Tag Archives: Deportation

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has formally requested 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, two U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News on Thursday. If approved, the request would mark a significant escalation in the federal government’s use of military resources for immigration …

Two federal judges Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelans, limiting the rulings to Colorado and a New York district. U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Alvin K. Hellerstein found that President Donald Trump’s invocation of the …

President Donald Trump said he could return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States “with one phone call” — a claim that stands in direct conflict with ongoing arguments by his own Justice Department and a series of court rulings that have ordered the administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return. …

White House border czar Tom Homan on Monday blamed the parents of U.S. citizen children the Trump administration sent to Honduras over the weekend. At a Monday morning press conference, Homan defended the government’s actions to remove three young children from two different families alongside their mothers who were in …

A federal judge in Maryland on Tuesday ordered a defiant Trump administration to provide evidence about how it has tried to secure the release of an immigrant mistakenly deported to a brutal mega-prison in El Salvador, saying that to date, the record shows “nothing has been done.” District Judge Paula …

Legal scholars, civil liberties advocates, and immigration experts are raising red flags over President Donald Trump’s latest proposal: deporting U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to El Salvador, where they would be imprisoned indefinitely. The idea, discussed publicly during a White House meeting Monday with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, represents …

The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that an “administrative error” led to the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man legally protected from removal. Despite admitting the mistake, the administration is refusing to facilitate his return to the U.S. Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident, was …

A federal judge issued a temporary emergency order Friday halting a key part of the Trump administration’s aggressive mass deportation campaign, ruling that individuals facing removal must be given a “meaningful opportunity” to seek humanitarian protection before being deported to a country that is not their own. The order, from …

The Trump administration is revoking the legal status of more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, reversing a Biden-era program that allowed them to enter and work legally in the United States. Affected migrants must self-deport within 30 days or face arrest and removal, according to a …

A federal judge late Monday ordered the U.S. government to provide answers about details of the Trump administration’s deportation of immigrants under an 18th-century wartime law after civil rights groups alleged that the administration defied the court’s restraining order reversing the deportations. The Department of Justice was given four directives by U.S. Judge …

The incoming Trump administration is planning an aggressive expansion of immigration enforcement, targeting sanctuary cities and jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal authorities. Beginning this week, after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to deploy deportation teams in cities with large immigrant populations, including …

Jimmy Williams President Joe Biden is set to unveil a significant new immigration policy on Tuesday that will protect tens of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens from deportation. This move, seen as a strategic election-year action, has been a long-standing demand by many Democrats. At a White House …

Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the Biden administration has the right to decide which undocumented immigrants federal agents should prioritize for deportation. During the two hours of arguments, the court’s conservative justices sounded skeptical of the Biden administration’s efforts to …

The Department of Homeland Security said Saturday it would ramp up deportation flights for thousands of Haitian migrants who flooded into the Texas border city of Del Rio. The migrants who poured into the city, many Haitian, were being held in an area controlled by US Customs and Border Protection …

President Joe Biden’s administration has been banned by U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on deportations. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argued that the moratorium violated federal law and would cost the state of Texas more money. On his campaign trail, President Biden said he’d enforce …