Ted Hesson
@tedhesson.bsky.social
Immigration Reporter @Reuters
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
President Trump is preparing for a more aggressive immigration crackdown in 2026 with billions in new funding, including by raiding more workplaces — even as backlash builds ahead of next year’s midterm elections www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 despite brewing backlash
Trump plans more workplace raids and billions of dollars in ICE and Border Patrol funding.
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December 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
President Trump is preparing for a more aggressive immigration crackdown in 2026 with billions in new funding, including by raiding more workplaces — even as backlash builds ahead of next year’s midterm elections www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Four immigrants died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the past week, according to the agency, as deaths in 2025 reached a two-decade high www.reuters.com/world/us/fou...
Four died in ICE custody this week as 2025 deaths reach 20-year high
Four immigrants died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the past week, according to the agency, as deaths in 2025 reached a two-decade high.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Four immigrants died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the past week, according to the agency, as deaths in 2025 reached a two-decade high www.reuters.com/world/us/fou...
Trump takes aim at diversity visa after suspect in Brown shooting linked to program: "What we're seeing is this administration using these cases, these stories, as a pretext to their own end, which is to target people from countries that they deem to be undesirable" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump takes aim at diversity visa after suspect in Brown shooting linked to program
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is moving to clamp down on a visa program that aims to increase diversity after the suspect in an attack at Brown University was linked to it, the latest i...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Trump takes aim at diversity visa after suspect in Brown shooting linked to program: "What we're seeing is this administration using these cases, these stories, as a pretext to their own end, which is to target people from countries that they deem to be undesirable" www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an administration official, emails reviewed by Reuters showed www.reuters.com/business/med...
White South Africans could get Trump biography for kids in refugee welcome packet
White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an administration official, emails re...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
White South Africans coming to the U.S. as refugees could get a biography of President Donald Trump for children as part of a welcome packet proposed last week by an administration official, emails reviewed by Reuters showed www.reuters.com/business/med...
Student and veteran journalists say that college newsrooms, indie media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track immigration enforcement and collaborating on information www.reuters.com/business/med...
'Pins on a Map': How Chicago students are tracking ICE raids
These student journalists counter online rumor with facts and give locals maps of frequently targeted areas as panic spreads over whom immigration agents will target next.
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December 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Student and veteran journalists say that college newsrooms, indie media and legacy outlets across Chicago are now working together in ways that upend decades of cutthroat competition, building tools to track immigration enforcement and collaborating on information www.reuters.com/business/med...
The email from a U.S. immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their 6-year-old daughter. Inside Trump’s pressure tactics w/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...
As Trump misses deportation goals, ICE pushes migrants to give up their cases
The email from a U.S. immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation to their native Colombia or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
The email from a U.S. immigration officer presented Kelly and Yerson Vargas with a stark choice: accept deportation or risk being charged with a crime and separated from their 6-year-old daughter. Inside Trump’s pressure tactics w/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/ice...
Trump 'garbage' rhetoric about Somalis draws cheers from administration, silence from Republicans and alarm from critics - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump 'garbage' rhetoric about Somalis draws cheers from administration, silence from Republicans and alarm from critics
Donald Trump's racial comments are growing increasingly bold, normalized and permissible, his critics say, as some of his allies and supporters no longer consider them out of bounds.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Trump 'garbage' rhetoric about Somalis draws cheers from administration, silence from Republicans and alarm from critics - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
In one family-owned restaurant, a woman assembled makeshift beds, so family members could sleep there to avoid potentially being profiled by federal agents while traveling between home and work: “Not all of us are criminals,” she said. “We're hardworking people.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump launches immigration crackdown in New Orleans
New Orleans, with a population of around 384,000, would be the latest city with a Democratic mayor targeted in Trump's mass deportation push.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
In one family-owned restaurant, a woman assembled makeshift beds, so family members could sleep there to avoid potentially being profiled by federal agents while traveling between home and work: “Not all of us are criminals,” she said. “We're hardworking people.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump promised a San Francisco crime crackdown. His administration did the opposite. - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump promised a San Francisco crime crackdown. His administration did the opposite.
President Donald Trump vowed this year to flood San Francisco with federal agents – and even soldiers – to crack down on crime. Instead, his administration has quietly taken law enforcement away, leav...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Trump promised a San Francisco crime crackdown. His administration did the opposite. - www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
US authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Sunday www.reuters.com/world/us/nat...
National Guard shooting suspect radicalized in US, homeland secretary says
U.S. authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members in Washington, D.C., was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
US authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Sunday www.reuters.com/world/us/nat...
