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The Washington Post
9 days ago
Breaking: Multiple people have been shot and a suspect is at large at Brown University, police said Saturday evening. Students remain under lockdown, and campus and city police are responding to the incident. Read more here:
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Suspect at large after multiple people shot around Brown University, police say
According to a campus alert, shots were reported at the Barus and Holley Engineering building, a popular place for students to study.
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Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s godson was released last night, according to lawyer Todd Pomerleau.
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UPDATED: Mom of Karoline Leavitt's nephew to be freed from ICE detention. DHS, after characterizing Brazilian mom with ties to Karoline Leavitt as a "criminal," did not oppose her release at a hearing today.
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EXCLUSIVE: Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
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Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/12/07/trump-immigration-karoline-leavitt-brother-bruna/
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DHS swept Chicago to get ‘the worst’ criminals. Many have no record.
Aggressive tactics in Chicago have been deployed in DHS’s “Operation Midway Blitz” to round up more than 4,000 people, only a small portion of whom have major criminal records.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/30/chicago-dhs-immigration-midway-blitz/
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If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder.
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/
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Chart of the decade, from a new blockbuster reportage on how billionaires took over American politics
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No response yet from DOJ on this but Abrego’s attorneys have already flagged it for Judge Xinis. See
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ticktock of the hearing below
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SCOOP: Costa Rica says it will still accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting Trump’s DOJ
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Costa Rica says it would accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting U.S.
The statement from a Costa Rican official conflicts with what the Trump administration told a federal judge about its attempts to deport the undocumented immigrant
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SCOOP w/@marianne_levine @John_Hudson & @siobhan_ogrady Ukraine has not always cooperated with deportations. But that’s changing. “The U.S. can deport as many as they want,” a Zelensky advisor said. “We’ll find good use for them.”
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Trump officials preparing to deport some Ukrainians despite conscription fears
Deportations to Ukraine have declined in recent years. An adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky said, “We’ll find good use for them.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/11/14/ukraine-deportations-trump-zelensky/
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Three African nations rebuff U.S. effort to deport Kilmar Abrego García
Eswatini, Uganda and Ghana have declined to accept Abrego, an immigrant from El Salvador whom the Trump administration illegally deported to his native country.
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2 months ago
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NEW: Great deep dive into the Iowa superintendent’s past, by Marianne Levine
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ICE arrest reveals hidden past of an Iowa schools superintendent
Ian Roberts had become a beloved member of the Des Moines public school system. Now parents are grappling with how his immigration status and criminal record were overlooked.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/05/ian-robert-superintendent-iowa-ice/
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Trump administration offers migrant children cash to self-deport
DHS said the program was “strictly voluntary” and aimed at helping children return to their families. Immigrant advocates likened it to “cash bribes for kids.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/03/migrant-children-trump-deportation-immigrants/
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NEW Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García’s request to reopen case The judge, who works for DOJ, found “insufficient evidence” that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda. DHS had said “He will be processed for removal to Uganda.”
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Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García’s request to reopen case
The judge found “insufficient evidence” to show that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda, according to a copy of the decision reviewed by The Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/10/01/kilmar-abrego-garcia-judge-denies-reopen/
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Judge: Trump lawyer made false claims in court to hastily deport Guatemalan kids
A Trump-appointed federal judge found Justice Department lawyer Drew Ensign made false claims to justify a “hasty operation” to deport Guatemalan children.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/18/trump-immigration-children-deportations-guatemala/
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UPDATED ICE is referring hundreds of immigrant children to federal shelters from the US interior, not from the border. Among them are parents separated from their children, an issue raised at a Senate hearing today:
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Trump’s mass deportations bring a new wave of family separations
As ICE officers ramp up arrests, hundreds of migrant children are being sent to federal shelters. Some parents are given a choice: Deport with their children or face separation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/17/trump-immigration-family-separations-children/
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3 months ago
FAMILY SEPARATION: As ICE officers ramp up arrests, hundreds of migrant children are being sent to federal shelters. Some parents are given a choice: Deport with their children or face separation. ✍🏼
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Trump’s mass deportations bring a new wave of family separations
As ICE officers ramp up arrests, hundreds of migrant children are being sent to federal shelters. Some parents are given a choice: Deport with their children or face separation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/17/trump-immigration-family-separations-children/
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SCOOP: Sulma arrived in the US with her daughters in 2019. ICE pulled her over weeks ago. She has no criminal record. She’s a crime victim. By nightfall she was in detention. Her twins were in US custody, among hundreds of minors ICE referred to shelters this year. Gift link:
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Trump’s mass deportations bring a new wave of family separations
As ICE officers ramp up arrests, hundreds of migrant children are being sent to federal shelters. Some parents are given a choice: Deport with their children or face separation.
