11 h. ago Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits the El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are held

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U_S_ Noem’s Wednesday trip to the prison where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”

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23 h. ago Trump administration claims details of mass deportations are state secrets

Justice department avoids providing US judge information on expulsions of Venezuelan immigrants to El SalvadorThe Trump administration invoked the “state secrets” privilege to avoid providing more information to a federal judge regarding this month’s highly contentious immigrant expulsions to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act.The administration’s invocation of the privilege is a further escalation in Donald Trump’s immigration-related battle against the federal judiciary. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘We don’t know how any of this will play out’: what’s next for US deportees in El Salvador

Political scientist Mneesha Gellman on the deportees’ fates, dire prison conditions and Bukele-Trump parallelsThe Trump administration has flown 238 Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison that human rights groups say is designed to disappear people.Despite a judge’s order temporarily blocking the move, the US government flew more than 200 men that it had accused of gang membership to the “Terrorism Confinement Center”, or Cecot – a draconian mega-prison that has become central to the promise of the Salvadorian president, Nayib Bukele, promise to rid his country of crime. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Mother stunned after spotting barber son in notorious El Salvador prison after Trump's mass deportation

Myrelis Casique López was shocked to find that her barber son was one of more than 100 gangsters the Trump administration deported to a notorious El Salvadoran prison this week.

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6 d. ago ‘He is innocent’: families of deported Venezuelans rebuke Trump claims

US president has painted Venezuelan migrants deported to notorious El Salvador prison as ‘heinous monsters’ Donald Trump’s White House has described the Venezuelan migrants deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador as “heinous monsters” and terrorists who “rape, maim and murder for sport”.But relatives of Francisco Javier García Casique, a 24-year-old from the city of Maracay, say he was a hairdresser, not a crook. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump administration says ‘many’ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison have no criminal record

ICE officials suggest a lack of information about immigrants summarily deported to the mega prison ‘highlights the risk they pose’

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7 d. ago Trump waging ‘sickening’ psychological war, deported Venezuelan’s lawyer says

One detained man’s lawyer says he is gay artist who had fled persecution in his home country, not a gang memberA lawyer for one of the Venezuelan immigrants sent from the US to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador has accused the Trump administration of waging a “sickening” campaign of psychological warfare against asylum seekers and migrants.“In my 15 years of representing people in removal proceedings in the United States, this is the most shocking thing that I’ve ever seen happen to one of our clients,” said Lindsay Toczylowski, a California-based lawyer for the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef) group. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Fear grows among US’s 390,000 undocumented Chinese immigrants: ‘So many policies have changed’

Those newly arrived and those who have lived in the US for decades worry as Trump vows to deport Chinese nationalsIn 2014, a few years after the birth of her second child, Jenny left China to flee an abusive relationship and government persecution for violating the one-child policy. She brought her younger daughter to San Francisco and, though undocumented, found work at a childcare facility and eventually married a US citizen.Because of extended delays in visa processing, her green card application remains in limbo after three years, but she’s never been particularly afraid of her immigration status. That is until Donald Trump won re-election last November, fueled in part by a promise to conduct the largest mass deportation program in US history. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump administration set for legal fights after carrying out deportations despite court orders – US politics live

Courts to demand answers after doctor is deported and two planeloads of Venezuelans flown to an El Salvador prison; Trump to attend Kennedy Center board meeting Donald Trump may be all in on tariffs, but the Guardian’s Lauren Aratani reports that many Americans are not, including a sizable number of Republicans:Americans are increasingly concerned about Donald Trump’s bid to overhaul the US economy with sweeping tariffs on foreign goods, according to an exclusive poll for the Guardian, despite the US president’s efforts to downplay the risks of his strategy. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago I was a lawyer for Ice. Mass deportations don’t make us safer | Veronica Cardenas

US immigration has become a machine of surveillance and fear. We’re already seeing the consequencesThis month marks 22 years since the creation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).Created in the wake of 9/11 under the guise of national security, Ice was supposed to target real threats. Instead, it has become a machine of mass surveillance, indiscriminate arrests and fear-based enforcement that does little to keep us safer. Over the years, the harshest post-9/11 policies were rolled back after proving ineffective. But today, we are watching history repeat itself. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump live updates: President wants to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to carry out mass deportations

