The justices found that an undocumented immigrant seeking to cancel their deportation must prove they have not been convicted of a disqualifying crime when the record is unclear.
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Can President Biden undo the former president’s immigration legacy? Sure, experts say, but he probably won’t.
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The ruling by a Trump appointee prevents President Joe Biden from instituting a deportation moratorium as part of his efforts to reset the nation’s immigration enforcement policies.
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Malaysia on Tuesday deported more than 1,000 Myanmar detainees back to their strife-torn homeland just weeks after a coup, despite a court order halting the repatriation and a storm of criticism.
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Instead of planning for her future once she is released from a California state prison, Gabriela Solano, who was brought to the United States when she was 2 years old, filed a class action complaint Monday seeking to prevent an ICE contractor from arresting her for deportation.
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A 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard deported from Tennessee has agreed to be questioned by German prosecutors as they re-examine whether there is enough evidence against him to bring charges, authorities said Monday.
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Their middle-of-the-night deportation of a Fiji professor and his wife was a dramatic escalation in a management dispute at the South Pacific’s top educational institution.
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Siding with Texas in its challenge of the Biden administration’s 100-day pause on deportations, a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction Tuesday prohibiting the government from enforcing the ban.
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The Biden administration must provide records about any immigrants ordered deported who were released from custody in the wake of executive action pausing deportations for 100 days, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court denied a request from a Haitian immigrant with severe mental illness to stay his removal from the country. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, saying he “will be targeted for cruel and dehumanizing mistreatment” in his home country.
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Texas sued the Biden administration Friday over its 100-day suspension of deportations, promptly delivering on its Republican leaders’ promise to be a litigious thorn in the side of the Democratic president.
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Europe’s top rights court heard arguments Wednesday from two Uzbek men who say they will be tortured or killed if deported from Russia to Kyrgyzstan.
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In a case where British authorities wanted to deport a Somali refugee convicted of burglary, Europe’s highest court on Wednesday did not stand in the way of sending him back to Somalia but said he should only be returned if he is safe from persecution.
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A last-ditch effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to deport a class of thousands of immigrants who were stopped from making asylum claims was blocked from taking effect as the Trump presidency ends.
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Immigrants who have re-entered the U.S. after a prior deportation can secure asylum with proof of persecution, but federal law has conflicting rules on detaining these asylum seekers.
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Vowing not to be tempted by his own baguettes or cakes, a French baker has begun a hunger strike in eastern France to protest the planned deportation of his young Guinean apprentice.
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The Fourth Circuit heard debate over the duty immigration judges have to develop a record for pro se asylum applicants during a remote hearing Tuesday.
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Coronavirus concerns abruptly ended the 20-year sentence of a young hacker who sold data on more than 1,000 members of the U.S. military to the Islamic State group.
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The U.S. government on Wednesday appealed a judge’s order barring the expulsions of immigrant children who crossed the border alone, a policy enacted during the coronavirus pandemic to deny the children asylum protections.
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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration on Wednesday from deporting asylum-seeking minors who arrive in the United States without a guardian.
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