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Yard signs bearing the mugshots of alleged illegal migrants and criminals were erected on the front lawn of the White House.

‘I run the world’: Trump marks 100 days with stunts, boasts and propaganda

The US president also embraced Australian football player Jordan Mailata at a ceremony for the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the Super Bowl in February.

  • Michael Koziol

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In Florida last week, nearly 800 immigrants were arrested in an operation involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

Boy, 4, with cancer among American children deported with mothers, lawyers say

US border tsar Tom Homan’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested 800 immigrants in Florida last week.

  • Rachel Nostrant
Australian-based academic Seng Sary has admitted he was on the payroll of Cambodian ruler Hun Sen.

Academic who fled Cambodia for Australia was on Hun Sen’s payroll

Melbourne Uni made him a fellow. He posed for a photo with a soon-to-be federal minister, and was considered a hero. But it wasn’t the full picture.

  • Zach Hope
FBI director Kash Patel posts an image on X of what he says is Judge Hannah Dugan being arrested.

FBI arrests US judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities

Hannah Dugan’s arrest escalates a clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the US president’s sweeping immigration crackdown.

  • Alanna Durkin Richer, Devi Shastri and Corey Williams
The fall of Saigon saw hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees make Australia their home.

The hunted and haunted outcasts who changed their new country forever

They endured war, risked death and faced down pirates. And 50 years after they began to arrive in Australia, they have left a profound mark on their new home.

  • Kate Geraghty and Michael Ruffles
Adriana Zandri, who lost her husband Ivan Manzano in the Walmart mass shooting, hugs his killer, Patrick Crusius.

‘Is she going to hug me?’ The moment that brought a mass killer to tears

He killed 23 people in one of the worst mass shootings in US history. At his final court hearing this week, the sister of one of his victims looked him straight in the face.

  • Kim Bellware and Jonathan Edwards
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Dutton claimed he had been misunderstood when on Monday he appeared to have said he would not scrap Labor’s signature tax break to encourage electric vehicle uptake.

Dutton must target backpackers to deliver promised cuts to migration

Surging numbers of working holidaymakers would have to be drastically curtailed for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to achieve his promise of driving down overall migration levels.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Liberal MP Jason Wood, Immigration agent Jack Ta and then-home affairs minister Peter Dutton in 2018.

Coalition frontbencher ‘shocked’ by allegations against a migration agent. But he had been warned

Jason Wood tried to appoint migration agent Jack Ta to a government advisory group, but relented after his own department warned him of “serious integrity concerns”.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Usman Khawaja has called for changes in the way immigration is viewed by voters, as his Foundation and Settlement Services International announced a partnership.

‘The beauty of immigration’: Inside Khawaja’s heartfelt mission for change

As he reflects on his upbringing as a new Australian, Usman Khawaja delivers a telling insight into the changes needed in the nation’s cricket landscape.

  • Nick Wright
Venezuelan immigrant Ricardo Prada Vásquez in 2021. 

Ricardo took a wrong turn after picking up a McDonald’s delivery. It was a fateful error

Delivery driver Ricardo Prada Vásquez was heading to a customer’s address in Detroit when he found himself on a bridge that leads to Canada. What happened next upended his life.

  • Miriam Jordan

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