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ICE Spent More in January Than NASA Gets All Year
New budget analysis shows a $7.3 billion outlay spike — seven times the monthly average — as the government moves to quadruple detention capacity with…
14 hrs ago • Pablo Manríquez
SCOOP: ICE Moves to Hike Deportation Stay Fee by 387 Percent
The agency hasn’t touched the fee since 1989. Now it wants to charge $755 to people with final removal orders — many of them sick, broke, or both.
May 15 • Pablo Manríquez
Senate Parliamentarian Kills Core of Republicans' ICE Funding Package
Senate rulekeeper strips CBP appropriations and $2.5B DHS fund, citing conflicts with child protection laws — and the Trump administration's own record.
May 15 • Pablo Manríquez
USCIS Rewrites the Rules on Deferred Action — and Immigrant Children Pay the Price
A sweeping rewrite of federal deferred action rules ends automatic deportation relief for 200,000 Special Immigrant Juveniles — and hands officers broad…
May 14 • Pablo Manríquez
The Man Who Built the Cages Now Runs the Agency
David Venturella spent a decade at GEO Group. Now he's acting ICE director. For migrant communities, that's not a coincidence — it's the point.
May 13 • Pablo Manríquez
Stephen Miller Lied About Migrant Jobs Going to American Workers
Stephen Miller's broken promise that mass deportations would equal jobs for gringo workers is now peer-reviewed. Removing migrants actually lost jobs…
May 8 • Pablo Manríquez
The ICE Alert System No App Store Can Kill
Sherman Austin built STOPICE.net to put real-time ICE alerts in half a million phones — no download required, no data collected, no off switch for the…
May 7 • Logan Johnson
ICE Is Coming to the World Cup.
What happens when the world's biggest sporting event lands in America's most aggressive immigration enforcement era?
May 6 • Pablo Manríquez
Ex-ICE Deputy Loses House GOP Primary in Ohio
Madison Sheahan failed to impress GOP voters with her banter about mass deportations and working for Kristi Noem.
May 6 • Pablo Manríquez
Grassley Just Handed ICE $38 Billion. Here's the Fine Print.
Senate Judiciary Committee language would fund migrant mass removal machine through 2029.
May 5 • Pablo Manríquez
State Dept. Quietly Rewrites the Visa Interview
A worldwide cable mandates two new questions that could bar persecution survivors from ever boarding a plane to the U.S. — before they set foot on…
May 4 • Pablo Manríquez
AOC Leads Outrage at PunchUp Revelation ICE Relocated Agent Who Killed Renee Good
“The fact that the agency has reinstated him is a direct message from the administration about the impunity they feel.”
Published on PunchUp  • May 1
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