The “One Big Beautiful Bill” includes $165 billion in funding to the Department of Homeland Security, set aside for hiring new border patrol officers and funding deportation partnerships with local law enforcement agencies.

A growing number of migrants in the US are heading north to seek asylum, even as Canada adopts increasingly restrictive immigration policies of its own.

South Florida immigration advocates are hosting a town hall on Friday to discuss how President Donald Trump’s various immigration policies are affecting South Florida.

The raid resulted in little more than an empty park and increased tensions between the federal government and Los Angeles’s mayor.

Most of the federal agents cover their faces with masks or balaclavas. They are in plain clothes, with most wearing a vest in black or army green that says “ POLICE FEDERAL AGENT ” or “ BORDER PATROL”. A few have ICE shields on their belts. One says that they are from different federal agencies and have been deployed to New York from elsewhere.

Amazon began asking staffers who came to the U.S. under humanitarian immigration programs to provide updated work permits.

Former Secretary of State John Kerry said during a BBC podcast that President Trump had been right about the border and said a protected border was essential to having a nation.

There were 12.8 million lawful permanent residents, or green card holders, living in the U.S. as of January 1, 2024.