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Last updated: July 11, 2025
(in no particular order, other than how I have them bookmarked)
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🔥= Fresh
A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country | AP News (April 19, 2025) [Citizen: Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez]
American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately | NBC News (April 17, 2025) [Citizen: Lisa Anderson]
Andrea Velez: U.S. woman detained by ICE after being ambushed by unmarked cars in Los Angeles | FOX 11 (June 26, 2025) [Citizen: Andrea Velez]
A pregnant U.S. citizen went to the hospital after immigration agents detained her | NBC (June 10, 2025) [Citizen: Cary López Alvarado]
‘Blindsided, betrayed’: Canadian woman with Trump-supporting American husband detained by immigration officials in U.S. | CTV News (July 7, 2025) [Cynthia Olivera]
British Tourist Detained by ICE for 19 Days Warns Against All US Travel | Newsweek (April 6, 2025) [Rebecca Burke]
Canadian Actress Detained by ICE and Allegedly 'Wrapped in Chains' After Applying for Visa at U.S. Border | People (March 15, 2025) [Jasmine Mooney]
Canadian citizen dies at Florida ICE detention facility | Independent (June 26, 2025) [Johnny Noviello]
Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is free on bail after judge orders his release from federal custody | NBC News (April 30, 2025)
DHS told her to leave the country. She's a citizen — and an immigration attorney | NBC Boston 10 (April 13, 2025) [Citizen: Nicole Micheroni]
🔥Farm Worker Dies in California ICE Raid, US Citizens Missing, Union Says | Newsweek (July 11, 2025)
Family Who Fled Russia to Leave US After ICE Detention | Newsmax (April 11, 2025) [Sergei & Marina]
Federal Appeals Court Keeps Block on Trump Use of Alien Enemies Act to Deport Immigrants
Case: J.G.G. v. TRUMP | ACLU (March 26, 2025)
Georgetown University graduate student detained by immigration authorities | NBC News (March 19, 2025) [Badar Khan Suri]
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained | NPR New Hampshire (March 14, 2025) [Fabian Schmidt]
‘Harrowing': Video shows Worcester police hold girl's face on ground during ICE operation | NBC Boston (May 9, 2025)
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation | Mississippi Free Press (May 21, 2025) [Kasper Eriksen]
ICE Detains Marine Corps Veteran's Wife Who Was Still Breastfeeding Their Baby | MILTARY.COM (June 23, 2025) [Paola Clouatre]
ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court | 7 San Diego (July 9, 2025) [Citizen: Barbara Stone]
ICE has deported dozens of U.S. citizens, report says | KTLA 5 (June 23, 2025)
It's harvest season. Cherry farms are short of workers amidst an immigration crackdown | NPR (July 6, 2025)
'It's him, it's him!' - Mother spots son deported from US in mega-prison footage | BBC (March 19, 2025) [Francisco José García Casique]
‘It is like jail’: German man visiting American fiancé detained by ICE for over 2 weeks | ABC News 10 San Diego (March 6, 2025) [Lucas Sielaff]
Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process | Politico (April 25, 2025) [Mohsen Mahdawi]
Lawyer says an Iranian student targeted for ‘national security concerns’ was not a campus protestor | AP News (March 28, 2025) [Alireza Doroudi]
Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family | Detroit Free Press (April 7, 2025) [Citizen: Amir Makled]
‘Like a horror movie’: German tourist detained by ICE says she spent week in solitary confinement | ABC News 10 San Diego (February 28, 2025) [Jessica Brösche]
Man arrested by ICE agents at Montebello tow yard is US citizen, family says | ABC 7 (June 13, 2025) [Citizen: Javier Ramirez]
Maui teachers shaken after ICE agents mistakenly raid their home | KITV Island News (May 8, 2025) [Citizen: Anonymous]
Migrant deaths in ICE custody spark concerns | The Hill (June 27, 2025)
Mom Detained by ICE After US Citizen Husband Petitions for Her Green Card | NEWSWEEK (April 25, 2025) [Rosmery Alvarado]
