3 h. ago How Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan allegedly helped a migrant slip past ICE agents and landed herself in handcuffs

The FBI claims the Wisconsin jurist attempted to prevent immigration agents from arresting someone who’d appeared in her courtroom

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6 h. ago Milwaukee judge arrested for interfering on ICE arrest at courthouse, FBI says

The FBI claims the Wisconsin jurist attempted to prevent immigration agents from arresting someone who’d appeared in her courtroom

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16 h. ago Trump’s migrant arrest drive forces ICE prison to hold three times its capacity

“We are practically kidnapped,” said man forced to share room with 80 others for two weeks

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7 d. ago Judge orders Tufts University student in detention case to be brought to Vermont

A federal judge has ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student who was detained by immigration authorities in March to be brought to Vermont

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7 d. ago ICE agents admitted they were arresting ‘the wrong guy’ on NYC street — they deported him anyway

Merwil Gutierrez was deported from The Bronx to brutal El Salvador prison, according to family and attorney

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8 d. ago Colombian national ‘broke ICE agent’s nose’ during attempted arrest in New Jersey

The Justice Department claimed the ICE agent received a concussion and has been “fainting” and suffering from “shortness of breath” since having her nose broken

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9 d. ago Warning to asthma sufferers: Using inhalers at certain times of day could increase risk of attack

Patients could see their lives transformed with a new treatment plan that changes when they take their medication, experts have revealed.

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1 week ago Footage shows chaotic deportation arrest of migrant at courthouse as he shows up for DUI hearing

Arnuel Marquez Colmenarez, 33, is currently in ICE custody in Texas, following the incident at the New Hampshire courthouse in February

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1 week ago Footage shows chaotic deportation arrest of migrant at federal courthouse as he shows up for hearing

Arnuel Marquez Colmenarez, 33, is currently in ICE custody in Texas, following the incident at the New Hampshire courthouse in February

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1 week ago Federal judge drops contempt case against ICE agent over arrest outside Boston courthouse

A federal judge has dismissed a contempt case against an ICE agent whose arrest of man during his trial sparked criticism among the law enforcement community in Boston

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1 week ago Judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student's case

A federal judge in Vermont who's considering whether he has jurisdiction over the case of a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration officials has raised the idea of having her brought back to his court for a hearing

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1 week ago Trump administration has no evidence Tufts student was tied to antisemitism or terrorism before ICE arrest, State Dept. memo says

ACLU attorneys say government lawyers have not shared any evidence to back up claims supporting her removal

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2 w. ago US student journalists go dark fearing Trump crusade against pro

Newsrooms forced to adapt as writers resign and request takedown of stories to avoid potential repercussionsFearing legal repercussions, online harassment and professional consequences, student journalists are retracting their names from published articles amid intensifying repression by the Trump administration targeting students perceived to be associated with the pro-Palestinian movement.Editors at university newspapers say that anxiety among writers has risen since the arrest of Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who is currently in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention fighting efforts to deport her. While the government has not pointed to evidence supporting its decision to revoke her visa, she wrote an op-ed last year in a student newspaper critical of Israel, spurring fears that simply expressing views in writing is now viewed as sufficient grounds for deportation. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Tufts PhD student scores legal win against Trump administration as her case moves to Vermont court

Federal judge denies Justice Department’s request to throw out Rumeysa Ozturk’s challenge to her arrest

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3 w. ago Judge moves legal case of detained Turkish Tufts University student to Vermont

A federal judge has moved a case involving at Tufts University doctoral student being held at an immigration facility in Louisiana to Vermont

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3 w. ago Tufts doctoral student speaks out for first time after she was grabbed by masked ICE agents

Rumeysa Ozturk speaks out through her attorneys after lawyers spar in court

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3 w. ago Detained Tufts student taken from Massachusetts before judge ordered her kept there, government says

U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts

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3 w. ago Judge holds ICE agent in contempt for detaining suspect in the middle of his trial

‘I can't think of any greater injustice than a man who is taken away from his trial in the middle of it by the government,’ Wilson Martell-Lebron’s defense attorney tells The Independent

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4 w. ago Tufts student had asthma attack after ICE arrest designed to ‘punish’ speech, attorneys say

Lawyers for Tufts University doctoral student demand her release after ‘shocking, cruel and unconstitutional’ arrest

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4 w. ago The US government is effectively kidnapping people for opposing genocide | Moira Donegan

Rumeysa Ozturk, a visa holder, was snatched off the streets by Ice agents and sent to a detention center 1,000 miles away for opposing war crimes in GazaThe abductors wore masks because they do not want their identities known. On Tuesday evening, Rumeysa Ozturk exited her apartment building and walked on to the street in Somerville, Massachusetts – a city outside Boston – into the fading daylight. Ozturk, a Turkish-born PhD student at Tufts University who studies children’s media and childhood development, was on her way to an iftar dinner with friends, planning to break her Ramadan fast.In a video taken from a surveillance camera, she wears a pink hijab and a long white puffer coat against the New England cold. The first man, not uniformed but wearing plain clothes, as all the agents are, approaches her as if asking for directions. But he quickly closes in and grabs her by the wrists she has raised defensively toward her face. Continue reading...

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