The Senate voted 53-46 Wednesday afternoon to begin formal consideration of a roughly $70 billion immigration enforcement package that would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, kicking off a marathon amendment process before a final passage vote expected later this week.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that Republicans are pressing ahead with a third budget reconciliation bill focused on combating fraud and reducing the cost of living, even as their second package was still working through the Senate.
The Department of Justice filed lawsuits Thursday against four Democratic-led states that refuse to issue confidential license plates to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducting undercover operations.
The Texas Department of Public Safety released video Tuesday of a May 18 traffic stop in Webb County where a state trooper discovered 20 illegal aliens crammed inside the sleeper cab and trailer of a semi-truck in what authorities described as a human smuggling attempt.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced a reconciliation bill Wednesday that would allocate more than $17 billion to fund immigration enforcement agencies for fiscal year 2026, clearing the measure for a potential floor vote as early as this week over unified Democratic opposition.
Democratic district attorneys across the country announced Monday they will arrest and prosecute federal agents who appear at polling locations, hours before six states opened voting in the 2026 midterm primaries.
Jose Ceballos-Armendariz, the former two-term mayor of Coldwater, Kansas, turned himself in to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the agency's Wichita office Wednesday, a month after pleading guilty to illegally voting in several American elections as a Mexican green card holder.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a letter to Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown, demanding that she enter an agreement with ICE to enforce federal immigration policy.
