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CHICAGO (AP) — The sight of armed, camouflaged and masked Border Patrol agents making arrests near famous downtown Chicago landmarks has amplified concerns about the Trump administration’s growing federal intervention across U.S. cities. As Illinois leaders warned Monday of a National Guard deployment, residents in the nation’s third-largest city met a brazen weekend escalation of immigration enforcement tactics with anger, …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Armed federal agents patrolled Chicago’s downtown streets on Sunday, a new escalation of an immigration enforcement crackdown there that followed President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will send troops to Portland in the latest examples of creeping federal law enforcement presence in U.S. cities. Meanwhile, Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has said federal authorities, including immigration …

Broadview officials said Saturday that their police department was warned by federal agents there would be “a s— show” in the western suburb in response to Mayor Katrina Thompson’s comments that ICE is “making war on my community.” Their comments came as, for a second day in a row, federal agents launched tear gas and other chemical irritants near protesters …

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled on Wednesday that it’s unconstitutional to require states to cooperate on immigration enforcement actions to get funding for disasters, which is overseen by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A coalition of 20 state Democratic attorneys general in May filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the Trump administration is threatening to …

Days after federal immigration agents detained Cary Lopez Alvarado, a 23-year-old Los Angeles native and U.S. citizen, she gave birth to a baby girl.  Lopez Alvarado and her now 3-month-old child are among some Americans who have been caught in the middle of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement and forced to prove their citizenship to gain their release from detention. …

Federal agents, including those conducting immigration enforcement operations, will not comply with California’s mask ban for on-duty law enforcement officers when it goes into effect in January, according to Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. Essayli, who was appointed to the position for the Central District of California by President Trump earlier this year, told CBS News Los Angeles’ Jeff Nguyen on …

Federal immigration agents and other law enforcement officials will be banned from covering their faces under a new bill in California. (SOUNDBITE OF ORIGAMIBIRO’S “FRACTURE”) AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: A news coming out of California yesterday has national implications. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) GAVIN NEWSOM: I’ll be signing a bill – the first in the nation – saying enough. To ICE, …

California’s governor has signed a bill to ban local and federal law enforcement officers, including with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), from wearing face masks while on duty. The ban, which comes into effect on 1 January 2026, is part of a series of bills that aims to protect residents from what Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has called “secret …

California will be the first state to ban most law enforcement, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill signed by the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, on Saturday. The ban is California’s direct response to a recent series of immigration raids in Los Angeles where federal agents wore masks while making mass arrests. …

California became the first state to ban most law enforcement, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom. The ban is a direct response to recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, where federal agents wore masks while making mass arrests. The raids prompted days of protest across …