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For the first time in decades, more immigrants are leaving the United States than arriving, a new study finds, an early indication that President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda is leading people to depart — whether through deportation or by choice.

Concerns about training standards have been raised, but ICE officials insist they are maintaining quality. Training includes firearms, driving techniques, de-escalation and immigration law, with a focus on the Fourth Amendment and immigration law. The agency is receiving $76.5 billion from Congress, with $30 billion earmarked for new staff.

Many people with little or no criminal record have been swept into the administration’s immigration dragnet since January, an analysis of deportation data shows.

On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in an internal email that it would offer cash bonuses to agents for deporting people quickly, an incentive meant to motivate the staff to speed up President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

ProPublica compiled a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador.

Lawyers seeking a temporary restraining order against an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades say that “Alligator Alcatraz” detainees have been barred from meeting attorneys. They also say that the detainees are being held without any charges and that federal immigration courts have canceled bond hearings. A virtual hearing in federal court in Miami was being held Monday on the lawsuit.

The first deportation flights from Florida’s new immigration detention center in the Everglades began departing this week, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Friday. About 100 of those detainees were deported directly from the center, the governor said, though he did not specify where they were taken.

The Trump administration sent five migrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen and Cuba to a small African nation Tuesday, resuming so-called third-country deportations after the Supreme Court cleared the practice earlier this month, Department of Homeland Security officials said Tuesday.

The migrants refused to be repatriated to their countries. They will be held in a migration facility near the Darien Gap along the Colombian border until third countries can be found to take them.

After seeing Venezuelan immigrants lose protected status, many Haitians worry they’re next.

The assertion by Tom Homan, President Trump’s border czar, could herald a shift in the relationship between the United States and Venezuela’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro.

As President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans ramp up, Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski says the president is taking the wrong approach.