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FILE - A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

ICE arrests 10,000 in 5 days, a sharp late-June surge in Trump’s deportation push

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June.

FILE - Surveillance technology used by various law enforcement sit on a tower at the border wall, July 28, 2025, in Douglas, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Trump administration’s $46-billion ‘smart wall’ races ahead on the U.S.-Mexico border

FILE - Migrants queue at a public service office to obtain paperwork needed to apply for Spain's immigration amnesty, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat near Barcelona, Spain, on April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

By the numbers: More than 1 million immigrants apply to legalize their status in Spain

FILE - The Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, is shown, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez,File)

Court sentences 7 more to prison over shooting at Texas immigration detention center

A guard walks to the the entrance to an immigration detention center during a visit by Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026, in California City, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Inside the California ICE detention boycott over $18 coffee grounds, $21 tampon boxes

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Arellano: The sad inevitability of Justice Alito’s birthright citizenship dissent

Chaos, long lines overwhelm L.A.’s immigration courts, leading to default deportation orders

Noncitizen voting, police oversight measures fail to make Nov. 3 ballot in L.A.

U.S. Treasury cracks down on Jalisco New Generation Cartel with sanctions and a bank alert

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Wilber Urbina Garcia, 18, graduated from Jordan High School on June 9. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained him the next day during a routine check-in for his asylum case. Photo credit to Winston Garcia

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He graduated high school with honors. ICE detained him the next day

Wilber Urbina Garcia was at a routine ICE check-in when he was taken away. He and his family had applied for asylum after leaving Nicaragua in 2022.

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