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May 24 • Pablo Manríquez
SUNDAY COLUMN: Nobody Kept Score. Now Nobody Knows How to Put It Back Together.
The federal government was dismantled in plain sight. No one documented it. Now there's no map to put it back together.
May 24 • Pablo Manríquez
USCIS Declares Green Card Process a 'Privilege,' Not a Right — Attorneys Promise Court Fight
A new policy memo reframes adjustment of status as 'administrative grace' — a term attorneys say misreads the law and sets up an inevitable court…
May 22 • Pablo Manríquez
CBP's New $17 Fingerprint Tax (SCOOP)
Airport workers — not travelers — will pay a new biometric fee to access customs security zones starting this summer. The government did the math. We…
May 20 • Pablo Manríquez
CAUGHT ON TAPE: Congressional Candidate Laurie Buckhout Invoked Pentagon General During DUI Arrest (Exclusive)
Body cam footage shows retired Army colonel telling Georgia officer a two-star asked her to "stay late" before her arrest.
May 19 • Pablo Manríquez
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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…
May 19 • 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
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