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Federal detention, raids and deportation activity in the United States, and its effects on the communities and individuals subject to it.
Judge Kathleen Cardone halted border-wall building across Texas's 500-mile Big Bend region, one part of the administration's $46 billion programme. Contractors there now wait on a merits ruling, and upriver and downriver of the park they also wait on landowners who have not granted access.
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Supreme Court justices voted 6-3 to let the Trump administration keep making third-country deportations until a merits ruling expected in 2027. At the policy's first-year pace, each month of that wait covers about 2,000 more removals.
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Three livestock associations say ICE operations kept workers home and delayed thousands of cattle shipments, costing millions of dollars in lost revenue. Feed yards holding returned cattle pay first, and beef prices rise only if the absences last.
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The paperwork puts a per-head price on third-country removals: about $4,167, paid in January out of a refugee protection account, months before Monrovia denied being paid.
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Six Republicans have now broken with the president in public over immigration, the Iran war and a plan to cut beef tariffs. Two of the six put the break on the record with a vote. Vox reports his approval is reaching new lows.
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Documented, El Timpano and Conecta Arizona reach immigrants over WhatsApp, WeChat, TikTok and SMS. Conecta Arizona's founder says members now avoid the group chat and write to staff privately, one reader at a time.
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