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FILE - Work progresses on a new migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Florida Everglades, on July 4, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Florida must stop expanding ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration center, judge says

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’ injunction formalized a temporary halt she had ordered two weeks ago as witnesses continued to testify in a multiday hearing to determine whether construction should end until the ultimate resolution of the case.

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 12: A community coalition of labor, immigrant and civil rights groups rally at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. This is part of the 24-hours of Community Action Stoppage. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Immigration to U.S. declines for first time in 50 years amid Trump crackdown, study shows

Modesta Matias Aquino 44, (atop stairs, in pink shirt) and family on roof of home in Miahuatlan de Porfirio Diaz, Oaxaca state, after 3-day bus ride from Tijuana, via Mexico City. From left: U.S.born Keilani Lorenzo Matias, 5, daughter of Modesta; Natalia Lorenzo Matias, 19, Modesta's daughter, who was also detained at the Glass House raid (she is holding her U.S.-born nephew, Liam Yair, 2); then (sitting) Ailed Lorenzo Matias, 16, who was also detained at the Glass House raid in Camarillo (she is holding her half-sister, Modesta's daughter, Arisbeth Antonio Matias, 2). Modesta and the two teenage daughters-along with two male partners- were detained in the July 10 U.S. immigration raid at the Glass House Farms cannabis facility in Camarillo, CA. In order not to divide her family, Matias insisted that three U.S.-born youngsters-two of her daughters and her grand-son-accompany them back to Mexico.

A mother’s choice: Jail in L.A. or deportation to Mexico with her children

FILE — Alina Habba, President Donald Trump's pick to be the interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, arrives to speak with reporters outside the White House, March 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Judge says former Trump lawyer Alina Habba has been unlawfully serving as U.S. attorney in New Jersey

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks at the Kennedy Center, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump administration reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations

Uganda agrees to take deported migrants from U.S. if they don’t have criminal records

Trump’s immigration crackdown brings checkpoints and new fears to Washington

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Contributor: Immigration enforcement needs oversight. ICE can’t just ban lawmakers

JD Vance and Pete Hegseth visit National Guard troops amid D.C. protests over Trump’s crackdown

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LOS ANGELES, CA, AUGUST 2, 2025: Jose Antonio Rodriguez, 44, of Corona, right, embraces his mother Juana Contreras Sanchez after 24 years apart at Federacion de Clubes Zacatecanos del Sur de California on Saturday, August 2, 2025. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

World & Nation

Separated by a border for decades, parents and children are reunited at last

Officials in Mexico’s Zacatecas state obtained temporary visas to allow elderly parents of undocumented workers to enter the United States to reunite with children they had not seen in decades.

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