A Turkish student detained by federal police as she walked on the streets of a Boston suburb is the latest supporter of Palestinian causes to be swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants.
Category: Immigration
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits Colombia to discuss immigration and crime
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem landed in Colombia on Thursday as part of a tour of three Latin American nations to discuss immigration, crime and deportation.
Appeals court allows Trump administration to suspend approval of new refugees amid lawsuit
The Trump administration can stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. but has to allow in people who were conditionally accepted.
Homeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans
The order applies to about 532,000 people from the four countries who came to the United States since October 2022.
Families impacted by ICE raids denounce Trump administration’s arrests, file emergency motion
The National Immigrant Justice Center and American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois filed a motion in Chicago’s U.S. District Court seeking the release of two people still detained.
ACLU asks judge to force the Trump administration to state under oath if it violated his court order
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed to halt deportations under a rarely-used 18th century wartime law invoked by President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to force officials to explain under oath whether they violated his court order by removing more than 200 people from the country after it was issued and celebrating it on social media.
Immigrant families scramble as state health insurance for some noncitizens faces the axe in Gov. JB Pritzker’s budget plan
The impact of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s plan to eliminate a health insurance program for noncitizen immigrants ages 42 to 64.
The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Donald Trump has invoked for deportations
President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself sweeping powers under a centuries-old law to deport people associated with a Venezuelan gang.
Donald Trump invokes 18th century law to declare invasion by gangs and speed deportations
Claiming the United States was being invaded by a Venezuelan gang, President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping war time authority that allows the president broader leeway on policy and executive action.
US prepares to deport about 300 alleged gang members to El Salvador
President Donald Trump’s administration will pay El Salvador $6 million to imprison for one year about 300 alleged members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, in one of the first instances of the Central American country taking migrants from the United States.