Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of an LA Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler in the backseat. His mother spoke about the "very, very frightening" incident: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Queer and trans immigrants at a detention facility in south Louisiana have alleged that they faced sexual harassment and abuse, medical neglect and coerced labor by staff at the facility.

Queer and trans ppl at a Louisiana ICE facility alleged they were recruited for unsanctioned work program, forced to do hard manual labor $1 per day. They said queer ppl were targeted by an assistant warden who stalked, harassed and sexually assaulted them.

The Guardian has been tracking DHS detention statistics, and we found that DHS stopped publishing any data on trans detainees as soon as the Trump admin took office

Trans detainees in immigration detention are facing forced labor and sexual assault. Please read the latest from @maanvisingh.bsky.social

The recent separations echo the “zero tolerance” policy of the first Trump administration, when the US systematically separated more than 5,600 migrant children from their parents and caregivers at the US-Mexico border. Read the full story ⬇️

In several cases, officials have retaliated against immigrants who challenged deportation orders by separating them from their children, a Guardian investigation found. The officials misclassified the children as “unaccompanied minors” before placing them in government-run shelters or foster care.

Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure.

The Trump admin has revived the practice of separating families in order to coerce immigrants & asylum seekers to leave the US, attorneys & former immigration officials allege From @maanvisingh.bsky.social In several cases, officials have retaliated against immigrants who challenged...

Our latest in our Ice Air investigation is by @oliverlaughland.bsky.social, which tells the story of one family's deportation, including two US citizen children www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In April, the Trump admin deported “Rosario” & her two US citizen children, one of whom is being treated for stage 4 kidney cancer. The case drew national and international attention. Rosario shares her story for the first time with @theguardian.com - another chapter in our Ice Air investigation:

In the first Trump administration, systematic separation of immigrant families was shut down due to public pressure. Now the practice has returned. Here is our latest in the Ice Air series, a heartbreaking look at family separation 2.0 by @maanvisingh.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The latest in the @us.theguardian.com investigations team work on deportations: family separation @maanvisingh.bsky.social reveals how the admin is coercing families into giving up, by forcing them to give up their kids if they want to fight their deportations

Family separation 2.0 is here. Officials retaliated against immigrants who challenged deportation by forcibly separating them from their kids. They classified the children as “unaccompanied minors” before placing them in government-run shelters or foster care. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Ya está disponible este artículo en español, Traducido y publicado por @elpais.com: elpais.com/us/migracion...

👽 🛡️ 👑 🤘🏼 ⚔️ 🥷 🚂 🏛️ 🍓 Those are emojis the FBI, NYPD, CBP and US Army have said could be signs of affiliation with the Tren de Aragua gang + part of their “code language”, internal records show. “Just like tattoos, we could see folks rounded up + tortured based solely on their use of certain emojis”

BIG: US law enforcement claims certain *emojis* could signal Tren de Aragua gang membership, leading to deportations, as revealed in intelligence documents we obtained & shared with @samtlevin.bsky.social / @maanvisingh.bsky.social / @us.theguardian.com. #FOIA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In this second installment of the Guardian's investigation, @oliverlaughland.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social & @raimaamjad.bsky.social look at Alexandria, Louisiana – a key deportation hub. One detainee said the this was "just not a place for human beings”

NEW: We’ve spent the past 4 months investigating a detention center on the tarmac of a rural airport in Alexandria - a legal “black hole” & Trump’s deportation hub We uncovered a pattern of alleged due process violations, poor medical treatment, overcrowding, health emergencies, abuse & long stays:

Andry Hernández Romero – the Venezuelan makeup artist deported to a Salvadoran megaprison – was one of several detained immigrants I interviewed. Here's his chaotic path across the US. When Andry boarded these flights, no one would tell him where exactly he was going. (Illo by Andrew Witherspoon)

Excellent reporting from The Guardian. Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

We analyzed leaked data for rare look at the winding journeys of more than 44,000 immigrants detained or deported by the Trump administration... and found that people are being moved around in unprecedented and irregular ways. w/ @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

We are launching a new investigation today, which reveals new details about Trump's deportation program. Our first story is by @maanvisingh.bsky.social and @wcraft.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Border patrol agents arrested Catalina Santiago, granted temporary protection as a Dreamer, on 3 August. “They have no legal basis for why they detained her or why they’re holding her or why they’re trying to deport her,” said her spouse, Desiree Miller.

