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U.S. enforcement of immigration law by ICE, CBP and DHS: arrests, detention, deportation, visa and border controls, and the legal fights over them.
Six local police and eight HSI agents surveilled an April 2 Chicago talk by Minnesota activists, according to defense documents WIRED reviewed. The defense team for 15 activists facing federal felony charges released the four-page report in their case.
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Protesters suing DHS in Maine allege the agency stored photos and license plate numbers of ICE observers in a database Palantir built. Techdirt says the filing contradicts ICE's denials, but their wording is narrow enough that both can be true.
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At least one ICE agent fired seven rounds into a car holding a 5-year-old in Marble Hill, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. WIRED names the supervisor on scene as Brenden Cuni and cites federal rulings that found arrests involving him unlawful.
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Rep. Hong Ki-won's office puts the 2025 fall at 5,885 visas, and the E1 and E2 trader and investor categories fell 11.9 percent against an 8 percent average. Business travel visas have since run above their 2024 monthly pace.
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Immigration Minister Tony Burke's revised migration settings arrived six weeks late. A researcher behind the largest national study of migrant and refugee women says the family-violence safety net still stops at the partner visa.
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A projection of $3.4 trillion over ten years averages about $340bn a year. The Congressional Budget Office's more than $1 trillion of offsetting program savings rests partly on Medicaid work requirements most states do not start until 2027.
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Universal body cams by the end of August, under a February 2025 policy that releases death and serious-injury footage only when ICE decides it serves the agency. The spend grows storage, not disclosure.
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