6 h. ago Trump looking to suspend key Constitutional right as judges hamper his mass deportations plans

President Trump is considering suspending a key constitutional protection in his push to accelerate mass deportations, citing an 'invasion' of migrants.

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16 h. ago Judge orders release on bail of Tufts student battling deportation order

Judge says detainment of Rümeysa Öztürk, who was arrested for political speech, ‘raises very significant due process concerns’US politics live – latest updatesA federal judge in Vermont on Friday morning ordered the release on bail of a Tufts University student arrested in March for her political speech and now held in Louisiana in what she and her lawyers argue is a breach of her constitutional rights.The judge had ordered Rümeysa Öztürk’s return to Vermont, where she was briefly held after being grabbed on the street by masked immigration agents near Boston, for hearings. But the judge decided not to wait for her physical transportation and she appeared remotely from Louisiana at the hearing in Burlington on Friday. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Evil woman who tortured bunnies to death for clicks launches GoFundMe to stop Trump deporting her

Anigar Monsee has demanded strangers' cash after she was convicted of horrendous animal abuse.

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19 h. ago Trump hires UN migration team to help with ‘self deportation’ of undocumented people in the US

International Organization for Migration was established in 1951 to organize resettlement of Europeans following Second World War

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41 h. ago Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in Kilmar Ábrego García case

Lawyers say they’re ‘still in dark’ about government’s efforts to free the man who was wrongly deported to El SalvadorThe Trump administration is invoking the “state secrets privilege ” in an apparent attempt to avoid answering a judge’s questions about its erroneous deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García to El Salvador.US district judge Paula Xinis disclosed the government’s position in a two-page order on Wednesday. She set a Monday deadline for attorneys to file briefs on the issue and how it could affect Ábrego García’s case. Xinis also scheduled a 16 May hearing in Greenbelt, Maryland, to address the matter. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago US judge rules deportation flight to Libya would violate court order amid reported Trump plans – live

Brian Murphy rules in favor of immigrant rights advocates as reports suggest US military planned to begin deportations later this weekBritain is in “active discussions” with US officials over the extraordinary 100% tariff on all movies produced outside the US proposed by Donald Trump, as it tries to protect one of its biggest creative industries.“We are already in active discussions with the top of the US administration on this subject. We are working hard to establish what might be proposed, if anything, and to make sure our world-beating creative industries are protected,” creative industries minister Chris Bryant told parliament. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago US judge rules deportation flight to Libya would violate court order amid reported Trump administration plans – live

US federal judge blocks the deportation of migrants to Libya, ruling that such removals violate an existing court orderBritain is in “active discussions” with US officials over the extraordinary 100% tariff on all movies produced outside the US proposed by Donald Trump, as it tries to protect one of its biggest creative industries.“We are already in active discussions with the top of the US administration on this subject. We are working hard to establish what might be proposed, if anything, and to make sure our world-beating creative industries are protected,” creative industries minister Chris Bryant told parliament. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Judge says US must allow migrants a chance to challenge in court any deportations to Libya

A federal judge has found the Trump administration can’t deport migrants to Libya unless they have a meaningful chance to challenge their removal in court

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60 h. ago Judge blocks Trump from deporting Asian nationals to Libya as lawyers rush to prevent ‘immediate’ flights

Lawyers for Laotian, Vietnamese and Filipino immigrants cited ‘alarming’ reports that flights to the war-torn country were imminent

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65 h. ago US reportedly planning to deport migrants to Libya despite ‘clear’ violation of court order

Judge confirms move would breach order as Libya’s rival governments say both would refuse any US deporteesThe Trump administration is reportedly planning to deport a group of immigrants to Libya, despite a judge’s efforts on Wednesday to block any such flights and the state department’s previous condemnation of the “life-threatening” prison conditions in the country.Reuters cited three unnamed US officials as saying the deportations could happen this week. Two of the officials said the immigrants, whose nationalities are not known, could be flown to the north African country as soon as Wednesday, but they added the plans could still change. The New York Times also cited a US official confirming the deportation plans. Continue reading...

