US judge blocks deportation of another pro-Palestinian student activist

A judge has ruled that Yunseo Chung, a 21-year-old Korean American student at Columbia University who is being sought for deportation by the administration of President Donald Trump, cannot be detained as she fights attempts to remove her from the United States over her pro-Palestinian views.

“As of today, Yunseo Chung no longer has to fear and live in fear of ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] coming to her doorstep and abducting her in the night,” Chung’s lawyer Ramzi Kassem said after the court ruling on Tuesday.

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Columbia student sues Trump admin over efforts to deport her

Columbia University student Yunseo Chung is suing the Trump administration amid its efforts to deport the 21-year-old, who has been in the U.S. since she was 7 and has lawful permanent resident status.  

A lawsuit was filed Monday after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) got an administrative warrant for Chung’s arrest and told the South Korean native that her status was being “revoked,” even though only an immigration judge can take away a green card.

“ICE’s shocking actions against Ms. Chung form part of a larger pattern of attempted U.S. government repression of constitutionally protected protest activity and other forms of speech. The government’s repression has focused specifically on university students who speak out in solidarity with Palestinians and who are critical of the Israeli government’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza or the pro-Israeli policies of the U.S. government and other U.S. institutions,” the suit reads.

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US appeals court weighs Trump’s deportations under Alien Enemies Act

Protesters rally against mass deportation outside the Rhode Island State House on March 17

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has turned to a federal appeals court to lift a block on its ability to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport undocumented immigrants.

But at a tense hearing in Washington, DC, on Monday, one judge on the court appeared to baulk at the lack of due process given to undocumented people under Trump’s use of the law.

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U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents

A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment.

Immigration authorities removed the girl and four of her American siblings from Texas on Feb. 4, when they deported their undocumented parents.

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Some freedom seekers hoping to cross U.S. border consider turning back due to Trump fascist crackdown

On a recent afternoon, CBS News accompanied U.S. Border Patrol agent Claudio Herrera along this rugged stretch of the U.S. southern border.

Herrera said the area, located within Border Patrol's sprawling El Paso sector, has long been a hotspot for the illicit movement of people and drugs. But the situation there has changed markedly in recent weeks.

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Ron DeSantis says undocumented immigrants will be incarcerated in the Gitmo Internment Camp, and Florida can help

Florida’s Governor spent some time before entering politics at Guantánamo Bay, as a Navy lawyer.

Now, he sees the detention center as being potentially part of the federal solution for the barriers resulting from extreme Xenophobia.

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The Senate advances a migrant detention bill that could be Trump’s first law to sign

The Senate is heading toward a final vote on legislation that would give states the power to challenge federal immigration policies and require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes, setting a new tone on immigration as Donald Trump enters the White House.

Newly in the majority, Senate Republicans have made the so-called Laken Riley Act — named after a Georgia student who was killed last year by a Venezuelan man — a top priority, potentially making it the first bill Trump signs as president.

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Colleges prepare for new legal and political terrain under Trump

Colleges and universities are preparing for new legal and political territory as President-elect Trump returns to office. 

Concerns for international students, GOP attacks on higher education and increased protests on campus are just some of the worries on administrators’ minds.

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Trump plans to scrap policy restricting ICE abusive arrests at churches, schools, hospitals

The incoming Trump administration intends to rescind a long-standing policy that has prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting immigrants at or near so-called sensitive locations, such as houses of worship, schools and hospitals or events like funerals, weddings and public demonstrations without approval from supervisors, according to three sources familiar with the plan. 

President-elect Donald Trump plans to rescind the policy as soon as the first day he is in office, the sources — who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the change publicly — said.

