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Uriel J. García

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Immigration reporter at the Texas Tribune in El Paso www.urieljgarcia.com

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Jasmine Aguilera @jas-aguilera.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship, by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/06/30/t...
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Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to end birthright citizenship
The court’s ruling means children born to undocumented immigrants in the U.S. will continue to be citizens/will no longer receive automatic citizenship.
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Lomi Kriel @lomikriel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“At no moment were the agents in front of the vehicle." “Cornered." “Lorenzo stopped the van, the officer shot him anyway.” Court filings detail accounts of deadly Houston ICE shooting contradicting officials w/ @alexnguyen.bsky.social @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/07/21/t...
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ICE shooting passengers say agents rammed van before firing
The newly-released, handwritten statements by two men who saw Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s shooting say he never threatened ICE agents.
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Black Intellect Media @blackintellect.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters: Federal agencies are using children as 'bait' to detain sponsors, leaving kids in shelters for months. By @ujohnnyg.bsky.social & @alexnguyen.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/07/21/t...
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ICE arresting relatives trying to take custody of migrant kids
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.
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Darrell Silver @darrellsilver.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We keep children in prison to bait their guardians into leaving the US. We use paperwork to cover it up. Excellent reporting that matches what I've seen in Texas and Arizona from @ujohnnyg.bsky.social @alexnguyen.bsky.social and Apurva Mahajan.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In far West Texas, the threat of land seizures for a border wall has families on edge “It’s just something that’s been happening for generations, people coming in and trying to take land and families fighting to keep it." www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...
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Feds threaten land seizures for border wall in Big Bend area
In the Big Bend region, where some families have lived for generations, government letters seeking access to their land is sparking fear and resistance.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
After some time off, I'm back to immigration reporting. Send tips, info to uriel.garcia@texastribune.org or Signal: ujohnnyg.83
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives said.
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Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign
A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...
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Bora Erden @boraerden.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Earlier this month, an ICE officer shot and killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a Mexican immigrant, in a Chicago suburb. We analyzed surveillance, body cam and bystander videos, and found that key aspects of the DHS description of events do not hold up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How an Attempted ICE Arrest Near Chicago Turned Deadly (Gift Article)
The New York Times analyzed surveillance, police body-camera footage and bystander videos to understand what happened when an immigration agent shot and killed a motorist in a Chicago suburb.
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Marisa Limón Garza @mlimongarza.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Excellent feature by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social for the @texastribune.org
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A Houston mother held by ICE must choose: indefinite detention or be deported without her family
Margarita Avila, a Houston mother of nine, was detained by ICE after an altercation that led to no charges. Her close-knit family weigh their futures if she is deported.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:
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'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
"'José' is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn’t know their anti-Latino history." @gustavoarellano.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s... @latimes.com
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Commentary: 'We're all just a bunch of Josés': Vance's dig at Padilla is a new low
“José” is what Vance thinks of Alex. Anyone who thinks this was a slip of the tongue doesn't know their anti-Latino history.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Historically, Border Patrol’s El Paso sector — which includes New Mexico’s border with Mexico and El Paso and Hudspeth counties in west Texas — has had among the fewest migrant deaths across the southern border.
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 16/06/2025
As deaths mount, New Mexico’s border counties and state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it. by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...
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Deaths in the New Mexico desert surge after Texas' border crackdown reaches El Paso • Source New Mexico
From January 2023 to August 2024, 299 human remains were reported in the El Paso sector, the most of any sector along the southern border.
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Marisa Demarco @papermarisa.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
As deaths continue to mount, New Mexico’s border counties & state agencies have been unprepared for the task of finding and collecting migrants’ bodies — or unwilling to tackle it. by @ujohnnyg.bsky.social‬ / @patricklohmann.bsky.social / @yurikoschumacher.bsky.social‬ sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...