New Hampshire resident unable to return from Canada after being stopped at Maine border | WMTW (July 9, 2025)
Orders to leave the country — some for US citizens — sow confusion among immigrants | AP News (April 23, 2025)
Popular Turkish American online political commentator detained, questioned at Chicago airport | Ap News (May 13, 2025) [Hasan Piker]
‘Shock and disbelief’: U.S. citizen says ICE arrested her during Santa Ana park raid | THE LA TIMES (July 2, 2025) [Citizen: Heidi Plummer]
Suburban woman says husband detained at O'Hare airport despite longtime legal residency | Fox 32 (June 13, 2025) [Gonzalo Ladron de Guevara]
Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported | THE AUSTIN CHRONICAL (June 4, 2025) [Jermaine Thomas]
Tourists detained by ICE say they were treated like 'the worst criminal' | USA Today (April 12, 2025)
‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada | NBC Boston10 (April 15, 2025) [Citizen: Bachir Atallah]
Trump’s ICE Detains U.S. Citizen, Claiming His REAL ID Was Fake | The Rolling Stone (May 24, 2025) [Citizen: Leonardo Garcia Venegas]
U.S.-born man from Georgia held for ICE under Florida’s new anti-immigration law | Georgia Record (April 17, 2025) [Citizen: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez]
US citizen caught in ICE raid says arrest was worth it if others got away | INDEPENDENT (June 22, 2025) [Citizen: Job Garcia]
US citizen arrested during Ice raid in what family describes as ‘kidnapping’ | THE GUARIAN (June 26, 2025) [Citizen: Andrea Velez]
U.S. Citizen Recounts Detention By ICE After Defending Elderly Man: 'Treating Us Worse Than Animals' | PEOPLE (July 3, 2025) [Citizen: Adrian Martinez]
US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants | The Guardian (June 4, 2025)
Utah immigration lawyer, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, ordered to self-deport | ABC 4 Utah
‘We’re citizens!’: Family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren’t suspects | Fox 8 (April 29, 2025) [“Marisa"]
What To Know About Andry: 31-Year-Old Makeup Artist Falsely Deported To El Salvador Prison, Lawyer Says | Forbes (March 24, 2025) [Andry]
White House Confirms Trump Is Exploring Ways To ‘Deport’ U.S. Citizens | HuffPost (April 8, 2025)
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JULY 2025
Tracking Uses of AI in the Trump Administration | The Revolving Doro Project (July 9, 2025)
Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law | NBC (July 4, 2025)
Social Security Propaganda E-Mail Deceives Millions of Recipients! | Daily Kos (July 4. 2025)
OpenAI Says It's Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises | Futurism (July 3, 2025)
The Pentagon Had a Budget Surplus. Guess What Trump Decided to Do With It | Slate (July 2, 2025)
Haiti’s gangs have ‘near-total control’ of the capital as violence escalates, UN says | AP NEWS (July 2, 2025)
JUNE 2025
Attorney general: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools | Idahoed News (June 30, 2025)
Exclusive: US CDC vaccine presentation cites study that does not exist, author says | Reuters (June 19, 2025)
Ag Trade Deficit Reaches Record High $20 Billion Through April | Successful Farming (June 24, 2025)
'We will kill you': ACLU fumes as sheriff sends protesters 'un-American' warning | Raw Story (June 13, 2025)
Trump Org Keeps Bringing In Foreign Workers To Staff Its Clubs And Winery | Forbes (June 13, 2025)
Trump's EPA plans to repeal climate pollution limits on fossil fuel power plants | NPR (June 11, 2025)
Misinformation about LA Ice protests swirls online: ‘Catnip for rightwing agitators’ | The Guardian (June 10, 2025)
MAY 2025
Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration | AP News (May 13, 2025)
Why aren't Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have? | NPR Planet Money (May 13, 2025)
17 family members of notorious cartel leader enter U.S. in deal with Trump administration, Mexico says | CBS News (May 15, 2025)
