Hundreds of Central Americans who entered southern Mexico in recent days have been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention centers or returned to Honduras, officials said Tuesday. An unknown number slipped past Mexican authorities and continued north.
Read moreThe Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles agreed as part of a settlement Wednesday to stop sharing registration information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read moreA federal judge overseeing an immigration class action found Tuesday that asylum seekers aren’t at risk of being deported under the “safe third country” rule to three South American countries many are fleeing, despite reports this week deportations have been made to Guatemala.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel on Friday granted an immigrant’s petition to review the federal government’s decision to deport him, saying that his removal from the country during legal proceedings did not constitute a withdrawal of his appeal.
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The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide what happens when it is unclear whether the crime a person facing deportation committed prevents them from seeking to have their deportation canceled.
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A German diplomat’s son who served more than 33 years in prison for a double murder in Virginia that he has steadfastly maintained he didn’t commit arrived in his homeland on Tuesday after being released on parole.
Read moreA 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sexually abused in U.S. foster care and deported, a once bright and beaming 3-year-old girl arrived back in Honduras withdrawn, anxious and angry, convinced her father abandoned her.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.
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