IMMIGRATION

(Headline USA) A Venezuelan delivery driver who was shot in his car by a federal immigration agent in Texas will remain in custody on charges that he assaulted an officer while trying to evade arrest, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Dustin Howell said that the case against Wilber Rafael Garces...

(Joelle Webb, The Center Square) Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is suing the federal government as part of a second legal battle against the construction of immigrant detention centers in the state. The lawsuit was filed in an attempt to stop or temporarily delay the construction of a detention facility...

(José Niño, Headline USA)  A new DHS Office of Inspector General report identified several screening and documentation problems in asylum cases involving Afghan evacuees admitted after the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The report examined how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services handled asylum claims under Operation Allies Welcome. The audit reviewed...

(Madeline Shannon, The Center Square) Gov. Gavin Newsom early Tuesday signed several bills to protect California’s immigrants, crack down on private jails and prisons, and keep U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of the state’s police departments. The package of bills, 21 in all, were all authored by Democratic...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement-Dallas arrested 121 people during a summer enforcement initiative at Lake Lewis in Texas, including two confirmed members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua terrorist organization. A three-year ICE Homeland Security Investigations-Dallas investigation led to indictments against multiple defendants accused of...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Immigration and Customs Enforcement has denied a report from the Daily Wire that ICE officers were ordered to stop arresting all “non-criminals.” Citing anonymous ICE officers, the Daily Wire reported Friday that immigration agents may only arrest illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges. “Those who have...

(Andrew Rice, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision on Friday, temporarily allowed the Trump administration to use a federal database that verifies whether voters are eligible to participate in an election.  In March 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that directed the Department...

(Headline USA) A Venezuelan man shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was in custody Monday at an ICE detention center in Texas after he was released from a hospital with a bullet still lodged in his back, the man's attorney said. Speaking by phone during a news...

(Headline USA) A federal immigration agent shot and wounded a man on Sunday in Austin, Texas, authorities said. The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man's car then got out of his federal vehicle and opened fire at least five times, said Mike Siegel, who represents Austin's District 7. The...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has approved reimbursing Texas $7.5 billion for costs incurred by the state's border security operations during the Biden administration's border crisis. It's the first time Texas has received such a reimbursement, thanks to a new federal law. Gov. Greg Abbott...

(Thérèse Boudreaux, The Center Square) As the Trump administration continues to pursue ways to quell “birth tourism,” legal scholars are probing potential actions Congress could take to rewrite the common interpretation of the 14th amendment’s citizenship clause. The clause states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,...

(Elyse S. Apel, The Center Square)  Suspended U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro appeared in both state and federal courts this week in Minnesota for initial hearings. On Friday, Castro pleaded not guilty in a hearing before the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on six federal charges of...