President’s chaotic trade war continues to unsettle financial markets as administration suffers further political setbacks in court

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1 week ago Trump expected to invoke Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations – US politics live

US president could invoke obscure law to ramp up mass deportations as early as Friday, reports sayLuxury Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari says it is ready for countermeasures if US President Donald Trump imposes hefty tariffs on European auto imports.“We are ready with some countermeasures,” Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna told Cnbc’s Converge Live in Singapore. “We are waiting for the official number to be published,” he added, referring to Trump’s threat of duties “of around 25%” on EU carmakers. He added:We will watch what happens over the next month, in the next few weeks. We are in the same boat in terms of tariffs.The customer is at the centre of our attention.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Nigel Farage says there is 'no way back' into Reform for Rupert Lowe after MP claims party tried to 'silence' his 'mass deportations' demand over grooming gang attacks

The party leader said there was 'no way back' for Mr Lowe after he accused senior figures of trying to 'silence him' when he spoke out about grooming gangs.

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2 w. ago Trump’s Department of Justice deletes link to study showing undocumented immigrants commit less crime than US citizens

Administration has framed mass deportation operations as response to violent crime

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2 w. ago Reform civil war deepens with Rupert Lowe accusing Nigel Farage of trying to silence his demand for mass immigrant deportations

The Great Yarmouth MP accused the party leadership of 'watering down' its position on illegal migration in a bid to attract new voters, amid an astonishingly civil war in the right-wing party.

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2 w. ago Texas army base poised to become mass deportation hub under Trump plan

Reports of Fort Bliss being used for detention as well as expulsion purposes spark outrage from criticsThe huge US army base of Fort Bliss at the Texas-Mexico border is poised to become a deportation hub under plans proposed by the Trump administration – prompting an outcry from critics as it once again becomes a focal point in the immigration debate.Situated in the heart of El Paso, the base has already been used by Donald Trump since he returned to the White House to fly deportees on military aircraft to Guantánamo Bay and Central and South America amid intense publicity around his wider anti-immigration agenda. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago GOP budget goals impossible without Medicare and Medicaid cuts, budget office says

Republicans are expected to fall short of their goal to slash the budget by $1.5tn despite Donald Trump’s assurancesRepublicans cannot reach their budget goal of slashing at least $1.5tn in spending over the next decade to fund Donald Trump’s tax cuts and immigration crackdown without cutting healthcare relied upon by tens of millions of Americans – including seniors and children, according to the non-partisan budget assessor.House Republicans last week narrowly passed a budget instructing the energy and commerce committee, which is responsible for federal healthcare, to cut spending under its jurisdiction by $880bn – in order to pay for Trump’s tax cuts, mass deportations and defence investments. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Mayors of ‘sanctuary cities’ face Congressional grilling in wild hearing that includes ‘criminal’ referrals

Mayors of New York, Denver, Chicago and Boston faced a contentious hearing about policies that Republicans believe thwart Trump’s mass deportation plan

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2 w. ago The Latest: Mayors testify in Congress as Republicans take aim at ‘sanctuary cities’

Mayors from four major cities are testifying in Congress as Republicans take aim at “sanctuary cities,” arguing that they impede the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda and protect people who are in the United States illegally

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3 w. ago Trump administration briefing: trade turmoil, Zelenskyy peace offer and British fury at Vance

As the world awaits Donald Trump’s first key speech to Congress in second term, here are the key US politics stories from Tuesday at a glanceIn Donald Trump’s first address to Congress since returning to the White House – and his first major speech in a chilling six weeks in office – the president claimed a mandate justifying his sweeping executive orders, despite having won the popular vote by 1.5 points – the smallest margin for any successful presidential candidate since Richard Nixon in 1968.Trump’s second term has already seen him initiate sweeping mass layoffs of federal employees, and mobilize officers from nearly every federal law enforcement agency and the US military to carry out his campaign promise of mass deportations. He has rattled Europe and other American allies with his pursuit of a peace deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine on terms preferential to Moscow. Continue reading...

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