Navigating the Regulatory Crossroads: Chemical Policy in Trump’s First 100 Days | The National Law Review (May 4, 2025)
AP FACT CHECK: Trump vs. truth on the Iran nuclear deal | AP News (May 8, 2025)
Department of Justice ends desegregation order in Louisiana parish | MSNBC (May 2, 2025)
Trump administration 'MAHA' health report cited nonexistent studies | Reuters (May 30, 2025)
NBA YoungBoy, rapper who was convicted in Utah, receives pardon | East Idaho News (May 29, 2025)
Trump pardons drug kingpins even as he escalates U.S. drug war rhetoric | NPR (May 31, 2025)
APRIL 2025
DOGE cuts could help Elon Musk companies avoid $2 billion in liabilities: Senate report | CNBC (April 28, 2025)
Ex-FBI informant who made up bribery story about the Bidens will stay in prison, judge rules | AP NEWS (April 30, 2025)
RFK Jr. is gutting minority health offices across HHS that are key to reducing health disparities | CNBC (April 30, 2025)
Civil rights leaders alarmed after bible and other artifacts are removed from Smithsonian African-American museum | Independent (April 28, 2025)
USDA withdraws a Biden-era effort to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry | CBS News (April 25, 2025)
DOJ Cancels Hundreds of Grants for Police, Crime Victims | Newsmax (April 23, 2025)
RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records | The Guardian (April 22, 2025)
RFK Jr. Knows Amazingly Little About Autism | Mother Jones (April 18, 2025)
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us' | NPR (April 21, 2025)
The CFPB says it will 'deprioritize' protecting student borrowers, people with medical debt | Yahoo Finance (April 19, 2025)
Air Force erases first female Thunderbird pilot's achievements from websites | NBC 9News (April 18, 2025)
MARCH 2025
How DHS Laid the Groundwork for More Intelligence Abuse | Just Security (March 3, 2025)
How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save | ProPublica (March 5, 2025)
The Medal of Honor Recipient Erased in the Pentagon's DEI Purge | Military.Com (March 7, 2025)
Pentagon signs AI deal to aid military decision-making | The Hill (March 3, 2025)
FEBRUARY 2025
Schools serving military service members’ kids are pulling books on civil rights history after Trump’s DEI threats | Independent (February 16, 2025)
CFPB moves to drop suit accusing Capital One of cheating customers out of $2 billion | NBC News (February 27, 2025)
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series | Mother Jones (February 7, 2025)
Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts | AP News (February 7, 2025)
DHS Scraps Ban on Surveillance Based on Sexual Orientation | Bloomberg Government (February 18, 2025)
JANUARY 2025
The Right Takes Aim at Wikipedia | Columbia Journalism Review (January 30, 2025)
Push to regulate 'forever chemicals' like GenX stalls as Trump scraps discharge limits | Star News Online (January 31, 2025)
Pre-2025
DOJ says Russia paid right-wing influencers to spread Russian propaganda | NPR (September 7, 2024)
Elon Musk worked in US illegally in 1995 after quitting school – report | The Guardian (October 26, 2024)
It’s not just ‘cat ladies’: JD Vance has a history of disparaging people without kids | CNN (July 30, 2024)
Trump suggests he’ll use the military on ‘the enemy from within’ the U.S. if he’s reelected | PBS (October 13, 2024)
Trump’s ‘bloodbath’ and other rhetoric inflame his 2024 campaign trail | Reuters (March 22, 2024)
Trump immigration crackdown: Denaturalization just a drop in the bucket | The Hill (November 22, 2024)
Jared Kushner defends controversial $2bn Saudi investment | BBC News (February 4, 2024)
Why Trump's authoritarian language about 'vermin' matters | NPR (November 17, 2023)
Trump dined with Kanye West and white nationalist Nick Fuentes, adviser says | CBS News (November 26, 2022)
Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million in the White House | Citizens For Ethics (February 8, 2021)
Why you’ll own nothing by 2030 | Independent (March 1, 2017)