Tag: immigration
ICE targets Los Angeles homeless shelter
LOS ANGELES — Immigration officials have been repeatedly spotted outside a Hollywood homeless shelter since May, leading staff to accompany residents from war-torn countries...
Vermont school superintendent detained for hours at Houston’s Bush Airport | Houston Public Media
Courtesy: Wilmer Chavarria
A school superintendent from Vermont is speaking out about his experience being detained for several hours at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Wilmer Chavarria...
Faith-based refugee organization calls on Christians in Fort Worth to see immigration as a ‘biblical issue’
When Keller pastor Scott Venable thinks about the church’s role in immigration, his mind goes to two congregants who loved their neighbor.
As federal funding...
3 Democrat-led states cut Medicaid access for people lacking permanent legal status to save money: ‘People are going to die’
For nearly 20 years, Maria would call her sister — a nurse in Mexico — for advice on how to manage her asthma and...
Journalists and others arrested during protest in Cincinnati
Police in Cincinnati arrested at least 13 people, including two journalists, after demonstrators protesting the immigration detention of a former hospital chaplain blocked a...
Millions of travelers to the U.S. could be charged a new $250
Many travelers to the U.S. are now subject to a new $250 "visa integrity fee," part of the tax cuts...
ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information...
The Trump administration’s fundamental misunderstanding about deportations
The Trump administration has offered little consolation to American businesses worried about losing undocumented workers to deportations.US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins did offer them...
The week in politics (July 16, 2025) | Houston Public Media
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U.S. deports 5 men to tiny African nation of Eswatini
The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department...
