Immigration

Reuters reports: Lawyers challenging the incarceration in El Salvador of more than 200 Venezuelans deported by the U.S. said the Salvadoran government is denying the prisoners access to attorneys and contact with the outside world. Under an agreement with the Salvadoran government, President Donald Trump’s administration in March sent 238 Venezuelans to its Terrorism Confinement Center, the largest prison in …

The Guardian reports: An Australian says he was detained and deported when returning from his sister’s memorial in March, despite holding a working visa still valid for more than a year. He has been living on the US east coast for the better part of a decade – where his American partner, apartment, work studio and clients remain. Jonathan, who …

The Washington Post reports: As the Trump administration aggressively pushes to deport more immigrants during the president’s first year back in office, one aspirational number keeps coming up in private conversations, according to four current and former federal officials with direct knowledge of the plans: 1 million. White House adviser Stephen Miller has been strategizing with officials from the Department …

“Mahmoud Khalil hates the United States and what we stand for—so his removal should come as welcome news. It is a privilege to be granted a visa or green card to live and study in the United States of America. When you advocate for violence, glorify and support terrorists that relish the killing of Americans, and harass Jews, that privilege …

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump suggested at a Cabinet meeting Thursday that undocumented people working on farms and in hotels would be allowed to leave the country and return as legal workers if their employers vouched for them. Trump said at the meeting with reporters present that “we have to take care of our farmers, the hotels and, you …

The New York Times reports: Since taking office, the Trump administration has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who were allowed into the country under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Now, the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively …

The Arizona Mirror reports: The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages. “We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see …

The Miami New Times reports: Felipe Zapata Velásquez, a 27-year-old food and resource economics international student in his junior year, was arrested by the Gainesville Police Department for driving with an expired license and registration tag, according to police records. ICE took him to Jacksonville, where deportation proceedings began, his mother told the Colombian news channel NTN24. According to NTN24, …

Reuters reports: The Trump administration plans to fine migrants under deportation orders up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the United States and to seize their property if they do not pay, according to documents reviewed by Reuters. The fines stem from a 1996 law that was enforced for the first time in 2018, during President Donald …

Axios reports: Immigration agents are the “principal” deciders on whether a detainee is linked to a gang and should be deported immediately, border czar Tom Homan told Axios in an exclusive interview. If agents determine the answer is yes, Homan said, the Trump administration believes that detainee’s rights to due process are limited. Not so fast, the Supreme Court said …

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a victory on Monday by letting him use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president’s hardline approach to immigration. The court granted the administration’s request to lift Washington-based U.S. Judge James Boasberg’s March 15 …

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration is seeking to spend tens of billions of dollars to set up the machinery to expand immigrant detention on a scale never before seen in the United States, according to a request for proposals posted online by the administration last week. The request, which comes from the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration …

CBS News reports: Two U.S. border inspectors in Southern California have been charged with taking thousands of dollars in bribes to allow people to enter the country through the nation’s busiest port of entry without showing documents, prosecutors said. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers Farlis Almonte and Ricardo Rodriguez were assigned to immigration inspection booths at the San Ysidro Port …

CBC News reports: The United States is revoking all visas for South Sudanese passport holders and blocking new arrivals, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday, complaining the African nation is not accepting its nationals expelled from the U.S. The State Department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and prevent further issuance to …

NBC News reports: The government must secure the return of a Prince George’s County, Maryland, man who Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted it deported in error. More than three weeks after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was detained and flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador, a federal judge said Friday that the government must return him to the U.S. by …

Forbes reports: Judge James Boasberg suggested Thursday he believes it’s likely the Trump administration defied his court order blocking deportation flights and acted in “bad faith” by sending Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, as the judge considers whether to possibly move forward with holding Trump officials in contempt for proceeding with the flights. The judge accused Trump officials of intentionally …

Axios reports: The Trump administration’s pace of removing immigrants from the U.S. continues to lag behind Joe Biden’s pace last year, even as detentions have jumped under President Trump, new numbers show. The pace of removals under Trump is actually slowing compared to his first two weeks in office, despite several high-profile raids and the targeting of foreign students as part …

The Independent reports: The Trump administration accidentally sent a Salvadorian immigrant to a notorious Salvadorian prison and says it can’t do anything to get him back. That’s even though the man had protected immigration status in the U.S., specifically barring him from being sent back to that country for fear of persecution. On Monday, in a filing in Maryland federal …

Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo reports: According to documentation seen by Zeteo and interviews with university officials, the administration is deploying the rarely-used risk-to-foreign-policy immigration provision they used to detain Mahmoud Khalil to now target students across the country. ICE appears to be manually revoking students’ immigration status – an authority typically left to university staff. And some students and universities are …

The Washington Post reports: Henrry Albornoz Quintero’s family had been tracking his whereabouts through an online detainee locator ever since he was arrested and put in deportation proceedings after a routine check-in with immigration officials in late January. But on Friday — less than a week before the expected birth of his son — the Venezuelan man disappeared from the …