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Bondi decisions limit asylum for victims of domestic abuse, gang violence
The rulings mark the first time the attorney general has used her authority to review immigration appeals court rulings and set precedents for judges nationwide.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/03/bondi-immigration-families-women-asylum/
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Trump administration rescinds protected status for 250,000 Venezuelans
The Department of Homeland Security is ending temporary protected status created in 2021 for Venezuelan migrants, affecting tens of thousands in the U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/03/trump-tps-venezuelan-migrants/
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Trump administration rescinds protected status for 250,000 Venezuelans
The Department of Homeland Security is ending temporary protected status created in 2021 for Venezuelan migrants, affecting tens of thousands in the U.S.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/03/trump-tps-venezuelan-migrants/
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The Washington Post
4 months ago
Breaking news: Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE on Monday after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney said.
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Kilmar Abrego García detained by ICE days after release from custody
Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney s...
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Dan Lamothe
4 months ago
EXCLUSIVE: The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities.
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Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/23/trump-chicago-military-national-guard/
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Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers say Trump threat to deport him to Uganda is coercion
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers contends the Trump administration is trying to force him to plead guilty or face deportation to Uganda.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/23/kilmar-abrego-garcia-uganda-deportation/
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UPDATED Kilmar Abrego García set free but ICE threatens to deport him to Uganda
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The Washington Post
4 months ago
Breaking news: Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man illegally deported to his native El Salvador, has been released while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges. The Trump administration claimed he would “never go free” in the U.S. again.
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Kilmar Abrego García set free after illegal deportation, smuggling charges
The Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador has been released as he awaits trial on human smuggling charges. ICE may try to quickly deport him.
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Kilmar Abrego García set free after illegal deportation, smuggling charges
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Kilmar Abrego García set free after illegal deportation, smuggling charges
The Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador has been released as he awaits trial on human smuggling charges. ICE may try to quickly deport him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/22/kilmar-abrego-garcia-jail-release-tennessee-maryland/
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Kristi Noem is living free of charge in Coast Guard commandant’s home
A DHS spokesman said Noem must live on the military base because she had been “so horribly doxxed and targeted that she is no longer able to safely live in her own apartment.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/15/kristi-noem-is-living-free-charge-coast-guard-commandants-home/
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NEW Trump’s plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape
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Trump’s plan to hold migrants at military bases begins taking shape
Fort Bliss is preparing to detain at least 1,000 undocumented immigrants starting this month on the Mexican border.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/08/07/trump-fort-bliss-migrants-detention/
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Scott Clement
5 months ago
Rad the penultimate Sunday Take by the incomparable Dan Balz who is retiring: Consumed by Epstein, Trump has lost ground on the economy and immigration. Trump promised a new “Golden Age," but six months in, the public isn’t buying all the hype.
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Analysis | Consumed by Epstein, Trump has lost ground on the economy and immigration
When he was sworn in, Trump promised a new “Golden Age.” It’s clear that, six months into his presidency, the public isn’t buying all the hype.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/20/trump-epstein-economy-immigration-approval/
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ICE declares millions of undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings
A memo from ICE’s acting director instructs officers to hold immigrants who entered the country illegally “for the duration of their removal proceedings,” which can take months or years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/14/ice-trump-undocumented-immigrants-bond-hearings/
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5 months ago
Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.
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ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/12/immigrants-deportations-trump-ice-memo/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/12/immigrants-deportations-trump-ice-memo/
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Trump administration preparing to deport detainees to South Sudan
A federal judge in Boston rejected a final plea Friday from the immigrants’ lawyers, saying the Supreme Court authorized the transfers.
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6 months ago
Federal judge bars Trump administration from expelling asylum seekers : The judge ruled that the president cannot create an “alternative immigration system” that tramples on existing federal law. Story w/
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Federal judge bars Trump administration from expelling asylum seekers
Border crossings have dropped significantly since Trump took office and declared an ‘invasion’ at the border. Now a judge has ruled Trump’s proclamation was unlawful.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/02/trump-asylum-border-lawsuit-immigration/
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What is and isn’t legal when ICE officers make an immigration arrest
Videos showing masked officers whisking people into unmarked cars have sparked outcry. A look at ICE’s powers as Congress prepares to give the agency a giant infusion of cash.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/02/ice-raids-arrests-masks-warrants-kids/?itid=ap_arelisr.hernández_1
6 months ago
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EXCLUSIVE Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported after firing shots in a Houston suburb & reentering the U.S. illegally. Now he’s being freed.
