Priscilla Alvarez

Scoop: The Trump administration is moving to rapidly deport some migrant children who arrived in the US without a parent or guardian by having federal agents ask teens whether they want to voluntarily depart the country, I'm told. cnn.com/2025/07/23/pol…

ICE deported around 150,000 people since Trump took office, confirming @camiloreports, putting the agency on track to deport the highest number of people in more than a decade. DHS also recorded 13,000+ self-deportations. Here's one of those stories: cnn.com/2025/07/09/pol…

A federal judge in Tennessee declined on Wednesday to undo a separate judge’s decision to let Kilmar Abrego Garcia remain free while he awaits trial on human smuggling charges — though he’ll continue to remain behind bars for at least another month. cnn.com/2025/07/23/pol…

National Guard troops from as many as 20 states are expected to be tasked with some hands-on roles including conducting finger printing and mouth swabbing of detainees—part of a broader mobilization to assist ICE. Story w/ @halbritz: cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…

Attorneys for wrongly deported Venezuelan asylum seeker will seek criminal contempt proceedings after prisoner swap: cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…

New: Roughly 2,000 National Guardsmen expected to soon be put on Title 32 status across as many as 20 states to help ICE at detention facilities, putting them under governors' control & in a status not subject to Posse Comitatus Act From me + @priscialva cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…

The Trump administration is preparing for a historic infusion of cash into the president’s mass deportation campaign that is expected to supercharge immigration enforcement nationwide—and likely place additional pressure on ICE. Latest w/@michaeldamianw: cnn.com/2025/07/20/pol…

Read ⁦@priscialva⁩ and ⁦@michaeldamianw⁩ on ICE’s plans to use billions of dollars to ramp up enforcement under pressure from the Trump WH. cnn.com/2025/07/20/pol…

News on @insidepolitics 8a/11aET - Hakeem Jeffries one-on-one as Trump pushes TX to add 5 GOP seats - New numbers on Trump at six months on his top issue: immigration - Fallout for Trump on Epstein - D approval at rock-bottom @priscialva @seungminkim @bresreports @margarettaalev

Americans largely oppose recent efforts by Donald Trump’s administration to scale up its deportation program, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, with a rising majority saying the president has gone too far in carrying out deportations. cnn.com/2025/07/20/pol…

The Venezuelan makeup artist who was deported to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison and has been among the most high-profile cases prompting backlash against the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown arrived in Venezuela Friday, according to his legal team.

What this includes: 10 US nationals are on their way back to the US, 252 Venezuelans detained in an El Salvadoran prison were sent back to Venezuela & dozens of Venezuelan political prisoners were released.

Trump administration sued over ICE arrests at immigration courthouses: cnn.com/2025/07/16/pol…

"Rolling a dice will be staying here": CNN's @priscialva reports on one undocumented immigrant self-deporting the U.S. with his family, despite his wife and kids being American citizens.

In court today, a Homeland Security agent provided a detailed play by play of the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk, including direction from leadership not to tell Öztürk that her visa had been revoked. More from @HolmesLybrand: cnn.com/2025/07/15/pol…

Trump admin asks appeals court to pause order requiring officials to stop immigration arrests without probable cause: cnn.com/2025/07/14/pol…