Immigration & Border

114 articles in the Immigration & Border category.

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Crime & CourtsImmigration & BorderOctober 13, 2026

House GOP Advances Sanctuary Bill That Would Let Crime Victims Sue Local Officials Who Ignore Detainers

By Tommy Flynn

House Republicans are preparing to bring the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act to the floor after the midterm elections, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told Just the News. The measure, H.R. 7640, cleared the committee in March and would preempt state and local laws...

Governor Kathy Hochul, MTA Chair & CEO Janno Lieber, and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch at the MTA Headquarters on Oct 9, 2025 -- Image: 	Marc A. Hermann / Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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Crime & CourtsImmigration & BorderOctober 13, 2026

New York Refuses 16,070 ICE Detainers Linked to 52,503 Crimes, Including 131 Homicides

By Tommy Flynn

The Department of Homeland Security released data Monday showing that New York state and local authorities refused to honor 16,070 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers between January 20, 2025, and October 8, 2026. Those unhonored detainers are associated with 52,503...

Screenshot from NYPD bodycam showing Oscar Belgal after his arrest.
Immigration & BorderCrime & CourtsOctober 12, 2026

Mamdani Demands ICE Leave New York After Agents Shoot Criminal Illegal Alien Who Accelerated Toward Them With Child in Car

By Tommy Flynn

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani demanded an end to all Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the city and repeated his call to abolish the agency after officers shot a 28-year-old Dominican national during a targeted arrest in Marble Hill on October 8. The...

Screenshot from NYPD bodycam showing Oscar Belgal after his arrest.
Crime & CourtsImmigration & BorderOctober 9, 2026

Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Deportation of Dominican National Who Accelerated Toward ICE With Child in Car

By Tommy Flynn

A federal judge on Friday temporarily barred the government from deporting or transferring Oscar Belgal, the 28-year-old Dominican national ICE officers shot Thursday afternoon in Marble Hill after he accelerated his vehicle toward them with a 5-year-old boy in the back seat....

Vance Cuts Microsoft, Adobe, and Outsourcing Firms Off the Green-Card Track
Immigration & BorderEconomy & BusinessOctober 9, 2026

Vance Cuts Microsoft, Adobe, and Outsourcing Firms Off the Green-Card Track

By Tommy Flynn

Vice President JD Vance said Thursday the administration is suspending Microsoft from the Permanent Labor Certification program, the Labor Department step most employers must clear before sponsoring a foreign worker for a green card. He said no company had abused the system...

DHS Proposes a $70,000 Fee Before Foreign Students Can Work in the U.S.
Immigration & BorderUS NewsOctober 8, 2026

DHS Proposes a $70,000 Fee Before Foreign Students Can Work in the U.S.

By Tommy Flynn

The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a $70,000 fee on schools before an F-1 foreign student can be recommended for Optional Practical Training, the work program that lets international students take jobs tied to their field of study. Under the proposed rule, a school...

 An ICE officer oversees an immigration enforcement operation.
Immigration & BorderCrime & CourtsOctober 8, 2026

ICE Arrests Nigerian Overstay DHS Links to a Pennsylvania House Campaign

By Tommy Flynn

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested a Nigerian national the Department of Homeland Security said was working as a canvasser for the Democratic nominee in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District, the department said Wednesday. DHS identified him as Chimaobim...

D’Angelo Caraballoon left and Sneider Mejia on right, -- Image: Courtesy of Homeland Security
Crime & CourtsImmigration & BorderOctober 7, 2026

Two Dominican Nationals Charged in NYPD Detective Stabbing Arrested in Massachusetts

By Tommy Flynn

Two men the Department of Homeland Security identified as illegal aliens from the Dominican Republic were arrested Wednesday in a Lynn, Massachusetts, basement, a day after the department named them as suspects in the stabbing of an off-duty New York police detective. NYPD...

An ICE ERO officer monitors a detention facility. -- Image: usicegov via Wikimedia
Immigration & BorderUS NewsOctober 7, 2026

DHS Buys Adelanto ICE Complex from GEO for $950 Million

By RWTNews Staff

The Department of Homeland Security has bought three GEO Group detention facilities in Adelanto, California, for $950 million and will keep the company on as the operator. GEO announced the sale on Oct. 5. The package covers the 1,280-bed Adelanto West ICE Processing Center, the...

 An ICE officer oversees an immigration enforcement operation.
Immigration & BorderUS NewsOctober 6, 2026

DHS Watchdog: Biden ICE Got 3.1 Million Overstay Leads and Made Eight Arrests

By Tommy Flynn

Immigration and Customs Enforcement received more than 3.1 million leads on foreigners who overstayed or broke the terms of nonimmigrant visas during the Biden years and made eight arrests off those leads, the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found. The...

Justice Department Files to Strip Citizenship From 40 Convicted Offenders
Immigration & BorderCrime & CourtsOctober 6, 2026

Justice Department Files to Strip Citizenship From 40 Convicted Offenders

By Tommy Flynn,

The Justice Department said Monday it has filed civil denaturalization actions against 40 naturalized citizens accused of serious crimes, the largest single-period set of such complaints under the Trump administration. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the filings, which...

An ICE ERO officer monitors a detention facility. -- Image: usicegov via Wikimedia
Immigration & BorderPolitics & ElectionsOctober 4, 2026

Newsom Signs 25% Tax on Private ICE Detention Centers

By Tommy Flynn

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a 25 percent tax on the gross income of private detention facilities, a levy that reaches every Immigration and Customs Enforcement site in California. The bill is AB 1633. Newsom signed it Tuesday with a package of about 20 other measures and...