POLITICO • 30th July 2025

EXCLUSIVE: South Sudan took 8 migrants from the US. It wants something in return.

South Sudan has told the Trump administration that it would consider accepting many more migrants deported from the U.S., but it has some requests of its own.

POLITICO • 10th July 2025

‘I really feel for her’: Brooke Rollins’ impossible Trump administration mandate

Shortly after President Donald Trump temporarily paused immigration raids on farms last month, Brooke Rollins’ team asked a well-connected D.C. lobbying firm to help defend the Agriculture secretary against an onslaught of attacks insinuating that she had betrayed America First principles.

POLITICO • 5th July 2025

Trump got $170 billion for immigration. Now he has to enact it.

President Donald Trump’s megabill with $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement squeaked through Congress after days of promises, arm twisting and implicit threats to wavering members. Now — the clock is ticking to spend the money.

POLITICO • 11th March 2025

How hard will Trump's immigration raids hit red states?

Behind the bleary eyes of workers streaming in and out of a dairy farm dormitory here in Kristi Noem’s state is a story of a booming industry, a broken immigration system and the tension facing the Trump administration as it attempts to forcibly remove 12 million undocumented immigrants.

POLITICO • 25th February 2025

SCOOP: Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’

A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases, a private fleet of 100 planes, and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.

POLITICO • 23rd January 2025

Trump’s early actions overwhelm the immigration system

“They had stuff ready to go, and they had their ducks lined up better,” said Mark Krikorian, executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that pushes for less immigration. “In the long run for them, it’s better that they lost in 2020 because they’re not only way more prepared, but the political situation is far more conducive to getting stuff done.”...

POLITICO • 17th January 2025

Trump's planning a flood of immigration executive orders on Day 1

President-elect Donald Trump is eager to use week one to show his supporters he is making good on his signature issue: immigration.

POLITICO • 3rd November 2024

‘I Think It Will Happen Again if Trump Is the President’: The Ongoing Trauma of Family Separation

While they’re no longer on front-page headlines, even families who have been reunited — like Teodoro and Angelina — have emerged from the experience with invisible scars.

POLITICO • 2nd November 2023

SCOOP: Biden weighs border deal — altering asylum law for Ukraine aid

Top Biden officials are preparing Democratic lawmakers and immigration policy advocates for the likelihood the administration will have to swallow compromises on asylum law in order for the president’s national security funding request to pass.

POLITICO • 10th February 2023

SCOOP: Biden Cabinet member lawyers up as GOP threatens impeachment

The Department of Homeland Security has hired impeachment attorneys as the new House GOP majority moves to boot Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the southern border, according to three DHS officials familiar with the agreement.