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News Articles: Deportation

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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  • USPS

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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  • Asia

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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By:
  • 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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  • USPS

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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By:
  • 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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  • National

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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By:
  • 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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  • Law

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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By:
  • 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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  • Politics

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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By:
  • 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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  • National

'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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By:
  • Brian Mann
President Trump meets with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador in the Oval Office on April 14.

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  • Law

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

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  • Politics

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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By:
  • 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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  • National

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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By:
  • Adrian Florido
Mahmoud Khalil is seen at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York on April 29, 2024.

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  • National

Trump administration lays out its evidence for deporting activist Mahmoud Khalil

Khalil's attorneys say the government's case against their client largely rests on a memo from Secretary of State Marco Rubio alleging Khalil participated in "antisemitic" and "disruptive activities."

April 10, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Adrian Florido
The CBP One app was a central part of the Biden administration's strategy to relieve pressure at the U.S. border. It allowed migrants to schedule appointments at legal ports of entry instead of crossing into the U.S. illegally to seek asylum.

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  • National

Migrants who entered the U.S. via CBP One app should leave 'immediately,' DHS says

DHS is telling some migrants who entered the U.S. using the CBP One app to leave immediately, part of a broader push to revoke temporary legal protections known as humanitarian parole.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
Badar Khan Suri, Rumeysa Ozturk and Mahmoud Khalil were arrested by immigration officials and, in a matter of hours, were sent to detention centers in Louisiana and Texas — more than a thousand miles from home.

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  • National

Why is Trump sending immigrant university scholars to Louisiana and Texas?

Lawyers say the government is trying to gain a legal advantage as it tries to expel noncitizens over their pro-Palestinian activism.

April 08, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Adrian Florido
Jose Barco in Iraq in 2007.

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  • National

He's a decorated war vet but a convicted criminal. ICE wants to deport him

Jose Barco's story is one of battlefield trauma, bureaucratic bumbling and eventually, a serious crime.

April 04, 2025
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By:
  • Tom Bowman and
  • Quil Lawrence
President Donald Trump gestures to U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts after his swearing-in ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20.

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  • Politics

Courts push back, wars heat up and 3 more takeaways from Trump's moves this week

Here are five takeaways from a week when President Trump moved ahead with deportations and sweeping changes to the federal government — and ran into obstacles in the courts.

March 21, 2025
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  • Domenico Montanaro
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