Tear gas surrounds federal law enforcement officers as they leave a scene after a shooting on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Minneapolis. John Locher/AP hide caption toggle caption John Locher/AP MINNEAPOLIS — Federal officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in its largest recent U.S. immigration enforcement operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters who aren’t […]
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DHS pauses immigration applications for an additional 20 countries : NPR
Immigrants prepare to become American citizens at a naturalization service on Jan. 22, 2018 in Newark, New Jersey. Although much of the federal government was shut down Monday morning, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), offices remained open nationwide. John Moore/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption John Moore/Getty Images North America The […]
Church Nativity scenes protest immigration raids : NPR
A doll representing the baby Jesus is zip-tied in the Nativity scene outside of Lake Street Church of Evanston, on Wednesday in Evanston, Ill. Erin Hooley/AP hide caption toggle caption Erin Hooley/AP DEDHAM, Mass. — One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. […]
Trump officials ‘conspiring to illegally intimidate’ non-citizens via new VA report, lawmakers say | US immigration
More than 20 members of Congress are demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and homeland security officials after the Guardian revealed the VA is compiling a report on all non-US citizens “employed by or affiliated with” the government agency that will then be shared with other federal agencies, including immigration authorities. The […]
Arizona congresswoman says she was ‘pepper sprayed’ at protest against ICE | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona congressperson, said she was “sprayed in the face” during a protest against a federal immigration raid at a Mexican restaurant in Tucson on Friday. In a video filmed after the incident, Grijalva said she joined a group of protesters assembled outside of Taco Giro, a “small mom-and-pop” restaurant in Tucson Grijalva […]
Lawmakers decry Trump’s immigration halt for 19 countries: ‘scapegoating entire nationalities’ | US immigration
Immigration groups and lawmakers are sharply criticizing Donald Trump’s latest move to halt immigration applications from 19 countries already under US travel restrictions, a decision that comes amid reports that naturalization ceremonies for people on the travel ban list are also being canceled. On Tuesday the US Citizenship and Immigration Services posted a policy memo […]
UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments | Immigration and asylum
Asylum seekers will be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments after it was revealed the Home Office spends about £15.8m a year on the service. From February they will have to use alternative transport such as buses, no matter how urgent their medical needs. The government, however, has so far rejected pleas to give […]
The Danish Model for Immigration Crackdown
new video loaded: The Danish Model for Immigration Crackdown For European governments, Denmark’s hard-line immigration policy is a model for how to get a grip on contentious issue and stay in power. Our reporter Jeanna Smialek reports from Copenhagen on the the effects of the policy. By Jeanna Smialek, Katrin Bennhold, Nikolay Nikolov, Leila Medina […]
Wes Streeting defends asylum system shake-up despite his unease | Immigration and asylum
Wes Streeting has admitted he is not comfortable with forcibly deporting families under the home secretary’s migration plans, while maintaining it is still the right thing to do. The health secretary said he thought the number of forced removals would be low under the proposed model, which is similar to Denmark’s, because there would be […]
In Chicago, a Halloween weekend of immigration arrests and violence : NPR
A young man confronts federal agents after they arrested a worker at a home in his Edison Park neighborhood on Friday in Chicago. Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images Over the weekend, heightened immigration enforcement actions in and around Chicago led to muted Halloween and Day of the Dead […]