Border & Immigration

Leqaa Kordia left the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado Monday afternoon after just over a year in immigration custody. She was the last Columbia University protester in detention.

Deportations of Mexicans dropped to 144,000 in 2025, roughly half the annual figure under President Biden, according to data analyzed by Quinto Elemento Lab, an investigative news organization. President Trump's beefed-up border security may have deterred many from Mexico from attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died Saturday morning at a Dallas hospital, one day after being taken into custody by ICE.

Leqaa Kordia, a Muslim Palestinian woman living in New Jersey, has been in immigration custody in Texas since last March. A federal judge on Friday granted her a $100,000 bond.

Nine defendants face a mix of 12 charges, the most serious of which are three counts of attempted murder against U.S. officers or employees.

Messages show university leaders feared political repercussions over the Dallas-raised artist’s show.

Democratic Congressman Marc Veasey visited the downtown Dallas ICE processing facility Tuesday to see for himself, he said, the conditions inside.

Twenty-three people have died since October in ICE custody, as advocates warn about overcrowding and health care access.

The jury is expected to begin deliberating after hearing closing arguments and being read the jury charge Wednesday.

Members of Congress intervened in a bipartisan effort to secure the release of three brothers from McAllen who were detained with their parents after a routine immigration check-in.

Prosecutors will likely rest their case early this week after two weeks of presenting evidence in what the Trump administration calls the first domestic terrorism case associated with “antifa."

Fort Worth federal Judge Mark Pittman specifically named Benjamin Song as the person who nonfatally shot a police officer outside an ICE detention center. Pittman ruled Song and the defendants charged with aiding and abetting him cannot claim the officer was shot to protect anyone.