Deportations

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student from the West Bank, after Mahdawi spent more than two weeks in immigration detention following his abrupt arrest during a naturalization interview.

A Columbia University student and Palestinian activist arrested by US immigration authorities has been released from custody, US media reports.

A judge on Wednesday released a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.

The president doubles down.

President Trump acknowledged that, if he wanted to, he could get Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States by calling El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and explaining that that’s what he wanted done. But, in a combative interview with ABC News, the president said he would not do that because Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 member.

Cliona Ward, a 54-year-old Irish woman living in the US for over four decades, was detained by ICE due to a supposedly expunged 20-year-old conviction.

A 54-year-old Irish woman who has lived legally in the United States for more than four decades has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) based on a supposedly expunged criminal conviction.

Cliona Ward, who is originally from Dublin, has lived in the US since she was 12 years old and holds a green card.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was accused of being a gang member in 2018 court papers, The Post can reveal — as the fight continues over whether the deported illegal immigrant dad was a part of MS-13.

Abrego Garcia’s wife’s ex made the claim when he filed documents seeking an emergency court hearing on the custody of the couple’s two children.

“She is dating a gang member,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura’s ex, Edwin Trejo Ramos alleged in the petition filed in Prince George’s County Circuit Court in Maryland.

Mohammad stepped toward the riverbank and felt his stomach drop. He was somewhere in western Guatemala, traveling with a group of migrants hoping to reach the U.S. He was hungry, dehydrated and sick, with painful sores all over his body from some kind of infection. 

He now faced a more pressing problem: He couldn’t swim. 

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A Democrat who once lived in the White House is now pretending to fear the very policies they helped pioneer. This week’s installment? Michelle Obama—the woman who spent eight years riding in Air Force One, dancing with Jimmy Fallon, and planting kale in the White House garden—now claims she lies awake at night fretting that Donald Trump might deport people of color. 



Please.

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil's bid to remain in the United States survives after a New Jersey federal judge decided Tuesday he could retain jurisdiction over the case.

Khalil claimed he was detained and targeted for deportation because of his speech at pro-Palestinian protests on the Columbia campus and challenged his detention based on the constitutionality of the State Department's finding that his continued presence in the country could have "serious adverse foreign policy consequences" for the United States.

Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, made a personal request on Tuesday to President Trump to return a Salvadoran national and Maryland resident who was mistakenly deported last month and remains imprisoned in El Salvador, accusing Mr. Trump of “gross violations of the Constitution and due process rights” in Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s case.

In the lengthy letter, Mr. Van Hollen scolded Mr. Trump for willfully ignoring a Supreme Court decision instructing his administration to “facilitate” the man’s return.