US Immigration

Kilmar Abrego Garcia Appears For Arraignment Hearing In Nashville

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A judge ordered Abrego Garcia released. His future remains uncertain

4:45pm June 25, 2025

Despite the court order, if released from prison, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is likely to be immediately taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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From the fringes to the mainstream: Meet the hard-line anti-immigration activist who helped shape Trump's agenda

5:03am June 23, 2025

The former leader of FAIR, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Dan Stein, retired this year after more than 40 at the helm of the organization. The right-wing group has long fought to reduce immigration and for tougher border controls. Under President Trump, Stein's once-fringe ideas are now being enacted.

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Immigration enforcement ramps up, tensions persist in big cities

9:28pm June 11, 2025

Cities prepare for nationwide protests on Saturday.

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Protests grow across the U.S. as people push against Trump's mass deportation policies

5:04am June 11, 2025

Protests of President Trump's immigration policies grew across the U.S. on Tuesday, with rallies held in New York City, Chicago and Seattle.

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In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers

1:32pm June 05, 2025

ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.

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Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk freed from immigration detention

2:15pm May 09, 2025

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.

Protest in solidarity with Rumeysa Ozturk outside Federal Court in New York

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Federal court rules Rümeysa Öztürk must be transferred to detention in Vermont

12:08pm May 07, 2025

Rümeysa Öztürk has been detained at a federal facility in Louisiana after being arrested on the street in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 25 by six plainclothes agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Signs notify drivers at the US-Canada Ambassador Bridge.

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Wrong turn leads to hundreds of immigrant arrests at the Detroit-Canada border bridge

9:41am April 24, 2025

NPR has been receiving tips about detentions at the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan. An inquiry by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., revealed more that 200 detentions this year, including American children.

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'Felt like a kidnapping': Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal

6:00am March 26, 2025

A Guatemalan immigrant without legal status says she took a wrong turn on a highway near the Canadian border and was detained with her two children, who are American citizens. They were held for five days.

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Venezuelan mothers organize on chat group to fight Guantánamo detentions

6:00pm February 20, 2025

The mothers met in a Whatsapp group. They have vowed to fight until their sons, who they say have not committed crimes and do not have ties to gangs, are released.