Julia Ainsley
Senior Homeland Security Correspondent at NBC News
Julia Edwards Ainsley. NC native, wife, mother, former wire reporter turned @NBCNews Homeland Security Correspondent
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5 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Gary Grumbach |Suzanne Gamboa |Julia Ainsley
The Department of Homeland Security appeared on Friday to be preparing to send a new group of Venezuelan men from the U.S. to El Salvador and its notorious CECOT prison, even as lawyers from the American Civil Liberties union scrambled in the courts to stop the administration from moving forward. On Friday afternoon, a charter bus rolled up to the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, a town about 200 miles west of Dallas, where the men are being held.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Julia Ainsley
Trump administration officials are ramping up pressure on immigrants to leave the United States of their own volition, or “self deport,” as the number of people the government is deporting from the interior of the country remains stagnant, far below the vision for mass deportations promised by President Donald Trump and his top officials.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Matthew Lavietes |Matt Lavietes |Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Julia Ainsley
A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration can deport Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil just a month after his arrest prompted national outrage and marked the start of the federal government’s broader crackdown on foreign students. Khalil has until April 23 to file for relief.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Julia Ainsley
A recently created Department of Homeland Security task force is using data analytic tools to scour the social media histories of the estimated 1.5 million foreign students studying in the United States for potential grounds to revoke their visas, three sources familiar with the operation told NBC News. They said records are also being searched for charges or criminal convictions of the student visa holders.
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2 weeks ago |
nbcnews.com | Dan De Luce |Ken Dilanian |Courtney Kube |Julia Ainsley
The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as part of an ambitious effort to combat criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern border, according to six current and former U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence officials with knowledge of the matter.
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