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Journalist Held by ICE Faces ‘Imminent’ Deportation, His Lawyers Say

The journalist, Mario Guevara, has been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since June, when he was arrested while covering a “No Kings” protest outside Atlanta.

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Mario Guevara worked as a reporter in El Salvador before he moved to the United States, where he has built a following covering immigration arrests.
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Immigrant Rights Groups Condemn Violent Rhetoric Against ICE and Immigrants

In a tense national debate, inflammatory language is being singled out.

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“My concern is that this anti-immigrant rhetoric has led us to this point, and that is not being identified by our elected leaders,” said Rochelle Garza, president of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Above, Ms. Garza in 2022.
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration’s Efforts to Tie State Disaster Aid to Immigration Cooperation

The ruling came in a suit brought by a coalition of states with sanctuary laws and other policies barring police from helping federal immigration officers.

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A demonstration in May against ICE at a detention facility in Rhode Island, whose attorney general joined with counterparts in 19 other states in a suit against the Trump administration’s withholding of disaster funds.
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Trump says ICE was the target, but immigrants are feeling unsafe.

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F.B.I. agents investigating outside the Abogado de Inmigración Manuel Solis building where the suspect was located on Wednesday.
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Witnesses in Dallas Describe Rapid Gunfire

‘It was one shot after another after another after another,’ said one woman in a parking lot outside an ICE facility.

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Law enforcement officers responded to the area around an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas after a shooting.
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Under Trump Policy, Bonds for Immigrants Facing Deportation Are Vanishing

The president has limited immigration judges’ power to release detainees facing deportation. Immigrant rights groups say the policy is illegal.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detaining a man from Mexico in Miami Beach, Fla., in May.
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Why African Countries Keep Making Deals to Accept U.S. Deportees

As the Trump administration exerts pressure on countries to aid in its mass deportation efforts, some nations in Africa have agreed, prompting legal battles.

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A view of Kigali, Rwanda.
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California Bars ICE Agents From Wearing Masks in the State

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to prevent federal agents from concealing their identities with masks. The law is expected to face a legal challenge.

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Federal agents blocking protesters during a federal immigration raid in Camarillo, Calif., in July. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Saturday to prohibit facial concealment.
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Trump Asks the Supreme Court, Again, to Lift Protections for Venezuelans

The solicitor general accused a federal trial judge of defying an earlier order from the justices, though one that provided no reasoning.

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Members of Venezuelan community organizations held a news conference denouncing a Trump administration move to end Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan migrants in Doral, Fla., in February.
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Protesters and Federal Agents Clash Outside an ICE Detention Facility Near Chicago

The Department of Homeland Security said there had been 550 arrests in the Chicago operation.

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Tensions have been rising in the Chicago area for the last two weeks, since ICE agents have been conducting a higher number of immigration arrests in the region than usual.
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Protesters and Federal Agents Clash Outside an ICE Detention Facility Near Chicago

During the standoff, authorities deployed tear gas and pepper balls at the demonstrators, which included several local officials.

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Tensions have been rising in the Chicago area for the last two weeks, since ICE agents have been conducting a higher number of immigration arrests in the region than usual.
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West Africans Deported by the U.S. Sue Ghana for Rights Violations

Ghana said it was taking in 14 deported migrants to help its fellow Africans. But it sent three to their country of origin, including one who said he feared for his life.

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Accra, Ghana.
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Judge Blocks Administration From Immediately Removing Guatemalan Children

Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote that the government had given dubious justifications for removing the children that “crumbled like a house of cards.”

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A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviewed the list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City last month.
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He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.

After three decades in California, Narciso Barranco was arrested by agents while weeding outside an IHOP, stirring outrage and a fight to stop his deportation.

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Narciso Barranco at home in Tustin, Calif.
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Asylum Seeker Wins Bid to Delay Deportation Under U.K.-France Treaty

The case was the first challenge relating to the treaty, which aims to reduce small-boat crossings of the English Channel by migrants, to reach London’s High Court.

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Migrants trying to cross to Britain from northern France on a small boat last month. More than 30,000 people have made such crossings so far this year.
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Federal Judge Declines to Intervene for Migrants Deported to Ghana

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said her hands were “tied” with regard to the migrants, even though they held protective orders, in another victory for President Trump’s deportation campaign.

