President Trump is preparing for a more aggressive immigration crackdown in 2026 with billions in new funding, including by raiding more workplaces — even as backlash builds ahead of next year’s midterm elections www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Four immigrants died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the past week, according to the agency, as deaths in 2025 reached a two-decade high www.reuters.com/world/us/fou...

Trump takes aim at diversity visa after suspect in Brown shooting linked to program: "What we're seeing is this administration using these cases, these stories, as a pretext to their own end, which is to target people from countries that they deem to be undesirable" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an administration official, emails reviewed by Reuters showed www.reuters.com/business/med...

Student and veteran journalists say that college newsrooms, indie media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track immigration enforcement and collaborating on information www.reuters.com/business/med...

The email from a U.S. immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their 6-year-old daughter. Inside Trump’s pressure tactics w/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...

Trump 'garbage' rhetoric about Somalis draws cheers from administration, silence from Republicans and alarm from critics - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

In one family-owned restaurant, a woman assembled makeshift beds, so family members could sleep there to avoid potentially being profiled by federal agents while traveling between home and work: “Not all of us are criminals,” she said. “We're hardworking people.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Trump promised a San Francisco crime crackdown. His administration did the opposite. - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

US authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Sunday www.reuters.com/world/us/nat...

President Trump is moving to clamp down on legal immigration into the U.S. after an Afghan immigrant was accused of ambushing National Guard members, a crackdown that echoes Trump's first-term restrictions and could face similar challenges www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Officials criticize Biden vetting, but Afghan shooting suspect was granted asylum under Trump - www.reuters.com/world/us/off...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has ordered a broad vetting review of all refugees who entered under former President Joe Biden, an internal U.S. government memo seen by Reuters said. W/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Kateryna Golizdra lost her work permit and was forced to leave a job at the Ritz-Carlton in Fort Lauderdale after the Trump admin froze processing of renewals for the Uniting for Ukraine humanitarian program that allowed her and 260,000 others to come to the U.S. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

A Spanish-language immersion daycare in a leafy residential neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago was raided by federal immigration agents on Wednesday and a teacher was taken away www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...

ICE aims to open a call center that would have a dedicated unit to track down unaccompanied migrant children with the help of state and local police, an agency contracting document said www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

ICE plans call center to track unaccompanied migrant children, other immigration offenders reut.rs/3LuUeH0

Top US border official to face judge in Chicago over use of tear gas www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Exclusive: The Trump administration is telling some federal law enforcement personnel, including Border Patrol agents and customs officers, that they will be paid during the government shutdown www.reuters.com/world/us/som...

The Trump administration plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus as well as the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department against certain left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, officials said reut.rs/46JB5cL

A woman who was shot multiple times by border agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by DHS that described the shooting as self-defense. @reneehickman.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

As part of its crackdown on liberal groups, the White House shared a list of nine groups or donors that it said helped finance or plan protests where violence occurred. The list included the immigrant rights group CHIRLA, which said it advocates non-violence www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

New York governor criticizes ICE officers who she says shoved and injured journalists www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Federal drug prosecutions fall to lowest level in decades as Trump shifts focus to deportations www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

ICE tactics inflame tensions in New York, Chicago and other cities - www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...

Trump administration urges other nations to join its push to restrict asylum rights www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

One killed in shooting at ICE office, suspect's rounds had anti-ICE messages, officials say www.reuters.com/world/us/thr...

Washington's immigrant neighborhoods push back against ICE arrests: “We don’t feel safe, for the simple reason that we’re Latino” www.reuters.com/world/us/was...

US judge keeps block on Trump effort to deport Guatemalan unaccompanied children www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

Exclusive: Trump administration plans push at UN to restrict global asylum rights, w/ @jonathanlanday.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/africa...

DOJ is in talks with ICE's investigative arm about transferring the sensitive voter roll data it has collected from states for use in criminal and immigration-related investigations, according to government documents seen by Reuters www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Immigrant faithful turn to virtual sermons and home communion amid Trump crackdown www.reuters.com/world/us/imm...

Exclusive: Guatemalan document undercuts U.S. claims on child deportations, w/ Emily Green and @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US judge blocks government from deporting unaccompanied Guatemalan children www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Trump’s migrant crackdown gives ICE power and money but puts it under strain: "They used to be able to say: 'We are arresting criminals’” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Trump crime crackdown deploys troops in Washington's safest sites - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Exclusive: Trump administration weighing refugee cap of 40,000 with focus on white South Africans www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Migrants apprehended in marijuana farm raids recount living nightmare www.reuters.com/world/us/mig...

American Nazis: The Aryan Freedom Network is riding high in Trump era www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Pro-Trump group wages campaign to purge “subversive” federal workers www.reuters.com/investigatio...

DC facing $20 million security funding cut despite Trump complaints of crime - @courtneyrozen.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/dc-...

FBI looks to add drug cartel suspects to terror watch list, government files show - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Supporters rally to free Alabama social worker detained by ICE - www.reuters.com/world/us/sup...

US could require up to $15,000 bonds for some tourist visas under pilot program www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I joined Jonah Green on the Reuters World News podcast to talk about the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement and how it has escalated in recent months to sweep in more people with no criminal record www.reuters.com/podcasts/ice...

The Trump admin says that some serious criminals need to be deported to third countries because even their home countries won't accept them. But at least five men threatened with such a fate were sent to their native countries instead. W/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/americ...

The Trump administration is planning to spend up to $7.85 million to help Costa Rica deport immigrants. Story w/ @gramslattery.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/americ...