Ana Ley

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New York Times reporter covering immigration in New York City. Tips: ana.ley@nytimes.com https://www.nytimes.com/by/ana-ley

NEW: While covering round-the-clock protests at Delaney Hall’s parking lot, my colleagues and I decided we wanted to know what it was like inside the immigration detention facility. For months, inmates had pleaded for help

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Julie K. Brown receives Pulitzer Prize special citation for her work on Jeffrey Epstein case

Brown's 2017 and 2018 reporting was cited at the awards ceremony. “Her work, and the government’s release of the Epstein files, continue to reverberate around the world.”

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"[16 year old] Fernanda’s father was deported to El Salvador. In her messy bedroom, piled with stuffed animals, makeup brushes and Polaroids, she keeps the gifts he sent from detention — a bracelet that he spooled together with broken rosaries and a necklace made out of beads shaped from bread."

"ICE agents have turned Nassau County’s fire stations into rest stops, pulling into parking lots to take a break from patrolling.... agents park outside schools after classes are released." “Children of Republican parents have intimidated our kids.... They showed up to school with American flags.”

Two weekends, two cities. I’ll be in San Antonio first, then Los Angeles.
 If you’re in Texas or California — come through. Thank you to @sabookfestival + @latimesfob + De Los Angeles Times for the invitations. ❤️‍🔥

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Stephen Miller raised the idea of ending public education funding for undocumented children in a closed-door meeting with Texas lawmakers last week, a move that would challenge a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent, according to two people who were in the meeting.

Stephen Miller Asks Why Texas Pays to Teach Undocumented Children

Citing gridlock in Washington, President Trump’s top immigration adviser encouraged Texas lawmakers to lead on conservative priorities.

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The Trump administration has portrayed protesters as left-wing terrorists, time and again, in cities that have borne the brunt of Trump's immigration crackdown. Here’s how the Justice Department has relentlessly pushed to pursue and prosecute protesters. nyti.ms/4sXUezT

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ICE officers in Minneapolis shot and killed a woman in a car, but details of the shooting remained unclear, with conflicting accounts from local and federal officials. The shooting took place about a mile from where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020. Follow updates.

Live Updates: Minneapolis Mayor Disputes Federal Account of Fatal ICE Shooting

Immigration officers opened fire on a 37-year-old woman in a car, who a federal spokeswoman said was trying to kill them. City officials disputed that account, describing the shooting as an overreaction.

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NEW: this morning the Trump admin moved to terminate legal status for ~20,000 people: - Temporary Protected Status for Ethiopia, in place since 2022, with ~5,000 beneficiaries - Family Reunification Parole Programs, in place since 2023 and some legacy cases from earlier, covering ~15,000 people.

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
[CIS No. 2842-26; DHS Docket No. USCIS-2022-0014]
RIN 1615-ZB96
Termination of the Designation of Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status
AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department of
Homeland Security (DHS).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
announces that the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) is terminating the
designation of Ethiopia for Temporary Protected Status. The designation of Ethiopia is
set to expire on December 12, 2025. After reviewing country conditions and consulting
with appropriate U.S. Government agencies, the Secretary determined that Ethiopia no
longer continues to meet the conditions for the designation for Temporary Protected
Status. The Secretary, therefore, is terminating the Temporary Protected Status
designation of Ethiopia as required by statute. This termination is effective [INSERT
DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL
REGISTER]. After [INSERT DATE 60 DAYS AFTER DATE OF PUBLICATION
IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER], nationals of Ethiopia (and aliens having no
nationality who last habitually resided in Ethiopia) who have been granted Temporary
Protected Status under Ethiopia’s designation will no longer have Temporary Protected
Status. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
[CIS No. 2806-25]
RIN 1615-ZC12
Termination of Family Reunification Parole Processes for Colombians, Cubans,
Ecuadorians, Guatemalans, Haitians, Hondurans, and Salvadorans
ACTION: Notice
SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) is terminating the
categorical parole processes for aliens from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and their immediate family members, under the Family
Reunification Parole processes announced, or updated, by DHS in 2023 (hereinafter
referred to as “modernized FRP programs”). DHS is also terminating the residual
processing of legacy cases under the Cuban Family Reunification Parole program
(“legacy CFRP”) and the Haitian Family Reunification Parole program (“legacy HFRP”)
first implemented by USCIS in 2007 and 2014, respectively (collectively, the “legacy
FRP programs”). This Federal Register notice is intended to provide context and
guidance to the public regarding the termination of all nine programs (hereinafter “the
FRP programs”), termination of parole for aliens paroled under the FRP programs, and
revocation of employment authorization based on being an alien paroled under the FRP
programs.
DATES: DHS is terminating the FRP programs as of [INSERT DATE OF
PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER]. The temporary parole period of
aliens who have been paroled into the United States under the FRP programs, and whose
initial period of parole has not already expired by [INSERT DATE 30 DAYS AFTER
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER] will terminate on that