Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to target schools and churches after President Donald Trump revoked a directive barring arrests in “sensitive” areas.

An estimated 11.7 million people are living in the U.S. illegally, and ICE currently has the budget to detain only about 41,000.

Children were kept home from class, while workers made the difficult decision to forgo wages as the threat of ICE raids loomed in the Windy City.

The Trump administration has not publicly said how many immigration detention beds it needs to achieve its goals, or what the cost will be.

Immigration attorney offices in Houston are fielding hundreds of calls with questions as Trump's executive orders go into effect.

President Donald Trump is now giving ICE agents the green light to go into schools. The move is sparking reaction from school districts in our region.

The policy change undid over a decade of precedent that restricted ICE from enforcement activity in settings including schools or churches.

The Trump administration authorized federal immigration authorities to target schools and churches, revoking a policy that barred arrests in "sensitive" areas, DHS said.

President Donald Trump’s administration has lifted restrictions on arrests of undocumented immigrants at or near locations, such as schools, hospitals and churches.

Members of Philadelphia City Council are assuring the immigrant and LGBTQ communities the city has laws to protect them in advance of potential action by the Trump Administration while suggesting those protections have limits.

In a statement the following day, Trump’s acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman announced that the Biden administration’s guidelines on these areas were being rescinded, as well as an end to what the Trump administration has termed the “the broad abuse of humanitarian parole.”