Tomorrow’s Guardian front page

Unreal visualizations of what the ICE deportation and detention machine has looked like under Trump from @maanvisingh.bsky.social @wcraft.bsky.social & Andrew Witherspoon www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Our analysis of detailed arrest and deportation data hows just how drastically the ICE immigration enforcement apparatus has transformed under Trump. With @wcraft.bsky.social & Andrew Witherspoon.

Deportation numbers haven't risen as drastically as arrests, but one pattern has emerged from the data: The Trump administration is trying to send more people to countries where they are not citizens. We found 8,100 people sent to third countries. The biggest group? Venezuelans deported to Mexcio

Detention facilities are at record highs, with a daily average of nearly 60,000 people held across the country in June, far more than the number of beds that Congress has allocated for Ice detention

Trump has drastically reshaped immigration enforcement over the last 6 months. Our analysis found that for the first time, people without criminal records are being arrested in higher numbers than any other group www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Israeli military used 500lb bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal

“How can Nepal deport them back to the country that once expelled them?” The US deported them to Bhutan, which refused to accept them. So they went to Nepal...which wants to deport them again, back to Bhutan.

🚨 Trump's border "invasion" declaration was just ruled unlawful "nothing in the INA or the Constitution grants the President or his delegees the sweeping authority asserted in the Proclamation and implementing guidance."

🚨NEW: The Trump admin moves to terminate Temporary Protected Status for HALF A MILLION Haitians, claiming despite all reality that Haiti is a safe country to return to — even though large portions of the country are ruled by vicious gangs and civil governance has collapsed.

NEW: The Trump admin finalized an emergency regulation, which goes into effect tomorrow, authorizing DHS to impose civil monetary penalties for immigration law violations with far less due process. The rule could lead to DHS imposing exorbitant fines on millions of people — fines they can't afford.

“In this moment, while we’re seeing the worst of our federal administration, we are seeing the best here in the city of Los Angeles." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say

at least five car washes in L.A. and Orange counties have been targeted by federal immigration agents in recent days, w/ more reports rolling in this afternoon. ~26 people were taken at these locations—some in unmarked vehicles. the vast majority were workers. story: www.latimes.com/business/sto...

A series of local immigration enforcement actions and the resulting protests are reshaping the end of the school year in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Fears of ICE raids upend life in L.A. County, from schools to Home Depot parking lots

Really good WSJ article on ICE escalations over recent weeks including Miller's visit to ICE national HQ where he demanded Home Depot raids. www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

There's officers from ICE and Customs and Border Patrol here in LA. The latter are usually restricted to 100mi of the US border... but lawyers suspect the agency is now counting the entire coastline as a border. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As the government rushes to arrest immigrants in LA, people are being held in harrowing conditions. One family with three children was held in the basement of an administrative building for 2 days without a full meal or enough water, their lawyers said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE raids in Los Angeles are a declaration of war, & Angelenos are primed for battle, @tinavasquez.bsky.social writes in an op-ed. Immigration & Customs Enforcement sent the city a message when its agents showed up in full force, & that message was responded to in kind by the people of LA.

ICE is increasingly using Bureau of Prisons (BoP) facilities to incarcerate immigrants facing deportation. @samtlevin.bsky.social spoke to several people about their experience in these prisons – where detainees face squalid conditions and mistreatment.

"Salazar’s case demonstrates that 'if your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail,' said his attorney, Travis Collins."

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

UPDATE: Remember this case, where a federal judge savaged the Trump administration's "evidence" that a woman was in Tren de Aragua? Well, last week the Trump administration arrested her and her husband for the THIRD TIME — and now they say they'll use the Alien Enemies Act on them!

The Trump administration has restarted the practice known as “family detention” – locking up children along with their parents. Those detained include families who had recently crossed into the US. Among the youngest detainees was a one-year-old child.

I spoke to one of the first families detained after the Trump administration re-started the practice of jailing families together. Jade, 13, said was "confused and scared". Now that she's out, she's still waiting on the government to return her Nintendo Switch. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...