Senate deadlock on curbing immigration forces pushes Homeland Security agencies toward shutdown
The latest political deadlock between Republicans and Democrats threatens to affect 260,000 federal workers
Tom Homan announces that Trump’s immigration operation in Minnesota has ended
The withdrawal ends a deployment in which officers killed two Americans protesting against White House policy
ICE’s facial recognition app draws scrutiny over errors and increased state surveillance
Amid negotiations over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, a separate bill seeks to prohibit the agency from acquiring and using biometric identification systems on the general population
US House of Representatives passes election law requiring proof of citizenship to vote
The SAVE America Act would make voting more difficult for millions of women who adopted their husband’s last name, since it no longer matches the one on their birth certificate
Portland residents sue ICE for using tear gas that seeps their homes and endangers their health
The document states that federal agents allowed chemical munitions fired during protests to enter an affordable housing complex, affecting children, veterans, and people with disabilities
El Paso airport closed for nine hours after US detects Mexican cartel drones
The transportation secretary said the devices crossed in from Mexico and were neutralized. Aviation authorities initially announced that the measure would last 10 days
From a street stall in Los Angeles to sharing the stage with Bad Bunny: Villa’s Tacos at Super Bowl LX
The taqueria founded by Victor Villa, a Californian with parents from Michoacán, appeared for six seconds during the halftime show. On Monday, the line at the restaurant was over an hour long
Stalemate in Congress foreshadows shutdown of Department of Homeland Security
Democrats are demanding that immigration agents show their faces and that warrants be required for arrests, two requirements that Republicans flatly reject
Netanyahu moves up Washington visit to convince Trump to defend Israel’s interests against Iran
The Israeli prime minister is traveling to DC again to ensure that the talks include not just the nuclear program, but making Tehran limit its ballistic missiles and stop supporting militias in the Middle East
Appeals court allows Trump to revoke TPS for more than 60,000 Hondurans, Nicaraguans, and Nepalese
The judges cited the Supreme Court’s decision that allowed the government to end the same protection for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans
Group of House Democrats demands end to Monroe Doctrine and to Trump’s renewed interventionism in Latin America
Nydia Velázquez, a representative for New York, is introducing a resolution co-sponsored by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other progressive congressmembers
Local and state authorities block ICE plans to turn warehouses into detention centers
The Trump administration wants to buy facilities to house detained migrants, but it is facing citizen protests, owners who don’t want to sell, and legal barriers
Jill Lepore: ‘Trump thrives on chaos and crisis’
The historian and Harvard professor reflects on the Republican’s second term: ‘His hold on power is extraordinarily tenuous. And when he falls, he will crash’
A university professor of Spanish descent in the days of ICE: A foreigner in his own country
Roger Martínez-Dávila says he was suddenly told to prove his US citizenship by the University of Colorado, where he’s been working for the last 16 years. It wasn’t required of his department colleagues with Anglo surnames
Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago: ‘Some of our priests have been stopped because of the color of their skin by immigration officials’
The Catholic prelate criticizes Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant offensive and warns that his foreign policy has jeopardized the United States’ ‘moral role’ in the world
Facing economic collapse, a cornered Cuba is forced into dialogue with the US
The Caribbean island is dealing with its worst crisis yet, exacerbated by Trump’s latest sanctions on oil supplies
The secrets kept by Armando Fernández Larios, former Pinochet agent arrested by ICE
Wanted in Chile for crimes committed during the dictatorship, he was convicted in the US in 1987 for the 1976 assassination in Washington DC of Orlando Letelier and his young assistant Ronni Moffitt
The midterm elections, the new target of the most authoritarian Trump
The US president is talking about ‘canceling’ or ‘nationalizing’ an election that appears to be going in the Democrats’ favor. As in 2020, he is already suggesting, without evidence, that it will be fraudulent
Bad Bunny triumphs at Super Bowl with a defense of America beyond the United States
The Puerto Rican artist, with the help of Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, delivered a brilliant performance in the most anticipated NFL Super Bowl halftime show in recent memory
Bernie Sanders: ‘These are the most dangerous times that the United States has faced in modern history’
The Vermont senator, a global icon of the left, warns in an exclusive interview with EL PAÍS that the president is using ICE as “a domestic army” and says that “it will have to be the American people who say ‘no’ to authoritarianism”
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The senator met with EL PAÍS last Wednesday at the Capitol to discuss Donald Trump, the protests in Minneapolis, and the Epstein case
The Europeans banned from the US for fighting misinformation: ‘Elon Musk has pushed the nuclear button. He doesn’t like us’
The White House considers them ‘radical activists,’ but all they do is push platforms to follow the law, curb disinformation, and stop hate speech. EL PAÍS speaks with them about being targeted by Trump
David Adler, coordinator of Progressive International: ‘The Donroe doctrine is the logic of divide and conquer’
The US analyst is leading a series of summits in Latin America that seek to generate unity around regional sovereignty, in the face of new pressures imposed by the Trump administration
Trump breaks record for deportations of migrants without criminal backgrounds, but still hasn’t surpassed Obama and Biden’s total removals
The Republican administration announces 675,000 deportees as it prioritizes raids far from the border, expulsions without court orders, and eliminates human rights concerns in its targeting of detainees
Civil rights and immigrant groups urge tourists to reconsider visiting Florida for the 2026 World Cup: ‘It’s not safe’
The organizations point out that immigration control tactics could expose foreign fans to arbitrary detention during the competition
The disappearance of ‘Today’ host Savannah Guthrie’s mother, the mystery that has shocked the United States
Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of the popular NBC anchor, went missing from her Arizona home on January 31. Authorities are treating the case as a kidnapping and are offering a $50,000 reward for information. Even President Trump has offered federal assistance
‘Boycott! We don’t buy where we’re not respected!’: Target, the new focus of protests against ICE
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The Minnesota-based retail giant has changed CEOs amid strong pressure across the country to take a stand against immigration raids