12 h. ago ‘It’s changed me as a person’: College student detained for deportation after traffic stop speaks out

Ximena Arias-Cristobal says dropped charges after traffic arrest ‘opens more doors for me, so we will have to see what happens there’

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30 h. ago Ice arrests at immigration courts across the US stirring panic: ‘It’s terrifying’

Advocates say families with children among those detained in LA, Phoenix, New York, Seattle, Chicago and TexasFederal authorities have arrested people at US immigration courts from New York to Arizona to Washington state in what appears to be a coordinated operation, as the Trump administration ramps up the president’s mass deportation campaign.On Tuesday, agents who identified themselves only as federal officers arrested multiple people at an immigration court in Phoenix, taking people into custody outside the facility, according to immigrant advocates. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago ICE agents wait in hallways of immigration court as Trump seeks to deliver on mass arrest pledge

A spate of arrests at immigration courts across the United States this week has rattled people showing up for hearings and may signal a coordinated attempt at deportations under fast-track authority that President Donald Trump sharply expanded soon after taking office

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53 h. ago Judge reprimands Alina Habba’s office for ‘embarrassing’ case against New Jersey mayor

Trump’s top prosecutor in New Jersey made a ‘worrying misstep’ with the case of Mayor Ras Baraka, judge says

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3 d. ago Trump officials ‘illegally deported’ Vietnamese and Burmese migrants to South Sudan

Immigrant rights advocates say White House violated court order and ask judge to order nearly a dozen people’s returnImmigrant rights advocates have accused the Trump administration of deporting about a dozen migrants from countries including Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan in violation of a court order, and asked a judge to order their return.Lawyers for the migrants made the request in a court filing on Tuesday directed to US district judge Brian Murphy, who had barred the Trump administration from swiftly deporting migrants to countries other than their own without first hearing any concerns they had that they might be tortured or persecuted if sent there. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Immigrants are being rounded up in Hawaii’s coffee fields and being treated worse than ‘cats and dogs,’ locals say

Armando Rodriguez and his wife Karina have employed immigrant workers on Aloha Star Coffee Farms on the Big Island in Hawaii for decades, but ICE officials are now arresting their workers

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7 d. ago Ice used ‘false pretenses’ for warrant to hunt for Columbia students, lawyers say

Ice used warrant application as ‘pretext’ to try to arrest two students in order to deport themImmigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) effectively misled a judge in order to gain access to the homes of students it sought to arrest for their pro-Palestinian activism, attorneys say.A recently unsealed search warrant application shows that Ice told a judge it needed a warrant because the agency was investigating Columbia University for “harboring aliens”. In reality, attorneys say, Ice used the warrant application as a “pretext” to try to arrest two students, including one green card holder, in order to deport them. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Woman caught in viral video trying to stop ICE officers launches fundraiser: ‘I am living in fear’

Neighbors in Worcester, Massachusetts, banded together to thwart ICE deportation operation

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8 d. ago Kid Rock’s Nashville restaurant sends staff home on busy Saturday night to avoid ICE raid, report says

ICE has arrested nearly 200 in recent operations around Nashville

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8 d. ago Supreme court wary of Trump’s bid to restrict US birthright citizenship

Justices heard trio of cases stemming from president’s January order in dispute that could expand his powerWhat is US birthright citizenship and what does Trump’s executive order do?US supreme court justices on Thursday took issue with Donald Trump’s attempt to sidestep the constitution to limit birthright citizenship, a case that, while technically about immigration, could reshape presidential power and the role of federal courts.The trio of cases before the court stem from the president’s January executive order that would deny US citizenship to babies born on American soil if their parents aren’t citizens or permanent residents. The plan is likely to be ultimately struck down, as it directly contradicts the 14th amendment, which grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Judge Hannah Dugan pleads not guilty to obstructing ICE arrest in Wisconsin courthouse

Trump’s Justice Department accuses county judge of preventing officers from arresting immigrant

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8 d. ago Ben from Ben & Jerry’s ice cream arrested at Senate hearing protesting the killing of Gaza children with US bombs

The protest erupted as Robert F Kennedy was testifying

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8 d. ago Newark Mayor Ras Baraka set to appear in court on charge of trespassing at immigration facility

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is set to appear in federal court for a status conference on the Trump administration’s charge he trespassed at an immigration detention center in the city last week

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8 d. ago A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade immigration agents is set to enter a plea

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade U.S. immigration authorities is set to enter a plea in federal court

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9 d. ago Wisconsin judge argues prosecutors can't charge her with helping a man evade immigration agents

A Wisconsin judge charged with helping a man who is in the country illegally evade U.S. immigration agents who were trying to detain him at her courthouse have filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that there’s no legal basis for it

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9 d. ago Moment masked ICE agents leave a child alone on the street as they arrest the person he was walking with

Councilwoman who filmed video says ‘it felt like our community ... is under siege’

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1 week ago Federal grand jury indicts Wisconsin judge over alleged Ice obstruction

Hannah Dugan was arrested by FBI after reportedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid US authoritiesA federal grand jury has indicted a Wisconsin judge who was arrested by the FBI last month on allegations that she helped an undocumented immigrant avoid federal authorities.Hannah Dugan, a county circuit court judge in Milwaukee, was charged on Tuesday with concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of proceedings, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Venezuelans ‘barricaded’ doors and ‘threatened to take hostages’ in ICE detention, Trump team alleges

Administration calls on Supreme Court for permission to swiftly deport nearly 200 immigrants detained in Texas

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1 week ago ‘We will arrest you’: DHS warns members of Congress after mayor Ras Baraka arrested at ICE detention center

Democratic lawmakers claim DHS is lying about nature of shoving match at ICE facility

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1 week ago ICE arrests California father and leaves his children behind in car: witness

Advocates say seven people were arrested over the last week, with operations centered around farmworker neighborhood

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