Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 17, 2025

4/17/25
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 17, 2025.

National

NBC News Trump measures make life more difficult for immigrants — not just undocumented
By Suzanne Gamboa

Maryland Matters Lawmakers, legal experts press administration to return Abrego García from El Salvador
By Jade Tran, Tolu Talabi and Jess Daninhirsch

Forbes JD Vance Says Trump Immigration Policies About Numbers, Not Rights
By Stuart Anderson

Common Dreams As White House Doubles Down, Judge Launches Inquiry of Refusal to Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia
By Jessica Corbett

WUSA9 'He is not coming back to our country' | Trump administration vows to keep mistakenly deported Maryland man out of the US
By Rafael Sanchez-Cruz

The Atlantic We’re About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like
By Nick Miroff

The Washington Post Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings into Trump administration
By Marianne LeVine, Spencer S. Hsu, Salvador Rizzo and Jeremy Roebuck

The New York Times Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas
By Ryan Mac and Hamed Aleaziz

The Washington Post El Salvador refuses to allow senator to meet with mistakenly deported man
By Theodoric Meyer

NOTUS Democrats Want Access to El Salvador’s Mega Prison Holding Abrego Garcia
By Casey Murray

La Semana del Sur (OK) Supreme backing of Trump’s expedited deportations
By Maribel Hastings

El Paso Matters Opinion: El Paso’s mass shooting is proof of the impact of words. Trump and Republicans don’t care
By Mario Carrillo

The New York Times (Opinion) To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
By Kathleen Kingsbury
 

Local

The Texas Tribune UT-Rio Grande Valley students caught in nationwide sweep sue Homeland Security over immigration status
By Jessica Priest

CPR News Western Slope judge warns ICE to stop civil immigration actions in courthouses
By Allison Sherry and Ben Markus

CBS 6 Albany Immigration Advocates Respond After ICE Operations in Saratoga Springs
By Sam Israel

KFOR University of Oklahoma confirms visa revocations of students, immigration attorney outlines what to do next
By Mecca Thompson