Reform U.K. Wins Special Election by Six Votes, in Blow to Starmer

Reform U.K. Wins Special Election by Six Votes, in Blow to Starmer

Nigel Farage’s insurgent anti-immigration party, Reform U.K., scored a significant, if narrow, victory Friday in a parliamentary special election in the northwest of England, serving notice that Mr. Farage, a populist fixture and close ally of President Trump, is again a rising force in British politics. Reform’s candidate, Sarah Pochin, won by a razor-thin margin … Read more

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Lift Deportation Protections for Venezuelans

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Lift Deportation Protections for Venezuelans

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to let it remove protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants who had been allowed to remain in the United States without risk of deportation under a program known as Temporary Protected Status. In February, Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, terminated an 18-month extension … Read more

Venezuela Accepts Flight Carrying Deportees From U.S. for First Time in Weeks

Venezuela Accepts Flight Carrying Deportees From U.S. for First Time in Weeks

The Trump administration sent a flight carrying deportees from the United States to Venezuela on Sunday, the first such flight since the Venezuelan government reached an agreement with the Trump administration on Saturday to resume accepting them. Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, invited journalists to an airport near Caracas, the capital, on Sunday at 8 … Read more

Trump Administration Plans to Require Undocumented Immigrants to Register

Trump Administration Plans to Require Undocumented Immigrants to Register

The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it plans to make undocumented immigrants age 14 or older in the United States register and provide their fingerprints to the U.S. government or potentially face criminal prosecution. The announcement by the Department of Homeland Security is a drastic escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to push millions … Read more

Immigrant Communities in Hiding: ‘People Think ICE Is Everywhere’

Immigrant Communities in Hiding: ‘People Think ICE Is Everywhere’

At a barbershop in Los Angeles, only one of the 10 chairs was occupied on what would ordinarily be a busy evening. In San Francisco, a middle school student’s erroneous information about seeing an immigration officer on a city bus prompted the school district to send parents a warning. In Chicago, a mistaken report that … Read more

Colombia Agrees to Accept Deportation Flights After Trump Threatens Tariffs

Colombia Agrees to Accept Deportation Flights After Trump Threatens Tariffs

Under threats from President Trump that included steep tariffs, President Gustavo Petro of Colombia has relented and will allow U.S. military planes to fly deportees into the country, after turning two transports back in response to what he called inhumane treatment. The two leaders had engaged in a war of words on Sunday after Colombia’s … Read more

They Were Waiting for Flights. Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies.

They Were Waiting for Flights. Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies.

Nasir, a legal adviser to the Afghan Air Force during the war, helped approve airstrikes against Taliban fighters. He is still in Afghanistan, where he has lived in hiding since the Taliban takeover in 2021 while awaiting approval to resettle in the United States. He had passed background checks and needed only a medical exam … Read more

In Reversal, Musk Disparages Farage

In Reversal, Musk Disparages Farage

It was an abrupt turnabout, even for the easy-come, easy-go nature of alliances in President-elect Donald J. Trump’s political orbit. For weeks, Elon Musk, Mr. Trump’s billionaire backer, had wrapped his arms around the British populist politician, Nigel Farage, promoting his insurgent, anti-immigrant party, Reform U.K., as the answer to Britain’s problems. But on Sunday, … Read more