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A federal judge bashed the Trump administration Friday for what he said may have been the deportation of a 2-year-old U.S. citizen.

Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee to the court in Louisiana, said he had a “strong suspicion that the government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process.”

The case touches on a thorny area of deportation in which parental rights clash with those of U.S. citizen children.

The Trump administration on Friday restored thousands of visa registrations for foreign students who had either a minor or dismissed legal infraction.

The Justice Department announced the decision in federal court, according to the news outlet Politico.

The administration last month abruptly decided to remove foreign students from a federal database used by universities to track foreign students. 

Students were concerned they lost their immigration...

In a sudden reversal on Friday, the Trump administration announced it will reinstate thousands of foreign students to active status after their records were terminated from a database earlier this month.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the sweeping student visa reversal in federal court, following weeks of mounting legal pressure.

The Trump administration is restoring the legal status of international students who had their records terminated in recent weeks, a government attorney said Friday at a hearing. 

Elizabeth D. Kurlan, an attorney for the Justice Department, said during the hearing in the Northern District of California in Oakland that records for international students will be reactivated for the time being, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement crafts a new policy that will “provide a framework for status record termination.” 

The federal government is fighting a judge’s ruling that Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk, who wrote an essay about Israel and the war in Gaza and is fighting deportation, must be transferred back to an immigration facility in Vermont from Louisiana. 

The federal judge overseeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawsuit against the Trump administration abruptly decided Wednesday to impose a seven-day delay on discovery for reasons that aren’t immediately clear. 

Following a sealed petition from Justice Department lawyers seeking a delay, presiding US District Judge Paula Xinis revealed in court filings that the two sides reached an agreement to postpone discovery. She did not elaborate on the decision.

House Democrats who traveled to El Salvador to seek the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding "daily proof of life" after being denied a meeting with the Salvadoran national who was deported from Maryland. 

An immigration judge has found the U.S. government’s initial deportation case against Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born Harvard scientist held in ICE detention, to be legally deficient, her attorney said, raising questions about whether the case can move forward.

The preliminary immigration hearing, held in Jena, Louisiana, included three trial attorneys and a deputy chief counsel from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Petrova’s attorney Greg Romanovsky described their presence as unusual for an early-stage proceeding.

A Congressional delegation traveled to Louisiana on Tuesday to demand the release of Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts University, and Mahmoud Khalil, a 2024 Columbia University graduate, and to examine conditions at their separate detention facilities.

It’s the first time a delegation has visited with either detainee. The visit was first reported by CNN.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) shared on X that he was heading to Louisiana to demand the release of Ozturk, one of his constituents.