Latest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement News

San Diego sheriff defies new policy to limit cooperation with immigration officials

Dec. 11, 2024 01:03 AM EST

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The sheriff of the nation’s fifth-largest county on Tuesday defied a new policy to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over a new obstacle to President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans. Earlier Tuesday, San...

Trump taps forceful ally of hard-line immigration policies to head Customs and Border Protection

Dec. 06, 2024 18:52 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The picture of who will be in charge of executing President-elect Donald Trump's hard-line immigration and border policies has come into sharper focus after he announced his picks to head Customs and Border Protection and also the agency tasked with deporting immigrants in the...

ICE is looking for a new detention center in Blue California. The state probably can’t stop it

Dec. 05, 2024 11:58 AM EST

Federal immigration authorities are looking for a potential new detention center in Northern California, an effort that alarms advocates and some Democratic state lawmakers as President-elect Donald Trump gears up to unleash his mass deportation plan. In August, U.S. Immigration and...

US can continue using Seattle airport for deportation flights, appeals court says

Dec. 03, 2024 14:49 PM EST

SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can continue using a Seattle airport for chartered deportation flights, a federal appeals court ruled in a decision that rejected a 2019 local order that sought to counter then-President Donald Trump's immigration policies. ...

Schools are bracing for upheaval over fear of mass deportations

Nov. 27, 2024 10:09 AM EST

Last time Donald Trump was president, rumors of immigration raids terrorized the Oregon community where Gustavo Balderas was the school superintendent. Word spread that immigration agents were going to try to enter schools. There was no truth to it, but school staff members had to...

Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump's promised crackdown on immigration

Nov. 26, 2024 19:28 PM EST

President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses...

North Carolina GOP's legislative priorities for this year inch closer to becoming law

Nov. 19, 2024 15:47 PM EST

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina GOP lawmakers are one step closer to rolling out their legislative-session priorities into law before the year's end after the state House opted to override one of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes on Tuesday. The vetoed bill contains...

Trump picks a pair of experienced advisers motivated to carry out his immigration crackdown

Nov. 12, 2024 14:13 PM EST

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Donald Trump's first picks for immigration policy jobs spent the last four years angling for this moment. Stephen Miller and Thomas Homan had critical roles in the first Trump administration and are unapologetic defenders of its policies, which included separating...

Trump names Tom Homan, former director of immigration enforcement, as 'border czar'

Nov. 11, 2024 16:31 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says Tom Homan, his former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as “border czar” in his incoming administration, a position that is likely to play a key role in Trump's campaign pledges to secure the U.S.-Mexico...

Stocks and bitcoin jump after Trump's victory. So do worries about inflation as Dow surges 1,500

Nov. 06, 2024 17:23 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market, Elon Musk’s Tesla, banks and bitcoin all stormed higher Wednesday as investors made bets on what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the economy and the world. Among the losers the market sees: the renewable-energy industry and...