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NEW: Our portrait of a city in pain, following deadly fire at a Ciudad Juárez detention center. Advocates call for policy change. Migrants ask to be seen as human. “We’re not animals,” he said. "Have mercy on us.” | Latest w @ajcorchado @imegarcia dallasnews.com/news/2023/03/2…

Breaking News: Costa Rica’s Coast Guard has taken custody of a critically injured shipwreck survivor and two dead bodies following yesterday’s U.S. military strike on a suspected drug trafficking boat in the Pacific Ocean. nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/…

NEW: Around 72,000 people have self-deported through the Trump administration's "Project Homecoming" program, according to documents reviewed by CNN. The majority of those were in ICE detention. cnn.com/2026/03/18/us/…

Afghan man with pending asylum case dies in ICE custody in Dallas. The 41-year-old was picked up taking his children to school on Friday. The next day he was dead. texastribune.org/2026/03/15/afg…

The AP's most-read piece right now is this analysis by @apwillweissert, saying Trump has "grown more agitated with news coverage and has failed to find a way to explain why he started the war — or how he will end it — that resonates" with the public...

Mike Johnson: "We had a little hiccup with some Latino and Hispanic voters for certain, because some of the immigration enforcement was viewed to be overzealous. Everybody can describe it differently, but here's the good news: we're in a course-correction mode right now. We're gonna have a new DHS secretary."

Rally-round-the-flag is no longer the norm. Obama got less than 6-week (small) bump in job approve after killing of Osama bin Laden. What brought it back down to pre-OSB level? “increase in Americans’ pessimism about the economy” news.gallup.com/poll/148046/ob…

BREAKING: An FBI official confirmed in a news conference that the shooter in Austin’s mass shooting had materials that “were indications of a potential nexus to terrorism.”

BREAKING: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead, Iranian state media reports. apnews.com/live/live-upda…

One large study found that when a major daily newspaper covering a federal judicial district disappears, corruption cases there—bribery, embezzlement, fraud—rise by more than 7%. The researchers suggest officials feel emboldened when no one's looking. cjr.org/analysis/local…

A federal judge on Friday extended an order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in the U.S. from being arrested and deported, saying a Trump administration policy turns the "American Dream into a dystopian nightmare." to.pbs.org/4kXhr2e

My story on the raid against Mencho: Mexico did the raid, fearing if they didn't the U.S. would take Mencho out unilaterally US Special Forces came to MX and trained elite teams on how to take him down The CIA and FBI provided his precise location #nt=00000175-f83a-d12c-a177-fffe3ef00002-showMedia-liG0promoMedium-1col" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Breaking: The owners of a 1 million square foot warehouse in Dallas County that ICE had planned on using as a "mega" detention center says they will not sell or lease the property to DHS. Full statement from Majestic Realty below⬇️ Background: dallasnews.com/news/immigrati…

Bad Bunny held up a football at the end of his Super Bowl halftime show: “Together, We Are America.” 🇺🇸

Top immigration court leaders are telling new judges to refrain from granting migrants asylum in most cases, multiple people familiar with the matter said as the Trump administration carries out its detention and deportation agenda. My latest for @BLaw: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/tr…

Just a note to say how grateful we are for the important crucial work of the Washington Post foreign staff, bringing ground truth about what's happening in the world to a hometown that desperately needs it.

BIG news from Bloomberg, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* some commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — the literal warehousing of people in converted buildings.

I told the White House the state must lead the investigation. Let state investigators secure justice. As we process the scene, stay peaceful and give them space. The State has the personnel to keep people safe – federal agents must not obstruct our ability to do so.

BREAKING: Federal officers have shot another person in Minneapolis amid the immigration crackdown, Gov. Tim Walz says. apnews.com/article/immigr…

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Trump administration retreats. Newsom lawsuit works over National Guard deployment. Similar legal battles over Guard deployments continue in Oregon and Illinois. latimes.com/politics/story…