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Should ICE Agents Be Allowed to Wear Masks? It Depends Whom You Ask.

Los Angeles’s mayor said Sunday that masked immigration agents helped create a “reign of terror.” ICE’s director said agents could wear masks to “keep them and their families safe.”

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A federal immigration officer in Manhattan wearing a face covering last week.
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To Staff Trump’s Immigration Crackdown, ICE Entices Its Retirees

The administration is offering financial incentives to lure back recently departed immigration officers as it works to fill 10,000 job openings.

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer at the agency’s Delaney Hall facility in Newark, N.J., in June.
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As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure

President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from Harvard, including extensive information about international students, staff payroll and protests.

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Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration will meet for a significant court hearing on Monday.
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As Harvard and Trump Head to Court, the Government Piles on the Pressure

President Trump suggested a deal was coming, but officials are still demanding more from Harvard, including extensive information about international students, staff payroll and protests.

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Lawyers for Harvard University and the Trump administration will meet for a significant court hearing on Monday.
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Border Patrol Agents Raid a Home Depot in Northern California

The raid indicates a new strategy of going deeper into California after focusing on Southern California for several weeks.

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Gregory Bovino, center, the head of Border Patrol’s El Centro region, at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles last week. Mr. Bovino said that federal agents had begun operations in the Sacramento area.
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Justice Dept. Asks California Sheriffs for Names of Undocumented Inmates

An A.C.L.U. lawyer said it was possible that any sheriff who complied with the request could be in violation of California’s so-called sanctuary state law.

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Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County, third from right, with deputies in Altadena, Calif., in January. His agency signaled it would not honor a request the Justice Department’s request for the names of noncitizen inmates.
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The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center

Several immigrant detainees described high tension and anxiety at the remote, hastily constructed facility over a lack of information, recreation and access to medication.

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Florida raced to open the Everglades detention center on July 3, eager to help President Trump’s immigration crackdown by providing more detention capacity.
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Trump Administration Resumes Deportation Flights, Sending Migrants to Eswatini

The five migrants on the latest flight, all from different countries, were sent to Eswatini, a small nation in southern Africa.

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Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, called the five migrants deported to the African nation of Eswatini “uniquely barbaric” in a social media post.
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Trump Releases About Half of the National Guard Troops in Los Angeles

President Trump mobilized the troops on June 7 in the wake of chaotic protests. They have remained in Southern California several weeks after most of the demonstrations had ended.

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About half of the California National Guard troops deployed to Los Angeles are being released, Trump administration officials said on Tuesday.
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Judge Approves Release of Iranian Arrested in Louisiana After U.S. Bombed Iran

Pouria Pourhosseinhendabad, a doctoral student studying mechanical engineering at Louisiana State University, was arrested along with his wife in what his lawyers called “an unconstitutional ruse.”
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Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries

Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”

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Downtown Juba, South Sudan, last year. Third-country deportations could accelerate under new internal guidance issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries

Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”

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Downtown Juba, South Sudan, last year. Third-country deportations could accelerate under new internal guidance issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds

After the passage of President Trump’s domestic policy law, the Department of Homeland Security is poised to hire thousands of new immigration agents and double detention space.

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An ICE officer wearing a mask.
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ICE Raids Scare Off L.A. Workers Rebuilding Fire-Torn Areas

Immigrant workers are central to recovery efforts in neighborhoods burned in the January wildfires, but recent raids have led some to stay home.

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Some construction workers say they are afraid to rebuild fire-torn areas after recent ICE raids targeted laborers in Southern California.
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids

A federal judge temporarily halted the administration from making indiscriminate arrests based on race and denying detainees access to lawyers, in a lawsuit that could have national repercussions.

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The initial rulings represented a sharp rebuke of the tactics that federal agents have employed in and around Los Angeles during raids, which have entered their second month.
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Farmworker Dies on Saturday After Fleeing a Raid This Week in Southern California

During an immigration raid on Thursday, a worker fell from a greenhouse at a cannabis farm. A farmworkers union had initially said the worker died on Friday, but a lawyer for the family said the death occurred Saturday afternoon.

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Federal agents blocked people protesting an ICE immigration raid at a licensed cannabis farm on Thursday, near Camarillo, Calif.
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Immigration Arrests in Los Angeles Spike Amid Aggressive Enforcement

Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.

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Since the beginning of June, Department of Homeland Security agents and officers have arrested nearly 2,800 immigrants in the Los Angeles area, according to the agency.
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Judge Signals She Will Protect Abrego Garcia From Hasty Second Deportation

The judge, Paula Xinis, said some legal safeguard was needed because the Trump administration had already shown in this and other deportation cases that it could not be trusted.

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Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, a lawyer for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, speaking outside U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., on Thursday.
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Federal Agents Clash With Protesters During Immigration Raid at California Farm

Officers appeared to use crowd control munitions and tear gas against protesters. The F.B.I. said it was searching for a person who appeared to fire a pistol at officers.

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Federal agents raided a large Southern California marijuana farm on Thursday afternoon, making multiple arrests, officials said.
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Justice Dept. Promised to Prosecute Abrego Garcia. Now It’s Not So Clear.

In the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the administration appears primarily concerned with ensuring that a man it has described as a “dangerous illegal alien” never walks free on U.S. soil.

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Supporters of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia rallying outside the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., during a hearing on his case on Thursday.
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L.A.-Area Bishop Excuses Faithful From Mass Over Fear of Immigration Raids

Bishop Alberto Rojas of the Diocese of San Bernardino lifted the obligation to attend Mass for anyone who had a “genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions.”

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Bishop Alberto Rojas leading Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Chino Hills, Calif., in 2023.
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L.A.-Area Bishop Excuses Faithful From Mass Over Fear of Immigration Raids

Bishop Alberto Rojas of the Diocese of San Bernardino lifted the obligation for members to celebrate Mass if they had a “genuine fear of immigration enforcement actions.”

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Bishop Alberto Rojas leading Mass at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Chino Hills, Calif., in 2023.
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Immigration Officials Used Shadowy Pro-Israel Group to Target Student Activists

A senior Homeland Security official testified in court on Wednesday that his department had relied in part on an anonymously compiled list to identify foreign academics for investigation.

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Peter Hatch, the assistant director of the Homeland Security Investigations department within ICE, testified that a team he oversaw had been directed to pore over the thousands of individuals profiled by the Canary Mission, an anonymous group that has been accused of doxxing individuals engaged in anti-Israeli activism.
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L.A. Moves to Join Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Immigration Raids

The legal move came the day after federal agents and National Guard troops converged on a Los Angeles park in an extraordinary show of force.

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Protesters gathered in Pasadena, Calif., last month, after immigration officials detained people in the area.
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