Immigration Detention

Under Pressure From the White House, ICE Seeks New Ways to Ramp Up Arrests

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Former officials said the Trump administration’s push for the agency to detain record numbers of undocumented immigrants increases the chances of mistakes.

A Look at the Crackdown On the L.A. Protests

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Livia Albeck-Ripka, a New York Times reporter based in Los Angeles, describes how she was one of the reporters struck by crowd control munitions. Experts say that some aggressive measures used by the authorities in the Los Angeles protests have violated their own policies, federal policies and injunctions put into place after the George Floyd protests.

U.S. Tells Court It Plans to Deport Scientist to Russia

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Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard researcher, was detained Feb. 16 at Logan Airport after failing to declare scientific samples she carried into the U.S.

US Lining Up More Countries to Take Its Deportees

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Besides El Salvador, where the United States have already sent detainees, Rwanda and Libya have records of mistreating migrant detainees.

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Venezuelan Deportations to Resume

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The solicitor general contended that a group of migrants had barricaded themselves inside a Texas detention center and threatened to take hostages.

Trump Administration Plans to Send Migrants to Libya on a Military Flight

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Human rights groups have called conditions in the country’s network of migrant detention centers “horrific” and “deplorable.”

Guantánamo Migrant Operation Has Held Fewer Than 500 Detainees, and None in Tents

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The three-month-old operation never expanded to fulfill President Trump’s vision of housing 30,000 at the offshore U.S. base.

In Texas Borderland, Trump’s Immigration Push Suffers Its Worst Legal Defeat Yet

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Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. is a Trump nominee with conservative credentials. But he found White House claims about a Venezuelan gang “invasion” went too far.

When Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Came to Yemi Mobolade’s City

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A raid on a largely Hispanic nightclub last weekend highlighted the wrenching choices mayors face between anti-Trump constituents and federal pressure for police cooperation.