Judge presses Trump administration on its refusal to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The federal judge said Trump administration officials had defied a “clear” Supreme Court order.
Immigration
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Rokita’s unusual tactic confounds targets of immigration inquiry
As Attorney General Todd Rokita seeks answers about what he calls potential labor trafficking networks, two groups have pushed back against his unusual tactics.
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Religious groups challenge order allowing on-site raids
A few denominations have been protected by a recent ruling, but most of the nation’s churches and temples remain subject to potential immigration raids.
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Attorneys inundated with questions from businesses, nonprofits about Trump’s policy moves
The topics of the inquiries range from grant funding to tariffs to immigration to diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Trump’s swift moves rattle some immigration lawyers
The Indiana General Assembly also is considering several measures that would support the new president’s efforts to shut down illegal immigration.
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ACLU sues federal government for revoking legal status of Indiana international students
The lawsuit alleges the federal government unlawfully terminated the legal status of seven international students enrolled at Indiana universities.
El Salvador president says he won’t return a wrongly deported man back to the US
Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said he doesn’t “have the power” to return the man to the United States.
US still won’t say whether it will return mistakenly deported man, despite Supreme Court decision
A U.S. district court judge now is weighing whether to grant a request from the man’s legal team to compel the government to explain why it should not be held in contempt.
Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say
Officials said stripping the immigrants of their Social Security numbers will cut them off from many financial services and encourage them to “self-deport.”
Supreme Court says Trump administration must work to bring back mistakenly deported Maryland man
The court acted in the case of a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs.
Supreme Court allows Trump to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act, after judges’ review
The court’s action appears to bar the administration from immediately resuming the flights that last month carried hundreds of migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
Trump’s DHS revokes legal status for migrants who entered the US on Biden-era CBP One app
Migrants who were temporarily allowed to live in the United States by using a Biden-era online appointment app have been told to leave the country “immediately,” officials said Monday. It was unclear how many beneficiaries would be affected.
Texas county that swung to Trump grapples with immigration crackdown after bakery is targeted
Leonardo Baez and Nora Avila-Guel’s bakery in the Texas community of Los Fresnos is a daily stop for many residents to share gossip over coffee and pick up cakes and pastries for birthdays, office parties or themselves.
Judge says deportation of Maryland man to an El Salvador prison was ‘wholly lawless’
The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in El Salvador appears to be “wholly lawless,” a federal judge wrote Sunday in a legal opinion explaining why she had ordered the Trump administration to bring him back to the United States.
Rally and court hearing set for Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison
Lawyers for a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador will ask a federal judge on Friday to order the Trump Administration to return him to the U.S.
Judge holds ICE agent in contempt after he detained suspect during a trial
A judge in Boston is holding a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in contempt after he detained a suspect while the man was on trial.
Trump asks Supreme Court for permission to resume deporting Venezuelan migrants under wartime law
The emergency appeal to the high court follows a rejection of the Republican administration’s plea to the federal appeals court in Washington.
Turkish student at Tufts University is latest Palestinian supporter swept up in US crackdown
Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a doctoral student at Tufts University, had been moved out of Massachusetts by the time her lawyer went to court and a judge ordered her to be kept in the state.
Trump signs executive order requiring proof of citizenship in federal elections
The order says the U.S. has failed “to enforce basic and necessary election protections” and calls on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes.
Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in refusing to provide more details on deportations
A federal judge has asked for details about when deportation planes landed in El Salvador and who was on board.
Columbia student protester who’s lived in the US since age 7 sues to stop deportation
Yunseo Chung said Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved to deport her after she was arrested while protesting the Ivy League school’s disciplinary actions against student protesters.
Everyday tattoos got Venezuelan men ID’d as gang members and deported, lawyers say
A crown over a soccer ball. An eyeball that “looked cool.” Flowers. Those are some of the everyday tattoos that defense lawyers say helped lead to the sudden weekend deportation of roughly 200 Venezuelan men who are accused of being members of the ruthless gang Tren de Aragua.
Indiana immigration notice measure altered but opposition holds firm
The measure would mandate that Hoosier sheriffs notify federal immigration authorities when they suspect an arrestee is in the United States illegally.
What to know about a 1798 law that Trump has invoked for deportations
The law is a sweeping wartime authority that allows non-citizens to be deported without being given the opportunity to go before an immigration or federal court judge.