DOJ rejects the claim that its prosecution of Comey is vindictive
Justice Department filings argue that a president directing prosecutions is "a feature, not a bug" of the constitutional system, an explicit case against DOJ independence from the White House.
Posted on Aug 19, 2026
| Washington Post
Trump's ICE nominee helped lead one of the harshest immigration crackdowns in U.S.
Lance Schroyer's record deputizing Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers as immigration agents offers a preview of how he could run ICE if confirmed as its next director.
Posted on Aug 19, 2026
| Washington Post
Trump's new plan for children terrifies policy experts: 'Looks like human trafficking'
A proposed $2.3 billion follow-on contract to DHS's self-deportation program would offer stipends to pressure unaccompanied migrant children as young as 14 into leaving the country, with immigration lawyer Rekha Sharma-Crawford warning it "looks and feels a lot like human trafficking."
Posted on Aug 19, 2026
| Raw Story
ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War
Newly released internal emails show ICE coordinated directly with Iranian officials to deport more than 100 Iranian nationals, including gay people and Christian converts, even as the administration prepared to bomb Iran.
Posted on Aug 18, 2026
| The Intercept
Trump revives unverified claims of noncitizen voting in 2020
Trump repeated long-standing, unsubstantiated claims that the 2020 election was rigged by noncitizen voting, reviving a theory that has repeatedly failed to hold up in court and even in his own administration's investigations.
Posted on Aug 18, 2026
| Washington Post
DHS defends investigating agency critics and giving them warning notices
Federal agents tracked New York resident David Streever to his home and then to JFK Airport to confront him over a scathing email he sent ICE's former acting director; DHS now defends such investigations in court against Streever's First Amendment lawsuit.
Posted on Aug 17, 2026
| NPR
ICE's crackdown on immigrants is overwhelming the court system
A quiet reinterpretation of immigration law has triggered a wave of emergency habeas petitions, more than 18,000 filed in Trump's first year alone, more than the past three administrations combined, as ICE detains longtime U.S. residents.
Posted on Aug 17, 2026
| NPR (Here & Now)
How Trump's Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart
Homeland Security Investigations reassigned agents off child-exploitation, drug- and human-trafficking cases to hunt for noncitizen voters; of the roughly 150 people referred for prosecution between January 2025 and May 2026, only 41 were charged.
Posted on Aug 14, 2026
| ProPublica
Third migrant dies at Delaney Hall
DHS confirms Guatemalan immigrant Jose Chajon-Raxon died after a July medical emergency at the Newark ICE facility, the third confirmed detainee death there in recent months, prompting renewed calls to close it.
Posted on Aug 13, 2026
| The Hill
Trump Busted Getting a Boost From Dead People
An investigation finds more than 12,000 manufactured public comments, including some attributed to deceased people, were submitted to boost support for a Department of Labor rule.
Posted on Aug 13, 2026
| Daily Beast