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Today — 8 April 2025Main stream

Supreme Court Overturns Block on Trump Administration’s Venezuelan Deportations

8 April 2025 at 09:33
A majority of the justices concluded that the Venezuelan migrants had brought their cases in the wrong court but that they were entitled to an opportunity to challenge their removal.

© Pool photo by Alex Brandon

The Trump administration sought to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport more than 100 Venezuelans to the Terrorist Confinement Center prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, last month, prompting a legal challenge.

Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador

8 April 2025 at 04:39
The chief justice, acting on his own, issued an “administrative stay,” a brief pause meant to give the court time to consider the matter. The justices are expected to act in the coming days.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times

An appellate court panel likened Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s inadvertent deportation to an act of official kidnapping.

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention

A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

© Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

CoreCivic signed a five-year, $246 million contract to reopen a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, seen in 2015. The company is one of several private detention operators to have already signed new contracts since President Trump took office.
Yesterday — 7 April 2025Main stream

Trump’s Least Favorite Judge Has Friends in High Places

To President Trump, Judge James E. Boasberg is “a troublemaker” and a “Radical Left Lunatic.” But his record and biography, including a friendship with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, say otherwise.

© Erin Schaff/The New York Times

Friends and colleagues describe Judge James E. Boasberg as a moderate, known for his calm temperament and thoughtful jurisprudence.

Judge Calls Mistaken Deportation of Maryland Man a ‘Grievous Error’

6 April 2025 at 22:54
Judge Paula Xinis, who has ordered that the Trump administration return the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, by Monday, also rejected a request to pause that order.

© Rod Lamkey Jr. for The New York Times

Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, listening to her husband’s attorney speak at the Federal District Court in Greenbelt, Md., on Friday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Trump Administration Revokes Visas of South Sudanese in Clash Over Deportees

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was making the move because the transitional government of South Sudan had refused to accept its citizens in a timely manner.

© Ivor Prickett for The New York Times

A billboard showing President Salva Kiir of South Sudan in Juba, the country’s capital, last year. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would revoke the visas of all South Sudanese passport holders over the country’s failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens.

Justice Dept. Accuses Top Immigration Lawyer of Failing to Follow Orders

6 April 2025 at 06:42
Erez Reuveni conceded in court that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place.

© Sarah Silbiger for The New York Times

The Department of Justice building in Washington. Erez Reuveni was promoted to acting deputy director of the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation two weeks ago.

Trump Administration Revokes Visas of South Sudanese in Clash Over Deportees

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was making the move because the transitional government of South Sudan had refused to accept its citizens in a timely manner.

© Ivor Prickett for The New York Times

A billboard showing President Salva Kiir of South Sudan in Juba, the country’s capital, last year. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would revoke the visas of all South Sudanese passport holders over the country’s failure to accept the return of its repatriated citizens.

Judge Orders Trump Administration to Return Maryland Man Deported to El Salvador

A federal judge said officials had acted without “legal basis” last month when they arrested the migrant, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, and put him on a plane to a notorious Salvadoran prison.

© Rod Lamkey Jr. for The New York Times

Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura, who is married to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, celebrated the judge’s decision on Friday with a cheering crowd of supporters.

How Guantánamo Bay Figures in the Trump Immigration Crackdown

5 April 2025 at 07:24
In two months, around 400 migrants have been held there, mostly Venezuelan and Nicaraguan citizens designated for deportation.

© Doug Mills/The New York Times

The U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay has been staffed with 1,000 government workers, 900 of them members of the U.S. military and the rest immigration service agents or contractors. About 400 migrants have been held there over two months.

Thailand Deports Dozens of Uyghurs to China Despite Pleas

27 February 2025 at 22:08
Rights groups criticized the Thai government for sending the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority, back to China, where they face the risk of torture and imprisonment.
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