15 h. ago Women deported with US citizen kids denied chance to transfer custody, says lawyer

Mothers and kids held in ‘complete isolation’ and unable to coordinate childcare before being put on flight to HondurasTwo women who were deported to Honduras alongside their US citizen children were held in “complete isolation” and denied any opportunity to coordinate the care and custody of their children before being put on a flight, according to one of the lawyers representing them.The mothers were unable to contact attorneys or loved ones, and were not allowed the option to transfer the custody of their citizen children to another parent or caregiver, said Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project who is representing one of the families and coordinating with the team representing the other family. Continue reading...

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15 h. ago Mothers deported by Trump ‘denied’ chance to transfer custody of children, lawyer says

Two women and their children, who are US citizens, held in ‘complete isolation’ before being put on flight to HondurasTwo women who were deported to Honduras alongside their US citizen children were held in “complete isolation” and denied any opportunity to coordinate the care and custody of their children before being put on a flight, according to one of the lawyers representing them.The mothers were unable to contact attorneys or loved ones, and were not allowed the option to transfer the custody of their citizen children to another parent or caregiver, said Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project who is representing one of the families and coordinating with the team representing the other family. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago Trump admits it’s possible US citizens could be deported by mistake: ‘Nothing will ever be perfect in this world’

The administration has already come under fire for lack of due process when deporting immigrants

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21 h. ago Immigrant mothers are to blame for their US citizen children being deported, says Trump’s border czar: ‘Parenting 101’

At least three US citizen children were deported with their mothers, who did not have legal status

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41 h. ago Marco Rubio denies Trump is deporting citizen kids. They’re deporting mothers instead

Rubio slams media for making it ‘sound like ICE agents kicked down door and grabbed two-year-old and threw him on an airplane’

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3 d. ago Melania Trump ditches her birthday for Pope's funeral as people spot eerie 'coincidence'

Pope Francis' funeral has caused Melania Trump had to scrap her birthday, with Donald Trump admitting to not buying her any gifts - but this isn't the first time the First Lady has had to cancel plans

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4 d. ago Judd Trump speaks out about Crucible conditions as he admits it's 'not great for snooker'

Judd Trump stormed into the last 16 of the World Snooker Championship with a dominant win over Zhou Yuelong despite not being happy with conditions at the Crucible

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6 d. ago Trump hits thousands with surprise deportation notice email – including US citizens

The Trump administration is quietly revoking a temporary legal status that applies to around 900,000 people

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6 d. ago Trump admits China’s tariffs will drop ‘but it won’t be zero’

Trump’s massive import taxes have roiled stock markets since he announced them on April 1

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7 d. ago Trump latest: Vance admits president’s tariffs will cause ‘profound changes’ while gold surges to new high

Vice president J.D. Vance said the ‘rebalancing’ from aggressive tariffs would ‘produce great benefits for American workers’

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8 d. ago Senior Republican flounders when asked about Trump plan to deport US citizens to foreign jails

House majority whip Tom Emmers quickly changes the subject three times after being asked about controversial idea

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1 week ago BBC snooker star admits Judd Trump and Ronnie O'Sullivan decision may 'suit' Crucible

Judd Trump and Ronnie O'Sullivan both left the UK for Hong Kong at the end of 2024 after being granted residency, and this pundit believes the move could benefit them at the Crucible

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1 week ago Trump news at a glance: Maryland senator says Ábrego García moved from notorious El Salvador prison

Senator Chris Van Hollen accuses El Salvador’s government of planting margarita glasses to undermine his trip – key US politics stories from Friday 18 April at a glanceMaryland senator Chris Van Hollen revealed that Kilmar Ábrego García had been moved from El Salvador’s notorious Cecot prison – where he was sharing a cell with 25 other inmates – to a detention center with better conditions.Van Hollen met with Ábrego García, whom the Trump administration admits it mistakenly deported, and said that he had been left “traumatized” after facing threats in the Cecot facility. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kilmar Ábrego García ‘traumatized’ by threats in prison, Maryland senator says

Chris Van Hollen describes meeting with constituent held in Salvadoran prison against supreme court orderUS politics live – latest updatesWrongly deported Salvadoran man Kilmar Ábrego García has been held incommunicado and faced threats in prison that left him “traumatized”, a Democratic senator said Friday after returning from meeting him in El Salvador.Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the state Ábrego García had been living in with his US citizen wife and son until he was deported last month in what the Trump administration conceded was an “administrative error”, traveled to the central American country this week to see his constituent. After initially rejecting his request to meet Ábrego García and preventing him from traveling to the prison where he was being held, president Nayib Bukele’s government on Thursday facilitated a meeting at Van Hollen’s hotel. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks as White House defiant over US return

Jennifer Vasquez Sura relieved husband is alive but Trump officials say in mocking X post he is ‘never coming back’US politics live – latest updatesJennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported, expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him in El Salvador – as the White House posted on social media that he is “never coming back” to the US.“It was very overwhelming – the most important thing for me, my children, his mom, brothers was to see him alive, and we saw him alive,” Vasquez Sura told ABC in an interview. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘It was very overwhelming’: wife of Kilmar Ábrego García speaks out

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of the man wrongly deported to El Salvador, gives interview after learning he’s aliveJennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man the Trump administration has admitted it mistakenly deported to El Salvador, on Friday expressed relief to learn he is alive after a Democratic US senator managed to meet with him.“It was very overwhelming – the most important thing for me, my children, his mom, brothers was to see him alive, and we saw him alive” Vasquez Sura told ABC in an interview. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Woman born in the US gets email from DHS telling her it’s time to leave the country

Connecticut doctor Lisa Anderson receives disturbing message from Department of Homeland Security ordering her to self-deport, despite being an American citizen born in Pennsylvania

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1 week ago Steve Davis makes Judd Trump stance clear as John Higgins admits Ronnie O’Sullivan truth

The 2025 Snooker World Championship will get underway at the Crucible in Sheffield, with the sport's biggest names looking to etch their name into the history books

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1 week ago Trump live updates: President exploring legality of deporting U.S. citizens to Central American prisons

White House says, ‘It’s a legal question that the president is looking into’

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1 week ago Attorney general dodges question on Trump proposal to jail US citizens in El Salvador

Trump proposed that ‘homegrown criminals’ should be deported, an idea that experts say is clearly illegalThe US attorney general declined on Tuesday to say whether Donald Trump’s suggestion of removing US citizens to El Salvador was legal, in alarming remarks about what experts think is an obviously illegal idea.Trump proposed the idea on Monday in the Oval Office during a visit with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, who has been accepting people deported from the US and imprisoning them in a gigantic facility notorious for human rights abuses. Continue reading...

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