A final HUD rule published November 12 ends rent help for any family with one ineligible member once a grace period runs out. About 80,000 people live in those families — roughly 37,000 of them children. HUD's own analysis says the change will cost taxpayers about $300 million more to serve the same number of families.
The first immigrant detainees arrived at Appleton, Minnesota's new 1,600-bed ICE detention center. The Department of Homeland Security bought it from CoreCivic for more than six times what the company had asked Minnesota for a year earlier, and is paying CoreCivic hundreds of millions more to run it.
Judges ruled these children were abused, neglected or abandoned. The government had promised not to deport them while they waited for green cards. Trump canceled that protection, cut their lawyers' funding, and pulled their hearings forward by months.
Carlos Jimenez, a father of three from Ontario, California, still has bullet fragments near his lung. His new $25 million lawsuit says FBI agents pulled him from his hospital bed, drove him bleeding to an interrogation, and invented witness statements. The charges against him were dropped.
A Republican-appointed judge halted the work in October, finding the administration likely overstepped by waiving environmental laws. On November 9 the Supreme Court let it resume, 8–1, while the case goes on — in a region that accounts for 1.6% of border apprehensions and has $7.5 billion in contracts.
ICE officials in four regions told The Intercept they were ordered by word of mouth to stand down on Election Day, in what one called a 'national no enforcement day.' Trump's administration had spent months giving conflicting answers on whether ICE would stay away from the polls.
Four days before the election, Mary Miller and 44 House Republicans told the Commerce Department to go further than Trump's own census plan: strip every noncitizen, green card holders included, from the count that divides up House seats, and stop asking about race. Forty of the signers are candidates we track on this site.
H.R. 7640 would override local limits on working with ICE and let the Homeland Security Secretary cut police grants in the Secretary's 'sole and unreviewable discretion.' It has sat on the House calendar since March, and it could still reach the floor in the lame-duck session.
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Brandon Gill is leading a crusade to dismantle the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright citizenship.
