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June 11, 2025

5 entries on this date.

Kosovo agreed to accept up to 50 third-country deportees from United States

Kosovo's government confirmed on June 11, 2025 that it had agreed to temporarily host up to 50 migrants deported from the United States who are not Kosovar citizens, without disclosing which countries they would come from or whether the U.S. would pay Kosovo for its cooperation. The first deportee arrived that December and was granted temporary protection; Kosovo has not signed the Convention Against Torture or the 1951 Refugee Convention.

United States and Guatemala signed agreement diverting Central American migrants

The United States and Guatemala signed an agreement, effected by an exchange of diplomatic notes on June 11 and 13, 2025 and published in the Federal Register on July 15, 2025, allowing transfer of Central American nationals to Guatemala. President Bernardo Arévalo insisted it was not a "safe third country agreement," but DHS attorneys have since used it to summarily dismiss pending asylum cases, and most subsequent transfers to Guatemala have occurred outside the agreement's own terms entirely.

ICE task force officers logged Spokane protesters' license plates and personal data into an evidence database

During anti-ICE protests at ICE's Spokane, Washington field office in May and June 2025, Homeland Security Investigations task force officer Stacey Carr and HSI analyst Ryan Lid photographed protesters' and bystanders' license plates and looked up their identities, then uploaded the data — including names, addresses, and vehicle information — to Axon's Evidence.com digital evidence platform, according to Carr's own July 2025 police report obtained by Mother Jones. None of the surveilled individuals, who included a tour-bus photographer and a driver in a public parking lot, were stated to be under investigation for any wrongdoing.

DOJ Civil Division memo elevated denaturalization to top-five priority, expanding revocation criteria far beyond fraud-in-naturalization

On June 11, 2025, Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate signed a DOJ Civil Division enforcement memo making denaturalization one of the division's top five priorities, directing attorneys to "prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence." The memo expanded revocation criteria beyond war criminals and fraud-in-naturalization to include PPP loan fraud, Medicaid fraud, gang membership, and a catch-all "any other cases" category—affecting all 24.5 million naturalized Americans, who have no right to appointed counsel in these civil proceedings.

Iowa Gov. Reynolds signed HF1049 barring Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care for transgender Iowans

On June 11, 2025, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed House File 1049, an appropriations act funding the state departments of Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services. A provision in the law bars Iowa's Medicaid program from reimbursing sex-reassignment surgeries or associated procedures, including hormone therapy, for the treatment of gender dysphoria, stripping existing coverage of gender-affirming care from transgender Iowans.