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Border & Growth · From the wire

New ICE tactics drive record July arrests, but catch nurses and scholars instead of criminals

Federal immigration agents are employing new tactics — from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest — to boost their arrest numbers, leading to more arrests in July than in any previous month of the Trump administration. Though it is striving to fulfill the...

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August 10, 2026 at 8:10 AM MST

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