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How Trump's immigration crackdown sparked a backlash that could boomerang in the midterms
Skip to main content Trending Tim Sullivan And Nicholas Riccardi Associated Press Published: October 29, 2026 at 12:01 AM Tags: Donald Trump, Gabe Evans, James Talarico, Gregory Bovino, U.S. news, Abdul El-Sayed, John Sununu, Jon Husted, Frank Sharry, Politics, Sherrod Brown, Washington news, Joe Biden, Mark Krikorian, Marsha Blackburn, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Michael Pretti, Renee Good, Chris Van Hollen, Alex Pretti, Elena Salazar Tim Sullivan And Nicholas Riccardi Associated Press Published:...
ICE officer charged in non-fatal shooting arrested by Minnesota authorities
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal immigration officer charged with shooting and wounding a Venezuelan man in January and lying about the circumstances to investigators was to appear Thursday before a Minnesota judge after state authorities arrested him ahead of a separate hearing in federal court.
ICE officer charged over nonfatal shooting of man during Minnesota immigration crackdown
An ICE agent was charged in the nonfatal shooting of a Venezuelan man during Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, officials announced on Monday. Officer Christian Castro is charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime in the Jan. 14 shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said at a news conference.
Trump’s Twin Cities immigration crackdown has made chaos and tension the new normal
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Work starts around sunrise for the federal officers carrying out the immigration crackdown in and around the Twin Cities, with hundreds of people in tactical gear streaming out of a bland office building near the main airport. Within minutes, hulking SUVs, pickup trucks and minivans begin leaving, forming the unmarked convoys that have quickly become feared and common sights in the streets of Minneapolis, St. Paul and their suburbs.
Migrants thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap
The government lawyer knew what was coming as she stood inside a courtroom and texted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent waiting in a corridor a few feet away. “I can’t do this,” the lawyer said in a text message as she looked at her docket of cases. “This is a new emotional load.” “I understand,” the agent responded.
Mayor says federal immigration agents will expand enforcement action in North Carolina to Raleigh
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Federal immigration authorities will expand their enforcement action in North Carolina to Raleigh as soon as Tuesday, the mayor of the state’s capital city said, while Customs and Border Protection agents continue operating in Charlotte following a weekend that saw arrests of more than 130 people in that city. Mayor Janet Cowell said Monday that she didn’t know how large the operation would be or how long agents would be present.
In Chicago, an immense show of force signals a sharp escalation in White House immigration crackdown
CHICAGO (AP) — The music begins low and ominous, with the video showing searchlights skimming along a Chicago apartment building and heavily armed immigration agents storming inside. Guns are drawn. Unmarked cars fill the streets. Agents rappel from a Black Hawk helicopter. But quickly the soundtrack grows more stirring and the video — edited into a series of dramatic shots and released by the Department of Homeland Security days after the Sept.
Deadly shooting on Dallas ICE office reflects widely varying security levels
Some U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities are heavily secured, closed off behind metal fences, hardened doors and armed guards. Many are in federal buildings built with a focus on security. Detainees are often moved in and out of buildings through underground parking garages. And in other cases, the outer perimeter is little more than a chain-link fence topped with a few strands of barbed wire.
Choose your America: In the aftermath of the Kirk slaying, a snapshot of a fractured nation
The governor of Utah struggled to find the right words to describe the question so many have been asking: What is happening in America? The silence lasted nearly 10 seconds. He looked down. He opened and closed his mouth. “Our nation is broken,” Spencer Cox finally said, hours after the public killing of Charlie Kirk.
She was adopted into an abusive US home. Decades later, immigration policies sent her back to Brazil
It sounded like freedom, like a world of possibility beyond the orphanage walls. Maria Pires was getting adopted. At 11, she saw herself escaping the violence of the Sao Paulo orphanage, leaving Brazil for America. A single man in his 40s, Floyd Sykes III, came to meet her. He signed paperwork and brought Maria home. She arrived in suburban Baltimore in 1989. She was, she believed, officially an American. But what happened there would come to haunt her.
40 hours of violence and fear as gunman stalks Minnesota politicians
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Violence and fear swept through towns in an arc around Minneapolis for more than 40 hours over the weekend as a man seemingly intent on sowing political devastation killed one Minnesota state lawmaker and left another bleeding from nine bullet wounds.
Rights groups file a lawsuit on behalf of the family of an 8-year-old immigrant who died in custody
By: Tim Sullivan, The Associated Press Posted: 2:24 PM CDT Friday, May. 2, 2025 Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit on behalf of the family of an 8-year-old girl who died in Border Patrol custody in 2023 despite her mother's repeated pleas for medical care. The girl died nine days after the family had surrendered to border agents after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico.
Immigrants working legally in the Texas Panhandle live in limbo under Trump’s crackdown
PANHANDLE, Texas (AP) — The truck driver is cutting his lawn on a windy afternoon, in a town so quiet you can take afternoon walks down the middle of Main Street. Kevenson Jean is leaving the next day for another long haul and wants things neat at the two-bedroom home he shares with his wife in the Texas Panhandle town fittingly called Panhandle. So after mowing he carefully pulls grass from around the flagpoles in his front yard. One holds the Haitian flag, the other American.
Mayors from Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York will testify before Congress on ‘sanctuary cities’
By: Rebecca Santana And Tim Sullivan, The Associated Press Posted: 7:07 AM CST Wednesday, Mar. 5, 2025 Associated Press (AP) — Mayors from four major cities are set to testify Wednesday in Congress as Republicans take aim at “sanctuary cities," arguing that they impede the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda and protect people who are in the United States illegally.
Immigration officials say everyone living in the US illegally must register. What does that mean?
By: Tim Sullivan, The Associated Press Posted: 12:42 PM CST Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 Immigration officials say anyone living in the U.S. illegally will soon have to register with the federal government, and those who don't could face fines, imprisonment or both. Read this article for free: Email Address: Password: I agree to the Terms and Conditions, Cookie and Privacy Policies, and CASL agreement. Already have an account?
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