Daily Immigration News Clips – February 26, 2026

National

WGTC Trump is hiring ‘deportation judges’ with six-figure bonuses, but what migrants are seeing on courtroom walls tells the real story
By Sadik Hossain

CBS News ICE arrested 261 DACA recipients over 10 months last year, document shows
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez

Notus Trump Administration’s Third-Country Deportation Practices Are Illegal, Federal Judge Rules
By Jackie Llanos

PBS News Supreme Court rules against private prison firm alleged to have forced immigrant detainees to work for $1 a day
By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

U.S. News Exclusive-ICE Struggles to Vet Recruits Amid US Immigration Enforcement Push, Internal Email Shows
By Ted Hesson & Kristina Cooke

Local

ProPublica Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories
By McKenzie Funk & Mica Rosenberg

The Imprint Worms, Bugs and Mold: Conditions for Detained Immigrant Children Worsen Under Trump
By Jeremy Loudenback

Reuters Near-blind refugee found dead in Buffalo after release by US Border Patrol
By Jan Wolfe and Kristina Cooke

Spectrum Local News A look inside the Laredo shelter helping migrants from ICE's Dilley detention center
By Lily Celeste

The Guardian Investigation urged into immigration practices of company owned by Maga donors | Milwaukee
By Stephanie Kirchgaessner