One month into Trump's Memphis Safe Task Force, Kustoff called it a blueprint for the whole country and said he'd work to make the federal presence permanent. Ten months in, NPR found what it actually became: a traffic-stop immigration dragnet that emptied schools and doctors' offices in his own city.
He filed H.R. 569 the day after Trump's executive order. It reaches further than the order did — a baby born to two parents on work visas would not be a citizen. The Supreme Court struck the order down in June. Babin's bill is still the Republican Study Committee's plan.
As immigration subcommittee chairman, McClintock has sent records demands to Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Arlington County and Denver. One letter asks a sheriff for her correspondence with six named immigrant-rights and civil-liberties groups.
CoreCivic and GEO Group reported a combined $1.4 billion in spring revenue as ICE detention nears record levels. The man running ICE spent a decade as a GEO executive. The president has traded the stock 29 times.
About 50 Haitians reported to the Cincinnati ICE office on July 31 and were pressured to take $2,600 to self-deport or wear an ankle monitor. All of them refused the money. Two days later a dozen more left with monitors on.
51,000 arrests in July, up from 43,000 in June — the most of the Trump administration. To get there, agents targeted airline passengers, set up a checkpoint at a creek in a national forest, and stopped trucks in four states. Less than a third of people in ICE detention have a criminal conviction.
On a Christian radio show in May 2025, the Texas congressman said undocumented immigrants should be flown over their home country and pushed out the door. Then he said: 'I'm not gonna say that in front of the camera.' He already had.
In April 2025 Hern joined a congressional tour of El Salvador's CECOT prison. Asked about it, his office said only that it could not confirm his location. Days later he went on Newsmax and said of the men held there: 'These folks will never see the light of day.'
ICE zip-tied two Hancock High students in Diamondhead as their school bus pulled up. Mississippi's two senators got them out. Their own congressman — a former sheriff — said his office was monitoring the situation.