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Anais Flores at La Costeñita, her family’s Mexican restaurant in O’Neill.

How Trump instilled fear in a tiny town in Nebraska

The Flores family invited almost everyone they knew to their baby’s first birthday. But held in the shadow of the president’s immigration crackdown, they had no idea if anyone would turn up.

  • Annie Gowen and Sarah L. Voisin

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Peter Dutton during question time last week.

‘There is no case for it’: Dutton’s visa plan could cost $2.5b

Public policy academics, former Immigration Department bosses and the Productivity Commission all say the plan to bring back the “significant investor visa” is a bad one.

  • David Crowe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton shake hands at a Lunar New Year celebration in Box Hill in Melbourne’s east on Saturday.

‘I think we’ll bring it back’: Dutton makes private pledge to review $5m investor visa

The opposition leader has vowed to review the significant investor visa, reversing a Labor decision to scrap the program over concerns it could bring spies and criminals into Australia.

  • David Crowe
Brazilians who were deported from US walk through the departure lounge at Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Amazonas state, on January 25, 2025.

It was the first deportation flight of the new Trump era. It descended into chaos

The diplomatic dust-up marked a turbulent weekend for President Donald Trump’s hard-line policy to deport millions of immigrants.

  • Jack Nicas
The Las Vegas Ice Cream Patrol truck.

A viral TikTok warned of a covert ICE immigration agent van. It was an ice-cream truck

The video falsely claimed the van, packed with 70 ice-cream flavours, was an undercover vehicle for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

  • Kyle Melnick
President Donald Trump pauses while speaking in the White Hosue on Wednesday.

Trump to use Guantanamo Bay prison to hold 30,000 migrants

The US detention facility on the coast of Cuba was set up in 2002 to detain terrorism suspects following the 9/11 attacks.

  • Max Rivera
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President Donald Trump speaks at the 2025 House Republican Members Conference Dinner at Trump National Doral Golf Club.

Trump’s tariff tango will only reinforce his view that bullying works

Making an example of Colombia wasn’t a fair fight and didn’t actually change much, but it is being spun as a major victory for the power of threats.

  • Michael Koziol
Trump has wasted no time setting his sights on Jerome Powell.

Trump is set to put the blowtorch to an old enemy

Donald Trump is demanding lower interest rates as soon as possible. He is likely to be disappointed – and an old foe will feel the brunt of his displeasure.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Latin American countries’ refusal to bow to his orders.

Trump claims win over Colombia in stand-off over deportation flights

The tit-for-tat with the South American nation underscores the febrile environment surrounding the US president’s deportation policy.

  • Michael Koziol
Invasion Day protesters march from Queens Gardens to Musgrave Park while 500 citizens receive citizenship ceremony at City Hall

A city of two tales: New citizens welcomed while Invasion Day protesters rally

As the lord mayor welcomed 500 new citizens at a Brisbane City Hall ceremony, hundreds gathered nearby to protest against Australia Day.

  • Courtney Kruk

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