Immigration Reform
The latest news, analysis and debates on immigration reform and policy.
ICE has secret policy allowing officers to enter private homes, whistleblowers say
ICE has created a secret policy that permits officers to enter the homes of illegal immigrant targets by force without getting a judicial warrant, according to a whistleblower revealed by a senior senator on Wednesday.
Vance to visit Minneapolis as tensions rise over ICE operations
Vice President J.D. Vance will visit Minneapolis on Thursday as pressure continues to escalate over Immigration and Customs Enforcement immigration arrests.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem says 70% of detained migrants have violent crime connections
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is trying to set the record straight on the number of migrants detained by ICE who have committed a criminal offense.
DHS closes out first year under Trump with record-low border numbers
The Department of Homeland Security continued its record streak of border calm, announcing another drop in illegal immigrants caught at the southern border in December.
Trump threatens Insurrection Act as protesters, politicians rail against ICE raids in Minneapolis
Another ICE-involved shooting has put Minneapolis on edge, left a federal officer and a migrant hospitalized and drawn a new warning from President Trump, who threatened Thursday to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy troops.
Homeland Security Secretary Noem calls latest Minnesota attack on ICE ‘an attempted murder’
Three men who “ambushed” an ICE officer in Minneapolis, spurring him to fire his gun and wound one of them, all came to the U.S. during the Biden administration and are in the country illegally, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.
Minnesota conducting its own probe into latest ICE shooting
Minnesota’s police shooting board is independently investigating this week’s shooting by a federal officer of a target in an immigration arrest.
Sen. John Fetterman cheers on Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘Round up all the criminals’
Sen. John Fetterman broke with fellow Democrats to urge federal immigration agents to “round up all the criminals.”
Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to ‘put an end’ to protests in Minneapolis
President Trump warned Thursday that he would invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy the military in Minnesota if protesters continue to attack federal agents carrying out immigration raids.
Another DHS shooting: Feds say officer was ambushed and beaten, fired to stop attack
A federal agent trying to arrest an illegal immigrant in Minnesota was ambushed by people who attacked him with a shovel and a broom handle, forcing him to open fire, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.
How Minnesota became the Somali capital of America, center of welfare
Somali immigrants have flocked to Minnesota over the past two decades because of the state’s liberal social policies and plentiful jobs that others won’t do.
Joe Rogan questions ICE activities after fatal shooting, compares tactics to ‘the Gestapo’
Podcaster Joe Rogan compared immigration enforcement tactics to “the Gestapo” in the latest episode of his podcast, aligning more with those who have expressed discontent over the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good.
Trump to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, states
President Trump announced Wednesday that he will stop federal funding to sanctuary cities and states on Feb. 1 as he escalates his efforts to crack down on illegal immigrants and the jurisdictions that are resisting his administration’s efforts to deport them.
DOJ attorneys resign after agency chooses not to probe ICE shooting in Minneapolis
Multiple Department of Justice attorneys have left the agency after department leaders refused to investigate last week’s deadly shooting by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis.
Minnesota has released more than 400 ‘criminal’ migrants in 1 year: DHS
The Department of Homeland Security challenged Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to start cooperating with ICE to turn over illegal immigrants with criminal records from his prisons and jails, saying he’s released hundreds of them back onto the streets over the last year.
Trump tells Minnesotans that ‘day of reckoning & retribution’ is coming
President Trump cryptically warned Minnesota residents on Tuesday that “the day of reckoning & retribution is coming.”
U.S. can’t give Venezuelan deportees due process, Rubio tells Judge Boasberg
The Trump administration says it is not feasible to carry out a judge’s order to set up new methods for migrants already deported back to Venezuela to argue why they should be allowed to return.
DOJ announces charges against illegal immigrant shot by Border Patrol in Portland
Federal prosecutors have charged one of the illegal immigrants shot by Border Patrol in Oregon last week with assaulting a federal officer, saying he repeatedly rammed his pickup truck into a government rental car, forcing officers to react.
Minnesota senator alleges ‘cover-up’ amid intensifying dispute over ICE shooting probe
The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an officer of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has morphed from a local tragedy into a national political battle, further inflaming divisions over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and the role of federal agents in Democratic-led cities.
Border czar Tom Homan accuses Democrats of fueling chaos as ICE shooting fallout grows
White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that Democrats and liberal activists are being hypocritical in their outrage over immigration enforcement, arguing they spent years refusing to help deport illegal migrants, ignoring the southern border crisis and vilifying ICE officers.
Minneapolis woman fatally shot by federal agent reportedly received anti-ICE training
Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman fatally shot by a federal agent, was reportedly associated with an anti-ICE coalition to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota.
Border turnaround takes center stage in GOP midterm strategy
National Border Patrol Council President Paul Perez said Friday that the resources provided to border officials through the GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act have uncuffed border patrol agents to do their jobs.
Donations top $1.5 million for wife and children of the woman fatally shot by ICE in Minneapolis
The GoFundMe campaign created for the family of Renee Macklin Good has surpassed $1.5 million in the two days since she was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis.
New video shows protester taunting ICE officer before Minneapolis shooting
A new video from the perspective of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer involved in the shooting of Renee Good shows him being taunted by another protester just before the deadly interaction in Minneapolis.
Two Democrats propose bill to toss ICE agents’ qualified immunity
Two House Democrats are drafting legislation that would end qualified immunity for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after clashes in Minnesota and Oregon.
Vance says ICE officer’s fatal shooting of victim in Minneapolis was ‘tragedy of her own making’
The White House rejected Democrats’ demands to pull immigration enforcement out of Minnesota in the wake of the ICE shooting this week, saying that would “give in to terrorism,” and blamed sanctuary city politicians for encouraging the victim to confront officers.
Wisconsin Republican says local office was target of anti-ICE attack
Rep. Derrick Van Orden said his Wisconsin office was targeted hours after an Immigration Enforcement and Customs agent fatally shot a Minnesota woman during an immigration operation.
