Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips – April 18, 2025

4/18/25
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on April 18, 2025.

National

Associated Press Trump administration seeks explosive expansion of nation’s immigration detention system
By Sara Cline and Kate Brumback

PBS Immigration judge denies bond for detained Tufts student from Turkey, her lawyers say
By Kathy McCormack

CNN American citizen detained under ICE hold in Florida has been released
By Carma Hassan

ProPublica From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans
By Jeff Ernsthausen, Mica Rosenberg and Avi Asher-Schapiro

The Washington Post Senator meets with man wrongly deported to El Salvador
By Theodoric Meyer, María Luisa Paúl and Maria Sacchetti

Politico Conservative judge blasts Trump administration’s ‘shocking’ conduct in Abrego Garcia case
By Erica Orden

The Washington Post U.S. intelligence contradicts Trump’s justification for mass deportations
By John Hudson and Warren P. Strobel

The New York Times Dual Orders From Judges Edge Courts Closer to Confrontation With White House
By Alan Feuer

The Washington Post Appeals court excoriates Trump administration in illegal deportation case
By Steve Thompson

WGBH Attorneys ask federal judge to weigh in after immigration court denies Öztürk bond
By Sarah Betancourt

The Atlantic A Loophole That Would Swallow the Constitution
By Jonathan Chait

Boston Globe Agents in Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign seem to be reveling in brutality
By Yvonne Abraham

Local

Florida Phoenix U.S. citizen released from jail after arrest under Florida’s new anti-immigration law
By Jackie Llanos

Houston Public Media University of Houston students, professors gather to protest immigration enforcement, funding threats
By Sarah Grunau