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Deaths in the New Mexico desert surge after Texas' border crackdown reaches El Paso • Source New Mexico
From January 2023 to August 2024, 299 human remains were reported in the El Paso sector, the most of any sector along the southern border.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I spoke to teenagers about why kids are role playing as ICE agents, staging raids on “illegals” within the game, and the mass anti-ICE protests that have also broken out within the game www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
After El Paso joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border crackdown, Operation Lone Star, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged www.texastribune.org/2025/06/16/t...
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After El Paso joined Abbott’s border crackdown, the number of dead migrants in the New Mexico desert surged
Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.
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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 12/06/2025
"[F]ederal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted U.S. aid funds to [MS-13] as part of the alleged deal to provide it with money and power in exchange for votes and reduced homicide rates." #USA #ElSalvador #Deportation #Incarceration
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“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a…
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The Pentagon has created a second military zone in the El Paso area that U.S. soldiers will patrol as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on people crossing the southern border illegally, even as crossings are at a historic low. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t...
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U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.
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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Last month, ICE announced that it had arrested 48 people in a sweep in New Mexico. But local & state officials, and immigrants-rights advocates, can’t get any information about who was arrested or where they are. What actually happened? My latest: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Mystery of ICE’s Unidentifiable Arrests
In early March, the agency announced that it had arrested forty-eight people in New Mexico—a month later, their identities and whereabouts remain unknown.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
NEW: The DC Circuit has DENIED the Trump administration's request to stay Judge Boasberg's halt on the use of the Alien Enemies Act! The decision is 2-1, with Trump appointee Judge Walker dissenting on jurisdictional grounds, arguing the lawsuit should have been brought in Texas.
Screenshot of first page of the decision. Relevant portion highlighted: "FURTHER ORDERED that the emergency motions for stay be denied. Separate
concurring statements of Judge Henderson and Judge Millett and a dissenting
statement of Judge Walker are attached.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/03/2025
“‘Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act than what has happened here,’ D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Millett said during a hearing at the court on Monday.”
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Judge contends Nazis got more due process than Trump deportees did
The fight over the rarely used wartime power has become central to Trump's immigration crackdown agenda and his efforts to stretch the powers of the executive branch.
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Alejandro Serrano @serranoalej.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
After four prosecutors and nearly six years, El Paso DA decided it’s time to stop pursuing the death penalty for the mass shooter who in 2019 killed 23 people in a local Walmart and said he wanted “to shoot as many Mexicans as possible.” via @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/03/25/t...
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After four prosecutors and nearly six years, El Paso DA decides it’s time to stop pursuing the death penalty for mass shooter
The new DA campaigned on seeking the death penalty for the 2019 massacre, but said he offered the gunman a plea deal of life in prison to avoid dragging out the case for several more years.
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Alejandro Serrano @serranoalej.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Texas lawmakers have filed dozens of bills that could further cement the state’s role in immigration enforcement — long the sole responsibility of the federal government — should they become law. here's a primer on some of the proposals w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social --> t.co/mMUxY4HMik
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https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/texas-legislature-immigration-bills/
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Alejandro Serrano @serranoalej.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
ICE said 118 people were arrested during an operation Monday in Colony Ridge outside of Houston but only released information about one of the arrests. ICE has not responded to requests for a list of the names, ages and charges against those who were arrested. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/25/t...
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More than 100 arrested in Colony Ridge immigration raids, ICE says
The development outside of Houston has long drawn the ire of Texas Republicans who claim it’s a haven for undocumented people.
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Alejandro Serrano @serranoalej.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The owners of a South Texas bakery were arrested and charged with harboring undocumented workers, a relatively rare incidence of federal agents pursuing business owners for allegedly employing undocumented immigrants. via @beregarcia.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In 1955, the head of immigration enforcement wrote, “wetback problem no longer exists.” "The border has been secured,” he declared. Seven decades later, Trump is doing what the Eisenhower administration said it already did: stop illegal immigration. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/12/t...
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Trump’s mass deportation plans have echoes of a 1950s federal crackdown that swept through Texas
Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, President Trump is following some of the same playbook.
