by Gloria Ngwa | Mar 6, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-K.Y., on Wednesday accused Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison of allowing fraud and misuse of federal welfare funds in Minnesota. Rep. Comer alleged that billions in...
by Alexia Sextou | Mar 5, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee voted 22-11 Thursday to advance a Republican-backed bill targeting sanctuary immigration policies, sending the measure to the House floor for a full vote despite firm Democratic opposition. “This bill is for you,” Rep. Tom...
by Alexia Sextou | Mar 3, 2026 | Featured, Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defended the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on Tuesday as she faced intense scrutiny by lawmakers during her first Senate hearing since the Minnesota Immigration and Customs Enforcement shootings in...
by Gloria Ngwa | Feb 27, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration started Operation Metro Surge in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area of Minnesota in December 2025 as part of its deportation agenda. In January, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed Renee Good, a couple of weeks before...
by Clara Martinez and Isabel Papp | Feb 26, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — In the East Room of the White House on Monday, President Trump told families whose relatives were killed by undocumented immigrants that their loved ones would still be alive if the Biden administration had not allowed “open borders” after the 2020...
by Gloria Ngwa | Feb 12, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., criticized the Department of Homeland Security for what he described as “un-American behavior” in arresting U.S. citizens during Thursday’s House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing. “They are...
by Chloe Park | Feb 11, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Democrats on Tuesday slammed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration officials over aggressive enforcement tactics, as the department’s top leadership appeared before Congress for the first time this year. The hearing comes as DHS funding is...
by Chloe Park | Feb 5, 2026 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON — Republican senators vowed to crack down on Minnesota fraud suspects during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, citing a wave of child care fraud scandals in the state and beyond. The push drew fierce opposition from Democrats over...
by Gloria Ngwa | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of people joined federal workers in D.C. Wednesday night to host a vigil mourning the murder of Alex Pretti and protesting the massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surge. Pretti, 37, was fatally shot by two federal agents in...
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...
