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Republicans Seize on a Budget Exemption to Push Through Immigration Enforcement Funding

By: Carl Hulse β€”
Republicans are using a special mechanism that was created to reduce deficits to push through immigration enforcement funds that should be provided in a regular spending bill.

Senate Republicans are muscling through legislation to provide more than $70 billion by employing a special budget exemption that was never intended to be used this way.

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ICE Agent Charged in Shooting of a Venezuelan Immigrant in Minnesota

By: Ernesto LondoΓ±o and Mitch Smith β€”
The agent is the second federal officer to face felony charges in Minnesota stemming from Operation Metro Surge, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Police blocked off an area in Minneapolis near the shooting on Jan. 14.

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Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

By: Amanda Taub β€”
New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.

Argentine security forces seizing a young man in 1982 in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War.

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The Supreme Court Should Stop ICE From Racially Profiling

By: The Editorial Board β€”
Body camera footage reveals a disturbing pattern of state and federal officials using minor traffic stops to target Black and brown drivers.
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Takeaways from the Times’s Look Inside D.H.S.

By: Rachel Poser, Emily Bazelon and Matthew Purdy β€”
Eighty current and former employees talked to us about the Trump administration’s relentless push for mass deportations.

Employees of the Homeland Security Department feared that the surge of enforcement in Minneapolis would lead to a loss of legitimacy.

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Undocumented Immigrants Fear Tax Data Will Be Shared With ICE

By: Miriam Jordan and Andrew Duehren β€”
Fears that the I.R.S. could share their data with ICE have turned tax season into a gamble for people who are in the country illegally.

Many undocumented immigrants who want to file tax returns have sought the help of clinics like this one in Los Angeles.

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House Vote Sets Up Clash With the Senate on D.H.S. Funding, Prolonging Shutdown

By: Carl Hulse, Megan Mineiro and Robert Jimison β€”
Republicans revolted over a Senate measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security and passed a rival bill, dimming the chances of a quick end to the crisis crippling airports.

Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, center, with other members of the House Freedom Caucus at the Capitol on Friday.

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At Least 50 Arrested After Protests Escalate Outside Minnesota Federal Building

By: Bernard Mokam β€”
The Whipple Federal Building has become both a staging ground for immigration agents and a hub for demonstrations against the crackdown in the Twin Cities.

Minnesota State Patrol troopers arresting protesters outside the Whipple Federal Building on Saturday.

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Top ICE Lawyer in Minnesota Departs as Immigration Lawsuits Overwhelm Courts

By: Ernesto LondoΓ±o and Hamed Aleaziz β€”
Jim Stolley, the chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota, has left as government prosecutors grapple with a crush of cases.

Demonstrators at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in January in Minneapolis. Government lawyers have failed to respond in a timely manner to the pile of lawsuits and court orders stemming from the mass roundup of immigrants.

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Officials Identify Pair Shot by Border Patrol in Portland, Ore.

By: Anna Griffin and Jacey Fortin β€”
The two who were shot during a traffic stop are connected to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, city and federal officials said. The shooting generated angry denunciations by local officials.

Police blocked off an area near where the victims of the shooting were found in Portland, Ore., on Thursday afternoon.

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New Cellphone Video Shows ICE Agent’s Perspective Before Minneapolis Shooting

By: Mitch Smith, Hamed Aleaziz and Julie Bosman β€”
The Department of Homeland Security posted a clip of the video on social media and said it was taken by the agent, who killed a 37-year-old woman in the shooting.

Officials blocked off an area near the shooting in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

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Trump Officials Reopen Thousands of Refugee Claims in Minnesota

By: Madeleine Ngo β€”
The review comes as the federal government escalates its immigration enforcement in the state.

The Somali community in Minnesota, the largest in the country, has been the target of increased immigration enforcement.

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The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing

By: Jamelle Bouie β€”
Why are the Supreme Court and Congress conspiring to give him more power?

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Neighbors Warn Neighbors as Fear of ICE Ripples Across Chicago

By: Julie Bosman β€”
Parents are standing guard at schools. Some restaurants have stopped delivering food or simply closed. β€œEvery single person who looks brown is scared,” a lawyer said.

People linked arms in protests on the Southwest Side of Chicago on Saturday, after a car crash involving federal agents and two motorists who federal authorities said were pursuing the agents recklessly. ICE agents responded with pepper balls and tear gas.

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Judge Blocks Trump’s Deployment of National Guard in Portland, Ore.

By: Anna Griffin β€”
A federal judge appointed by President Trump issued a temporary restraining order, siding for now with Oregon and Portland lawyers who called federalizing the guard a presidential overreach.

Department of Homeland Security agents, police officers and U.S. Border Patrol Agents stand guard at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore., on Thursday.

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How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE

By: Hamed Aleaziz, Brent McDonald and Amogh Vaz β€”
A series of arrests captured on video reveal how immigration officers have worked with other law enforcement agencies to identify migrants during stops for minor infractions.
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Trump Is Winning the Battle to Undermine Democracy

By: Thomas B. Edsall β€”
Trump may be winning the battle to weaken our democracy, but he has not won the war.

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They Had Come to Graduate. Their Minds Were on a Student Held by ICE.

By: Luis FerrΓ©-SadurnΓ­ and Todd Heisler β€”
Dylan Lopez Contreras was arrested by immigration authorities. This week, he was remembered during the commencement for a school devoted to immigrants.

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A Year Ago, Columbia Security Was Hands-Off at a Protest. Not This Time.

By: Sharon Otterman β€”
When demonstrators occupied the university’s main library on Wednesday, campus security forces intervened aggressively. The occupation ended with arrests hours later.

Columbia University administrators summoned the Police Department on Wednesday to arrest demonstrators who had occupied the main library.

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