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Kilmar Abrego Garcia attends a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, to support Abrego Garcia. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Abrego Garcia’s lawyers worry he can’t get a fair trial and request gag order for top U.S. officials

By Ben Finley - Associated Press

FILE - Adrian Clouatre takes a selfie of himself and his wife Paola, on May 26, 2024 in Baton Rouge, La. (Adrian Clouatre via AP, File)

Wife of Marine Corps veteran released from ICE custody after advocacy from GOP Senator’s office

By Jack Brook - Associated Press

President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Declassified files expose Obama-era plot to frame Trump with Russia lies

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A mother migrating from Honduras holds her 1-year-old child while surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border near McAllen, Texas, on Monday, June 25, 2018. Texas state police officers separated migrant families along the border with Mexico by detaining fathers on trespassing charges and turning over mothers and children to federal officials, the state Department of Public Safety said Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) **FILE**

DHS struggles to locate migrant kids that went ‘missing’ under Biden

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Special needs teacher Deja Nebula sets up an art installation displaying names and faces of people who have been detained, deported, or sent to offshore camps during ICE raids in Southern California, at Olvera Street Plaza in Los Angeles, on Thursday, July 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE

By Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

FILE - Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, speaks with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., right, during a Senate hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

California senators demand Trump immigration officials stop using Medicaid data

By Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

FILE - Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, speaks with Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., right, during a Senate hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

California senators demand Trump immigration officials stop using Medicaid data

By Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

$FILE - President Donald Trump, from left, speaks as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., during an event in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, May 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)\\\$

Trump administration gives personal data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials

By Kimberly Kindy and Amanda Seitz - Associated Press

In this March 5, 2019, file photo, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, left, talks with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, right, and her chief of staff, Miles Taylor, as they depart after the Republican Caucus luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon), File)

Ex-Homeland Security official Taylor fights back against Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ investigation order

By Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

This photo provided by the U.S. Dept. of Defense, A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent watches as undocumented immigrants are loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III at Tucson International Airport in Tucson, Ariz., Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Senior Airman Devlin Bishop/Dept. of Defense via AP)

DHS plans to use expedited deportation on Biden’s ‘paroled’ migrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Members of immigration advocacy groups react as Los Angeles City Council votes to enact an ordinance to prohibit city resources from being used for immigration enforcement in anticipation of potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump, inside Los Angeles City Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Trump’s list of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ includes some that support his immigration policies

By Scott Bauer, Amy Taxin and Martha Bellisle - Associated Press

A Homeland Security vehicle, right, is parked outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse, April 19, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) **FILE**

DHS: Six illegal immigrants charged with murder in South Carolina

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Protestors demand the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest at an ICE detention prison, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J, (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Newark mayor denies trespassing at immigration detention center following arrest

By Jake Offenhartz and Claudia Lauer and Bruce Shipkowski - Associated Press

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gather for a briefing before an enforcement operation, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

DHS to pay illegal immigrants $1,000 to self-deport

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Krome Detention Center, Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

As immigrant arrests surge, complaints of abuse mount at America’s oldest detention center in Miami

By Joshua Goodman and Gisela Salomon - Associated Press

Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor is shown in this undated file photo. Mr. Taylor is part of a group of Biden-voting Republicans who have threatened to bolt the GOP. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Trump signs order directing DOJ to probe critics Miles Taylor, Chris Krebs

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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Letter to the editor: Leave gang member in El Salvador

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Noem taps new immigration enforcement leaders and moves to identify leakers

By Christine Fernando - Associated Press

FILE - People vote, Nov. 5, 2024, in Oak Creek, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

GOP pushes ahead with citizenship voting bill. Some state election officials say it’s problematic

By Christina A. Cassidy - Associated Press

FILE - Emergency and law enforcement agencies respond to a possible hazmat situation at the King County Elections office in Renton, Wash., Nov. 8, 2023. Four county elections offices in Washington state were evacuated after they received envelopes containing suspicious powders — including two that field-tested positive for fentanyl — while workers were processing ballots from Tuesday's election. (Karen Ducey/The Seattle Times via AP, File)

Dismantling of federal efforts to monitor election interference creates opening for foreign meddling

By Ali Swenson and Chistina A. Cassidy - Associated Press