Ms. Machado’s efforts to reclaim a stolen election by any available means, including military intervention, has long galvanized her supporters. Her opponents say these hard-line policies have a political cost.

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“Political opposition is not rebellion,” wrote a Seventh Circuit panel, rejecting an attempt by the Trump administration to remove an order by a trial court judge.

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Lawyers argue that the agency’s new policies have led to the detention and removal of victims of domestic violence and trafficking, despite their legal protections.

For decades, the United States tried to push undocumented people to self-deport, but success has often depended on coercion.

Immigration agents are using aggressive tactics. Residents of the sanctuary city are trying to resist them.

President Bernardo Arévalo called an overhaul of his country’s prison system an “absolute priority” after 20 inmates accused of belonging to the Barrio 18 group were found to have escaped undetected.

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Lessons from previous anti-immigrant sweeps don’t look good for the Trump administration.

We’re arresting working parents, students, asylum seekers and even U.S. citizens to create made-for-TV crackdowns.

Authoritarian creep reaches a new phase.

Remember when Republicans loved states’ rights?

Tao was not a Chinese dissident, just an ordinary worker who wanted freedom. Deportation did not stop him from trying again.