Tyche Hendricks

“If immigration judges can be fired for deciding independently, they aren't judges.” 👇🏼

The US Department of Homeland Security is ​temporarily pausing plans to use ‌large warehouses to detain immigrants, a Trump administration official and a second ​source familiar with the ​matter said, as its new secretary, ⁠Markwayne Mullin, reviews one of ​his predecessor's most controversial policies reut.rs/4v7VQZO

Not a good look for one of the nation's top law enforcement chiefs!

@KathleenBushJo2 @MigrationPolicy @repdeliaramirez Congrats Kathleen! Will miss your work at MPI.

Following the Supreme Court's #birthright citizenship case today? Here are some of the folks I've been talking to - who trace the roots of the case back more than 128 years to San Francisco... including the great grandson of #WongKimArk. @KQEDnews kqed.org/news/12078171/

Trump’s health agency ordered states to reverify the immigration status of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees. Findings from five states show they have uncovered few who are improperly receiving benefits. @philgalewitz reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article/m…

More than 33,000 young men -- 36 percent of those arrested in El Salvador president Nayib Bukele’s crackdown -- were never listed as gang members, highlighting the sweeping nature of this arbitrary and cruel detention practice. trib.al/ME09H0B

New: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. propub.li/4m4Vzmf

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office must comply with subpoenas issued by the county’s civilian oversight board as part of a whistleblower investigation into alleged misconduct, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. kqed.org/news/12078123/…

Only 11 people arrested by ICE during their big Maine crackdown had criminal records. ICE said they were targeting the “worst of the worst” criminals and arrested nearly 200. bangordailynews.com/2026/03/30/mai…

A Mexican official condemned the deaths of four Mexican nationals at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, saying the fatalities ‘reveal systemic failures, operational deficiencies and possible negligence’ reut.rs/4tiUxFC

ICE detained and deported a man with severe mental disabilities, apparently gaining his "consent" for removal without notifying his caretakers. A judge has barred ICE from redetaining him when he returns from Mexico today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Maria de Jesús Estrada Juárez just reentered through the San Ysidro port of entry. Border agents held her there for a few hours and she was just released. Her daughter Damaris was waiting on the U.S. side. Photo: Ivonne Rodriguez of fwd.us

Fallout from our story on ICE-TSA data sharing:

The Trump administration must restore the legal status of potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States legally through a Biden-era pathway, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. abcnews.link/iAn9X3o

After immigration arrests, California lawmakers wonder: Are police telling the feds too much? calmatters.org/economy/techno… via @kharijohnson

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

“It just seems so simple. My neighbors need help. And I would hope that if I was in a situation where I needed help, or if I was as scared as these people are, that somebody would help me.” Portraits of Minnesotans who stand up to ICE. By @peterdicampo and @zisiga_m @propublica projects.propublica.org/why-minneapoli…

“This goes to the very top of the agency... they’re the ones that created this environment.” - civil rights attorney John Burris. He filed claims for 10 #Minneapolis protesters who say #DHS abused them during the #immigration enforcement surge. @KQEDnews kqed.org/news/12077656/

Why a private company is investigating rapes at an ICE detention center instead of the sheriff calmatters.org/justice/2026/0…