“The home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was raided early Monday morning by Homeland Security Investigations,” Fox News reports.
“The raid stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman’s immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child.”
Washington Sun: Federal agents reportedly search Ilhan Omar’s home.
Adam Serwer: “Only a few decades ago, Republican presidents would happily evoke the idea of America as a haven for people around the world. Ronald Reagan, in his farewell speech, declared that ‘anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.’ Reagan was no paragon of racial tolerance—he opposed the civil-rights movement and privately referred to Black people as ‘monkeys’—but he did not regard the presence of nonwhite people as an existential threat to America.”
“For years the Republican Party insisted that what it wanted was a certain kind of immigrant—highly skilled people who came here legally, or even, not that long ago, those brought to the U.S. as children who lacked status through no fault of their own and had long since assimilated.”
“That Republican Party no longer exists. Today the GOP’s view is that almost all immigration—by which the Trump administration seems to mean nonwhite immigration, euphemistically referred to as ‘Third World’ immigration—is bad.”
“President Trump said Thursday that Minnesotans should ‘fight back’ against Somali immigrants following previous attacks against the group,” The Hill reports.
Said Trump: “The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back.”
“The Trump administration is considering using ships, including a 500-foot training vessel and ferries, to deport migrants to Central and South America on journeys that could take days and cost millions of dollars,” the New York Times reports.
“The Trump administration said it would suspend an immigration program for multiple tech firms, including Microsoft Corp. alleging widespread abuse of a worker visa system,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Vice President JD Vance: “There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft.”
“Republican senators say President Trump has fumbled the issue of immigration, something that was an advantage for GOP candidates in 2024 but is now a growing political liability for their party,” The Hill reports.
Washington Post: The border counties that swung to Trump are now short of workers. They may swing back.
“Donald Trump’s justice department has moved to strip the citizenship of 40 naturalized citizens accused of crimes in what authorities describe as ‘the largest’ such initiative over a single period during his administration,” The Guardian reports.
“U.S. justice department officials on Monday announced the filing of ‘de-naturalization actions’ against more than three dozen people alleged to have committed such offenses as ‘acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a special‑needs man.'”
“Republicans are struggling with how to thread the needle on immigration ahead of what is expected to be a bruising midterm season in which many voters have soured on the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement,” NewsNation reports.
Wired: “DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.”
“A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from pursuing border wall construction in the Big Bend region in Texas on Friday,” Axios reports.
“The construction inside the national park sparked local outrage and environmental concerns, with Friday’s decision handing the Department of Homeland Security a loss in its quest to rapidly expand the Southwestern border wall.”
Washington Sun: Judge slows border wall construction in Big Bend sector.
“Immigration — the issue that helped propel Donald Trump to the presidency and rally his supporters over the past decade — has become an afterthought for voters,” Axios reports.
“It’s another ominous sign for Trump and the GOP heading toward November. What was once a rallying cry for the party is losing salience with voters across the spectrum — and harsh crackdowns have even made it a liability among some Republicans.”
“Sen. Jim Justice said the Trump administration should reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement Tuesday, joining the chorus of criticism of a recent crackdown that has roiled rural communities ahead of the midterms,” Politico reports.
Said Justice: “Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, then you’re dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don’t know that we need to be doing that stuff.”
“Burundi has agreed to join a clutch of other African nations in receiving migrants from other countries deported from the U.S. under Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policy,” The Guardian reports.
“The Trump administration can resume rapidly deporting immigrants to countries other than their own, the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday,” the New York Times reports.
“The one-page emergency ruling was unsigned and gave no vote count, as is typical in such cases. Although the justices cleared the way, for now, for the swift removals to continue, the court also announced that it would fast-track the case and hear oral arguments about it in December, setting up a final ruling on the issue next year.”
“It’s almost the midterm elections, and you know what that means: a caravan of scary migrants is trekking toward the border, prepared to invade the nation with their foreign criminal ways — according to Donald Trump‘s administration and right-wing media, anyway,” Rolling Stone reports.
“With early voting set to begin in some states, and Election Day only a few weeks away, Republicans are using every tool in their arsenal to try to mitigate an electoral backlash to the president’s extremely unpopular first two years back in office. That means fear mongering about migration from South and Central America. But it’s hard not to notice that these supposed migrant caravans seem to only appear shortly before an election, and disappear from the right-wing media cycle immediately after votes are cast.”
“Right-wing accounts on social media began posting unverified videos of an alleged migrant caravan over the weekend.”
“A senior State Department official who helped negotiate the Trump administration’s controversial ‘third country’ deportation deals with African nations has been nominated to be U.S. ambassador to Cameroon,” the Washington Post reports.
“Christian Ehrhardt, 41, has served since last year as deputy assistant secretary at the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugee, and Migration. He oversees the Office of Remigration, created by the administration to facilitate the removal of migrants to countries where they are not citizens.”
“President Donald Trump on Saturday escalated his criticism of Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), amplifying a series of social media posts attacking the Florida Republican and, in multiple instances, calling for her replacement ahead of her election in just over a month,” Politico reports.
“ICE has received more than $75 billion to expand operations since President Trump returned to office — and wasted millions on scaled-back and mismanaged projects, a new GAO report found,” Axios reports.
“In rushing to execute Trump’s mass deportation agenda, the agency failed to properly develop a strategic plan.”
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