26 h. ago Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa

Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026An Indonesian father of an infant with special needs, who was detained by federal agents at his hospital workplace in Minnesota after his student visa was secretly revoked, will remain in custody after an immigration judge ruled Thursday that his case can proceed.Judge Sarah Mazzie denied a motion to dismiss the case against Aditya Wahyu Harsono on humanitarian grounds, according to his attorney. Harsono, 33, was arrested four days after his visa was revoked without notice. He is scheduled for another hearing on 1 May. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian green card holder and Columbia student, detained by Ice

Mahdawi was at a naturalization interview in Vermont when he was taken in move his lawyers say is ‘retaliation’Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green card holder and student at Columbia University, was apprehended by US immigration authorities in Vermont on Monday, according to his lawyers and a video of the incident.Mahdawi, who was a leader of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia last spring, was arrested by Ice on Monday morning in Colchester, Vermont, while he was attending a naturalization interview, his lawyer said in a statement to the Guardian. Continue reading...

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1 week ago University of Florida student detained by ICE after being arrested during traffic stop

Local and national lawmakers are calling for the 27-year-old student’s release

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2 w. ago ICE to temporarily release detained migrant so he can donate kidney to his brother

José Gregorio González has reportedly been granted humanitarian parole to ‘save his brother’s life’

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2 w. ago District attorney lashes out at ICE for detaining suspect in Boston during a trial

A district attorney in Boston harshly criticized the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after one of its agents detained a suspect while he was on trial

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2 w. ago Judge holds ICE agent in contempt after he detained suspect during a trial

An angry judge in Boston is holding an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in contempt after he detained a suspect while he was on trial

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2 w. ago Judge holds ICE agent in contempt for detaining suspect in the middle of his trial

‘I can't think of any greater injustice than a man who is taken away from his trial in the middle of it by the government,’ Wilson Martell-Lebron’s defense attorney tells The Independent

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2 w. ago University of Minnesota student who was detained by ICE sues for immediate release

A University of Minnesota graduate student who’s being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is suing for his immediate release

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3 w. ago Minnesota officials seek answers in case of graduate student detained by ICE

Officials in Minnesota are seeking answers in the case of a University of Minnesota graduate student who’s being detained by U.S. immigration authorities for unknown reasons

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3 w. ago Turkish PhD student detained by US ICE agents after writing 'Free Palestine' essay

Doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk's student wrote a newspaper article on the war on Palestine in 2024. But this week, Trump's Administration's ICE officers detained her for alleged 'support of Hamas'

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3 w. ago A Tufts student was on her way to dinner with friends. Then an ICE officer in disguise detained her

The arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk follows a string of similar incidents targeting international students for Palestinian advocacy

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3 w. ago Furious Turkish student in hijab filmed being detained by ICE as she went to break Ramadan fast

Rumeysa Ozturk, who is currently studying at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was swarmed by a group of individuals near her off-campus home on Tuesday.

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3 w. ago Don’t visit the US – it just isn’t worth the risks right now | Arwa Mahdawi

Minor visa infractions have seen tourists detained, shackled and deported by overzealous US border staff. There are many more welcoming places to go on holidayDo you like being shackled and strip-searched? Absolutely no judgment if so, but anyone who isn’t into that sort of thing may want to avoid a holiday to the US at the moment. Although I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that. Unless you’ve been hiding under a news-blocking rock (in which case: what’s the address? And can I join you?), you’ll have noticed that Donald Trump’s America hasn’t exactly been rolling out the red carpet for visitors. There have been a number of recent incidents where white westerners – people who aren’t normally targeted by overzealous US immigration authorities – have been detained, deported or denied entry for obscure reasons.Take the 28-year-old Welsh artist Rebecca Burke, for example. She was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) for 19 days in what her father described as “horrendous...

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3 w. ago The people legally in the U.S. who have been detained by ICE or refused entry

A series of people – some of whom have never known life outside the United States – have been detained and deported amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration

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