President Trump kicked off his second term with a dramatic crackdown on immigration. Critics call those moves cruel and unnecessary. But many of Trump’s supporters are applauding these early steps.
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The prospect of immigration agents entering schools is sending shockwaves among communities
President Trump got rid of a decades-old policy that prevented agents from arresting migrants without legal status in sensitive places, such as schools. Most districts are drawing a line in the sand.
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Trump ends extension of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants
The move to revoke the extension of temporary protected status would make hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans eligible for deportation.
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Trump signs first bill of his second presidency, the Laken Riley Act, into law
The bill is named for a Georgia nursing student who was killed last year by a Venezuelan man without legal status who had a criminal record.
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Trump’s immigration orders are a blueprint for sweeping policy changes
President Trump began his immigration crackdown with a flurry of executive orders. Immigration experts say they lay out how he hopes to transform enforcement at the southern U.S. border and beyond.
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Trump officials empower DHS to expel migrants allowed under 2 Biden programs
Immigration officials would have authority to quickly expel migrants temporarily admitted via the CBP One App and a separate program for certain people fleeing Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
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Local governments across U.S. signal they won’t aid Trump migrant crackdown
Local government officials around the U.S. signal they won’t assist — and in some cases they’ll actively oppose — the Trump administration’s efforts to conduct a massive deportation of migrants.
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U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order
The ruling bars U.S. agencies from implementing the order to end birthright citizenship for children born to migrants in the U.S. temporarily or without legal status while the case is under review.
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DOJ threatens to prosecute local officials for resisting immigration enforcement
In a new memo, a Justice Department official seeks to realign the department’s positions on immigration with President Trump’s executive actions — and threatens local officials who don’t cooperate.
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Democratic AGs sue over Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship
A group of 18 state attorneys general signed on to a lawsuit filed Tuesday seeking to block the administration’s move, describing it as unconstitutional.
