For some Texas students, citizenship isn’t enough to feel safe
| August 8, 2025
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Texas college students are fearful that their citizenship status will not be enough to protect them from the current ICE raids.
Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE
| July 17, 2025
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.
Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear
| June 27, 2025
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A divided Supreme Court on Friday ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear the fate of President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship.
Meet the tent company making a fortune off Trump’s deportation plans
| April 14, 2025
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Deployed Resources, a privately held tent company, is set to operate a new ICE tent camp to hold people awaiting deportation in El Paso, Texas.
Congressman denounces ICE response about prosecutor operating racist X account
| March 27, 2025
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Last month, Congressman Marc Veasey, a North Texas Democrat, sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Deputy Director Kenneth Genalo demanding a swift investigation into James “Jim” Joseph Rodden, an ICE assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in immigration court in Dallas.