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A new investigation into a recent Border Patrol raid in Bakersfield that led to the arrests of 78 people indicates it ...

The Trump administration’s move to classify thousands of living immigrants as dead and cancel their Social Security numbers ...

Thanks to a technical glitch, Donald Trump’s tariffs haven’t even been collected at U.S. ports. On Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that an entry code in the U.S. system for ...

By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to ...

The Trump administration has rebranded the CBP One application into a tool for self-deportation. Immigration attorneys say ...

A government database banks rely on to find out about deaths suddenly grew dramatically last month. Now, live immigrants are ...

In one recent enforcement action, ICE officers arrested 48 illegal foreign nationals in New Mexico “who either remained in the country despite being ordered removed by an immigration judge or were ...

The Donald Trump administration has classified over 6,000 living immigrants as deceased, revoking their Social Security ...

Man who had previously left and re-entered multiple times alleges border officials called him ‘retarded’ and boasted ‘Trump ...

El Salvador renditions reach the Supreme Court; Evidence points to little criminality among those rushed to El Salvador’s ...

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are in the early stages of a major trade showdown, and each ...