ICE deported 174 Daca recipients through most of last year, agency head says in letter

So-called Dreamers – undocumented immigrants who arrived as children – were allowed to stay in US under Obama-era program

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ICE’s hiring spree led to influx of recruits with questionable qualifications, investigation shows

Patchy employment records, bankruptcies and allegations of wrongdoing blemish the records of several new recruits

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Why did Michelin snub St Paul in its guide to the best restaurants in the Great Lakes region?

Critics warn smaller and immigrant-run restaurants risk being overlooked as city-funded deal shapes dining map

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French widow, 86, flies home after ICE detention ordeal

Marie-Thérèse Ross was arrested on 1 April and held in a Louisiana facility by immigration officials

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@dougiec3
Wow! Off the main topic (or, come to think of it, maybe not 😵‍💫) but Colbert says the USA’s fertility rate, still falling, is currently at 1.6 births per woman… & well below the population replacement rate of 2.1… that means population is shrinking. Without immigration it will shrink further & faster. Who’s going to do all the work to support those who can’t?

#USPol #demography #demographics #fertilityRate #populationReplacementRate #USImmigration #Colbert

@futurebird

Acting ICE director Todd Lyons will step down at the end of May, says DHS

Lyons, who led agency since March 2025, to resign after turbulent year carrying out Trump’s immigration agenda

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US House approves bill to shield 350,000 Haitians from deportations

Rare rebuke of Trump’s mass deportation agenda, enabled by small group of Republican defectors, to last three years

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ICE agent charged with assault for allegedly pointing gun at people in car

Minnesota prosecutors say this is first criminal case against a federal agent involved in Trump’s immigration crackdown

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Texas immigration court interpreter detained by ICE says ‘they want to make me disappear’

Meenu Batra, the state’s only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu interpreter, says she was treated ‘like a criminal’

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Why were these two US immigration judges fired?

The case of two fired judges – and one who kept his job – offers a lesson in the administration’s view of free speech

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