Six legal aid groups sued on October 15 over new rules that rush asylum cases for children who arrived without a parent: 24 hours' notice of interviews for detained children, rescheduling blocked even for double-booked lawyers, and a January 31 deadline for immigration judges.
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Monica De La Cruz is running a glossy new campaign ad bragging about how she helped a local DACA family.
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David Valadao claims he stands with Central Valley farmworkers.
Within days of taking office, the Trump administration let ICE arrest people at domestic violence shelters and dropped key protections for immigrant crime victims. ProPublica found women in a Michigan detention center who say they were trying to escape abusers — and were handed to ICE after police arrested them instead, though their charges were dropped or never filed.
Greg Abbott has renewed or amended his border disaster proclamation at least 69 times since 2021 — 21 of them since Trump took office and crossings hit record lows. The 'emergency' lets his agencies skip competitive bidding: more than $5 million in no-bid contracts since January 2025, for rifles, apartments and a Ford F-150.
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Monica De La Cruz rushed to an ICE detention center to personally free a famous mariachi teen after his arrest sparked national outrage.
A quarter of U.S. doctors were trained abroad, and they're more likely to work where doctors are scarce. The Trump administration raised the H-1B visa fee to $100,000, and 64% of hospitals that use the program paused, delayed or limited recruiting. The country is already short of primary care for 102 million people.
FEC records show executives at Palantir — which ICE is paying to build its deportation-tracking system — have put $117,250 into Susan Collins's campaign, her leadership PAC and the super PAC re-electing her, including $100,000 from CEO Alex Karp. Executives at the private prison giants CoreCivic and GEO Group gave too. Collins voted for nearly $70 billion for ICE and the Border Patrol and against body cameras.
Ilhan Omar has been a U.S. citizen since 2000. Hours after Homeland Security agents searched her home, Rep. Randy Fine posted that Trump was working to send her to Somalia, and has said she and others like her 'should all go home.'