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Byline: Nick Miroff;Maria Sacchetti Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration Friday to block the president's 100-day 'pause' on most deportations, alleging the move violates an agreement signed [...]

Byline: Debbie Cenziper;Rachel Baldauf Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, a U.S. immigration judge in Memphis has ordered the deportation of a longtime Tennessee resident and German [...]

NATIONAL SECURITY Russian woman freed, handed for deportation Maria Butina, a Russian student whose political activities in the United States came under FBI scrutiny amid an investigation of interference in [...]

Byline: Teo Armus In 2017, Jose Antonio Hernandez Vasquez, a 17-year-old from Guatemala seeking asylum in the United States, was suddenly moved from a youth shelter to a maximum-security facility [...]

ILLINOIS Deported veteran back in U.S. for hearing An Army veteran who was deported to Mexico in 2018 arrived back in Chicago on Tuesday for a final chance at becoming [...]

Byline: Julian Kimble Perched atop a stage resembling a desolate mountain hideaway fit for a villain, 21 Savage conjured the image of a menacing overlord several times during his show [...]

Byline: Scott Warren AJO, Ariz. -- After a dangerous journey across Mexico and a difficult crossing through the Arizona desert, someone told Jose and Kristian that they might find water [...]

Byline: Helena Andrews-Dyer The family of reality star Joe Giudice is petitioning a former member of their ranks -- reality star turned leader of the free world, President Trump -- [...]

VENEZUELA Red Cross delivers aid, cautions against politics The first shipment of aid from the Red Cross arrived in Venezuela on Tuesday, delivering medicine and supplies for needy patients in [...]

Byline: Tim Elfrink Jose Gonzalez Carranza was baffled when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at his house on April 8, his attorney said. While he'd come to the [...]

Byline: Timothy Bella Unlike her time growing up in El Salvador, Laura Maradiaga is not paralyzed with the constant fear of murder in Houston. The 11-year-old can walk to Fondren [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti A U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday that a Sri Lankan immigrant can appeal his fast-track deportation order to the federal courts, after immigration officials attempted to expel [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti A U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday that a Sri Lankan immigrant can appeal his fast-track deportation order to the federal courts, after immigration officials attempted to expel [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh An interesting opinion handed down Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, Kamar v. Sessions : The Department of Homeland Security has been [...]

Byline: Katie Mettler Two weeks ago in Massachusetts, a woman from Brazil was arrested for allegedly accosting a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat while he ate at [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor Ahead of a planned summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un in Vietnam this week, an Australian man who dresses in a Mao-style suit and thick [...]

Byline: Shibani Mahtani;Rick NoackHONG KONG -- Thailand freed a refugee Bahraini soccer player detained for the past three months after a court dropped his case Monday, allowing him to return [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti;Francisco Alvarado Hundreds of immigrants carrying official notices ordering them to appear for deportation hearings showed up in at courthouses across the country Thursday, only to discover that [...]

Byline: Arelis R. HernándezA federal judge has temporarily halted the deportation of Roxana Orellana Santos, a Salvadoran immigrant who was first targeted for removal after Maryland sheriff's deputies unlawfully arrested [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner;John D. HardenA federal judge has spoken out against a sharp increase in Northern Virginia in the prosecution of immigrants who reenter the country after deportation.'I hope this [...]

IOWAJudge strikes down agriculture job lawA federal judge on Wednesday struck down an Iowa law that made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm to conduct an [...]

Byline: Meagan FlynnThe first time Roxana Orellana Santos landed in immigration detention, in 2008, a federal court ruled that she never should have been there in the first place.It all [...]

Byline: Arelis R. HernándezRosa Gutierrez Lopez had already purchased the plane ticket to return to the country she fears.Federal immigration officials said she had to leave by Dec. 10 -- [...]

Byline: Deanna PaulNew York's highest court boldly ruled Tuesday that deportation may be a more severe consequence than even a few months behind bars.The divided decision created a situation in [...]

Byline: Rick NoackAs immigration skeptics have seen their approval numbers rise in European polls since 2015, their demands for more deportations and fewer refugees have become part of the mainstream [...]

Byline: Ruth Eglash JERUSALEM -- An American student held for two weeks at an Israeli border detention facility, on the basis of a law barring foreign nationals actively involved in [...]

BRITAIN Government apologizes over Windrush scandal Britain apologized Tuesday to 18 long-term U.K. residents from the Caribbean who were deported or detained because they could not produce documents to prove [...]

Byline: Arelis R. Hernández A federal judge in Washington halted a deportation in progress Thursday and threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt after learning that the Trump [...]

Sgt. Temo Juarez was a Trump guy. An Iraq combat veteran who served as a Marine infantryman and then an Army National Guardsman, his friends called him a 'super conservative.' [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn A federal judge ordered the immediate release of a New York City pizza deliveryman from immigration custody Tuesday, calling the undocumented Ecuadoran immigrant a 'model citizen' and [...]

Byline: Alex Horton Immigration and Customs Enforcement appears to have ignored a directive from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to prevent the deportation of noncitizen troops and veterans, seeking to remove [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt A federal appeals court in Cincinnati on Wednesday ordered U.S. immigration officials to reconsider the case of a Mexican mother of four who was deported in April, [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti For most of the past six decades, the Republican Party could count on Charlie Heimach. The retired Air Force colonel donated money to President Richard Nixon, backed [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner A Virginia businessman who used shell companies to fraudulently apply for nearly a thousand foreign workers visas will spend 28 months in federal prison and then is [...]

Byline: Ann E. Marimow The Supreme Court's liberal justices dominated discussion Tuesday about the prolonged detention of immigrants facing deportation, expressing concern about the government holding noncitizens indefinitely without a [...]

Byline: Hamza Shaban Amazon, Microsoft and Starbucks filed sworn statements Wednesday in support of a lawsuit brought by 15 states and the District of Columbia that challenges the Trump administration's [...]

Byline: Keith L. Alexander A District man on Friday admitted in court to kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman he saw as she walked in downtown Washington in May. Saul [...]

Byline: Peter Holley Helen Beristain thought President Trump would deport only the criminals and troublemakers. Then her husband was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials despite his clean record, [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti;Dan Morse;Arelis R. Hernández The teenagers accused of raping a ninth-grader at Rockville High School last week were among tens of thousands of young people who crossed the [...]

Byline: Abigail Hauslohner A federal court late Wednesday stopped the Trump administration from deporting an Afghan man who is trying to enter the United States with a special visa reserved [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins Federal immigration authorities have arrested and threatened to deport a 23-year-old Mexican immigrant who was living in the United States legally under the Obama administration's Deferred Action [...]

Byline: Sarah Larimer In 2014, Jersey Vargas traveled to the Vatican, along with a group of immigration activists from California. On the trip, she worked her way through a general [...]

Byline: Samantha Schmidt;Sarah Larimer About eight years ago, there was a knock on Guadalupe GarcÃ-a de Rayos's door. Authorities had come to arrest the undocumented mother of two U.S.-born children, [...]

Byline: Rachel Weiner;Ann E. Marimow A teenage boy who continued to be held in federal detention centers years after an immigration judge determined that he did not have to be [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews Adam Crapser was born in South Korea, but, when he was 3 years old, an American couple adopted him. Until recently, he lived in Vancouver, Wash., [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky The man arrested for briefly abducting a woman whose car he hid inside at a Prince George's County gas station was deported from the U.S. in February [...]