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Fidel Martinez @fidel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was a rising star. His colleagues are mourning his unexpected death www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
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Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano was a rising star. His colleagues are mourning his unexpected death
The 27-year old Spanish-language reporter died while on assignment to cover the Super Bowl in New Orleans, less than a year after his wife's death. The couple leave behind a toddler.
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
TRAC is back. tracreports.org
In red text: WE ARE BACK!
Previously trac.syr.edu
Now serving the public from our new domain.
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Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
UPDATE: Border Patrol chief calls report that agents will board buses to check students’ citizenship “absurd” www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...
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Border Patrol chief calls report that agents will board buses to check students’ citizenship “absurd”
The chief’s comments came after Alice ISD sent a letter to parents Wednesday warning students may be detained and possibly deported if they can’t prove they’re in the country legally. The letter was l...
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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
ICE has updated the timestamp for many old enforcement action press releases, allowing them to top internet search results www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Here's the letter, which is also posted on the district's website
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Rebekah Allen @rebekahallen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A south Texas school board warns parents it was informed Border Patrol agents may board school buses, question children about immigration status and detain or deport children via @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...
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Texas school district warns Border Patrol may board buses and question students about citizenship
A letter sent to Alice ISD parents Wednesday said a student may be detained and possibly deported if they cannot prove they are in the country legally.
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Alejandro Serrano @serranoalej.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
New @ujohnnyg.bsky.social: The Alice Independent School District in South Texas warned parents in a letter Wednesday that U.S. Border Patrol agents may be checking the immigration status of students on school buses traveling for extracurricular activities. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...
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Texas school district warns Border Patrol may board buses and question students about citizenship
A letter sent to Alice ISD parents Wednesday said a student may be detained and possibly deported if they cannot prove they are in the country legally.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Texas school district warns Border Patrol may board buses and question students about citizenship www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/a...
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Texas school district warns Border Patrol may board buses and question students about citizenship
A letter sent to Alice ISD parents Wednesday said a student may be detained and possibly deported if they cannot prove they are in the country legally.
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Alejandro Serrano @serranoalej.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New: After teasing border security rollback, Texas plunges in deeper after spending $11 billion over the last four years during the Biden administration. w/ Jasper Scherer www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/t...
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After teasing border security rollback, Texas plunges in deeper
Texas’ border spending exploded after Joe Biden’s election, then state leaders signaled a new willingness to reduce it when Trump won. That didn’t last long.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This minor court update wouldn't normally warrant its own story. But when the Texas AG blasts out a news release with bold claims and other local media just parrots them, we decided to give a little explainer: elpasomatters.org/2025/02/04/e...
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El Paso doctor sued by Texas AG agrees to court order he says he was already following
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused El Paso pediatrician Dr. Hector Granados of providing transgender medical treatment, an allegation Granados denies.
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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
"Some migrants arrested in Trump's immigration crackdown have been released back into the U.S. Space constraints and court orders have led ICE to release migrants on monitoring programs after they’re arrested" www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Some migrants arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown have been released back into U.S.
Space constraints and court orders have led ICE to release migrants on monitoring programs after they’re arrested.
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Alejandro Serrano @serranoalej.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New: Texas National Guard soldiers now have the authority to make immigration arrests and help detain and deport undocumented people under an agreement between the state and the Trump administration. "This is absolutely an unprecedented invocation of authority." www.texastribune.org/2025/02/03/t...
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Texas National Guard to make immigration arrests under agreement with Trump administration, Abbott says
Gov. Greg Abbott said that the agreement was effective immediately.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
An El Paso police officer voted for Trump because he believed Trump was pro-police and would make everyday items affordable. Now he worries the feds could deport his father, an undocumented immigrant. From @ujohnnyg.bsky.social + Texas Tribune team: www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/t...
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“A lot of fear going on”: Texas immigrant community on edge during Trump’s first weeks
Across the state, immigrants and their loved ones are changing their daily habits as the Trump administration orders at least 1,200 daily arrests of undocumented people.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“A lot of fear going on”: Texas immigrant community on edge during Trump’s first weeks story with @alereports.bsky.social & @beregarcia.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/t...
