3 d. ago Lawyers ask federal judge in Vermont for immediate release of detained Palestinian activist

A federal judge is scheduled to consider a request to immediately release a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship

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1 week ago Lawyer for detained Palestinian activist says client is relieved he hasn't been moved from Vermont

A lawyer for a Palestinian man arrested at a Vermont immigration office during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship says her client is relieved that he hasn’t been moved out of state

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1 week ago New Hampshire lawyer ‘treated like a criminal’ by border patrol after returning from Canada

‘They held us in two separate cells and neither of us had shoes or a jacket. It was freezing,’ the lawyer explained to The Independent Tuesday

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1 week ago Obama judge blocks Trump's plan to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants from four countries

An Obama-appointed judge will prevent the Trump administration from deporting hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans with temporary legal status.

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3 w. ago Venezuelans with legal status are being illegally detained in the US, lawyers say

Temporary protected status lets people stay when it’s not safe for them to go home, but Ice is arresting them anywayVenezuelans with legal permission to live and work in the United States are being unlawfully arrested by federal authorities at their homes, in their cars, at regular immigration check-ins and on the streets, attorneys say.They are then stuck in immigration detention around the country, sometimes for weeks, despite the law explicitly banning the government from keeping them behind bars. Continue reading...

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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 pauses Trump administration plans to end temporary legal protections for Venezuelans

A federal judge is pausing plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, one week before they were set to expire

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