New Orleans, a City of Service Workers, Braces for an Immigration Crackdown

Louisiana officials have been eager for a federal intervention, but planned Border Patrol operations have stoked fear in the city’s immigrant work force.

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Citizenship Ceremonies Are Back On in Upstate New York After Abrupt Halt

At least seven counties had been affected by the interruption in celebrations for people who were becoming naturalized citizens.

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Local Officials Say Border Patrol Has Ended Its Operation in Charlotte, N.C.

The operation, which led to more than 370 arrests, had put a purple state firmly at the center of one of the Trump administration’s most visible immigration strategies.

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Appeals Court Blocks Release of Hundreds of Chicago-Area Immigration Detainees

The order temporarily halts a federal judge’s call to release several hundred people arrested during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Illinois.

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Want to Immigrate to the UK? The Government Says You Must Earn It.

The government plans to double the period needed for many legal immigrants to become permanent residents, while cutting it for higher-rate taxpayers.

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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Over $1.8 Million in Immigration Fines

A class-action suit accuses the Trump administration of weaponizing civil penalties to force undocumented migrants to self-deport through enormous penalties.

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Old Divides of East and West Haunt Germany’s Newest Arrivals

Refugees who poured into the country a decade ago fared better when they landed in the more prosperous West, an enduring legacy of reunification.

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ICE Frees Blind Migrant Who Was Detained for Days in Isolation

Carlos Anibal Chalco Chango, 40, was released on Monday from an upstate New York jail where he had been held without his cane. It was a surprising move by an agency that rarely frees detainees.

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Trump’s Border Czar Threatens More Immigrant Arrests in New York City

Thomas Homan said that additional federal agents would descend on the city if it did not help with President Trump’s deportation campaign.

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Border Patrol Expands North Carolina Operations to More Liberal Cities

Agents were active in the Raleigh area on Tuesday, though the scope of the immigration crackdown in the state’s Research Triangle region was not immediately clear.

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