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In LA, 'Extraordinary Show of Force' During Raids

Protests, clashes with federal agents, dozens of arrests as national immigration crackdown continues

(Newser) - Federal agents conducted high-profile immigration raids on Friday in Los Angeles, including in the city's Fashion District, where they used flash-bang grenades and what appeared to be less-than-lethal rounds to disperse protesters after targeting a clothing wholesaler called Ambiance Apparel. The action was part of at least three...

Trump Reacts to Wrongly Deported Man's US Return

President says he wants the US court system to 'show how horrible' Kilmar Abrego Garcia is

(Newser) - President Trump has weighed in on the return to the US of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador who's become a centerpiece of resistance to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Trump told reporters Friday on Air Force One that it...

ICE Officers, Detainees Stuck in Sweltering Shipping Container

Court order has left them all in harsh, unsafe conditions in Djibouti

(Newser) - A group of nearly a dozen US immigration officers and eight deportees have been stranded for more than two weeks at a US military base in Djibouti after a federal judge in Boston halted a deportation flight. The detainees, who include individuals convicted of crimes like murder and armed...

Judge Orders Due Process for 137 Deportees in El Salvador

Boasberg cites evidence that many of the men aren't tied to Venezuelan gang

(Newser) - A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must give more than 100 migrants sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador a chance to challenge their deportations. US District Chief Judge James Boasberg said people who were sent to the prison in March under an 18th-century wartime...

Man Accused of Trying to Get Other Man Deported

Man allegedly wrote letter threatening Trump in effort to get other man deported

(Newser) - A Wisconsin man is facing charges accusing him of forging a letter threatening President Trump's life in an effort to get another man deported, the AP reports. Prosecutors said in a criminal complaint filed Monday that Demetric D. Scott was behind a letter sent to state and federal officials...

Critics Decry 'Outrageous' New Office at State Dept.

Detractors say proposed 'Office of Remigration' has the ultimate goal of ethnic cleansing

(Newser) - The State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio is undergoing a major reorg , and out of that dust has emerged an apparent new subdivision: the "Office of Remigration," which an agency official says will fall under the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, per Axios . The new office, first...

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Judge: Let Detained Scientist Out on Bail

Russian-born Harvard researcher accused of sneaking lab samples through Boston airport

(Newser) - A federal judge says a Harvard scientist from Russia should be released on bail after she was detained by immigration officials, reports the New York Times . "There does not seem to be either a factual or legal basis for the immigration officer's actions" against Kseniia Petrova, the judge...

US Citizen Has REAL ID, Gets Detained by ICE Anyway

Leonardo Garcia Venegas was handcuffed at job site, where agents called his ID fake

(Newser) - Leonardo Garcia Venegas was working at his construction job at a site in Foley, Alabama, last week when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up to carry out a raid. Venegas, 25, says he was using his cellphone to record the arrests when agents knocked the device out of his...

Judge Rules Against Trump on Deportations to South Sudan

Judge says US officials must keep control of migrants apparently sent to African country

(Newser) - A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that US officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful, the AP reports. US District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts issued the ruling after an emergency hearing, after attorneys for...

Noem Gets Habeas Corpus Definition Wrong

Homeland Security secretary claims it actually allows president to suspend rights

(Newser) - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the constitutional provision that allows people to legally challenge their detention by the government is actually a tool the Trump administration can use in its broader crackdown at the US-Mexico border, the AP reports. She called habeas corpus "a constitutional right that the...

NJ Congresswoman Charged After Protest at ICE Facility

Rep. LaMonica McIver was with the group that included Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

(Newser) - Criminal charges were filed Monday against Rep. LaMonica McIver, a week and a half after her involvement in a protest at an ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey. The Democrat congresswoman, whose district includes Newark, was at the facility along with two of her fellow House Democrats and Newark...

Supreme Court Gives Trump a Win on Migrants

Justices let White House revoke the protected status of 350K Venezuelans in the US

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a victory to President Trump on immigration: It ruled that the White House can revoke temporary legal protections that had been granted to about 350,000 Venezuelans in the US, reports the Washington Post . The move now opens them to deportation. Only one justice...

She's Researching Aging. ICE Has Her Behind Bars

Russian scientist Kseniia Petrova writes for the New York Times from a Louisiana detention center

(Newser) - When Kseniia Petrova fled Russia two years ago, she did so because she didn't feel she could freely and safely carry out her work as a scientist there, especially after she was arrested for taking part in a protest. She landed at Harvard Medical School, and her work on...

Wisconsin Judge Indicted by Grand Jury in Immigration Case

Opposition says Trump administration is trying to make national example of Hannah Dugan

(Newser) - A federal grand jury indicted a Wisconsin judge Tuesday on charges she helped a man in the country illegally evade US immigration authorities looking to arrest him as he appeared before her in a local domestic abuse case, the AP reports. Prosecutors charged Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan in...

Judge Lets IRS Share Immigrant Tax Data With ICE

Nonprofit groups argued for privacy rights of undocumented taxpayers

(Newser) - A federal judge on Monday declined to stop the Internal Revenue Service from sharing immigrants' tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a move that allows the Trump administration to continue using the data to identify and deport undocumented immigrants, the AP reports. The ruling came from US District...

Kids Left Alone in Car After ICE Takes Dad at Gas Station

Witness says child and older sibling were left after father was arrested

(Newser) - Amid reports of increasing Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in cities along California's coast comes a story out of Oxnard, where a witness says a child and their older sibling were left alone at a gas station when ICE agents descended upon their car and arrested their father as...

Trump Orders DHS to Add 20K Officers for Deportations

Force would include state and local law enforcement employees

(Newser) - President Trump has told the Department of Homeland Security to add 20,000 officers to its deportation force, a move that would include using state and local employees. The order was part of a presidential proclamation issued Friday about pressing immigrants without documentation to leave the US voluntarily, the New ...

2 Arrested After Woman's Neighbors Surround ICE Agents

One of those detained is the woman's 16-year-old daughter

(Newser) - Immigration and Customs Enforcement "targeted" an immigrant family in Worcester, Massachusetts, this week, an immigrant advocacy group says, and two people ended up arrested after attempting to intervene—including the family's 16-year-old daughter. Her father had already been detained by ICE on Wednesday, and agents returned to the...

Administration Takes Deportation of 500K Migrants to Supreme Court

2-year program granted humanitarian parole to people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela

(Newser) - The Trump administration took its effort to remove more than 500,000 immigrants with temporary legal status to work and live in the US to the Supreme Court on Thursday. A judge had ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem couldn't deport the group's humanitarian parole in one...

Court to ICE: Send Detained College Student to Vermont

Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk has been held in Louisiana detention center for 6 weeks

(Newser) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a judge's order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated and if she should be released. Denying a government request for a delay,...

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