Immigration

Time - More than 6,000 student visas have been revoked by the State Department since January as the Trump Administration cracks down on international students and other immigrants to the U.S, the agency says.

Around two-thirds of the student visas have been cancelled due to overstays and other alleged law violations, including assault, DUI, and burglary, according to a State Department spokesperson. Roughly 200-300, they said, were revoked for “support for terrorism” under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which bars foreign-born people from admission to the country for engaging in—or being deemed likely to engage in—”terrorist activities."

Time - A detention center that is poised to become the largest of its kind in the country opened on a military base in El Paso, Texas, over the weekend, amid concerns over safety, costs, and a lack of transparency.    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began detaining people on Sunday at the Fort Bliss facility, dubbed “Lone Star Lockup” by its supporters, in what it said was an effort to “decompress ICE detention facilities in other regions

More than $1 billion will be invested in the detention center to expand its current 1,000-bed capacity to hold up to 5,000 people. Immigrants who are currently in removal proceedings or final removal orders are expected to be detained at the facility....

The opening of the detention center comes amid broader efforts by the Administration to militarize immigration enforcement through the use of U.S. military bases and personnel. Last week, President Donald Trump invoked emergency powers to call in the National Guard and take control of the police in Washington, D.C., due to claims about rampant crime in the city—despite a reported decline in crime rates.