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“A lot of fear going on”: Texas immigrant community on edge during Trump’s first weeks
Across the state, immigrants and their loved ones are changing their daily habits as the Trump administration orders at least 1,200 daily arrests of undocumented people.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
ICE will no longer consider if "an alien is a victim of a crime...a positive discretionary factor" in determining whether to deport them, per new ICE memo leaked to me
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Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
On today's Your Call, we'll host the writer/director of the new @frontlinepbs.bsky.social "Trump's Comeback." Then the latest on Trump's immigration crackdown w/ @ujohnnyg.bsky.social & @wendyfry.bsky.social. Tune in or stream live 10am PT! @kalwradio.bsky.social www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...
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Trump's Comeback & media coverage of immigration and the ICE raids
The Texas Tribune reports that The U.S. Department of Justice told immigration attorneys who aid detained immigrants through a federal program to stop providing legal services
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
An immigrant faces deportation after a routine traffic stop in Texas, sparking more fear, story by @serranoalej.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/01/29/t...
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An immigrant faces deportation after a routine traffic stop in Texas, sparking more fear
Advocates worry that rapidly shifting federal and state immigration initiatives will prompt more city police to funnel migrants without criminal records to federal agents.
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Alejandro Serrano @serranoalej.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New: An undocumented Texan is facing deportation after he and his wife got pulled over last week in Lubbock for an alleged traffic violation while they were out buying baby formula. The officer called ICE. www.texastribune.org/2025/01/29/t...
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An immigrant faces deportation after a routine traffic stop in Texas, sparking more fear
Advocates worry that rapidly shifting federal and state immigration initiatives will prompt more city police to funnel migrants without criminal records to federal agents.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Department of Justice cuts off federally funded legal aid to detained immigrants www.texastribune.org/2025/01/28/t...
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Department of Justice cuts off federally funded legal aid to detained immigrants
The decision to halt the program could prevent thousands of people detained in immigration detention centers from receiving legal advice.
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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Unpublished State Department statistics show the indefinite US Refugee Admissions Program pause stranded more than 22,000 refugees approved for departure to the US an internal USCIS directive last week instructed officials to stop renewing Afghan parole www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-m...
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Trump's sweeping immigration crackdown targets some legal means to enter U.S., too
The Trump administration is also issuing bans and restrictions on legal immigration, including refugees displaced by violence.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
U.S. Senate investigation of migrant child’s death finds poor medical care at border protection facilities www.texastribune.org/2025/01/24/t...
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U.S. Senate investigation of migrant child’s death finds poor medical care at border protection facilities
The Senate Judiciary Committee launched its investigation following the 2023 death of an 8-year-old girl at a facility in Harlingen.
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders “We now know that Navajo people and enrolled members of other tribes are being detained in Phoenix and other cities by ICE" report by @diinsilversmith.bsky.social azmirror.com/2025/01/24/r...
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Reports of Navajo people being detained in immigration sweeps sparks concern from tribal leaders
The DOJ argued in court that Indigenous people don't have birthright citizenship, even though they have for 100 years
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Uriel J. García @ujohnnyg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Some local officials in Texas cheer Trump’s immigration crackdown, others sound cautious note The Trump administration this week threatened local officials with prosecution if they interfere with its planned immigration crackdown. w/ @serranoalej.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/01/24/t...
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Some local officials in Texas cheer Trump’s immigration crackdown, others sound cautious note
The Trump administration this week threatened local officials with prosecution if they interfere with its planned immigration crackdown.
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Priscilla Totiyapungprasert @priscillatotiya.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"The Border Patrol also has a controversial history in El Paso of immigration enforcement actions around Bowie High School... A 1992 lawsuit ... challenged the Border Patrol’s actions, saying stops were made solely because people looked Hispanic." elpasomatters.org/2025/01/21/b...
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Trump lifts protections against immigration enforcement at schools, churches, hospitals and other sensitive areas
Limits on immigration enforcement actions in or near sensitive areas that have been in place more than a decade, including in the first Trump administration, have been removed.
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