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ICE Keeps Detaining the Same US Citizen Again, and Again, and Again. He’s Fighting Back.

On the morning of May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas was driving home from a convenience store run in Silverhill, Alabama, when he noticed an unmarked...

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A Judge Ordered Her Return After a Wrongful Deportation. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Maria de Jesús Estrada Juárez recalls the 40 days she spent in Mexico as a dark time. After more than 27 years in the United States, her country of...

09.04.2026 6

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“Flagrant Violation”: Judge Orders Return of Mother Deported Despite DACA

On Monday, a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return to the United States of a Sacramento mother who was...

24.03.2026 10

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The Case That Could Upend Who Gets to Be an American Is Back at the Supreme Court

Next week, the Trump administration’s bid to deny birthright citizenship to the US-born children of undocumented immigrants and non-green card...

24.03.2026 10

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“I Feel Like I’m Grieving My Mother”

On Tuesday, now-former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified for hours in a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing about her...

05.03.2026 10

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He Fled Torture in Uganda. ICE Is Trying to Send Him Back.

Last December, Steven Tendo stood on the steps of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington, Vermont, speaking to a crowd holding a...

09.02.2026 20

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ICE’s Violence Is “By Design” Under Trump

After a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis last Wednesday, Trump administration officials were...

14.01.2026 60

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They Fled Maduro and Cheered His Downfall. But They Fear Deportations, Too.

Word of the US military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reached Mayra Sulbaran while on vacation in Canada....

07.01.2026 40

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Trump Is “Basically Shutting Down the Legal Immigration System”

Not long after the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington D.C., Elora Mukherjee found herself contacting her clients with bad...

12.12.2025 20

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A Year of Hell for Immigrants

The image was grotesque. In March, a camera-ready Kristi Noem posed in front of a group of shirtless, shaved, tattooed men crammed inside a metal...

10.12.2025 20

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The Trump Administration Won’t Stop Firing Immigration Judges

The Trump administration has axed another group of judges from immigration courts. On Monday, the New York Times reported, eight judges serving on the...

03.12.2025 10

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From Texas to Tennessee, Even Trump Country Is Marching Against Trump

It’s been a week since an estimated 7 million people across 50 US states and the District of Columbia—and countless others all over the...

26.10.2025 10

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“Gringos, Go Home”: Latin America Reacts to Trump’s Expanding Military Campaign

On Friday, the Trump administration escalated its military presence in the Caribbean and South America by announcing the deployment of an aircraft...

25.10.2025 10

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Russ Vought Is Trump’s Shutdown Hero. His Neighbors Think His Work Is “Abhorrent.”

On Thursday night, President Donald Trump shared a music video on Truth Social. In it, an AI-generated Russ Vought—Trump’s director of the Office...

04.10.2025 10

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The “Chaos and Cruelty” of Trump’s Worksite Immigration Raids

On September 4, federal, state, and local officers conducted the largest single-site immigration worksite raid in US history. The months-in-the-making...

18.09.2025 10

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Brazil’s Former President Jair Bolsonaro Found Guilty of Coup Attempt

A simple majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices voted to convict former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro of leading a coup attempt following...

12.09.2025 10

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The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Birthright Citizenship Is a Trump Power Grab

In one of the most anticipated decisions of this Supreme Court term, today the justices granted President Donald Trump’s emergency applications to...

27.06.2025 20

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ICE Detention Numbers Have Reached a Record High

The number of immigrants detained in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities across the country has reached a record high of more than...

21.06.2025 10

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The “Twisted” History of Trump’s Legal Theory for Using Troops Against Protesters

On Saturday, President Donald Trump called 2,000 California National Guard troops into Los Angeles in response to growing protests against the...

10.06.2025 10

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Trump’s New “Supercharged” Travel Ban

On Wednesday, the Trump administration issued a new travel ban on foreigners, primarily targeting people from countries in Africa, the Middle East,...

05.06.2025 10

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Trump Disappeared Them to El Salvador. Now, They’re Being Erased by Immigration Courts.

On May 30, Frizgeralth de Jesús Cornejo Pulgar was scheduled for a hearing in a United States immigration court. But Cornejo Pulgar—an asylum...

02.06.2025 20

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The Worrying Backstory of Trump’s Proposed “Office of Remigration”

On Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration had taken new steps towards “building an America First State...

30.05.2025 10

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Jair Bolsonaro’s Son Has an Idea for Trump: Send Immigrants From Brazil to Prison in El Salvador

In December 2023, Eduardo Bolsonaro, one of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s sons and a congressman from Rio de Janeiro, led a delegation...

14.05.2025 20

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Trump’s DOJ Stripped Lifeline Legal Services From the Most Vulnerable Detained Immigrants

On April 3, a Justice Department contracting officer sent the Acacia Center for Justice a “notice of termination for convenience.” The email...

09.05.2025 10

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“Designed to Scare People”: Lawyers Warn of Self-Deportation Notices Posted in Immigration Courts

On April 28, lawyer Paul O’Dwyer opened his email inbox to find some good news. A New York City immigration judge had approved the asylum...

06.05.2025 10

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Thousands Call on the Trump Administration to Return Kilmar Abrego Garcia

On Thursday afternoon, Lorraine Beausejour Crowe, 82, and her daughter Donna Crowe, 60, joined thousands of protesters in the streets of downtown...

02.05.2025 10

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Her Husband Is Trapped in a Salvadoran Prison. She Has No Idea How to Get Him Back.

On February 7, Luz Zambrano gave birth to her second child, Alana Samantha. She hadn’t expected to do so without her husband, Julio Zambrano Perez,...

08.04.2025 20

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What Happens to the Venezuelans Sent to a Salvadoran Mega-Prison Now?

What happens to the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador now? In March, President Donald Trump invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act—last used during...

04.04.2025 10

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The US Used the Alien Enemies Act to Detain Their Families. Now, They Are Watching History Repeat.

Heidi Gurcke Donald does not remember much about the Crystal City family internment camp in South Texas. She was barely three at the time. But Donald...

18.03.2025 10

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Trump’s American Caste System

In 1995, then–Assistant Attorney General Walter Dellinger testified in Congress about proposed legislation to deny certain immigrants’ children...

13.03.2025 10

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Trump Administration Makes a New Push to Speed Up Deportations

The Trump White House is taking extra steps to try to deliver on the president’s signature campaign promise to conduct the largest mass deportation...

01.03.2025 10

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Why “I’m Still Here” Should Win Best Picture at the Oscars

Growing up in Brazil around the turn of the millennium, I was too young to have lived through the violent years of the military dictatorship that last...

01.03.2025 10

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The “Punitive Theater” of Trump’s Plan to Send Immigrants to Guantánamo Bay

In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand immigration detention space in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to “full capacity.”...

12.02.2025 10

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