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A Trump Ally Pressed for a Mexican Citizen’s Release From ICE Custody

The office of Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana asked the Department of Homeland Security to release the detainee, who is married to a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, helped release Paola Clouatre from detention after an immigration judge halted her deportation order.
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Migration Fears Turn Europe’s Borderless Dreams Into Traffic Nightmares

Germany’s new government imposed border checks to demonstrate toughness on migration, though crossings started slowing years ago.

© Lena Mucha for The New York Times

German border guards stop cars crossing from Poland last week.
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U.K. Secretly Resettled 4,500 Afghans in Britain After Huge Data Breach

The government said that information about 18,000 Afghans was accidentally revealed in 2022. A legal order had prevented any reporting on the subject.

© Omar Sobhani/Reuters

British soldiers in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in 2020. The acknowledgment of the data exposure comes at a time when immigration is a sensitive issue in British politics.
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Police Investigate Burning of Migrant-Boat Effigy in Northern Ireland as a Hate Crime

An effigy of a boat containing mannequins of migrants was set alight in the village of Moygashel on Thursday, in an incident condemned by political and religious leaders as racist and threatening.

© Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

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