A federal judge ruled Friday against immigration and civil rights advocates attempting to help migrants who had been sent to the Guantanamo Bay military base.
Category: Immigration
Academics in Chicago sound the alarm on ‘viewpoint discrimination’ as government targets student protesters
Educators and students on edge as Trump administration threatens to deport international students who participated in pro-Palestinian protests.
Immigrants drove population growth in the Chicago area and Cook County last year, latest census figures show
The Chicago metropolitan area saw a slight increase in population, according to the most recent estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau, as international immigration outpaced domestic departures in many big cities nationwide.
Chicago civil rights groups call for release of Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian green card holder who helped lead Columbia encampment
A day after at least 250 people protested at Federal Plaza the arrest and possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, civil rights groups in Chicago called for his release.
Homeland Security overhauls its asylum phone app. Now it’s for ‘self-deportation’
The Trump administration has unveiled an overhauled cellphone app once used to let migrants apply for asylum, turning it into a system that allows people living illegally in the U.S. to say they want to leave the country voluntarily.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem taps new immigration enforcement leaders and moves to identify leakers
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday announced new leadership at the agency tasked with immigration enforcement as she also pledged to step up lie detector tests on employees to identify those who may be leaking information about operations to the media.
Panama to allow 112 migrants deported from the US to move about freely in the country
Panama announced Friday that it will allow 112 migrants deported from the United States who have been held in a remote camp in the Darien region since last month to move about the country freely until they decide on their next course of action.
Frustration grows inside the White House over pace of deportations
President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to deport millions of people is colliding with the practical difficulties of detaining and transporting immigrants.
Federal judge to hear arguments over whether to block immigration arrests in US schools
A federal judge is set to hear arguments Friday over whether he should block immigration agents from conducting arrests at schools under a Trump administration policy that has yet to be acted upon.
‘It’s more urgent now’: Protests have taken over Chicago. Here’s what to know
Some protests are in response to the second Trump administration, while others have been organized by veteran activist organizations.