Tag Archives: deportations

The Hill reports: A federal judge on Thursday said the Trump administration’s response to his request for more information on Venezuelan deportation flights was “woefully insufficient” and “evaded” obligations to show they complied with an earlier court ruling. In a new order, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said the Justice Department refused to meet his Thursday deadline to hand over …

NBC News reports: The Justice Department on Tuesday refused to answer a number of questions from a federal judge who had demanded more information on deportations that were carried out under a rarely used wartime act. “The Government maintains that there is no justification to order the provision of additional information, and that doing so would be inappropriate,” the Justice …

The Brown Daily Herald reports: One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including visa holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunday. “Potential changes in travel restrictions and travel bans, visa procedures and processing, re-entry requirements and other travel-related delays may affect travelers’ ability to return to the U.S. as …

The Associated Press reports: A doctor from Lebanon who arrived at the Boston airport was deported over the weekend without explanation, despite having a U.S. visa and a job teaching at Brown University. A judge had ordered she not be sent back until there was a hearing, but government lawyers said customs officials did not get word in time. Dr. …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): So Tom, what’s next? Because I’m getting a little worried about the manpower. These guys are — they have to be tired. You got 30 guys in a stack going on different busts every single day. You are going to run out of money. It doesn’t look like you are getting support …

The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite a federal judge’s order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members, officials said Sunday. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday evening blocking …

The Guardian reports: Silicon Valley has played a sizable part in the early days of Donald Trump’s new administration, but another familiar face in the MAGA-verse is beginning to emerge: businessman Erik Prince, oft-described by his critics as a living “Bond villain”. Prince is the most famous mercenary of the contemporary era and the founder of the now defunct private …

Axios reports: The agency charged with carrying out President Trump’s mass deportation promises has warned Congress it is short a whopping $2 billion for this fiscal year, Axios has learned. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repeatedly has faced significant budget shortfalls in recent years. Trump’s immigration plans — which include deporting “millions” of unauthorized immigrants — would rack up costs …

ABC News reports: As early as Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act — a wartime law that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation — as part of the efforts to carry out mass deportations, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter. During World …

Politico reports: A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases, a private fleet of 100 planes, and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests. The blueprint — laid out in …

The Wall Street Journal reports: The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Caleb Vitello, was removed from his post, administration officials and other people familiar with the matter said, amid frustration in the Trump administration that deportations haven’t accelerated faster. The administration is shaking up the leadership at ICE and is soon expected to announce a new acting …

Reuters reports: During his first month in office, US President Donald Trump deported 37,660 people, according to previously unpublished data from the US Department of Homeland Security. This figure is lower than the monthly average of 57,000 removals and returns recorded during the final full year of Joe Biden’s administration. A senior Trump administration official and experts noted that deportations …

The Catholic News Agency reports:  The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is suing the Trump administration over what the bishops say is an unlawful suspension of funding for refugee programs in the United States. Upon taking office last month, President Donald Trump issued sweeping executive orders that, among other measures, directed a freeze on foreign assistance funds and grants, …

The Independent reports: An 11-year-old girl took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities and have her family deported from the U.S, her grieving parents have said. Jocelynn Romo Carranza passed away on February 8 after spending five days being treated in a Dallas hospital. This came …

Florida Politics reports: St. Cloud Police Chief Douglas Goerke will be one of eight inaugural members of Florida’s new State Immigration Enforcement Council. Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson named Goerke to the panel, where he’ll join four appointees chosen by the Legislature’s top two officials in advising the Cabinet on how best to coordinate immigration enforcement with Trump’s administration. Established under …

The Guardian reports: People attending recent mandatory immigration check-ins or court appearances have been escorted out in federal custody after the Trump administration allegedly tricked, lied to or otherwise deceived them as part of its mass deportation campaign. Amid a blitz of immigration-related policy changes over the last few weeks, Donald Trump and his subordinates have greenlit the ability of …

Axios reports: U.S. agents arrested more than 21,000 unauthorized immigrants in November as President Biden’s term wound down — a pace the Trump administration doesn’t appear to be matching in its first month despite its crackdown, an Axios review of new data finds. Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, says about 14,000 immigrants have been arrested in the three-plus weeks since …

The Huffington Post reports: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) fired back at Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, after he suggested that she could be “in trouble” for advice she is giving to immigrants if they are targeted in one of Homan’s raids. “I sent an email today to the deputy attorney general,” Homan told Laura Ingraham on Fox News …

The Fresno Bee reports: Dozens of demonstrators protested outside the World Ag Expo on its opening day Tuesday to urge farmers and employers to take a stand against potential mass deportations of farmworkers in the Central Valley. Demonstrators held banners that read “Stop Deporting Workers” and “End Harmful Immigration Detention Policies” at the expo’s entrance on the corner of South …

The Associated Press reports: More than two-dozen Christian and Jewish groups representing millions of Americans — ranging from the Episcopal Church and the Union for Reform Judaism to the Mennonites and Unitarian Universalists — filed a federal court lawsuit Tuesday challenging a Trump administration move giving immigration agents more leeway to make arrests at houses of worship. The lawsuit, filed …