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The disclosure came three weeks after President Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate the former agency leader, Chris Krebs, in an act of score settling.
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
The four-day operation came as the Trump administration has sought to enlist local authorities in an immigration crackdown.
Kristi Noem, the top official charged with patrolling the nation’s borders and protecting it from terrorist threats, was burgled in plain view of her security detail.
The suit seeks to preserve some of the main guardrails within the agency, all created by Congress, that help uncover and prevent human rights abuses.
Ms. Noem “could feel this person as they snatched her bag,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said.
Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.
The ruling cast doubt on claims by a coalition of Christian and Jewish groups that their congregations were at heightened risk of becoming targets for raids under the Trump administration.
More than 10,000 people will be put on track for deportation in May and June as a result of the Department of Homeland Security’s action.
A presidential decree instructing the Justice Department to scrutinize whether a former official broke the law crosses a new line.