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News Articles: Deportation

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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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
James Boasberg shown here on Monday, March 13, 2023.

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  • Law

4 things to know about Judge Boasberg as he battles Trump over deportation flights

Judge Boasberg's role overseeing a new case that challenges the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador has cast an even brighter light on the longtime judge.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador on Sunday.

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  • Politics

4 things to know about the Alien Enemies Act and Trump's efforts to use it

President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against Tren de Aragua members, provoking a legal fight. Here's what to know about the controversial law, which was last used during World War II.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Migrants deported from the United States wave to the press from inside a hotel in Panama City on Wednesday.

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  • Latin America

Panama sends 97 U.S. deportees to migrant camp after they refused to be repatriated

The migrants refused to be repatriated to their countries. They will be held in a migration facility near the Darien Gap along the Colombian border until third countries can be found to take them.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A supporter holds a poster with a photo of Laken Riley before Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally March 9, 2024, in Rome Ga.

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  • News

Trump plans to sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation

President Donald Trump plans to sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation. Trump will sign the immigrant detention measure on Wednesday.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Associated Press
In this aerial view, the U.S.-Mexico border wall ends with a gap on Sunday near Sasabe, Ariz. Although immigrant crossings are down sharply, the incoming Trump administration has vowed to complete the wall and "seal" the border completely.

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  • Politics

Trump plans 10 sweeping actions on border security on Day 1. Here's what we know

Trump campaigned on border security promises, and he and his allies argue that his electoral win is an endorsement of his upcoming actions on the issue.

January 20, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Attendees at the Republican National Convention hold up signs reading "Mass Deportation Now!" last month in Milwaukee.

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  • National

Trump touts historic deportation plans, but his own record reveals big obstacles

Former President Donald Trump and his allies promise a historic deportation effort if he's reelected. But internal documents from his time in office show how difficult that would be to execute.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
In this file photo, migrants board a plane in Harlingen, Texas, on October 18, 2023 for deportation to Venezuela.

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  • Politics

Biden is tweaking an asylum rule to speed up deportation for some migrants

President Biden had said he wanted the power to effectively "shut down the border" when migration numbers surge. But this rule is an incremental shift.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
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