Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have spread fear across their cities and sparked protests across the U.

The Massachusetts senators called for the investigation in a letter sent Wednesday to the US Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. meat producer Glenn Valley Foods was operating an Omaha, Nebraska, facility with about 30% of its staff on Wednesday after federal agents detained workers in an immigration raid the previous day,

Republicans in Congress are calling several Democratic governors to Washington to question them over policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

An immigration crackdown is under way in the United States at a time when international tourists are arriving into the country for the FIFA Club World Cup 2025. The tournament, taking place in 11 American cities including at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, kicks off on June 14.

Five men have been charged following a series of raids across Greater Manchester and London as part of a crackdown on organised immigration crime. Four men aged between 19 and 47 from Greater Manchester and a 19-year-old man from London were charged following Tuesday operation.

Large-scale arrests outside immigration courts have unleashed fear among asylum-seekers and immigrants who are accustomed to remaining free while judges grind through a backlog of 3.6 million cases.