4 h. ago Trump’s deportation hub: inside the ‘black hole’ where immigrants disappear

A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria, Louisiana, facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long staysHe arrived in Alexandria exhausted and sick.It was early April, and Amilcar Lisser-Posadas – shackled at his hands and feet – had been transferred from a nearby immigration detention center to this remote US immigration facility in Louisiana. He feared it would be his last stop before deportation. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Taxpayers to drop another $1.1 million on new batch of Trumpified ICE vehicles

Exclusive: As the White House slashes funding for education and renewable energy, the American public is again ponying up to expand ICE’s fleet

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26 h. ago Taxpayers to drop another $1.2 million on new batch of Trumpified ICE vehicles

Exclusive: As the White House slashes funding for education and renewable energy, the American public is again ponying up to expand ICE’s fleet

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28 h. ago Trump tried to convince deported South Korean workers to stay and train Americans

South Korea chooses to bring ‘exhausted and in-shock’ workers home after plant raid

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36 h. ago Trump halted deportation of Korean workers to encourage them to train Americans

Seoul officials said US president gave those arrested at the Hyundai-LG battery plant an option to stay

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44 h. ago Trump paid El Salvador $5M to jail deportees – with conditions on abortion and DEI but not preventing torture

Secret memos made public this week show Trump administration’s arrangement with Nayib Bukele to jail Venezuelans

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47 h. ago Trump was barely stopped from deporting a plane full of Guatemalan kids. That could just be the beginning

Lawyers say ICE is imminently preparing to deport Honduran minors in federal custody while Honduran officials say they’re planning for their ‘safe return’

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52 h. ago Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo

44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the USThe Trump administration is shuttling immigrants around the US in irregular and unprecedented ways, according to the findings of a Guardian investigation, effectively vanishing people into a “purgatory” that denies them constitutionally-protected rights.A review of leaked flight records and passenger manifests from Global Crossing Airlines (GlobalX), the charter company that operates the majority of deportation flights for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), has provided a rare look at the winding journeys of more than 44,000 immigrants detained or deported by the Trump administration. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump administration taunts Kilmar Abrego Garcia as ICE reveals plans to deport him to tiny African country

Homeland Security says wrongfully deported Maryland immigrant will be sent to Eswatini

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5 d. ago Donald Trump branded 'wannabe dictator' after 'I love the smell of deportations' post

Donald Trump has posted a bizarre AI-generated image comparing his planned federal crackdown in Chicago to the 1979 film 'Apocalypse Now', sparking a furious backlash

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6 d. 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

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7 d. ago Trump’s radical agenda will ultimately reach a supreme court stacked in favor of conservatives

Court has already dramatically limited ability of lower courts to issue injunctions to pause administration policies across the USUS politics live – latest updatesThis week’s dramatic court ruling that Donald Trump’s sweeping trade tariffs, which he has used to upend global trade, were in fact illegal is the latest in a series of losses for the president’s radical agenda that are ultimately heading for a final showdown in the US supreme court.Trump has already asked the supreme court to overturn the lower court ruling in the tariffs case. Almost certain to follow are Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, his hostile conflict with Harvard University and his deployment of the national guard and marines to Los Angeles. All have been deemed unlawful in lower courts. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Chaotic showdown over Guatemalan children exposes fault lines in Trump’s deportation push

A reconstruction of the aborted deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children on Labor Day weekend illuminates the latest clash between the administration’s desire for mass deportations and longstanding legal protections for migrants

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8 d. ago Trump clears way to deport more than 250,000 Venezuelans given protection by Biden

Former president Joe Biden issued two TPS orders for Venezuelans, the first in 2021 and a second in 2023, providing eligible migrants with work authorization and protection.

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8 d. ago Louisiana prison chosen for immigration detainees due to its notoriety, says Noem

Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem said she hoped it would encourage people in the US illegally to self-deportThe Trump administration purposefully chose a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people in the US illegally to self-deport, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary Kristi Noem said Wednesday.A complex inside the Louisiana state penitentiary, an immense rural prison better known as Angola, will be used to detain those whom Noem described as the “worst of the worst” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detainees. Noem was speaking to reporters as she stood on the grounds of the facility near a new sign reading, “Louisiana Lockup.” Continue reading...

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8 d. ago White House vows to appeal after judge sides with Harvard and reverses billions in Trump cuts – live

Spokesperson attacks ‘activist judge’ after administration’s cuts to university research ruled to be illegal retaliationAs part of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations, the defense department will soon have hundreds of military judges work on immigration cases, the Associated Press reports:The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the federal justice department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the Associated Press. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Fears of being killed and vomiting from stress: Harrowing court filings reveal Trump admin’s frantic child deportation flights

Teens describe fears of returning to Guatemala and frantic deportation flights before judge blocked their removal

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8 d. ago Judge sides with Harvard and orders Trump to reverse billions in funding cuts – US politics live

Federal judge in Boston orders reversal of administration’s cuts to more than $2.6bn in funding research grantsAs part of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations, the defense department will soon have hundreds of military judges work on immigration cases, the Associated Press reports:The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the federal justice department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the Associated Press. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago US military to continue targeting vessels belonging to alleged Venezuelan drug cartels, Rubio warns – live

Arguing that previous interdiction efforts in Latin America have not worked, Rubio says, ‘What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them’As part of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations, the defense department will soon have hundreds of military judges work on immigration cases, the Associated Press reports:The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the federal justice department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the Associated Press. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Court ruling blocking Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act hailed a ‘victory’

Fifth circuit says Alien Enemies Act can not justify removal of Venezuelans accused of gang ties in peacetimeA court ruling that blocked Donald Trump from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans he alleged were part of a criminal gang has been hailed as “a victory for the rule of law”.In a 2-1 decision on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the fifth US circuit court of appeals issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the Trump administration using the 1798 law to justify rapid deportations. Continue reading...

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