Immigration News

Daily Immigration News Clips - August 18, 2026

8/18/26
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on August 18, 2026.

National

Forbes Trump Officials Now Restricting All Legal Immigration Categories
By Stuart Anderson

The New York Times Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport
By Miriam Jordan

The American Prospect Trump's Latest Catch-22 for Immigrants
By Patrick Donn Dimasin

NOTUS Deportations Are Spiking. Judges Say Their Hands Are Being Forced.
By Eric Katz

Reuters US ICE puts forward insurance plan to protect local officers making immigration arrests
By Kanishka Singh

Scripps News Corporate owners of ICE detention centers report another revenue surge
By Patrick Terpstra

The New Republic ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves Are Billed As "Low Optics" Tool
By Edith Olmsted

CBS News DOJ asks court to reinstate criminal charges against Abrego Garcia
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez

The Hill Trump’s latest birthright citizenship order is also unconstitutional
By Steven Lubet

Local

Maine Morning Star Amid Trump administration silence, national Democrats hold ‘shadow’ hearing on fatal ICE shooting
By Emma Davis

Alabama Reflector Alabama Department of Corrections signs contract with ICE
By Ralph Chapoco

Axios How much Trump's deportation push could cost Texas taxpayers
By Madalyn Mendoza

ABC News New York Queens leaders launch immigration rights campaign amid concerns over ICE enforcement
By Lindsay Tuchman

Nevada Current NV joins suit as Trump's anti-immigrant agenda targets truck drivers
By April Corbin Girnus

Chicago Sun-Times Illinois lawmakers want chaotic 'mega master' hearings at Chicago's immigration court to end
By Lauren FitzPatrick and Adriana Cardona-Maguigad

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