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Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/28/star-witness-against-kilmar-abrego-garca-was-due-be-deported-now-hes-being-freed/
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Kilmar Abrego García pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges
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Kilmar Abrego García pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges
The federal charges are the latest turn in a legal battle over a mistaken deportation that has seen the Trump administration repeatedly resist court orders.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/13/kilmar-abrego-garcia-criminal-case/
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Matthew Hay Brown
6 months ago
The Trump administration has cast the undocumented as criminals responsible for California's woes and the ICE protests as an overreaction to basic deportation operations. The reality is very different
@mariasacchetti.bsky.social
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Fact-checking Trump and Miller’s claims of a ‘migrant invasion’ in California
Federal and state data tell a far different story about migration to California than the political fury unfolding in Washington and on the streets of Los Angeles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/10/fact-check-trump-california-migrant-invasion/
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NEW Data tell a far different story about immigration to California than the political fury unfolding in Washington and in Los Angeles. The number of undocumented immigrants in CA is well below peak levels. LAUSD enrollment? Way down. There’s more:
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Fact-checking Trump and Miller’s claims of a ‘migrant invasion’ in California
Federal and state data tell a far different story about migration to California than the political fury unfolding in Washington and on the streets of Los Angeles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/10/fact-check-trump-california-migrant-invasion/
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UPDATED ICE says the 8 detainees in Djibouti and the officers guarding them are in dire conditions. Their lawyers say the government hasn't let them talk to the men. And a Defense official says ICE exaggerated. The camp has a Pizza Hut, wifi, AC & more.
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ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants
The ICE officers and deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the East African nation of Djibouti. They also face the threat of malaria and rocket attacks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/05/djibouti-deportations-migrants-ice-trump/
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David Nakamura
7 months ago
Nearly a dozen immigration officers and eight deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the searing-hot East African nation of Djibouti, where they face threats of malaria and rocket attacks from nearby Yemen,
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ICE officers stuck in Djibouti shipping container with deported migrants
The ICE officers and deportees are sick and stranded in a metal shipping container in the East African nation of Djibouti. They also face the threat of malaria and rocket attacks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/05/djibouti-deportations-migrants-ice-trump/
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Matthew Hay Brown
7 months ago
The Guatemalan man is the first deportee known to have been returned by the Trump administration under a judicial order. He arrived in California on a commercial flight Wednesday and was immediately taken into custody by ICE
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Trump administration returns Guatemalan man it erroneously deported
The man, who had been deported to Mexico, is the first known deportee to be returned by the Trump administration after a judicial order.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/05/first-deportee-returned-trump-guatemala/
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Judge bars Trump administration from deporting family of Boulder attack suspect
A federal judge barred the Trump administration from deporting the wife and children of an Egyptian man accused of throwing molotov cocktails at a pro-Israel demonstration in Colorado.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/04/trump-boulder-family-deportation-colorado/
7 months ago
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The Washington Post
7 months ago
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
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Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
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"Under Trump, some immigrants lose protections — others don’t. Why?"
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wrote recently about how Trump hasn't revoked Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans. A quid pro quo for CECOT & deportations assistance?
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Under Trump, some immigrants lose protections — others don’t. Why?
The president’s moves to deport Venezuelans and expedite refugee status for Afrikaners have generated concern that he is using humanitarian protections to reward allies and punish enemies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/22/trump-venezuelans-tps-afrikaners-deportation/
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7 months ago
The plans disclosed in a court filing mark a sharp contrast with the administration’s refusal to publicly share similar information in other cases involving wrongfully deported migrants.
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Trump administration says it is making plans to return deported Guatemalan man
U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy recently ordered the Trump administration to “take all immediate steps” to facilitate the man’s return to the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/28/trump-deportations-guatemalan-murphy/
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NEW Trump administration says it is making plans to return deported Guatemalan man AND a blistering ruling from a Trump-nominated judge about the govt’s efforts to return a Venezuelan man from a prison in El Salvador
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Trump administration says it is making plans to return deported Guatemalan man
U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy recently ordered the Trump administration to “take all immediate steps” to facilitate the man’s return to the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/28/trump-deportations-guatemalan-murphy/
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