Florida has begun the construction of a temporary migrant detention facility, dubbed the “Alligator Alcatraz”, to hold illegal migrants on an airstrip in the Everglades wetland area of the state. The facility is surrounded by alligators, crocodiles, and pythons. The project is part of the Donald Trump administration’s broad push to expand detention facilities amid…
Masked immigration agents seizing a graduate student on a suburban street. Officers marching into campus housing and arresting another, ignoring his distraught wife as she asks where he is being taken. They have been among the defining images of President Trump’s second term. But with Mahmoud Khalil’s release on bail from federal detention on Friday,…
NEW YORK: Hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the United States to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law must be given the chance to challenge their detentions, and the Trump administration must facilitate the legal challenges, a US judge ruled on Wednesday. US District Judge James Boasberg gave the Trump administration one week to…
Badar Khan Suri, an Indian academic and visiting scholar at Georgetown University, who was released from immigration detention after a court order, said his “whole body was chained” and that he “even missed my shadow” during his incarceration. Suri, who had been held at the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas since March, was released from…
A judge in Virginia on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University who was arrested in March, after two months of detention in an immigration facility in Texas. The order, issued from the bench by Judge Patricia Giles of the Eastern District of Virginia, came as courts…
Rumeysa Ozturk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday evening, eyes welling with joy and gratitude at the end of her six-week odyssey in federal custody, a case that stirred outrage over President Trump’s immigration crackdown. A flight carrying Ms. Ozturk, a Turkish citizen studying at Tufts University on a student visa, touched down at Boston Logan…
Indian-American Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has raised an alarm with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following discrepancies in the reports of the death of a detained Chinese immigrant at an Arizona detention centre. The Democrat has raised serious questions about whether Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) followed protocols laid-down to…
A federal judge ordered Friday that the case to free Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts student from Turkey, from immigration detention should be moved to a court in Vermont, denying a government demand to hold the proceedings in Louisiana, where she is being held. Ms. Ozturk, a legal resident on a student visa, was swept up…
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered this year facing a knot of political problems with little precedent in his two decades at the summit of power in Turkey. Voters were angry about persistently high inflation. His political party’s popularity had sunk. And his opponents had coalesced around the mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, who made it…
A French citizen who spent over two years in detention in Iran on spying charges was released this week, the French government said on Thursday. President Emmanuel Macron of France had earlier denounced Iran’s detention of the man, Olivier Grondeau, 34, and two other French citizens as “disgraceful and arbitrary.” Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s foreign minister,…