https://www.scmp.com/rss/522947/feed The latest news and top stories on Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the US Department of Homeland Security, overseeing public outreach, media, digital, strategic, and crisis communications. Her responsibilities include advising Secretary Noem on all communications. Previously, she held significant roles in the first Trump Administration, including Chief of Staff for Nuclear Arms Control at the US State Department and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Reuters Reuters US Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin will leave the administration, an agency spokesperson said, a move that comes as public support for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has dwindled. McLaughlin became a prominent booster of ‌the Republican president’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement and headed the press operation at DHS, which has come under scrutiny for issuing inaccurate or incomplete statements following violent encounters involving... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343848/top-trump-homeland-security-spokeswoman-leaving-amid-backlash-over-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343848/top-trump-homeland-security-spokeswoman-leaving-amid-backlash-over-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:53:11 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump sent his top border enforcer to Minneapolis on Monday and struck a conciliatory note in a bid to tamp down nationwide outrage over the second killing of a US citizen protesting militarised immigration raids this month. The White House was scrambling as video of the latest shooting went viral, prompting street protests, criticism from former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, increasingly, from within Trump’s Republican Party. Trump said Tom Homan, his point... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3341325/white-house-softens-tone-crackdown-after-minneapolis-killings-fury?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:52:40 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A 5-year-old boy arriving home from preschool in Minnesota was taken by federal agents along with his father to a detention facility in Texas, school officials and the family’s lawyer said, making him the fourth student from his Minneapolis suburb to be detained by immigration officers in recent weeks. Federal agents took Liam Conejo Ramos from a running car in the family’s driveway Tuesday afternoon, Columbia Heights Public Schools Superintendent Zena Stenvik told reporters on Wednesday. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340998/ice-detains-5-year-old-minneapolis-school-officials-claim-child-was-used-bait?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340998/ice-detains-5-year-old-minneapolis-school-officials-claim-child-was-used-bait?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:50:45 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg A federal officer shot a man in the leg on Wednesday night in Minneapolis, a week after the fatal shooting of a local woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent touched off angry protests and an intensifying clash between state leaders and the Trump administration. The shooting followed a targeted traffic stop shortly before 7pm Central Time, when the man fled in his vehicle and crashed into a parked car, according to Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339969/man-shot-federal-officer-minneapolis-tensions-flare-over-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339969/man-shot-federal-officer-minneapolis-tensions-flare-over-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:30:34 +0000 Reuters Reuters Four migrants died while in custody of US immigration authorities over the first 10 days of ‍2026, according to government press releases, a loss of life that followed record detention deaths last year under US President Donald Trump. The deaths included two migrants from Honduras, one from Cuba and another from Cambodia, and occurred from January 3-9, according to US Immigration and ⁠Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Trump administration was aiming to ramp up deportations and has increased the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339823/least-4-migrants-have-died-us-immigration-custody-start-2026?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339823/least-4-migrants-have-died-us-immigration-custody-start-2026?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:49:56 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown increasingly is sparking violent confrontations with both migrants and American citizens, a development grimly underscored by an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman this week. Under ‌Trump’s orders to ramp up deportations, masked immigration officers have surged into Democratic-led cities, sprayed tear gas in residential streets, tackled people in car parks and pointed guns at bystanders trying to film them. A federal... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339453/trumps-immigration-crackdown-invites-danger-sparking-violent-confrontations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3339453/trumps-immigration-crackdown-invites-danger-sparking-violent-confrontations?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:05:55 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A federal judge ordered on Friday that US immigration officials could not detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia, hours after his release from immigration detention. Abrego Garcia was appearing on Friday morning for a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office, some 14 hours after he was released from detention on a judge’s orders. His lawyers asked the judge to block authorities from detaining him again. Officials cannot re-detain him until the court conducts a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336288/us-judge-blocks-ice-re-detaining-abrego-garcia-amid-trump-era-immigration-clash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336288/us-judge-blocks-ice-re-detaining-abrego-garcia-amid-trump-era-immigration-clash?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:29:02 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan The whereabouts of a six-year-old boy from China remain unknown after he was allegedly separated from his father while both were held by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New York last week. The city’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday raised the issue on social media, saying that the first grader, named Yuanxin, was “arrested and separated” along with his father Fei Zheng during a “routine check-in” with ICE on November 26. “Now he’s in custody, alone. ICE won’t say where.... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3334988/where-yuanxin-whereabouts-6-year-old-chinese-boy-unknown-after-ice-detention?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3334988/where-yuanxin-whereabouts-6-year-old-chinese-boy-unknown-after-ice-detention?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:51:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would review the immigration status of every permanent resident or “green card” holder from Afghanistan and 18 other countries following the attack on National Guard troops in Washington. The announcement came as US President Donald Trump said that one of the National Guard members, 20-year-old Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, had died of her wounds, while the other, Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, 24, was ‘fighting for his life’. US officials have... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334434/trump-admin-reviewing-every-green-card-19-countries-after-washington-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334434/trump-admin-reviewing-every-green-card-19-countries-after-washington-shooting?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:19:30 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A Massachusetts woman who was once engaged to the brother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt remains in ICE custody two weeks after being arrested on her way to pick up the son she shares with her former fiancé. Bruna Ferreira, 33, was driving to her son’s school in New Hampshire on November 12 when she was pulled over in Revere, Massachusetts, her lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, said on Wednesday. “She wasn’t told why she was detained,” he said. “She was bounced from Massachusetts, to New... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334290/immigrant-family-ties-trump-spokeswoman-karoline-leavitt-detained-ice?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3334290/immigrant-family-ties-trump-spokeswoman-karoline-leavitt-detained-ice?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:12:41 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg A new deployment of federal agents arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday as part of US President Donald Trump’s expanding immigration enforcement campaign, marking the latest push to carry out large-scale arrests in Democratic-led cities. “We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ensure Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed,” Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. She did not provide any details of the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332958/charlotte-north-carolina-becomes-latest-target-trumps-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3332958/charlotte-north-carolina-becomes-latest-target-trumps-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:49:35 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service The White House wants Kim Kardashian to keep her mouth shut about matters like mass deportation. The Department of Homeland Security blasted Kardashian over recent comments she made about US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, specifically the ongoing ICE raids that have pushed deportation numbers to nearly 200,000 since Trump’s takeover in January. “In the news you hear, ‘Oh, it’s about people who have committed these crimes and [ICE is] trying to help out our country,’”... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323798/kim-kardashian-clashes-white-house-over-trumps-immigration-raids?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3323798/kim-kardashian-clashes-white-house-over-trumps-immigration-raids?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 31 Aug 2025 04:20:07 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse From Uncle Sam to Superman, the US government has been deploying patriotic icons and increasingly warlike rhetoric to recruit Americans into enforcing Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Job ads promising US$50,000 signing bonuses to new “Deportation Officers” have flooded social media over the past week, accompanied by jingoistic rallying slogans that declare “America Needs You”. White House officials have shared World War I-style posters, including one with Uncle Sam donning an Immigration... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321167/us-uses-warlike-rhetoric-former-superman-actor-recruit-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321167/us-uses-warlike-rhetoric-former-superman-actor-recruit-immigration-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Aug 2025 03:27:26 +0000