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The Trump administration is transforming ICE leadership across the country in a major overhaul.

A major ICE shake-up is reportedly underway affecting at least half of the agency’s top leadership positions

By Rebecca Santana, Elliot Spagat, and others

FILE – Farm workers gather produce on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Moorpark, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Trump curbs immigration enforcement at farms, meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants

By Aamer Madhani, Elliot Spagat, and others

FILE – A boy looks through a border wall separating Mexico from the United States, Nov. 26, 2024, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

ICE has deported 270,000 people in the last 12 months, the highest number since 2014

By Valerie Gonzalez, Elliot Spagat, and others

Tom Homan, left, is seen in a April 26, 2018 photo in East Point, Ga., and Stephen Miller is seen in a Oct. 9, 2024, photo in Reading, Pa.

Trump’s first 2 immigration policy job picks have defended family separation and ramped-up deportations

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

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Immigration authorities claim victory over abusers of gifted H-1B visas as applications plunge nearly 40%

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

Migrants board a bus to the airport Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in San Diego. San Diego’s well-oiled system of migrant shelters is being tested like never before as U.S. Customs and Border Protection releases migrants to the streets of California’s second-largest city because shelters are full. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Border Patrol releases thousands of migrants on San Diego streets, creating ‘an unprecedented humanitarian crisis’

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

US President Joe Biden speaks during an event

Biden administration will give temporary legal status to 472,000 Venezuelan migrants, making it easier for them to work

By Rebecca Santana, Elliot Spagat, and others

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U.S. government has ‘serious concerns’ that some H-1B visa applicants are trying to game the system

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

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‘I did not see this coming’: Migrants fleeing persecution in Cuba are stunned by Biden’s new limits to asylum

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

ROMA, TX – NOVEMBER 07: A U.S. Border Patrol air boat sits on the Rio Grande by the international bridge spanning the U.S.-Mexico border on November 7, 2018 in Roma, Texas. The area has one of the highest rates of illegal immigration and drug smuggling of the entire border. (Photo by John Moore—Getty Images)

Texas border town Roma becomes epicenter for migrant children seeking asylum

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

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US and Mexico to curb border travel in effort to control coronavirus

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

Ken Cuccinelli, acting director for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, testifies during House Oversight subcommittee hearing.

Judge rules head of U.S. immigration agency was unlawfully named

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

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Court temporarily halts Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

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40,000 Migrants Are Now Waiting at the U.S. Border

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press

President Donald Trump Meets With Pakastani Prime Minister Imran Khan At The White House

Trump Expands Fast-Track Deportation Authority Across U.S.

By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press