20 h. ago Trump administration seeks explosive expansion of nation's immigration detention system

The world's largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations

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28 h. ago Appeals court warns of mounting ‘crisis’ over Trump’s refusal to ‘facilitate’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return

Reagan-appointed appellate judge slams Trump for trying to ‘stash away residents in foreign prisons’ without due process

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32 h. ago Trump’s gilded Oval Office was the perfect setting for his and Bukele’s grotesque spectacle | Julia Carrie Wong

The president’s penchant for the gaudy has been mocked but the menace beneath was clear when he met El Salvador’s leaderThe Oval Office meeting of Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele on Monday was a grotesque spectacle. Both men, elected to lead nominally democratic countries, have described themselves as dictators, and they exuded that sense of smug impunity. While reporters sought answers on the fate of Kilmar Ábrego García, a 29-year-old father of three who was wrongly deported to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot mega-prison, Trump and Bukele disclaimed responsibility, joked about further deportations, and engaged in casual slander of Ábrego García, who is not, and has never been alleged to be, a terrorist.And then there was the gold. So much gold. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’

Jennifer Vasquez Sura criticizes DHS’s attempt to smear her wrongly deported husband over 2021 civil protective orderWho is Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador?The wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s attempt to smear his character, saying a temporary restraining order against him was “out of caution” and that “he is a loving partner and father” who is being denied justice.Jennifer Vasquez Sura said she “acted out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar” when she got the civil protective order in 2021, according to a statement emailed to the Baltimore Sun. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago El Salvador president vows to double size of prison holding US deportees

Donald Trump urged that the prison, which already holds 40,000, be expanded after he threatened to send American citizens who have broken the law

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2 d. ago Trump’s deportation ‘mistake’: the man trapped in a prison in El Salvador

Kilmar Ábrego García was deported, detained and flown to a notorious prison – before officials admitted they had made an error. Why is he still there? Maanvi Singh reportsKilmar Ábrego García was 16 when he came to the US, after his family were targeted by criminal gangs in his home of El Salvador. He joined his brother in Maryland and started a new life.In 2019, he was arrested by immigration officials and accused of being a gang member, but his lawyers argued there was no evidence for this, pointed out he had no criminal convictions and insisted he should not be sent back to a country where he was himself at risk from criminal gangs. A judge agreed and gave him protected status so he could not be deported. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago The Trump administration trapped a wrongly deported man in a catch

The US says it can’t aid in his return as he’s in El Salvador; El Salvador says to help would be like ‘smuggling’ him backIt is difficult to find a term more fitting for the fate of the Maryland father Kilmar Abrego García than Kafkaesque.Abrego García is one of hundreds of foreign-born men deported under the Trump administration to the Cecot mega-prison in El Salvador as part of a macabre partnership with the self-declared “world’s coolest dictator”, Nayib Bukele. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump and El Salvador leader attack 'preposterous' media in epic showdown over deported Maryland man

President Donald Trump and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele led a united defense in the Oval Office as they defended keeping a Maryland man in a notorious megaprison.

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6 d. ago Trump lawyers confirm wrongly deported Maryland man in El Salvador prison

Administration fails to show they have taken any steps to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego García The Trump administration on Saturday confirmed to a federal judge that a Maryland man who was wrongly deported last month remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador.However, the White House filing did not address the judge’s demands that the administration detail the steps it was taking to return Kilmar Abrego García to the United States. The White House only confirmed that García was under the authority of the El Salvador government. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Supreme Court orders Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to US from El Salvador prison

Trump administration officials had insisted it was impossible to bring him home, even though they admitted sending him to notorious prison was done ‘in error’

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1 week ago Supreme Court lets Trump keep wrongfully deported Maryland father in El Salvador prison, for now

Trump appealed a judge’s order demanding Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States by midnight

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1 week ago Trump calls on Supreme Court to keep wrongfully deported Maryland father in El Salvador prison

Trump appeals court order demanding Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States by midnight

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1 week ago Judge again orders Trump administration to return man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison

A federal judge is for the second time ordering the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador

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2 w. ago Woman jailed over 'racist' migrant hotel tweet after Southport stabbings 'is denied temporary release to see daughter, 12, and ailing husband'

Lucy Connolly, 42, is currently serving a 31-month sentence for a post made last summer where she spoke of mass deportations and setting fire to asylum hotels 'for all I care'.

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2 w. ago The Trump administration admits a father was mistakenly deported. Now his wife is raising their disabled son alone.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s family is fighting in court to force the Trump administration to retrieve him from El Salvador’s notorious prison after admitting an ‘administrative error’ that sent him there

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2 w. ago Joe Rogan breaks with Trump, calling Venezuelan deportations ‘horrific’

Influential podcast host and prominent Trump supporter criticizes administration for removal of gay makeup artistJoe Rogan, the influential podcast host and prominent supporter of Donald Trump, has criticized the president’s administration over the deportation of a professional makeup artist and hairdresser to a prison in El Salvador, calling it “horrific”.Andry José Hernández Romero, who is gay, had sought asylum in the US, telling officials he faced persecution because of his sexual orientation and political views. But US immigration officers argued the crown tattoos on his wrists were proof he was part of Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang, despite Hernández Romero telling them he was not. Last month, he was flown from Texas to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador, a facility that his lawyer said was “one of the worst places in the world”. His removal comes as the administration undertakes what Trump has pledged would be a mass deportation campaign. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Melania talks ‘power of love’ at women’s awards event as her husband continues to push his mass deportations

‘Throughout my life, I have harnessed the power of love as a source of strength during challenging times,’ the first lady said at the International Women of Courage Award ceremony

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2 w. ago Trump administration's stunning revelation about father deported to hellhole El Salvador prison

At least one man has been illegally deported from the US to a hellhole prison in El Salvador by mistake, the Trump administration admitted in court.

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2 w. ago Ice blames ‘error’ for deportation of man with protected legal status

Official says Kilmer Armado Abrego-Garcia, who lived in Maryland with his wife and child, is in El Salvador prison due to ‘oversight’US politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s administration acknowledged on Monday in court documents that a Maryland man with protected status was deported to El Salvador and blamed an “administrative error”.The administration also said it is unable to bring him back because US courts lack jurisdiction now that he is in Salvadoran custody. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Donald Trump accidentally sent wrong man to El Salvador mega prison – and 'can't get him back'

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had protected immigration status in the US, was mistakenly sent to El Salvador's brutal CECOT mega prison due to an administrative error - and government officials can't get him back

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