70 m. ago Judges rule against Trump administration on deporting Guatemalan children and Venezuelans

Double defeat protects Venezuelans with temporary protected status and Guatemalan minorsThe Trump administration has been handed a double defeat by judges in immigration cases, barring the executive branch from deporting a group of Guatemalan children and from slashing protections for many Venezuelans in the US.A federal judge on Thursday ordered the administration to refrain from deporting Guatemalan unaccompanied immigrant children with active immigration cases while a legal challenge plays out. Continue reading...

Politics

4 h. ago Judge blocks Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children

A judge is blocking the Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the U.S. alone back to their home country

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27 h. ago One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reactionOne of the great creative bromances has flowered again: Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon. Having adapted Pynchon’s Inherent Vice for the screen in 2015, Anderson has now taken a freer rein with his 1990 novel Vineland, creating a bizarre action thriller driven by pulpy comic-book energy and transformed political indignation, keeping his pedal at all times welded to the metal.It’s a riff on the now recognisable Anderson-Pynchonian idea of counterculture and counter-revolution, absorbing the paranoid style of American politics into a screwball farcical resistance, with a jolting, jangling, nerve-shredding score by Jonny Greenwood. It’s partly a freaky-Freudian diagnosis of father-daughter dysfunction – juxtaposed with the separation of migrant children and parents at the US-Mexico border – and a very serious, relevant response to the U...

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34 h. ago Reports of children fighting for water at Texas detention facility for immigrant families

A child with a stomachache waited six hours for a nurse

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4 d. ago Judge extends temporary measures protecting Guatemalan children from deportation

A federal judge is temporarily keeping measures in place to prevent the Trump administration from deporting Guatemalan migrant children in government custody

Events

6 d. ago Judge temporarily blocks US effort to remove dozens of immigrant Guatemalan and Honduran children

An Arizona judge has extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s effort to remove Guatemalan and Honduran children living in shelters or foster care after coming to the U.S. alone

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7 d. ago Judge issues nationwide block on Trump policy that cuts off Head Start for people in US illegally

A judge has issued a nationwide block on a Trump administration policy that cuts off Head Start for people in the country illegally

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7 d. ago Judge blocks a Trump policy cutting off some social services for immigrants in the US illegally

A federal judge has blocked Trump administration restrictions on federally-funded services for immigrants in the country illegally, including the federal preschool program Head Start, health clinics and adult education

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8 d. ago Judge blocks Trump administration's subpoena of trans kids' medical records from Boston hospital

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to subpoena medical records from a prominent children’s hospital about transgender patients and gender-affirming medical treatment

Politics

1 week ago Judge rips Trump’s ‘derogatory’ comments about Haitians eating pets and blocks deportation for more than 1 million migrants

Judge’s decision temporarily shields tens of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans with Temporary Protected Status from removal

Events

2 w. ago EPA should not have been blocked from terminating green bank funds, appeals court says

A divided appeals court says a federal judge was wrong to block the Trump administration from freezing billions of dollars meant for a “green bank” aimed at financing climate-friendly projects

Economics

2 w. ago Judge blocks Trump’s deployment of National Guard in California

Ruling says government violated law banning US military from enforcing domestic law

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2 w. ago Judge blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in California

Ruling says government violated legislation banning US military from enforcing domestic law

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2 w. ago What to know about Guatemalan migrant children and efforts to send them home

The Trump administration has tried to deport Guatemalan children living in U.S. shelters or foster care

Society

2 w. ago Trump and his team had children sitting on planes ready for deportation

The unaccompanied children could suffer ‘irreparable harm’ if they are removed to Guatemala, their lawyers argued

Politics

2 w. ago Judge orders US to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children

Washington judge says unaccompanied children cannot be deported for at least 14 days as legal process unfoldsA US judge on Sunday ordered an emergency halt to a plan by the Trump administration to deport a group of nearly 700 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after immigrant advocates lawyers called the plan “illegal”.Attorneys for 10 Guatemalan minors, ages 10 to 17, said in court papers filed late on Saturday that there were reports that planes were set to take off within hours for the Central American country. But a federal judge in Washington said those children couldn’t be deported for at least 14 days, and after a hastily scheduled hearing on Sunday, she enforced that they needed to be taken off the planes and back to the Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities while the legal process plays out. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Police officer is punched in the face as migrant hotel protesters march with children through Canary Wharf in wake of Epping hotel ruling

The Met Police have made several arrests after imposing restrictions on people wearing masks as anti-asylum protest made its way through the Isle of Dogs.

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2 w. ago Federal judge blocks US from deporting unaccompanied children to Guatemala

Washington-based judge says removals of 10 children would violate US laws and schedules hearing for afternoonA federal judge on Sunday issued a restraining order blocking the Trump administration from deporting 10 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after lawyers said the removals would violate US laws.The Washington DC-based district judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered the administration to refrain from deporting the children for 14 days and called for a hearing at 12.30pm. The National Immigration Law Center, a pro-immigration advocacy group, brought the challenge on behalf of the children, who are ages 10-17. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Court blocks Trump bid to end protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

Appellate panel upholds lower court’s ruling as homeland security spokesperson attacks ‘activist’ judgesA federal appeals court on Friday blocked Donald Trump’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have permission to live and work in the US, saying that plaintiffs are likely to win their claim that the president’s administration’s actions were unlawful.A three-judge panel of the ninth US circuit court of appeals unanimously upheld a lower court ruling that maintained temporary protected status for Venezuelans while TPS holders challenge actions by the Republican president’s administration in court. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says

The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents

Politics