President Trump is moving to clamp down on legal immigration into the U.S. after an Afghan immigrant was accused of ambushing National Guard members, a crackdown that echoes Trump's first-term restrictions and could face similar challenges www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Trump sharpens focus on legal immigration after National Guard shooting
U.S. President Donald Trump is moving to clamp down on legal immigration into the U.S. after an Afghan immigrant was accused of ambushing National Guard members, a crackdown that echoes Trump's first-...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
President Trump is moving to clamp down on legal immigration into the U.S. after an Afghan immigrant was accused of ambushing National Guard members, a crackdown that echoes Trump's first-term restrictions and could face similar challenges www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Officials criticize Biden vetting, but Afghan shooting suspect was granted asylum under Trump - www.reuters.com/world/us/off...
Officials criticize Biden vetting, but Afghan shooting suspect was granted asylum under Trump
The Trump administration on Thursday blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., but the alleged gu...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Officials criticize Biden vetting, but Afghan shooting suspect was granted asylum under Trump - www.reuters.com/world/us/off...
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has ordered a broad vetting review of all refugees who entered under former President Joe Biden, an internal U.S. government memo seen by Reuters said. W/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has ordered a broad vetting review of all refugees who entered under former President Joe Biden, an internal U.S. government memo seen by Reuters said. W/ @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Kateryna Golizdra lost her work permit and was forced to leave a job at the Ritz-Carlton in Fort Lauderdale after the Trump admin froze processing of renewals for the Uniting for Ukraine humanitarian program that allowed her and 260,000 others to come to the U.S. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Kateryna Golizdra lost her work permit and was forced to leave a job at the Ritz-Carlton in Fort Lauderdale after the Trump admin froze processing of renewals for the Uniting for Ukraine humanitarian program that allowed her and 260,000 others to come to the U.S. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
A Spanish-language immersion daycare in a leafy residential neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago was raided by federal immigration agents on Wednesday and a teacher was taken away www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A Spanish-language immersion daycare in a leafy residential neighborhood on the North Side of Chicago was raided by federal immigration agents on Wednesday and a teacher was taken away www.reuters.com/world/us/chi...
ICE aims to open a call center that would have a dedicated unit to track down unaccompanied migrant children with the help of state and local police, an agency contracting document said www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ICE aims to open a call center that would have a dedicated unit to track down unaccompanied migrant children with the help of state and local police, an agency contracting document said www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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ICE plans call center to track unaccompanied migrant children, other immigration offenders reut.rs/3LuUeH0
ICE plans call center to track unaccompanied migrant children, other immigration offenders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aims to open a call center that would have a dedicated unit to track down unaccompanied migrant children with the help of state and local police, an agency contracting document said, part of a wider Trump administration effort to find and potentially deport the minors.
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November 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
ICE plans call center to track unaccompanied migrant children, other immigration offenders reut.rs/3LuUeH0
Top US border official to face judge in Chicago over use of tear gas www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Top US border official to face judge in Chicago over use of tear gas
A federal judge has summoned a top U.S. Border Patrol official leading President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Chicago to appear in court on Tuesday, after a video appeared to show him deploying tear gas potentially in violation of a court order limiting its use against protesters.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Top US border official to face judge in Chicago over use of tear gas www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
US expands facial recognition at borders to track non-citizens www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Exclusive: The Trump administration is telling some federal law enforcement personnel, including Border Patrol agents and customs officers, that they will be paid during the government shutdown www.reuters.com/world/us/som...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Exclusive: The Trump administration is telling some federal law enforcement personnel, including Border Patrol agents and customs officers, that they will be paid during the government shutdown www.reuters.com/world/us/som...
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The Trump administration plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus as well as the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department against certain left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, officials said reut.rs/46JB5cL
October 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The Trump administration plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus as well as the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department against certain left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, officials said reut.rs/46JB5cL
A woman who was shot multiple times by border agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by DHS that described the shooting as self-defense. @reneehickman.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...
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October 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A woman who was shot multiple times by border agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by DHS that described the shooting as self-defense. @reneehickman.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...
As part of its crackdown on liberal groups, the White House shared a list of nine groups or donors that it said helped finance or plan protests where violence occurred. The list included the immigrant rights group CHIRLA, which said it advocates non-violence www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
As part of its crackdown on liberal groups, the White House shared a list of nine groups or donors that it said helped finance or plan protests where violence occurred. The list included the immigrant rights group CHIRLA, which said it advocates non-violence www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies
U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies
U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...