Trump plans to scrap policy restricting ICE abusive arrests at churches, schools, hospitals

The incoming Trump administration intends to rescind a long-standing policy that has prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting immigrants at or near so-called sensitive locations, such as houses of worship, schools and hospitals or events like funerals, weddings and public demonstrations without approval from supervisors, according to three sources familiar with the plan. 

President-elect Donald Trump plans to rescind the policy as soon as the first day he is in office, the sources — who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the change publicly — said.

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Texas aims to become conspiratorial in Trump’s immigration plans

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Eric Gay/AP

Already the state has offered up a 1,402-acre ranch on the Rio Grande as a potential site for concentration camps, and it is ready to share its playbook for muscling through immigration policy changes, such as its executive order requiring hospitals to ask about a patient’s immigration status and a measure that would allow police officers to arrest migrants and empower state judges to order deportations.....MORE

Tampa Bay’s Refugee and Migrant Women Initiative deepens the meaning of community

The Refugee and Migrant Women Initiative was founded to deepen a sense of community (Photo c/o Florence Ackey)

Florence Ackey sees immigration in a very simple way: The eggplant theory. “A vegetable I rarely used, but after meeting women from Syria, Somalia and even Ukraine, I now have seven different ways to eat an eggplant,” Ackey told CL. “Same eggplant, but I opened my mind instead of thinking that they would just eat all my eggplant.”

“When you don’t understand them and you allow those misconceptions to dictate policy, it becomes a dangerous thing. I always say, we are afraid of what we don’t know,” Ackey said. “I see all these immigration policies, all saying ‘just send them back’.”

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'We’re all in': Armed vigilantes say Trump team enlisting them for border enforcement

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is reportedly having conversations with far-right militia groups in border states as it plans sweeping immigration raids and mass deportations.....MORE

Tom Homan says Trump admin will ‘absolutely’ use gifted Texas land for deportation program

Tom Homan, President-elect Trump’s pick as “border czar,” said the incoming Republican administration will “absolutely” use the gifted Texas land as a part of their deportation program.....MORE

Texas offers Trump 1,400-acre ranch for immigrant internment camp

Officials in Texas have offered President-elect Trump a 1,400-acre ranch for his mass deportation plan.....MORE

Morning Report — How much is the party of Trump willing to spend?

President-elect Trump’s plans for historic migrant roundups and generous tax cuts next year will cost Republicans, perhaps beyond their budgets.

In interviews last year with The New York Times, Trump’s top immigration policy adviser, Stephen Miller — soon to be deputy White House chief of staff for policy in late January — said military funding would be used to build “vast holding facilities that would function as staging centers” (internment campa? concentration camps?) run by the Homeland Security Department to hold immigrants as their cases progressed.

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National Map of Local Entanglement with ICE

The federal government has built its immigration enforcement regime to depend on the time and resources of local law enforcement. As a result, local agencies are shoring up some of the most highly-funded, destructive law enforcement programs in our nation’s history. The Department of Homeland Security has built a massive infrastructure to exploit local resources in the name of detaining and deporting immigrants. And the Trump administration has put that machinery to use in carrying out the most extreme and inhumane anti-immigrant agenda in decades.....MORE

Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations

"On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out," he said during a rally at Madison Square Garden in the closing days of the presidential race. "I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible."

Throughout the campaign, Trump vowed to mobilize the National Guard to assist with the deportation effort. Experts told ABC News such a move would mark a fundamental shift for the military, which does not normally engage with domestic law enforcement issues. At times, Trump went further, suggesting thousands of troops from overseas be moved to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Trump Con BLOWN APART As Sinister Lies Finally Collapse

Donald Trump and JD Vance's obvious con to fearmonger over legal Haitian migrants with racist lies to their MAGA base finally unravel as reports prove Haitian migrants are beneficial to Springfield, Ohio, and migrant-based labor is critical to helping other economic crises, such as insane housing market prices.

Need to go to the hospital? Florida and Texas want to know your immigration status

State Sen. Victor Torres represents predominantly Hispanic Osceola County in central Florida. At Sunday Mass at his local church, immigrants often tell him they are scared to seek health care.

“They say, ‘My mother is ill, or my kid is sick, but I don’t have insurance,’’’ the Democrat said in an interview. “And I tell them, ‘You cannot be turned away. Go to the hospital. Don’t wait until the last minute when it’s too late.’”

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Supreme Court Rules Against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Allows Feds To Cut Border Razor Wire

A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire installed by Texas on the US-Mexico border. A lawsuit over the wire is still pending.....Read More

Migrant caravan slogs on through southern Mexico with no expectations from a US-Mexico meeting

Under a beating sun, thousands of migrants in a caravan continued to trudge through southern Mexico on Tuesday, with some saying they expect nothing good from an upcoming meeting this week between American and Mexican officials about the migrant surge at the U.S. border.

The migrants passed by Mexico’s main inland immigration inspection point outside the town of Huixtla, in southern Chiapas state. National Guard officers there made no attempt to stop the estimated 6,000 members of the caravan.

The migrants were trying to make it to the next town, Villa Comaltitlan, about 11 miles (17 kilometers) northwest of Huixtla. In the past, Mexico has let migrants go through, trusting that they would tire themselves out walking along the highway. No migrant caravan has ever walked the 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) to the U.S. border.

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Ron DeSantis thinks states should enforce immigration policy if feds aren’t doing it ‘fully’

DeSantis has vowed to render “cartel” members crossing the border “stone cold dead” and has suggested border crossers be treated like Al Qaeda. It’s unclear if state forces would have the right to execute illegal entrants under his policy scheme.....MORE

Florida’s immigrants uncertain, afraid under new law

For many in Florida’s vast immigrant community, daily life in recent months has become one governed entirely by fear.....MORE

Federal judge declares DACA immigration program unlawful for second time

A federal judge for the second time found the DACA program unlawful but held back from ordering the deportation of the nearly 600,000 who remain in the country as “dreamers.”....MORE

Toddler dies on migrant bus sent from Texas to Chicago

A 3-year-old died Friday on a bus full of migrants sent from South Texas to Chicago as part of Texas’ border security, according to state officials.....MORE

Immigration groups ask judge to block portion of Florida's new law

Multiple advocacy groups are vowing to fight a part of Florida's new immigration law.

This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center, American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Florida, Americans for Immigrant Justice and American Immigration Council filed a motion for a judge to block section 10 of SB 1718, which criminalizes driving undocumented people into the state. The groups argue it illegally infringes upon federal law and is unconstitutionally vague.

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DOJ assessing migrant treatment along Texas border following ‘troubling reports’

Federal officials are looking into recent reports of mistreatment of migrants along the Texas portion of the U.S.-Mexico border by Texas troopers.

Department of Justice spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said the department is assessing the reports, which included claims of refusal of water to migrants as well as pushing them back into the Rio Grande to go back to Mexico.

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WATCH: Florida Republicans BEG Migrants To Stay In State

Florida Republicans just passed Senate Bill 1718, which limits social services for undocumented immigrants and expands Gov. Ron DeSantis' relocation program. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks.