San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro (D) inspected a federal shelter in San Benito, Texas Tuesday and raised serious questions about how pregnant migrant minors are being cared for.

In a letter sent last week, ICE's top official indicated to members of Congress that the agency is using a spyware tool to intercept encrypted messages of fentanyl traffickers.

The sweeping rule changes, all enacted outside the typical legislative process, have upended life for noncitizens, including those who are here legally.

ICE inspectors in February found 49 violations to detention standards at Camp East Montana, including failure from staff to"accurately document required checks to prevent significant self-harm and suicide."

Tuesday's ruling reinstates the immigration status of those who came via CBP One and whose status was terminated.

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a new border security project in the Rio Grande — a floating barrier of linked buoys. The effort, known as Operation River Wall, calls for more than 500 miles of buoy barriers in the river along the Texas-Mexico border. There are questions about how the buoys would function during a flooding event.

In the new book “Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down” a cultural anthropologist examines the social and political divides in the U.S., examining how physical and social barriers like gated communities, massive trucks, and targeted media create separation — and isolation—and looks for how to restore communal caretaking and a more inclusive society.

Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.

The Oklahoma Republican comes to the helm in the midst of a shutdown that has left some 100,000 of the department's more than a quarter-million employees working without pay.

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, died March 14 in a Dallas hospital, the day after ICE arrested him outside his home. He was the 24th person to die in ICE custody since last October.