As Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem was obsessed with cameras, and her downfall began when ICE abuses, including the killing of two American citizens, went viral.

Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.

Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.

This week’s post is co-written with Deborah Fleischaker and Claire Trickler-McNulty, former DHS officials with deep experience working to reform immigration detention and enforcement.

For decades, ICE and Border Patrol have operated with fewer constraints than typical law-enforcement agencies.

LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.

LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.

The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people

Armed militias patrol the streets and journalists are arrested as crackdown on dissent widens

Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

On January 6, 2025, four members of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s team piled onto a couch in a Capitol Hill office, across from Mike Waltz, who was soon to become Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Machado made a cameo via video call from her hideout in Venezuela.

A group of immigration judges, who almost never speak to the press, describes the dismantling of our immigration court system from the inside.

Podcast Episode · Unsettled: Immigration in Turbulent Times · 10/22/2025 · 44m

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.

How an Israeli strike on Qatar, Hamas’ shifting calculus, and Donald Trump’s impatience could change the trajectory of the two-year war.

Federal agents handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) and threatened to arrest her Oct. 3 at Humboldt Park Health. The agents, who Fuentes said appeared to be with Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

WBEZ reporter Chip Mitchell spoke with U.S. Border Patrol commander about a deportation blitz downtown and in the upscale River North neighborhood. Here is the transcript and unedited audio interview.

Earning an honest living is fundamental to being an American. What’s deeply un-American is the government using masked agents to harass hard-working Americans at work. […]

In the past few years, as many as two million people have escaped the island’s repressive regime and collapsing economy. Those who’ve made it to the U.S. face a new reckoning.