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67 h. ago US planning to deport migrants to Libya despite ‘hellish’ conditions – reports

Libya’s provisional government has denied claims flight could happen as soon as this weekThe Trump administration is planning to deport a group of migrants to Libya, according to reports, despite the state department’s previous condemnation of the “life-threatening” prison conditions in the country.Libya’s provisional government has denied the reports. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago MIKEY SMITH: 8 unhinged things Donald Trump did in 24 hours as JD Vance threatens to deport football fans

JD Vance wants to deport football fans, Scott Bessant wants parents to comfort their children by promising them "economic freedom" and there totally aren't going to be any trade deals

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3 d. ago Trump administration wanted to deport migrants to Ukraine despite ongoing war, report claims

The Trump administration asked to send the migrants despite the fact Ukraine doesn’t have a functioning airport due to ongoing aerial strikes from Russia

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3 d. ago Identity of second man illegally deported to El Salvador prison revealed

Daniel Lozano-Camargo, 20, was deported in March in violation of a legal settlement over his asylum applicationThe identity of a second man illegally deported from the US by the Trump administration in defiance of a court order and now in detention in El Salvador has been revealed.Daniel Lozano-Camargo, a 20-year-old Venezuelan, was deported to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot terrorism confinement facility in March under the White House’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, Politico reported. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Top Trump GOP allies speak out against plan to send citizens to overseas prisons: ‘I doubt that would hold up’

Multiple Trump allies in the Senate expressed doubt over the constitutionality of Trump sending US citizens to foreign prisons

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4 d. ago John Oliver on Trump deportations: ‘usually blatantly racist and always cruel’

The Last Week Tonight host decries Trump’s fearmongering on immigration and disregard for the rule of lawJohn Oliver took a deep dive through the Trump administration’s brutal and bewildering campaign of deportations on Sunday evening, starting with the White House’s “nauseating social media posts”. Posts to the official White House Instagram account include a video of shackled people led on to a plane soundtracked to the song Closing Time by Semisonic, along with the caption “you don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.”The track “obviously isn’t the right song choice”, the Last Week Tonight host said. “The right song choice would be no song at all, because deportation Instagram reel is a combination of words that should never exist, like ‘Oscar winner Mr Beast’ or ‘Stephen Miller nudes’ or ‘Bill Belichick speaks about his relationship with 24-year-old girlfriend.’” (Semisonic has denounced the choice of the song.) Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘What is left of our democracy?’: freed Palestinian human rights advocate warns of US authoritarian rule

Mohsen Mahdawi, student detained by Ice last month, pens blistering attack on Trump’s deportation policiesMohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian green-card holder and Columbia University student freed on Wednesday after more than two weeks in immigration detention, has issued a stark warning about the US’s descent into authoritarianism.“Once the repression of dissent, in the name of security, becomes a key objective of a government, authoritarian rule and even martial law are not far off. When they look at my case, all Americans should ask themselves: what is left of our democracy, and who will be targeted next?” said Mahddawi in an op-ed for the New York Times. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago White House uses newly revealed allegations to support refusal to return Kilmar Ábrego García to US

Wife of man unlawfully sent to El Salvador filed protection petition in 2020 after domestic violence allegationsThe legal team behind Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to El Salvador, is demanding that the Trump administration “bring him back and give him a full and fair trial” as the administration releases new domestic abuse allegations.In a press release issued on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cited allegations made by Ábrego García’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, that he abused her on several occasions in 2019 and 2020. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under 18th

A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law

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8 d. ago I witnessed US cruelty as a Guantánamo lawyer. Trump’s deportations are disturbingly familiar | Mark Denbeaux

The government’s claims against detainees were paper-thin and the process riddled with errors. Now history is repeatingGuantánamo is a horror Americans have tried to forget. But the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) deportation regime resembles so many of Guantánamo’s evils that it compels comparison. That comparison reveals significant differences but frightening similarities.On 11 January 2002, the detention facility opened. The first detainees, in orange jumpsuits, hobbled along in a parade to show the press the success of the government in this battle of the “war on terror”.The detainee admits he was a cook’s assistant for Taliban forces in Narim, Afghanistan under the command of Haji Mullah Baki.Mark Denbeaux is professor emeritus at Seton Hall Law School and for 18 years represented four detainees held in Guantánamo who had endured torture by the CIA Continue reading...

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