Donald Trump slammed the Supreme Court on Monday after the justices temporarily blocked him from deporting Venezuelan immigrants, while asserting that America “cannot give everyone a trial” — a bedrock constitutional right. The high court over the weekend took up an emergency petition from the American Civil Liberties Union of …
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen defended the Constitution and fired back at California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a fellow Democrat, who said that the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident, to El Salvador was “the distraction of the day.” “I don’t think it’s ever wrong to fight for the …
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Donald Trump‘s administration is preparing to deport a new group of Venezuelan men detained in Texas, said the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in an emergency Friday court filing. ACLU lawyers urged the Supreme Court to block the administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to justify sending migrants to …
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Thursday evening posted an image showing him meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland immigrant whom Donald Trump’s administration illegally deported to El Salvador and refused to bring home, despite a Supreme Court order. Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday seeking to …
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Wilmer Gutiérrez last saw his son the morning of Feb. 24. Later that day, his nephew called to tell him that 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez had been arrested just steps from their shared apartment in the Bronx. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our …
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Vice President J.D. Vance has publicly come out in favor of disregarding due process rights in the United States. In a lengthy X post published on Tuesday, Vance wrote: “To say the administration must observe ‘due process’ is to beg the question: what process is due is a function of …
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A federal judge has ruled that there is “probable cause” to hold the Trump administration in contempt over its removal of hundreds of migrants from the United States to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite an order to halt their deportation. On Wednesday, D.C. U.S. District Court Judge James …
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President Donald Trump’s administration used his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to shutter the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, which investigated allegations of abuse against migrants in the department’s custody. Recently, the Trump administration moved to raid the DHS civil rights office’s coffers …
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A day after the Supreme Court ordered that PresidentDonald Trump’s administration return an innocent Maryland man wrongfully deported to a notorious El Salvadoran mega-prison, the president said that he would respect the high court’s decision. “If the Supreme Court said bring somebody back I would do that. I respect the …
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Donald Trump has taken extreme measures in his second term to deport foreign nationals legally residing in the U.S., such as revoking the visas of students involved in pro-Palestine protests on campuses around the country. Now, as The New York Times reports, the administration will look to widen the scope …
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