The new executive order will allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enter schools, churches and hospitals to carry out deportations.
The flyer being shared with viral claims that ICE offers rewards for any tips on undocumented individuals is fake.
The Department of Homeland Security issued new guidance on where federal enforcement officials can apprehend illegal immigrants.
As noted by multiple media outlets, Donald Trump’s team released an aggressive slate of immigration executive orders. This anticipated
Trump has rescinded long-standing policies restricting immigration enforcement in sensitive areas such as schools, churches, and hospitals.
This policy shift reinstates expedited deportations nationwide, sparking fears of devastating impacts on immigrant families and U.S. citizen children.
The Trump administration revoked a Biden-era policy that prohibited ICE arrests at or near schools, places of worship and other "sensitive locations."
In its first major enforcement action under the Trump administration, ICE conducted a nationwide operation resulting in over 460 arrests, including in Illinois.
President Trump’s directive to allow federal immigration officials to make arrests at public schools and houses of worship, traditionally safe havens for undocumented immigrants, prompted outrage and shock among the state’s educators and religious leaders, with some vowing to protect families regardless of the federal orders.
U.S. attorneys’ offices were told to investigate any official who defies federal immigration enforcement efforts and consider prosecuting them.
The Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate state or local officials who they believe are interfering with the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, saying they could face criminal charges,