“The evidence has been pretty strong that his facility is no longer just a temporary holding facility,” said U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman. “It has really become a prison.”
The government is tying itself in knots to cast murder as self-defense and avoid legal limits on the president's use of the military.
The former FBI director also argues that the charges against him are legally deficient and that the prosecutor who brought them was improperly appointed.
There are several problems with the president's math, which suggests he has accomplished an impossible feat.
For the past two weeks, Juan Barbosa Gomez has been in federal immigration detention, but he doesn't show up on ICE's online detainee locator. His family says he has valid work permit and no criminal record.
To fill the roles, the Trump administration is turning to agents from Customs and Border Protection, the agency that has led aggressive immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles and Chicago.
The Manhattan district attorney converted a hush payment into 34 felonies via a chain of legal reasoning with several conspicuously weak links.
The president bet that no one would stop him from land attacks in Venezuela. And Congress hasn’t given him any reason to think otherwise.
The total is over 600 percent more than what the agency spent from January to October 2024.
Without strict oversight, the agency’s new technology threatens Americans’ free speech and privacy.
The potential for deadly error underlines the lawlessness of the president’s bloodthirsty anti-drug strategy.
He was transferred to a detention center over 500 miles away from his family.
A suit asking a district court judge to undo every Trump Administration energy policy initiative is dismissed with prejudice; appeal to follow.
Until now, the president concedes, interdiction has been "totally ineffective." Blowing up drug boats won't change that reality.
After waiting for an hour and a half for her son to be released to her, the boy’s mother was told he was instead transferred to an ICE facility in another state.
Oscar Amaya has been held in federal immigration custody for over six months after receiving a final order of removal, raising serious constitutional concerns about how long the government can detain people.
From pretrial detention to the threat of foreign rendition, the Abrego Garcia case shows how political prosecutions and coercive plea deals have eroded the promise of a fair trial.
The president thinks he can transform murder into self-defense by executive fiat.
Five plaintiffs are arguing that several mass immigration arrests in the nation’s capital were made without probable cause.
By expanding federal agents' authority to collect the DNA of immigrant detainees, the government has risked violating Americans’ rights.
Individuals housed at state-run immigration detention centers frequently don’t show up in the online detainee locator system, making it hard for their family and their lawyer to find them.
The president's new approach to drug law enforcement represents a stark departure from military norms and criminal justice principles.
Equating drug trafficking with armed aggression, the president asserts the authority to kill anyone he perceives as a threat to "our most vital national interests."
The plan is illegal for multiple reasons, is likely to lead to poor decisions, and could undermine military readiness.
The NRA says it won't support "any policy proposals that implement sweeping gun bans that arbitrarily strip law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process."
It makes the case for abolishing ICE and transferring its funds to state and local police.
A recent federal appeals court decision underlines the importance of that safeguard.
A federal district court judge granted environmentalist groups’ request for a preliminary injunction.
Despite meeting all the requirements, the Board of Commissioners in Clayton County made an arbitrary decision to deny Khalilah Few a conditional use permit to open her salon.
Advocacy groups say more than 100 cruise ship crew members have been deported in recent months, and they're not being shown the evidence against them or given any due process.
ICE is offering a near $90,000 salary, a $50,000 signing bonus, and loan forgiveness to grow its ranks by 10,000 officers.
For years, the president has rightly railed against those oppressive regimes. So why is his administration targeting their victims?
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order against any additional construction at the immigration detention center amid plans to increase the facility’s capacity to 4,000 detainees.
The same newspaper notes that the killer "obtained a firearm legally," which means he was never "committed" to a mental health institution.
A federal court clears the way for a broader legal challenge to Trump’s refugee policies, even as Afghans in the U.S. face detention, expired protections, and rising fears of deportation.
Lawmakers say a new DHS rule requiring advance notice for detention center visits undermines congressional oversight.
The twist underscores just how little accountability exists in civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize assets without charging the owner with a crime.
After a pay dispute led to a work stoppage in late May, courts in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, dismissed cases of indigent defendants who had no legal representation for 45 days.
The latest detention facility will house up to 5,000 detainees and function as a central hub for deportation operations.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan blamed the shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer on the policies of sanctuary cities like New York.
After being ilegally deported and imprisoned in El Salvador, they will now be sent back to the oppressive regime they fled in the first place, in exchange for ten Americans detained by the Venezuelan government.
Immigrant detainees transferred thousands of miles from where they were first arrested face unique challenges in immigration court.
One immigration judge referred to an ICE attorney as merely “Department” during a hearing.
Between 2006 and 2013, gun violence increased by 150 percent in the city when juvenile curfews were in effect.
Numerous accounts of lack of showers, overflowing toilets, and inability to meet with lawyers are emerging from the detention center in the middle of the Everglades.
Immigrants who arrive illegally in the U.S. may be detained for months or years as they await a resolution to their immigration cases.
Billions upon billions of dollars are allocated for border screening technology, immigration detention facilities, more ICE agents, and building a border wall.
Several of the items on the Declaration's list of grievances against King George III also apply to Donald Trump today.
