A U.S. citizen and suspected Islamic State group member who has spent three days in a no man’s land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara tried to deport him will be repatriated to the United States, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said Thursday.
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After being forcibly separated at the border by government officials, sexually abused in U.S. foster care and deported, a once bright and beaming 3-year-old girl arrived back in Honduras withdrawn, anxious and angry, convinced her father abandoned her.
Read moreTurkey on Monday deported a U.S. citizen who fought for the Islamic State as the government began sending back captured foreign fighters to their home countries, a Turkish official said.
Read moreIn an extremely unusual case, South Korea deported two North Korean fishermen on Thursday after finding they had killed 16 other crew members on their boat and then fled to South Korean waters, Seoul officials said.
Read moreIsrael’s supreme court on Tuesday upheld the government’s expulsion of a senior Human Rights Watch official over his alleged support of a boycott of the country.
Read moreEuropean countries are coming under more pressure to take back and prosecute their citizens who left Europe to fight for the Islamic State and who are now held in captivity in Syria and Turkey.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel sided with a federal judge Thursday, upholding a decision to bar the Justice Department from imposing special conditions on policing grants for cities that refuse to help federal authorities detain and deport undocumented immigrants.
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Clergy and immigration activists in Minnesota are trying to remove the name of a revered bishop from a federal building where hundreds of deportation orders are issued every year, calling the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown an affront to his memory.
Read moreJailed, beaten and tortured for political activity during the Sri Lankan civil war, Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam’s case for U.S. asylum was taken up Friday by the Supreme Court.
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Alyse and Elmer Sanchez were thrilled when they survived their green card interview, a crucial step in obtaining lawful status in the United States. The officer agreed that their marriage is legitimate. Moments later, Elmer was in shackles, pending deportation to his native Honduras, leaving her alone with their two little boys.
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Pro-immigrant groups applauded a federal judge Monday for blocking a policy shift that the Trump administration said would allow it to deport hundreds of thousands of people arrested without sufficient residency papers.
Read moreTwo weeks after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tighten asylum restrictions, immigration lawyers pleaded with a federal judge Wednesday to stop the deportation of a Honduran woman and her 12-year-old son.
Read moreA federal judge in Washington shut down arguments from the government Friday that a new Homeland Security rule that fast-tracks deporting undocumented immigrants has not yet been implemented because immigration officers are still in training.
Read moreReversing, a California appeals court found that the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services did not exercise due diligence trying to locate a father who had been deported to Mexico, with whom his adult children had Facebook contact.
Read moreA dramatic late-night call from an Australian judge to a plane bound for Sri Lanka has temporarily spared a family of four — including two Aussie-born toddlers — from deportation and fueled a political firestorm Down Under.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel ruled Tuesday that noncitizens are entitled to attorney representation during removal proceedings, and ordered an immigration judge to re-hear a Mexican national’s deportation case because it was unclear whether he willingly gave up his right to counsel.
Read moreA Homeland Security rule that fast-tracks removal of undocumented immigrants is facing a new legal challenge from civil rights groups who say the Trump administration’s plan to ratchet up deportations is reckless and will create a “show me your papers” regime.
Read moreFederal prosecutors going back to 1942 took state determinations into account when deciding if criminal convictions against noncitizens should bear on their immigration status.
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