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Today — 19 October 2025Main stream

A Squalid Building, a Tip to the Feds, and Then ‘Straight-Up Chaos’

An immigration raid on an apartment building in Chicago followed years of problems with crime, and neglect by landlords. It swept up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night.

© Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Windows are boarded up at an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood where federal agents staged a massive raid.

What Powers Does the Border Patrol Have Across the Country?

18 October 2025 at 17:03
The Trump administration is increasingly relying on the agency for immigration enforcement within the U.S.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

Gregory Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official, led federal agents in removing protesters from a driveway used to transport detained people to an immigration processing center in Broadview, Ill.

The Border Patrol’s Blueprint for American Cities

The U.S. Border Patrol is expanding its mission to major cities across America, and building a splashy social media campaign to promote it. We joined them in Chicago — hundreds of miles away from the nearest foreign border — to observe how the agency’s mission has changed.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

© Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Some of the dozens of white South Africans who accepted an invitation from the Trump administration to come to the United States as refugees arrived at an air hangar in Dulles, Va., in May.
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