The American Dream is fast approaching its expiration date for thousands of law-abiding immigrants who will become illegal aliens when the clock runs out on their protected status. Three shared their stories with Courthouse News and told what awaits them if they are forced to return to their home countries.
Read moreU.S. officials announced the deportation Tuesday of a former Nazi labor camp guard who helped the regime carry out one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust.
Read morePending the government’s appeal of an order to reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a federal judge gave Homeland Security a pass Friday on processing of new applications.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday kept a stay in place that blocks deportations of immigrant families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, paving the way for children to pursue asylum.
Read moreA judge is accusing German authorities of testing the limits of the law in the deportation to Tunisia of a suspected former aide to Osama bin Laden, whom courts have ordered returned to Germany.
Read moreStanding across the street from the Homeland Security field office where he was arrested, immigration activist Ravi Ragbir rallied roughly 100 supporters Tuesday after a Second Circuit hearing in his case.
Read moreSenior Zimbabwean opposition figure Tendai Biti was in police custody on Thursday after Zambia rejected his asylum bid and deported him, as fears grew about a government crackdown following Zimbabwe’s disputed election.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday broached one of the most important decisions in the family separation case at the U.S.-Mexico border: whether reunited families should be immediately deported back to their home countries.
Read moreA federal judge Friday told government attorneys their lack of progress reuniting over 400 deported parents with their children after they were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border was “unacceptable.”
Read moreA federal judge said Tuesday he would issue an order temporarily barring deportation of reunified families unless the government agrees to do so on its own.
Read moreA Justice Department attorney revealed Friday afternoon that 1,000 families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border face immediate deportation once a court-ordered stay on removal proceedings is lifted.
Read moreA federal judge in Manhattan pressed a prosecutor Tuesday to explain why a New York pizza deliveryman from Ecuador married to a U.S. citizen is being detained and facing deportation.
Read moreGerman authorities plan to bring back to Germany an Afghan asylum-seeker who apparently was deported mistakenly while legal proceedings were still ongoing in his case.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday ordered the government to temporarily halt the removal of a Guatemalan mother separated from her 9-year-old son at the U.S.-Mexico border in May.
Read moreAfter the American Civil Liberties Union raised the alarm, a federal judge on Monday ordered the federal government to halt for now deportations of families separated at the border immediately after reuniting them.
Read moreResponding to the deportation challenge by an Ecuadoran man whom immigration authorities snared while he brought pizza to an Army base in Brooklyn, the government says the deliveryman chose the wrong venue for his court battle.
Read moreIn an 8-1 vindication for a Brazilian handyman, the Supreme Court scoffed Thursday at the U.S. government’s claim to have initiated removal proceedings with a notice to appear that lacked both time and location.
Read moreA young Mexican man whose DACA application is pending sued Attorney General Jeff Sessions for ordering him to be deported anyway; and in Houston, children who acquired U.S. citizenship from their father sued U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for denying them a passport.
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