IMMIGRATION

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) Deportation of nearly 500,000 people illegally in the country was cleared by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday morning, handing a victory to the Trump administration. The decision puts a hold on a lower court’s decision to allow people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela...

(Headline USA) The agency tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign is undergoing a major staff reorganization. In a news release Thursday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced leadership changes at the department tasked with finding, arresting and removing immigrants who no longer have the right to be in...

(Chris Wade, The Center Square) The number of arrests by Border Patrol in Maine reached its highest level in more than two decades last month, according to newly released federal immigration data. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said 113 "illegal aliens" from 16 countries were arrested in Maine by...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) A Venezuelan national illegally in the U.S. was arrested on Tuesday after being on the run since allegedly killing a north Texan 18-year-old on Sunday. The Grapevine Police Department said its officers, working with Texas game wardens, had taken into custody Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez,...

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square)  – Another Democratic mayor is coming under fire for issuing a directive to city employees that appears to interfere with federal immigration operations. Earlier this month, Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell issued Executive Order 30 requiring local law enforcement to track interactions with federal immigration officials....

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square)  – Multiple Chinese nationals have been indicted for their role in orchestrating an elaborate transnational fraud and money laundering scheme targeting elderly U.S. and Canadian citizens. Sixteen people were indicted overall, living in the states of California, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee...

(José Niño, Headline USA) When Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn live-streamed an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in Nashville, she set off a political firestorm that’s still burning. Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reportedly accused Behn of “siding with vicious cartels, human traffickers, and...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Milwaukee County has released security footage of a state judge allegedly helping an illegal immigrant evade an ICE arrest on April 18.  The video, obtained through an open records request according to WISN12, shows Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz being guided through a back door of a courtroom...

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The DOJ arrested an illegal alien accused of voting in the 2024 presidential election and stealing nearly half a million dollars in taxpayer-funded benefits by using a stolen identity.  Lina Maria Orovio-Hernandez allegedly used that identity for more than 20 years, collecting over $400,000 in government entitlements and...

(Headline USA)  A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico.  The man was protected from being returned to his home country under a U.S. immigration judge's order at the time.  But the U.S. put him on a bus...

(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) A day after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the Trump administration was terminating Harvard University's foreign student visa "privileges," a federal judge has temporarily blocked the administration from halting the program. Judge Allison Burroughs of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Chinese student Liluyue “Arnold” Xu entered the U.S. in December 2019 on a student visa. Since then, he’s apparently become an aspiring bodybuilder, social media influencer, and alleged steroid dealer. In an indictment filed Wednesday, Xu was charged with one count of illegally possessing firearms as...