2 h. ago El Salvador deportee returned to the US and charged with human smuggling

US Attorney General Pam Bondi said: ‘This is what American justice looks like’

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6 h. ago ‘He’s a bad guy’: Trump backs decision to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to US to face charges

Donald Trump has called Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “bad guy” and backed the decision to return him to the US to face criminal charges.

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13 h. ago Police arrest 300 people in major crackdown on illegal working in Scotland

Officers have been swooping on businesses across the country in a bid to tackle those abusing the UK immigration system.

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19 h. ago Immigration concerns hit highest level since just before Brexit vote, poll finds

Nearly half the public view immigration as one of the biggest problems in the country, the highest proportion since just before the historic Brexit vote, pollsters at Ipsos found.

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19 h. ago Kilmar Ábrego García returned from El Salvador to face criminal charges in US

Man mistakenly deported to El Salvador indicted on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people, says BondiUS politics – live updatesKilmar Ábrego García, the man whom the Donald Trump administration mistakenly deported from Maryland to El Salvador in March, returned to the US on Friday to face criminal charges.In a press briefing on Friday, the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, said that a federal grand jury in Tennessee had indicted the 29-year-old father on counts of illegally smuggling undocumented people as well as of conspiracy to commit that crime. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to US to face criminal smuggling charges

Wrongfully deported Salvadoran immigrant faces grand jury indictment over trafficking allegations

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20 h. ago US charges Kilmar Ábrego García with people smuggling as he is returned from El Salvador

US attorney general Pam Bondi says Ábrego García is back on US soil but will be sent back to El Salvador after serving a sentence if convictedTesla shares rose on Friday as investors took some comfort from White House aides scheduling a call with CEO Elon Musk to broker peace after a public feud with President Donald Trump, reports Reuters. The electric carmaker’s shares were up about 5% in Frankfurt on Friday, having closed down 14.3% on Thursday in New York, losing about $150bn in market value.“It’s unlikely that Trump will end subsidies and contracts with Tesla. Those are obviously threats that are unlikely to come into fruition,” Fiona Cincotta, senior market analyst at City Index told Reuters. “I don’t expect this to blow out into anything more serious than a war of words for a couple of days.” Continue reading...

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21 h. ago US charges Kilmar Abrego Garcia with transporting illegal immigrants into the country

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been charged by the Trump administration with transporting illegal immigrants into the United States

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1 week ago US judge orders Trump administration to return wrongly deported gay man

Judge says Guatemalan’s removal to Mexico, despite fears of being harmed there, ‘lacked any semblance of due process’A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday night to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico, in spite of his fears of being harmed there, and who has since been returned to Guatemala.The man, who is gay, had applied for asylum in the US last year after he was attacked twice in homophobic acts of violence in Guatemala. He was protected from being returned to his home country under a US immigration judge’s order at the time, but the Trump administration put him on a bus and sent him to Mexico instead. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago After crossing the border for better schools, some parents are pulling their kids and leaving the US

Even as immigrants in the U.S. avoid going out in public, terrified of encountering immigration authorities, families across the country are mostly sending their children to school — but that’s not to say they feel safe in this country

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2 w. ago Bhutanese Nepalis fled ethnic cleansing for the US. Trump is returning them to the refugee camps

They lost their Nepalese citizenship years ago and are now living in a ‘stateless limbo’ amid Trump’s deportationsAasis Subedi, a Bhutanese Nepali refugee, finds himself back in the same Nepal refugee camp he spent part of his youth, once again stateless.Last month, Subedi and two dozen community members from across the US were deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers to Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan country where they had never previously set foot. At least four, including Subedi, were immediately rejected by Bhutanese authorities and then expelled to India, where they fled to a refugee camp in Nepal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago They crossed the border for better schools. Now, some families are leaving the US

Even as immigrants in the U.S. avoid going out in public, terrified of encountering immigration authorities, families across the country are mostly sending their children to school — but that’s not to say they feel safe in this country

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3 w. ago PETER HITCHENS: Don't believe a word Sir Sheer Squirmer now says

When I was a revolutionary student, I and all my comrades wanted more immigration into this country. This was not because we especially liked immigrants.

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3 w. ago DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops for immigration roundups, Pentagon reviewing request

The Department of Homeland Security has asked for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with immigration roundups across the country, and the Pentagon is reviewing the unusual request, a U.S. official confirmed to The Associated Press

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3 w. ago Wisconsin judge argues prosecutors can't charge her with helping a man evade immigration agents

A Wisconsin judge charged with helping a man who is in the country illegally evade U.S. immigration agents who were trying to detain him at her courthouse have filed a motion to dismiss the case, arguing that there’s no legal basis for it

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3 w. ago Anas Sarwar insists immigration must come down 'across the board' as he backs Keir Starmer's plans

The Scottish Labour leader said the UK needs a “well-managed” immigration system that controls the country’s borders.

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3 w. ago UK government to tighten immigration rules amid voter anger over ‘failed experiment in open borders’

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will on Monday unveil plans to tighten immigration rules, confronting an issue that has bedeviled successive governments and fueled the rise of a new anti-immigrant party that could threaten the country’s political establishment

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer to ensure settlement in UK a 'privilege' and 'not a right' in massive overhaul of immigration system

Sir Keir Starmer is set to announce an overhaul of the immigration system to ensure "settlement in this country is a privilege" and "not a right" as Immigration White Paper is unveiled

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