Tag Archives: deportations

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 …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump’s administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to block a lower court order requiring officials to bring a man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador back to Maryland. The emergency appeal over Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national, landed at the high court hours before the 11:59 p.m. Monday deadline established by a lower …

The New York Times reports: A senior Justice Department immigration lawyer was put on indefinite leave Saturday after questioning the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador — one day after representing the government in court. Mr. Reuveni — who was praised as a “top-notched” prosecutor by his superiors in an email announcing his promotion two …

The Baltimore Banner reports: A federal judge in Maryland ordered the United States government to return a deported Beltsville man by 11:59 p.m. Monday in a case she called “unprecedented.” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday ruled against the Trump administration’s argument that the court had no jurisdiction, and said the record reflects that 29-year-old Kilmar Abrego Garcia was …

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 …

NBC News reports: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to intervene in the Alien Enemies Act case and vacate a judge’s ruling barring deportations under the rarely-used wartime power. “This case presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national-security-related operations in this country—the President, through Article II, or the Judiciary, through TROs. The Constitution supplies …

CNN reports: A divided federal appeals court has maintained a temporary block on President Donald Trump’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a pair of lower-court orders blocking Trump’s use of the sweeping wartime authority can stand while a legal challenge …

ABC News reports: Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, vowed Sunday that the Trump administration would not defy court orders stemming from legal challenges over its invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act to help deport undocumented immigrants from the United States. Still, speaking exclusively on ABC’s “This Week,” on Sunday, Homan also said, “I don’t care what the …

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 …

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 …