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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
President Trump arrives for a presentation ceremony for the Commander-in-Chief Trophy to the U.S. Naval Academy in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday.

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  • Analysis

5 takeaways from the week: Nearing a constitutional crisis?

The week was dominated by news about the Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador. But there was also concern over tariffs and Robert F. Kennedy's work as Health and Human Services secretary.

April 18, 2025
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
More than 200 people who the White House says are gang members were deported to El Salvador by the U.S. in San Salvador, El Salvador on March 16, 2025. (Photo by El Salvador Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Judge: 'Probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time. The judge gave the U.S. until April 23 to respond.

April 16, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Jennifer Vasquez Sura (center), listens during a news conference to discuss her husband's arrest and deportation on Capitol Hill on April 9.

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  • Law

Supreme Court says Trump officials should help return wrongly deported Maryland man

The Supreme Court ordered the administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly taken to El Salvador and remains in custody there.

April 10, 2025
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  • Nina Totenberg
The Trump administration deported hundreds of alleged members of the Tren De Aragua and Mara Salvatrucha gangs to El Salvador over the weekend.

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  • Law

Judge extends deadline for deportation flight details as DOJ continues to resist

The Justice Department is fighting not to divulge more information about flights that deported alleged gang members to El Salvador. The federal judge is giving lawyers another day to respond.

March 19, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Salvadoran guards escort alleged members of the 'Tren De Aragua' and Mara Salvatrucha gangs who were deported from the U.S. to El Salvador.

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  • Law

Tensions mount as judge demands more answers about deportation flights

Trump administration lawyers defended the weekend flights that deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members despite a federal judge's order to turn the planes around.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
A deportation officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts a brief before an early morning operation, Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York.

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  • National

Trump invoking Alien Enemies Act to deport is 'a threat to everyone,' lawyer argues

President Trump justified his use of a wartime law to deport people. The CEO of Democracy Forward argues that the president is using it to claim powers not granted to him under the Constitution.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Leila Fadel and
  • Obed Manuel
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro arrives at the opening ceremony of COP16, a United Nations' biodiversity conference, in Cali, Colombia, Oct. 20, 2024.

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  • Politics

White House says Colombia agrees to take deported migrants after Trump tariff threat

The White House claimed victory in a showdown with Colombia over accepting flights of deported migrants from the U.S. on Sunday, hours after President Donald Trump threatened various sanctions.

January 27, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Amica Center for Immigrant Rights (formerly known as CAIR Coalition) attorney, Atenas Burrola Estrada speaks during an presentation on immigration enforcement at a school in Washington, DC on January 10, 2025.

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  • National

Immigrants and advocacy organizations brace for Trump's Day One actions

Days before Donald Trump takes office with the promise of mass deportation, immigrants are bracing for Trump's potential first actions. Some are staying away from going to work, while immigrant advocacy organizations have launched "know your rights" campaigns across the country.

January 18, 2025
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  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán
From an aerial view the Mexican and American flags fly over the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.

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  • National

Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry

Texas builders warn mass deportations of undocumented migrants could devastate the construction industry, threatening housing and infrastructure work in one of the nation's fastest-growing states.

November 23, 2024
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  • Julian Aguilar
Tom Homan speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July. Trump announced on Sunday that the former acting ICE director will oversee border control in his second administration.

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  • Politics

What to know about Tom Homan, the former ICE head returning as Trump's 'border czar'

Homan was the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from January 2017 to June 2018, where he was a key architect of the Trump administration's controversial family separation policy.

November 11, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Javier Maradiaga (far right) with his brother, Jason Castillo; mother, Alma Maradiaga; and sister, Dariela Moncada on Christmas Eve in 2017.

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  • Race

Judge Blocks Biden Deportation Ban, Jeopardizing Former DACA Recipient

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked President Biden's 100-day moratorium on most deportations. One man who was scheduled for deportation is tangled in the bureaucratic morass.

January 28, 2021
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By:
  • Ashish Valentine
President Joe Biden announced his administration would temporarily pause deportations for certain people and halt a Trump-era program for handling asylum seekers at the southern border.

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  • National

Biden Suspends Deportations, Stops 'Remain In Mexico' Policy

Under the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security looks set to roll back several Trump-era immigration policies and to establish a path to citizenship for immigrants.

January 21, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz

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