Deportation
Gavin Newsom sues Trump over unilateral National Guard deployment to L.A.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump instructed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to deploy "at least 2,000 National Guard personnel" in response to protests against immigration raids in California. But according to…
DOJ brings Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. after insisting it couldn’t
Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the U.S. to appear in court on Friday, more than two months after being deported to a prison in El Salvador, the country of his birth. No matter how the trial shakes out, it's just the…
Politicians are abandoning due process, a core American value
The U.S. is a nation of symbols: the bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty, baseball, apple pie. One symbol, however, has taken a beating lately, though it represents the core of the American project. Lady Justice predates the…
Federal judge orders relief for alleged gang members deported and imprisoned without due process
On April 7 in Trump v. J.G.G., the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that foreign nationals who allegedly are subject to immediate deportation as "alien enemies" have a due process right to contest that…
Trump’s haste begets lawlessness
Last week, a federal court ruled that President Donald Trump had exceeded his statutory authority by imposing a raft of tariffs based on the "national emergency" supposedly caused by the longstanding U.S. trade…
Don’t use the Alien Enemies Act against alien friends
President Donald Trump claims that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 grants him the power to deport certain Venezuelan-born aliens without due process, based on the mere allegation of membership in a criminal street gang. But the…
Federal judge blocks Trump initiative targeting foreign student visas
Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) suddenly terminated about 4,700 records in the database of foreign students with F-1 visas authorizing them to attend American universities. That move, which sowed panic…
Serious immigration law enforcement means serious destruction to American liberty
Stephen Miller, the misguided immigration-obsessed Rasputin encouraging President Donald Trump's authoritarian overreaches to drive from the country people who the administration insists (but does not want to prove) are…
Since immigration is an ‘invasion,’ a top Trump adviser says, the president might suspend habeas corpus
The writ of habeas corpus, a right deeply rooted in English common law and recognized by the U.S. Constitution, allows people nabbed by the government to challenge their detention in court. That complicates President Donald…
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka arrested for ICE ‘trespassing’
Whose jurisdiction is it anyway? If you ask Ras Baraka, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility operated by the private prison company GEO Group may have been violating city…
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