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Customs

ICE agents at Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, New Jersey on June 13, 2025. | Derek French / SOPA Images/Sipa USA/Newscom

Surveillance

ICE Is Snooping on Your Medical Bills

The immigration agency has reportedly gained access to a private database designed to fight insurance fraud.

Matthew Petti | 7.9.2025 5:15 PM

Andry Hernandez Romero's "mom" and "dad" tattoos | Photo: United States Department of Justice

Immigration

The Trump Administration Is Using Tattoos, Logos, and Clothes To Identify Supposed Gang Members

ICE deported Andry Hernandez Romero because his "mom" and "dad" tattoos were allegedly related to a Venezuelan gang.

Fiona Harrigan | 5.5.2025 6:00 AM

Illustration of a low-value Temu package on top of an ascending graph | llustration: Eddie Marshall | Cbechinie | Dreamstime.com

Tariffs

Trump Is Making Affordable Goods Expensive

Eliminating the tariff exemption on low-value Chinese imports is bad news.

Jack Nicastro | 4.4.2025 4:08 PM

A law enforcement officer stands over a wheel of cheese | Illustration: Lex Villena; Photographerlondon, ID 90933932 © Kivphoto | Dreamstime.com

Borders

Border Officials Took This Woman's Cheese and Fined Her $1,000

Their case for the seizure is full of holes.

Fiona Harrigan | 9.12.2022 5:22 PM

Egg McMuffins | QuiteSimplyStock / Dreamstime.com

Brickbats

Brickbat: You Deserve a Break Today

Charles Oliver | 8.15.2022 4:00 AM

Venezuelans celebrating with flags and signs from the Biden/Harris Presidential campaign | Daniel A. Varela/TNS/Newscom

Immigration

Biden Extends Temporary Status for Some Venezuelan Refugees, Offers No Protections for Recent Arrivals

While Temporary Protected Status will last through 2024, only Venezuelans who arrived before March 2021 will be eligible.

Eric Bazail-Eimil | 7.13.2022 5:45 PM

Hamdi Mohamud and Kevin Byrd in front of the Supreme Court | Illustration: Lex Villena; Steven Frame; Institute for Justice

Supreme Court

Supreme Court Makes It Effectively Impossible To Sue Federal Cops, Smashing a 51-Year-Old Precedent

A federal badge will now serve as an impenetrable shield against civil liability.

Billy Binion | 6.21.2022 4:37 PM

gerado-serrano-tx-eagle-pass-DRW_5061 | Institute for Justice

Civil Asset Forfeiture

The Government Seized This Innocent Man's Car Without Due Process. SCOTUS Won't Hear the Case.

"How can an ordinary person afford to wait years after the government takes their car?"

Billy Binion | 4.19.2021 4:57 PM

phonetracking_1161x653 | Sergey Chuyko / Dreamstime.com

Brickbats

Brickbat: Closely Tracked

Charles Oliver | 12.8.2020 4:00 AM

Gerardo-Serrano-with-truck-IJ | Institute for Justice

Civil Asset Forfeiture

This Forfeiture Victim Waited 2 Years Without a Hearing. Is That Due Process?

The Institute for Justice wants the Supreme Court to rule that the Fifth Amendment requires a prompt post-seizure hearing.

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2020 2:20 PM

TSA-line-Wikimedia | Wikimedia Commons

Civil Asset Forfeiture

Homeland Security Seized $2 Billion in Cash From Travelers at U.S. Airports

In two-thirds of those cases, there were no accompanying arrests.

C.J. Ciaramella | 7.30.2020 3:47 PM

sipaphotosten032347 | Yichuan Cao/Sipa USA/Newscom

Coronavirus

The Feds Are Suspending Some Tariff Payments. They Should Suspend All of Them.

It's almost like Americans are paying for them, and like Trump doesn't actually believe in free trade.

Eric Boehm | 3.25.2020 12:30 PM

rsphotos006595 | Mark Hirsch/Rapport Press/Newscom

Immigration

Federal Immigration Raids in 'Sanctuary Cities' Have Conservatives Abandoning Federalism

Apparently, conservatives believe in states' rights, except when they don't.

Steven Greenhut | 2.28.2020 8:00 AM

zumaamericastwentyfive326764 | Utrecht, Robin/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Reason Roundup

Trump Wanted Snipers and Electrified Spikes to Defend Border Moat Full of Alligators and Snakes, Says New Report

Plus: Rudy Giuliani threatens to sue The Swamp, UPS gets approval for delivery drones, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.2.2019 9:55 AM

Screen Shot 2019-08-27 at 4.00.06 PM | Screenshot, Solidarity Now

Immigration

14-Year-Old Girl Fights Cancer Alone Because Border Officials Won't Let Her Mom Cross the Border

"I want her to come here to take care of me. Because I need her," she said.

Billy Binion | 8.28.2019 12:45 PM

On sale now on Dark Web | Paul Hennessy/Polaris/Newscom

Facial Recognition

Customs and Border Protection Photo and License Plate Database Hacked

The agency is mum on how many people are impacted

Ronald Bailey | 6.10.2019 9:00 PM

Large image on homepages | Benoit Doppagne/ZUMA Press/Newscom

Customs

A School Counselor Says Customs Agents Searched Her Genitals Without Cause

Tameika Lovell says the search violated her Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.

Zuri Davis | 8.20.2018 12:30 PM

Large image on homepages | nicoolay/iStock

Customs

Don't Let Uncle Sam Seize Your Salami

Civil import violations carry penalties tied to either the value of the article itself or to the taxes you would have been assessed if you'd declared it.

Alec Ward | 5.31.2018 12:00 AM

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