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Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington ruled late Monday that she could not prevent a group of migrants from being sent onward to their home countries.
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Federal Judge Declines to Intervene for Migrants Deported to Ghana

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan said her hands were “tied” with regard to the migrants, even though they held protective orders, in another victory for President Trump’s deportation campaign.

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Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington ruled late Monday that she could not prevent a group of migrants from being sent onward to their home countries.
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ICE Changed How a Chicago Neighborhood Celebrates Mexican Independence Day

Pilsen, a part of the city long home to Chicagoans of Mexican heritage, has grown quieter since the Trump administration announced an operation against illegal immigration.

A parade in Pilsen last weekend celebrated Mexican heritage.
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Trump’s Reversals on Immigration Mount Over Economic Concerns

President Trump has walked back some significant immigration policies that collide with his economic agenda, angering his far-right allies.

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Immigration officers during an arrest operation in Florida in May.
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Federal Judge Questions Deportations to Ghana

A hearing in the case of five migrants deported to Ghana last week showed how earlier Supreme Court rulings have paved the way for President Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

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Judge Tanya S. Chutkan scolded the Trump administration for allowing Ghanaian officials to violate protective orders by U.S. immigration judges, though she also appeared to suggest she had little power to compel the government to return them.
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Lawsuit Accuses Trump Officials of More Wrongful Deportations

Plaintiffs accused the Trump administration of using so-called third-country deportations to violate court-ordered protections for migrants, echoing the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

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Federal agents detaining a man after his hearing in an immigration court in New York City this year.
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Man Fatally Shot in Confrontation With ICE Officers in Chicago Area

The shooting took place during a federal crackdown on illegal immigration in the region. Officials said an ICE officer was dragged and injured.

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The fatal shooting was in Franklin Park, Ill.
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Rubio Leads Charge in Trump’s New War in Latin America

The secretary of state is shaping what could be the most consequential military actions of President Trump’s second term.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has long sought the ouster of anti-American leftist strongmen in Latin America.
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Rubio Leads Charge in Trump’s New War in Latin America

The secretary of state is shaping what could be the most consequential military actions of President Trump’s second term.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has long sought the ouster of anti-American leftist strongmen in Latin America.
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Freed South Korean Workers Return From the U.S. to Tearful Cheers

The workers, whose detention in a workplace immigration sweep set off outrage in South Korea, expressed both relief and anger.

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South Korean workers arriving at Incheon International Airport in Incheon on Friday.
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ICE Agents Can’t Wear Masks Under Bill Passed in California

The legislation responds to immigration raids by federal agents who have shielded their identity. It heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has not said whether he would sign it.

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Federal agents stand guard on a road outside an agricultural facility where an immigration raid occurred in Camarillo, Calif., in July.
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South Korean Leader Warns of U.S. Investments After Hyundai-LG Plant Raid

President Lee Jae Myung made the comments as hundreds of South Korean workers swept in an immigration raid were flying home on Thursday.

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President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea during a news conference in Seoul on Thursday.
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Workers Fleeing Immigration Raid Scale a Fence at the C.I.A.

Immigration officers did not notify the agency ahead of the raid, according to people briefed on the incident.

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The George Bush Center for Intelligence, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, in Langley, Va., in 2022.
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German Court Convicts Syrian National for Stabbing Attack That Killed 3

Issa al Hasan was found guilty of murder in the Islamic State-inspired rampage last year that spurred a national debate about refugees and migration.

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Issa al Hasan, the perpetrator of a deadly knife attack in Germany last year, was a member of Islamic State. The terror group claimed responsibility for the rampage.
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Fears Return for L.A. Immigrants After Supreme Court Allows Raids to Resume

Los Angeles residents are anxious once again following a Supreme Court ruling that allowed aggressive immigration raids to resume.

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“With this decision, we lost confidence in the courts,” Roberto Cordero said in East Los Angeles.
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U.S. Deportation Sent Asylum Seeker Back Into China’s Grip

A Chinese man crossed dangerous jungles to enter the United States, in a failed bid for asylum. After being deported home in 2023, he faced a choice: stay or try to leave again?

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Tao was part of a record-breaking wave of undocumented Chinese migrants who had made harrowing journeys through the jungles of Central America to the United States.
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Get to Know Chicago’s Immigrant Community, Target of Trump’s Crackdown

Almost 40 percent of immigrants living in Chicago are from Mexico. More than 800,000 of the city’s 2.7 million residents identify as Hispanic or Latino.

