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Yesterday — 7 September 2025Main stream

Tensions Mount as Trump Administration Threatens Federal Crackdown in Chicago

7 September 2025 at 09:20
In a social media post, President Trump said Chicago was “about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” Illinois officials condemned the message.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Metal barricades were placed around the federal courthouse on Thursday night in the heart of Chicago’s downtown.

ICE Has Begun Immigration Crackdown in Massachusetts

7 September 2025 at 06:07
The operation includes Boston, whose mayor has drawn the administration’s ire for speaking out against the growing scale of its immigration actions.

© Brian Snyder/Reuters

A homeland security officer observed a news briefing by Mayor Michelle Wu in Boston last month, after Attorney General Pam Bondi demanded that Boston lift its sanctuary city policies.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Abrego Garcia Now Facing Shifting Threats of Deportation

6 September 2025 at 06:15
A court had ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to his homeland, but now the administration sees a loophole. On Friday, Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were told that he would be sent to the small African nation of Eswatini.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore last month.

Chicago Braces for Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Protesters held demonstrations and city leaders spoke against the prospect of a surge of federal agents.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Police encountered demonstrators trying to block government vehicles from leaving an ICE facility in Broadview, Ill., outside Chicago, on Friday.
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