The Trump administration has been releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S. border with Mexico after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other aid may violate a law used to prosecute smugglers.

The administration’s decisions to end temporary protected status for Venezuelans and expedite refugee status for Afrikaners have generated concern that he is using humanitarian protections to reward allies and punish enemies.

“Suck it,” Noem wrote on X, formerly Twitter, attaching a screenshot of a court notice confirming that a group of 10 detained immigrants had voluntarily withdrawn their legal challenge to potentially being sent to Guantanamo.

The ex-soldier and smuggler, who we are calling Nick, has also been describing how he smuggled Albanian people in cars on to ferries - and how the migrants then jumped into lorries on the vehicle decks mid-journey in the English Channel.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has secured an additional 60 convictions from individuals who pleaded guilty to trespassing on the new National Defense Area in El Paso County.

A Canadian-born freelance television producer said he brought his pitch to build a show around aspiring immigrants learning about the culture of their new country to the U.S., but the spirit of his pitch has been "completely misrepresented.

At least seven Sudanese migrants were found dead on Friday after their vehicle broke down and left them stranded for days deep in the Libyan desert, according to an ambulance service official. The car was carrying 34 Sudanese when it broke down some after crossing Libya's border from Chad and onto a deserted path often used by smugglers,

Critics are lashing out after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s brutal, two-word takedown of illegal migrants. The nasty dig came after a lawsuit filed on behalf of the migrants against Noem was voluntarily dropped on Thursday.