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Trump cannot end protections for 350,000 Haitians, US appeals court rules The panel in a 2-1 decision found that Kristi Noem's ​move likely violated termination procedures and the Constitution's ‌Fifth ⁠Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the law.

🇭🇹🚨 The 2-to-1 ruling allows the over 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. covered by TPS to remain shielded from deportation, continue to work legally and maintain their protected status while a lawsuit challenging the termination proceeds in federal court.

Kristi Noem’s assertion at a Senate hearing Tuesday that President Trump had given his blessing to a $220 million DHS ad campaign promoting Noem’s leadership was the final straw that cost the DHS secretary her job, according to Republican senators and other sources familiar with the events

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ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before Minneapolis shootings Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership did not see it as a concern to be addressed.

EXCLUSIVE: ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before the Minneapolis shootings.

Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership didn't see it as a concern to be addressed.

13 YO Gustavo said he didn’t want to go back to Mexico. “I have friends, school, and family here,” he said of his home in Texas. “To this day, I don’t know what we did wrong to be detained.” He ended with a plea, “I feel like I’ll never get out of here. I just ask that you don’t forget about us.”

Moms told me that their kids had lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping on the facility’s hard metal bunk beds in rooms shared by at least a dozen other people, and were constantly sick.

Although a long-standing legal settlement generally limits the time children can be held in detention to 20 days, a data analysis by ProPublica found that about 300 kids sent to Dilley by the Trump administration were there for more than a month.

Around 3,500 detainees, more than half of them minors, have cycled through the center since it reopened, more than the population of the town of Dilley itself.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

🚨🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Dilley, run by private prison firm CoreCivic, is located some 72 miles south of San Antonio and nearly 2,000 miles away from Ariana’s home. It is a sprawling collection of trailers and dormitories, almost the same color as the dusty landscape, surrounded by a tall fence.

His family fled Afghanistan facing threats for supporting US troops. Now he sits in ICE custody at risk of being sent back | CNN Politics When Said Noor, a US Army veteran, picked up a phone call on December 2, he immediately knew something was wrong.

“We believed in this country, right?” Said told CNN. “I risked my life for this country. I never imagined that I would be begging one day just to keep my brother alive, here in America, while he hasn’t done anything wrong.”

Federal judge orders return of Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act In his Thursday order, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to allow any of the men deported last year to El Salvador to appear in a U.S. port of entry to be conditionally a...

"Mindful of the flagrancy of the Government's violations of the deportees' due-process rights that landed Plaintiffs in this situation, the Court refuses to let them languish in the solution-less mire Defendants propose." U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg

👏🏼 Grateful to Democracy Forward, The Advocates for Human Rights, and the courageous, detained plaintiff in this case for seeking justice and due process. ⚖️

Poll: Two-thirds of Americans say ICE has 'gone too far' in immigration enforcement A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds a jump in disapproval of the agency among Democrats and independents, but Republicans are standing by ICE and the president.

65% of Americans said Immigration and Customs Enforcement has "gone too far," according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And President Trump is facing the highest intensity of disapproval since just after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

🇭🇹 This is a major win for Haitian advocates who have born the devastating cost of this president’s long held animus toward them, have remained steadfast in their plight for justice, and led this fight not just for themselves, but for so many others. 🙏💪🏼

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks End of Protection for Haitians in U.S.

🇭🇹🚨 The Court’s ruling pauses the Trump administration’s plan to end Temporary Protected Status, a program that has allowed more than 350,000 people from Haiti to remain in the United States.

“Detaining immigrant children is unjust, and it is unnecessary to ensure their compliance with immigration proceedings. Under previous administrations, immigrant children have participated in highly successful Alternatives to Detention programs, such as the Family Case Management Program.”

“A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm. All of these children and their parents were detained despite being eligible for release…”.

“Since March 2025, many hundreds of families with children who are minors have been detained in federal immigration custody, with more than 1,700 children in custody since family detention centers reopened. Many have been detained for long periods of time, some for nearly half a year.”

“From January to October 2025, at least 3,800 children under the age of 18, including 20 infants, were arrested and detained by U.S. immigration authorities.”

Opinion | Liam Ramos Is Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.

🚨🗞️ Powerful Op-Ed by an expert in the field that every American should read.
Liam and his family’s story made the headlines, but there are thousands of children and families who have been detained - their lives forever changed by this cruel and inhumane practice. They should also be released.

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency,” wrote the judge. “And the rule of law be damned.”

Judge orders 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be released from immigration detention | CNN A federal judge has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejos Ramos and his father from the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, according to a ruling obtained by CNN.

In a scathing opinion, which at times read more like a civics lesson, US District Judge Fred Biery admonished “the government’s ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence”…

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Bucking a Global Trend, Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay

Elma Saiz Delgado, Spain’s minister for migration, said at a news conference on Tuesday that the measure would have an impact “on our social cohesion, well-being, and also on the economy.”

The judge also ordered the immediate release of all detained refugees in Minnesota and the release of those taken to Texas within five days.

Court Orders ICE To Stop Unlawful Arrest and Detention of Refugees | International Refugee Assistance Project

👏🏼Way to go IRAP! Grateful, as always for the brave Plaintiffs in this case! 🎉
“Today, a federal judge issued a TRO preventing the Trump administration from arresting and detaining lawfully resettled refugees in Minnesota under Operation PARRIS while the case challenging the practice proceeds.”

US federal judge blocks deportation of five-year-old boy and his father Texas judge says Liam Ramos and his father cannot be removed as litigation challenging their detention proceeds

“Liam’s arrest 7 days prior went viral and became a symbol of the Trump administration’s relentless crackdown on immigrant communities in the Minneapolis region. Attorneys for the family have said the father and son have an active asylum case and had entered the US at an authorized port of entry.”

A crackdown on immigration is leading to a sharp drop in U.S. population growth A sharp drop in net immigration has led to a slowdown in U.S. population growth. The Census Bureau says the population grew only about half as fast in the year ending last June as it did the previous ...

Immigration crackdown leads to drop in U.S. population growth