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News Articles: Deportation

Jennifer Vasquez Sura speaks during an April 4 news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., after her husband, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported to El Salvador, is back in the U.S. to face smuggling charges

Abrego Garcia faces criminal charges for allegedly transporting migrants without legal status around the country, according to a Justice Department indictment.

June 06, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
A U.S. Department of Homeland Security sign is displayed at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters on May 18 in Washington, D.C.

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Homeland Security pulls down list of 'sanctuary' cities and counties after backlash

The list included dozens of cities and counties that DHS said was in noncompliance with federal statutes and had come under intense criticism from some mayors and law enforcement.

June 02, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Detainees board a plane chartered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at King County International Airport on April 15, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. Semi-regular flights carrying detainees pass through the airport as the Trump administration continues to plan for the expansion of immigrant detention and deportation.

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The White House is deporting people to countries they're not from. Why?

The administration argues the men's home countries won't take them — but lawyers say getting sent to a country like South Sudan could lead to more persecution.

June 01, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
19-year-old Ximena Arias-Cristobal at a press conference in Atlanta on May 27, 2025, about a week after being released from ICE detention. The college student was jailed in Dalton for driving without a license, though after the fact, police said she didn’t actually commit a traffic violation. "It kind of flips your world. We now kind of live a little bit more in fear," Arias-Cristobal said.

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Dalton State student speaks out after ‘improper’ arrest, immigration detention

Ximena Arias-Cristobal is seeking a pathway to citizenship after her arrest and immigration detention.

May 28, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas and
  • Sarah Kallis
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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White House agrees to keep migrants in Djibouti for now, blasts federal judge's ruling

The judge says the administration "unquestionably" violated his earlier order, which stated migrants cannot be deported to a country other than their own without having adequate notice and a chance to object.

May 22, 2025
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  • Jasmine Garsd
A U.S. Air force flight carrying migrants deported by the U.S. government arrives at Ramon Villeda Morales International Airport in January 2025 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

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Judge says Trump administration violated court order on third-country deportations

The Department of Homeland Security had earlier said eight people on a flight out of the U.S. had been convicted of crimes in the United States and that they couldn't be brought back.

May 21, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Jasmine Garsd
The Chamatkarik Shree Hanumanji Mandir in the old city of Ahmedabad, in western India, is seen by worshippers as a place where prayers to obtain visas to Western countries are answered.

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Indians still pray at 'visa temples' after the U.S. deported migrants in chains

Hindu temples offer prayers for a path to the U.S. But some in India were stunned by the way the U.S. deported Indians despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's friendship with President Trump.

May 19, 2025
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  • Diaa Hadid and
  • Omkar Khandekar
U.S. Army soldiers patrol the U.S.-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, on Jan. 24. The Trump administration has often used the word invasion to describe illegal immigration, but that framing has not been fully tested in court until now.

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Historical precedent: Courts wrestle with White House's 'invasion' claim

Federal judges are looking back to the 18th century to define what constitutes an invasion, weighing a key legal argument for the Trump administration's use of a wartime deportation authority.

May 16, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
An asylum seeker with a canceled appointment to enter the United States waits to speak to a Mexican immigration official as he reviews the CBP One app at the El Chaparral border crossing port in Tijuana, Mexico, in January 2025.

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Trump offers $1,000 incentive to migrants who leave the country voluntarily

The Homeland Security Department pitched the monetary incentive as a more "dignified" way to leave the country, while saving taxpayers money.

May 06, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Demonstrators gather to protest on Thursday against the deportation of immigrants to El Salvador outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations in New York City.

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U.S. judge says 2-year-old apparently deported to Honduras 'with no meaningful process'

The toddler, a U.S. citizen, was apparently sent to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sister, even as a federal judge tried to contact an attorney representing the government.

April 26, 2025
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  • Alana Wise
Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks to the press in La Libertad, El Salvador, during his trip to lobby for the release of deported Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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A Maryland senator tried to visit his wrongfully deported constituent in El Salvador

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen went to El Salvador to lobby for the release of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, whose deportation has gripped the U.S. He isn't the only lawmaker with such a trip in mind.

April 17, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
U.S. President Donald Trump met with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office of the White House April 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and Bukele are exploring a proposal to send American citizens to be held in Salvadorean prisons, a move critics describe as dangerous and unconstitutional.

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'Homegrowns are next': Trump hopes to deport and jail U.S. citizens abroad

Trump hopes to deport and imprison U.S. citizens abroad. Critics say the concept is unconstitutional and dangerous.

April 16, 2025
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  • Brian Mann
President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14.

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Judge demands to know if White House is helping return wrongly deported Maryland man

The hearing is the first about Abrego Garcia's case since El Salvador's president told reporters he is not going to "smuggle a terrorist into the United States."

April 16, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14, 2025.

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El Salvador's Bukele says 'preposterous' to suggest he return Abrego Garcia to U.S.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador.

April 14, 2025
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  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is seen at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York, April 29, 2024.

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Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported

The judge gave Khalil until April 23 to request a stay of his deportation and said that if his attorneys miss the deadline, she will order him deported either to Syria or to Algeria

April 11, 2025
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  • Adrian Florido
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