Deportations

A federal appeals court has paused a judge's order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England this week so it can consider an emergency motion filed by the government.

The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New York, ruled Monday that a three-judge panel would hear arguments on May 6 in the case of Rumeysa Ozturk. She's been detained for five weeks as of Tuesday.

In his first comments to the media since his April 14 detainment during his naturalization interview in Vermont, Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi said he had faith that he won't be deported.

Mahdawi, a 34-year-old U.S. permanent resident who was born and raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, spoke to NPR’s "Morning Edition" from the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans, Vermont. He was accompanied by one of his attorneys.

On the menu today: Welcome to another case where the spin from Democratic senators — “Donald Trump is arresting judges he doesn’t like!” — is completely at odds with the known facts.

When Judges Help Illegal Immigrants Escape Arrest and Deportation

One mother who was about to be deported was allowed less than two minutes on the phone with her husband to figure out what would become of her 2-year-old U.S. citizen son.

Another mother wasn’t allowed to speak with attorneys or family members before she was deported, accompanied by her U.S.-born children, even though Immigration and Customs Enforcement knew one of them had Stage 4 cancer.

Three young children who are US citizens - including one with cancer - were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the families' lawyers.

One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child's family said.

Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan said the mothers had made the choice for their citizen children to be removed with them. "Having a US citizen child does not make you immune from our laws," he said, adding the mothers were in the US illegally.

Only self-deportations will move the needle.

If Joe Biden effectuated his immigration policy without due process, why can’t Donald Trump do the same with his?

That’s the obvious question raised by Joe Biden’s effortlessly permitting millions of people to enter the country illegally and Donald Trump’s having to go through extensive exertions to remove (or keep removed) one illegal immigrant, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

More than 100 immigrants suspected of being in the United States illegally were taken into custody early Sunday following a federal raid at an illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, authorities said.

A federal judge is raising alarms that the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, said the child — identified in court papers by the initials “V.M.L.” — appeared to have been released in Honduras earlier Friday, along with her Honduran-born mother and sister, who had been detained by immigration officials earlier in the week.

A federal judge has said that a two-year-old US citizen may have been deported to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sister without due process, amid the Trump administration's drive to ramp up deportations.

In a court filing, Judge Terry Doughty said that there was "strong suspicion" that the child - identified only as VML - was deported "with no meaningful process".

The Louisiana-born child and her family members were apprehended during a routine appointment at a New Orleans immigration office on 22 April, according to the document.