USCIS Director Edlow explained a policy shift allowing officers to consider whether green card applicants have expressed "anti-American" views.

The San Francisco ICE jurisdiction had recorded approximately 2,100 arrests since Trump’s inauguration, according to Blair. ICE increasingly transfers detainees far from their communities and legal counsel, a move that makes it harder for them to exercise their rights guaranteed under due process and undermines the overall legal process.

President Donald Trump has portrayed his federal law enforcement surge in Washington as a crime-fighting effort.

Almost eight months after Katie Abraham’s death, the Department of Homeland Security announced it was launching its latest immigration enforcement action in Illinois, “Operation Midway Blitz,” in her honor.

The facilities in Hillsborough, Rockingham, and Merrimack counties could add hundreds of beds to those currently available in New Hampshire, for a fee.

Some of the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic bishops and nuns on the front lines of America’s immigration conflict gathered in Washington to decry the Trump administration’s hard-line policies.