Operation Phobos

An expert with the libertarian Cato Institute sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" to slash taxes on the wealthy and cut over $1 trillion from Medicaid, food stamps, and green energy subsidies, highlighting a lesser-known provision that could codify one of the president's most controversial deportation policies — and turbocharge it into overdrive.

After staging a school walkout and paying tribute to their detained classmate earlier this week, high school students gathered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts on Thursday to demand the release of Marcelo Gomes da Silva from an immigration detention facility—and were overjoyed when they learned a judge had ordered the 18-year-old to be released on bond.

Federal immigration agents used an undocumented Brazilian woman’s two daughters and infant grandchild as “bait” to carry out a chaotic arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts, last week, according to an explosive new report in Rolling Stone. 

As Florida officials enable Trump’s mass deportation policies, lawmakers in the state are looking to children to take on some of the jobs that have typically been done by immigrants.

Some families with students in Aurora Public Schools are worried they could be vulnerable to federal immigration enforcement, according to several community leaders who say that some schools have seen low attendance in recent days.

The call to 911 came in a little after 11 p.m. A man said a small boy on his dairy farm had severe head injuries.

Children reported being fed largely inedible food—including rotten items—in crowded, freezing cold facilities. Despite many kids arriving in wet clothes, CBP gave them nothing beyond Mylar “blankets,” the report said.

A mother and her two young kids are fighting for their release from a Texas immigration detention center.

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It started with a call. 

Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs.

An 11-year-old Texas girl died by suicide after being bullied by her middle school classmates who repeatedly threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities to have her family deported from the United States, according to multiple reports.

With their two children on their shoulders, Wilfredo Riera and Nataly Barrionuevo wade into the Rio Grande from the Mexican shore, the water soon reaching their waists. 

Shakira wrote a personal essay about the 545 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

On Friday, September 4, Judge Dolly M. Gee of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California issued her latest order (behind a paywall) in the Flores litigation.