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US immigration

  • Silhouettes of a family holding hands behind a chain-link fence

    She celebrated her 11th birthday in ICE detention. Her wish: that her family could go home

    After fleeing India, a family of four is being detained in a controversial Texas facility, facing deteriorating health, inedible food and substandard education

News

  • An entrance to a detention center surrounded by high fences

    Cuban immigrant dies in Georgia detention center, ICE tells Congress

  • Federal agents during an immigration raid in Newark, New Jersey.

    Trump signs bipartisan bill ending longest-ever shutdown of DHS

  • People holding signs in support of TPS.

    US supreme court conservatives seem to favor ending TPS for Haitians and Syrians

  • people holding posters

    Teen mariachi trio detained by ICE to open for Kacey Musgraves in Texas

  • a sign outside a building reads 'embassy of the United States'

    US tells embassies to deny visas to applicants who say they fear return to home country

  • a massive crowd of people holds signs outside

    US activists plan May Day economic blackout: ‘No school, no work, no shopping’

  • The family residential center in Dilley, Texas, seen in 2019.

    Egyptian family of six taken back into ICE custody days after being released

  • people stand between airplanes

    ICE planning facility for children and families on Pfas-contaminated site

In depth

  • a person holds a sign that says 'CBP how could you' with an image of a man's face

    New York
    US immigration agents left a refugee to die in the cold. His community is demanding justice

  • Graphic showing police and ICE on backs of uniforms

    Investigation
    Police across the US worry officers are being misidentified as ICE, records show

  • Meenu Batra,av

    ‘They want to make me disappear’
    Texas immigration court interpreter detained by ICE speaks out

Explainers and analysis

  • three officers overlaid over three badges

    Visualization
    The federal agents deployed in Trump’s immigration crackdown

  • A screengrab from the 14 January shooting of Sosa Celis in Minneapolis.

    ICE
    Video of a shooting shattered the agency’s story. Will it usher in accountability?

  • a women holding a sign in front of the supreme court

    Birthright citizenship
    Trump seeks to redefine who gets to be an American with supreme court case

  • A man in a military-style vest surrounded by other similarly dressed officers.

    After Bovino
    How a deeply unpopular deportation campaign has changed tack

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Opinion

  • Why were these two US immigration judges fired?

    Seth Stern
    The case of two fired judges – and one who kept his job – offers a lesson in the administration’s view of free speech

  • I’m fighting Trump’s birthright citizenship order at the supreme court. Will we adhere to the best of our history?

    Cody Wofsy
    For 128 years, it’s been clear that if you are born in this country, you are a citizen. The court must not turn back the clock
  • Judith Levine

    The anti-ICE resistance is working

    Judith Levine
  • Robert Reich

    Dear Kristi Noem: you’re tracking down ICE critics? I’m one of them

    Robert Reich

  • To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention – I will carry you until you are free

    Mahmoud Khalil

  • The US World Cup is facing two crises: a financial mess – and ICE

    Nellie Pou

Video

  • Abel hugs a family member at his leaving party, he is preparing to leave LA after 38 years living as an undocumented migrant

    Documentary
    Abel leaves LA: self-deportation from Trump’s America

  • Donald Trump has fired his controversial US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, the public face of an immigration crackdown that prompted nationwide protests. Nosheen Iqbal speaks to Guardian US live news editor Chris Michael

    Video analysis
    Trump fires Kristi Noem: what does it mean for ICE?

    Video10:02
  • On 5 November, ICE agents dragged Juanita Avila out of her van, handcuffed and detained her. Emely, her daughter, soon arrived on scene and explained her mother had a green card. Juanita's arrest was part of a lawsuit that secured a major victory for immigrants' rights in Oregon

    Oregon
    Daughter realises her mother is being arrested by ICE agents

    Video1:29
  • At about 9am on Saturday, US federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis nurse who was observing immigration officers in the city. The Guardian’s video team has pieced together footage posted to social media, showing the attack from different angles

    Video analysis
    How the shooting of Alex Pretti unfolded

    Video4:03

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