LONDON (Reuters) -British authorities arrested almost one in five people they checked in a week-long crackdown on migrants working illegally as delivery riders last month, the government’s interior ministry said on Saturday. Immigration enforcement officers stopped and questioned 1,780 individuals between July 20 and 27 and 280 people were arrested, the interior ministry said, adding…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday night to uphold a lower court’s temporary order blocking the Trump administration from conducting indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing Monday afternoon at which the federal government asked the…
By Helen Coster and James Oliphant NEW YORK (Reuters) -Residents of Columbus, Indiana awoke last week to a yellow billboard purchased by the Democratic National Committee blaring: “Under Trump’s Watch, Columbus Regional Health is Cutting Medical Services.” Meanwhile, the National Republican Congressional Committee, which oversees races for the U.S. House of Representatives, this month launched…
For the last 16 years, Isabel has worked harvesting carrots, lemons and grapes in the Coachella Valley. The undocumented mother of three — who, like others The Times spoke with, declined to give her last name out of fear for her family’s safety — says the heat in recent summers has been increasingly difficult to…
The neighborhoods targeted by federal agents for immigration raids were overwhelmingly Latino, according to data from a prominent immigrant rights group. A heat map produced by the the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights documents 471 immigration enforcement actions reported to its Los Angeles Rapid Response Network between June 6 and July 20 in L.A. County….
WESLACO, Texas (AP) — These days, Juanita says a prayer every time she steps off the driveway of her modest rural home. The 41-year-old mother, who crossed into the United States from Mexico more than two decades ago and married an American carpenter, fears federal agents may be on the hunt for her. As she…
Republicans are on the brink of handing President Trump an enormous injection of money to fund his hard-line immigration agenda. The “big beautiful bill,” which is facing what could be its final legislative hurdle in the House of Representatives, includes roughly $170 billion in additional funding to supercharge Trump’s mass deportation efforts and ramp up…
On Tuesday, New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was arrested by several masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at a courthouse in Manhattan as he attempted to steer an individual past immigration authorities. That same day, masked agents outside a Walmart in Pico Rivera detained two individuals — one a target of immigration enforcement, the…
By Brad Heath, Joshua Schneyer, Marisa Taylor, Sarah N. Lynch, Mike Spector WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal agents who usually hunt down child abusers are now cracking down on immigrants who live in the U.S. illegally. Homeland Security investigators who specialize in money laundering are raiding restaurants and other small businesses looking for immigrants who aren’t authorized…