July 29, 2026

ICE

NY Times -   The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas, including spouses of Americans, at U.S. airports. The arrests, at check-in counters and arrival gates, have taken place in at least 15 airports in recent weeks, and footage of the encounters has flooded social media.

The effort appears to be an expansion of an arrangement between T.S.A. and ICE, which began by targeting people with deportation orders. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and visitors overstay visas each year, including many in a legal gray area who have active applications to stay in the country and have been issued work permits.

Such individuals were not prioritized for deportation in the past unless they had committed crimes, and they were rarely detained while waiting for visa extensions or green cards. But that has changed under President Trump, whose administration views all visa overstays as illegal.

The Intercept - Federal judges in Texas have sentenced 16 so-called antifa activists to a combined 560+ years in prison in a case stemming from a July 4 protest last year outside ICE’s Prairieland Detention Center.

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