Born to Polish parents in a German refugee camp, Paul John Bojerski’s immigration case highlights the complexities and impracticalities of mass deportations.
Despite Trump promising to stand "with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela," his administration has fast-tracked deportations for victims of communism.
He had a valid work permit and a pending asylum claim, but Ihsanullah Garay was still detained. He now faces deportation while battling brain cancer.
ACLU legal director Ben Wizner warns that Donald Trump’s war on dissent endangers the First Amendment, urges Americans to protect speech they dislike, and reflects on Edward Snowden’s enduring legacy.
It is forthcoming in Academic Freedom in the Era of Trump, (Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone, eds., Oxford University Press).
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.
It will review a panel decision holding that Trump could not invoke this sweeping wartime authority by claiming illegal migration and drug smuggling qualify as an "invasion."
Whether he is waging the drug war, imposing tariffs, deporting alleged gang members, or fighting crime, the president thinks he can do "anything I want to do."
Trump's mass deportation policies are undermining his manufacturing agenda.
It builds on an earlier piece in The Hill.
The appeals court blocked the removal of alleged Venezuelan gang members under that law "because we find no invasion or predatory incursion."
Trump has promised to go after illegal immigrants "committing vile and heinous acts against innocent Americans." His record consistently says otherwise.
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The agency has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on custom SUVs, trucks, and recruitment ads.
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The First Amendment protects everybody from the government, whether citizen or not.
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.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression is seeking an injunction that would protect noncitizens at The Stanford Daily from arrest and removal because of their published work.
Paola Clouatre had no previous convictions and was detained immediately following a green card interview.
The Trump administration cut a deal with Venezuela to return a triple murderer to American shores while it tries to deport someone accused of much less.
The latest detention facility will house up to 5,000 detainees and function as a central hub for deportation operations.
The government's gaslighting strategy suggests that federal officials are not confident about the constitutionality of punishing students for expressing anti-Israel views.
The alleged incident goes to the heart of the objections raised by critics who worry about Bove's respect for the rule of law.
"We have no criticism of the U.S. government—on the contrary, we are truly thankful. However, we are deeply afraid of the possibility of being returned to Afghanistan."
My Cato Institute colleague David Bier presented it in testimony before a congressional committee.
Florida’s elected officials should learn from the original facility that inspired the state’s newest immigrant detention center's name, and change course before it’s too late.
Racial profiling is a longstanding problem, exacerbated by Trump Administration deportation policies.
A DHS video lionizing Customs and Border Protection quotes the Bible and includes a song promising that "God's gonna cut you down."
The government’s lawyers also say that supposedly nonexistent policy is perfectly consistent with the First Amendment.
The president is torn between the economic concerns of his supporters and the demands of immigration hardliners.
“There's no such thing as a free stadium,” says J.C. Bradbury. “You can't just pull revenue out of thin air.”
Class actions and Administrative Procedure Act claims can achieve much the same result as the nationwide orders that the Supreme Court rejected.
Our dreams have fallen from supersonic world travel to jailing migrants who've hurt no one.
Legal experts are concerned that immigration judges with only six weeks of training will not uphold constitutional protections for migrants.
Only eight days after construction began, Florida’s new immigration detention center in the Everglades is set to officially open this week.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is considering whether the president properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.
They face severe persecution if deported to Iran.
More government agencies are using facial recognition for enforcement than ever before.
Dismissing asylum applications for migrants who entered the U.S. unlawfully would boost immigration-related arrests, but have little impact on public safety.
That's inevitable. It should also be deeply troubling to anyone who cares about constitutional government.
The liberal justice faults the majority for leaving deportees to “suffer violence in far-flung locales.”
Marco Rubio’s nebulous invocation of foreign policy interests is bound to have a chilling impact on freedom of speech, which is the whole point.
The ruling includes no analysis. Justice Sotomayor's dissent has a compelling explanation of why it is wrong.
The Florida attorney general stated that the facilities will add 5,000 beds and be operational as early as the first week of July.
From California to Florida, farmers face a shrinking domestic workforce, burdensome labor regulations, and a bureaucratic mess that makes hiring legally very difficult.
Although the appeals court said the president probably complied with the law he invoked to justify his California deployment, it emphasized that such decisions are subject to judicial review.
Florida's attorney general proposed using a 30-square-mile part of the Everglades to house, process, and deport detained migrants.
The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.
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