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Texas aims to become conspiratorial in Trump’s immigration plans

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump talks with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Eric Gay/AP

Already the state has offered up a 1,402-acre ranch on the Rio Grande as a potential site for concentration camps, and it is ready to share its playbook for muscling through immigration policy changes, such as its executive order requiring hospitals to ask about a patient’s immigration status and a measure that would allow police officers to arrest migrants and empower state judges to order deportations.....MORE

Tampa Bay’s Refugee and Migrant Women Initiative deepens the meaning of community

The Refugee and Migrant Women Initiative was founded to deepen a sense of community (Photo c/o Florence Ackey)

Florence Ackey sees immigration in a very simple way: The eggplant theory. “A vegetable I rarely used, but after meeting women from Syria, Somalia and even Ukraine, I now have seven different ways to eat an eggplant,” Ackey told CL. “Same eggplant, but I opened my mind instead of thinking that they would just eat all my eggplant.”

“When you don’t understand them and you allow those misconceptions to dictate policy, it becomes a dangerous thing. I always say, we are afraid of what we don’t know,” Ackey said. “I see all these immigration policies, all saying ‘just send them back’.”

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'We’re all in': Armed vigilantes say Trump team enlisting them for border enforcement

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is reportedly having conversations with far-right militia groups in border states as it plans sweeping immigration raids and mass deportations.....MORE

Tom Homan says Trump admin will ‘absolutely’ use gifted Texas land for deportation program

Tom Homan, President-elect Trump’s pick as “border czar,” said the incoming Republican administration will “absolutely” use the gifted Texas land as a part of their deportation program.....MORE

Texas offers Trump 1,400-acre ranch for immigrant internment camp

Officials in Texas have offered President-elect Trump a 1,400-acre ranch for his mass deportation plan.....MORE

Morning Report — How much is the party of Trump willing to spend?

President-elect Trump’s plans for historic migrant roundups and generous tax cuts next year will cost Republicans, perhaps beyond their budgets.

In interviews last year with The New York Times, Trump’s top immigration policy adviser, Stephen Miller — soon to be deputy White House chief of staff for policy in late January — said military funding would be used to build “vast holding facilities that would function as staging centers” (internment campa? concentration camps?) run by the Homeland Security Department to hold immigrants as their cases progressed.

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National Map of Local Entanglement with ICE

The federal government has built its immigration enforcement regime to depend on the time and resources of local law enforcement. As a result, local agencies are shoring up some of the most highly-funded, destructive law enforcement programs in our nation’s history. The Department of Homeland Security has built a massive infrastructure to exploit local resources in the name of detaining and deporting immigrants. And the Trump administration has put that machinery to use in carrying out the most extreme and inhumane anti-immigrant agenda in decades.....MORE

Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations

"On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out," he said during a rally at Madison Square Garden in the closing days of the presidential race. "I will rescue every city and town that has been invaded and conquered, and we will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail, then kick them the hell out of our country as fast as possible."

Throughout the campaign, Trump vowed to mobilize the National Guard to assist with the deportation effort. Experts told ABC News such a move would mark a fundamental shift for the military, which does not normally engage with domestic law enforcement issues. At times, Trump went further, suggesting thousands of troops from overseas be moved to the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Trump Con BLOWN APART As Sinister Lies Finally Collapse

Donald Trump and JD Vance's obvious con to fearmonger over legal Haitian migrants with racist lies to their MAGA base finally unravel as reports prove Haitian migrants are beneficial to Springfield, Ohio, and migrant-based labor is critical to helping other economic crises, such as insane housing market prices.

Need to go to the hospital? Florida and Texas want to know your immigration status

State Sen. Victor Torres represents predominantly Hispanic Osceola County in central Florida. At Sunday Mass at his local church, immigrants often tell him they are scared to seek health care.

“They say, ‘My mother is ill, or my kid is sick, but I don’t have insurance,’’’ the Democrat said in an interview. “And I tell them, ‘You cannot be turned away. Go to the hospital. Don’t wait until the last minute when it’s too late.’”

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Supreme Court Rules Against Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Allows Feds To Cut Border Razor Wire

A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire installed by Texas on the US-Mexico border. A lawsuit over the wire is still pending.....Read More