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The “Wings of Mexico” art installation at the Plaza of the Americas in downtown Chicago.
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Meet the New ICE Recruits

ICE was hiring officers in Texas, part of a huge ramp-up to its work force. The Times was there.

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ICE made nearly 700 job offers, conditional on applicants passing medical, background and drug tests, according to a spokesman, at a recent job fair in Arlington, Texas.
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The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained

The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.

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Civil rights organizations and several U.S. citizens accused federal agents of engaging in “blatant racial profiling” by carrying out “indiscriminate immigration operations” with no individualized basis for suspicion.
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Deportation Fears Are Fueling Money Transfers to Latin America

Money transfers to Guatemala, Honduras and other nations have increased in recent months, totaling billions of dollars. Undocumented migrants in the United States say they are sending money to relatives while they can.

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Julio Fuentes, a 35-year-old undocumented migrant from Guatemala, sent a large chunk of his savings to his bank account in Guatemala this year — fearing both deportation and a new tax on remittances.
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Trump Administration Says It Has Begun Immigration Crackdown in Chicago

In Chicago, advocates for immigrants said they saw several arrests on Sunday, but were uncertain of the scale of federal action.

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Religious leaders and other Chicagoans held a rally opposing an immigration crackdown announced by the Trump administration.
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Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.

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Aggressive enforcement operations in Los Angeles — including encounters captured on video that appeared to be roundups of random Hispanic people by armed agents — have set off protests and clashes in the area.
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Raid on Georgia E.V. Battery Plant Raises New Risks for a Shaken Industry

Foreign manufacturers were already dealing with tariffs and the end of E.V. tax credits. Now, they face greater scrutiny of their workers’ immigration status.

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The LG Energy Solution battery cell manufacturing plant in Holland, Mich. The immigration raid on the Georgia plant has sent shivers through the industry.
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Raid on Georgia E.V. Battery Plant Raises New Risks for a Shaken Industry

Foreign manufacturers were already dealing with tariffs and the end of E.V. tax credits. Now, they face greater scrutiny of their workers’ immigration status.

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The LG Energy Solution battery cell manufacturing plant in Holland, Mich. The immigration raid on the Georgia plant has sent shivers through the industry.
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What We Know About the Hyundai-LG Plant Immigration Raid in Georgia

Several hundred workers, most of them South Korean nationals, were detained at the construction site of a sprawling electric vehicle battery plant on Thursday.

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Heavy machinery at a standstill at the site of an electric vehicle battery plant co-owned by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution, in Ellabell, Ga., on Friday.
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South Korea Negotiates Release of Korean Workers Detained in Georgia Raid

The South Korean government said on Sunday that it would send a charter plane to the United States to retrieve hundreds of workers detained in an immigration raid.

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Heavy machinery at a standstill at the site of an electric vehicle battery plant co-owned by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution, in Ellabell, Ga., on Friday.
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Immigration Raid Exposes Tensions From Seoul to Washington to Rural Georgia

The raid at a Georgia plant being built with heavy investment from South Korea reveals strain as a rush to expand manufacturing in the United States clashes with an immigration crackdown.

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Vehicles move on the line at the Hyundai Motor Group plant in Ellabell, Ga. in March. Another part of that complex, still under construction, was raided on Thursday.
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Tensions Mount as Trump Administration Threatens Federal Crackdown in Chicago

In a social media post, President Trump said Chicago was “about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” Illinois officials condemned the message.

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Metal barricades were placed around the federal courthouse on Thursday night in the heart of Chicago’s downtown.
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ICE Has Begun Immigration Crackdown in Massachusetts

The operation includes Boston, whose mayor has drawn the administration’s ire for speaking out against the growing scale of its immigration actions.

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A homeland security officer observed a news briefing by Mayor Michelle Wu in Boston last month, after Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded that Boston lift its sanctuary city policies.
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Immigration Raid on Hyundai-LG Plant in Georgia Rattles South Korea

The country said it had sent diplomats to the site, and South Korea’s foreign minister said he might travel to Washington himself to address the matter.

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A Hyundai plant in Ellabell, Ga., in March. On Thursday, U.S. law enforcement officers arrested hundreds of South Korean nationals at a neighboring construction site owned by Hyundai and LG.
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