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T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort

The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

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At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House last month.
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Trump Administration Begins Immigration Operation in New Orleans

It is unclear how long the effort will last in Louisiana, where the Republican governor has welcomed the agents with open arms even as immigrant communities fear what might come.

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Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official who has been in charge of the immigration crackdown in various cities, in the French Quarter in New Orleans on Wednesday.
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U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications From Nations on Travel Ban List

The pause, which will halt green card and U.S. citizenship processing for broad swaths of people, deepens a remarkable crackdown on legal immigration pathways in recent days.

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A camp for internally displaced people in Somalia in September. It is one of the countries on the travel ban list, which includes some of the poorest and most unstable nations in the world.
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Immigration Officials Target Afghans for Deportation in Wake of D.C. Shooting

The stepped-up enforcement comes as the Trump administration has also moved to reassess the vetting of Afghans who came to the country under the Biden administration.

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National Guard troops standing near the scene where two Guard members were shot in Washington last week.
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New ICE Operation Is Said to Target Somali Migrants in Minneapolis and St. Paul

The move comes as President Trump has attacked Somalis with increasingly inflammatory rhetoric in recent days.

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A Somali-American community in Minneapolis in September.
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As Trump Deepens Immigration Crackdown, Exceptions Disappear for Afghans and Others

President Trump’s latest changes to the immigration system affect communities that traditionally have been considered special cases.

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Last week, the Trump administration announced it would stop issuing visas to people from Afghanistan and review all Afghans allowed into the United States during the Biden administration.
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Trump’s Crackdown in Wake of Shooting Blocks Legal Pathways for Migrants

The new measures represent some of the most significant changes to immigration policy since President Trump returned to the White House.

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A small memorial left at the scene of the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington last week.
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Afghans Who Assisted U.S. During the War Underwent Rigorous Vetting

Former officials said the C.I.A. diligently assessed those who partnered with its forces, like the man accused of shooting two National Guard members in Washington.

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John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, said the man accused of shooting two National Guard members, an Afghan who had worked with U.S. forces during the war in his country, “should have never been allowed to come here.”
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Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans

They were the latest restrictive changes to the immigration system after this week’s shooting of two National Guard members.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents check migrants’ documents at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in El Paso in January.
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National Guard Soldier Dies After Being Shot in Washington

Another Guard member was in critical condition. The suspect is an Afghan man who once served in a paramilitary unit that worked with U.S. forces, officials said.

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National Guard members gather outside the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner after the body of West Virginia National Guard soldier Sarah Beckstrom was transported to the facility on Nov. 27, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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U.S. Reviews Biden Asylum Cases After Shooting

A Homeland Security Department spokeswoman accused the previous administration of failing to vet asylum applicants “on a massive scale.”

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A small memorial left at the scene of the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, shown on Thursday.
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D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan

The C.I.A. and an Afghan intelligence official said that the shooter had been part of an Afghan “partner force,” known as a Zero Unit, trained and supported by the agency in the southern province of Kandahar.

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Law enforcement at the scene of the shooting. The suspect had worked with a C.I.A.-supported military unit in Afghanistan.
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Trump Administration Pauses Immigration From Afghanistan After D.C. Shooting

The U.S. agency overseeing immigration made the announcement after an Afghan man shot two National Guard troops near the White House.

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Law enforcement officers gathering after the shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.
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Operation Allies Welcome Gave Some Afghans Entry to the U.S.

The Biden administration set up the initiative after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in August 2021 for those who assisted U.S. troops.

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Brig. Gen. Dan Gabrielli greeting Afghans at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico as part of Operation Allies Welcome in 2021.
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