –– The acting director at the Government Accountability Office told a congressional panel Thursday that the government has fallen far behind on its legal requirement to scan 100% of vehicles at border crossings before 2027. “Scanning rates for passenger...
by Alexia Sextou | Jan 22, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers grilled officials from the Transportation Security Administration and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about their involvement in enforcing immigration law in the Homeland Security Committee’s first full hearing of the year...
by Cayla Labgold-Carroll | Jan 19, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Democratic members of Congress accused the Department of Homeland Security of defying a federal court order Monday after DHS announced a newly revived policy requiring lawmakers to give a week’s notice before conducting oversight visits to ICE...
by Isabel Papp | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
SILVER SPRING, Md. – A chorus of demonstrators filled Gene Lynch Park with song on Monday evening, to recognize Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week. As the sun set, 16 members of the Rapid Response Choir, a volunteer...
by Isabella Jacob | Dec 17, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In May, Marjorie Ziefert and Chuck Kieffer realized that people in their community were disappearing, taken by immigration enforcement to the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Mich. The retired Ann Arbor residents started participating in...
by Gabe Hawkins | Dec 12, 2025 | Featured, Immigration, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress condemned President Donald Trump’s statements about the Somali population in Minnesota last week, claiming Trump is stoking bigotry through xenophobic comments. Reflecting on fraud convictions in Minnesota during the COVID-19...
by Riddhimaa L. Kodali | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Sophia Genovese’s stepfather was deported twice under former President Obama’s administration, leaving a huge impact on her and her family. “My mom was a single mother again, trying to take care of me and my brother all by herself when she had a partner...
by Riddhimaa L. Kodali | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
Kerry Doyle, an immigration lawyer with over 20 years of experience who held senior positions in the Biden administration, said she was not surprised when she was terminated as an immigration court judge in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, within two months of her tenure in...
by Naomi Taxay | Dec 2, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court wrestled Monday with how much power federal appeals courts should have to review asylum denials, pressing both sides on whether findings of persecution are legal matters that federal courts can independently (de novo) review or factual...
by Aanika Sawhney and Naomi Taxay | Nov 20, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) walked out of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday after calling the hearing – titled “ICE Under Fire: The Radical Left’s Crusade Against Immigration Enforcement” – an exercise in Republican political theater. At the...
by Isabella Jacob | Nov 11, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – On March 1, President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the United States’ official language. Since then, some federal agencies, like the Department of Justice and the Department of Housing & Urban Development, have...
by Naomi Taxay | Oct 15, 2025 | Featured, Immigration
As President Donald Trump ordered federal troops into Chicago to assist with deportation efforts, immigrants and their advocates found an ally in Pope Leo XIV. A native of the city, the new pope urged U.S. bishops to confront the government’s escalating targeting of...
