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News Articles: Immigration

Asylum-seekers from Honduras walk toward a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico in 2021 near Mission, Texas.

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  • Law

Bipartisan senators rebuke White House move to end legal aid for unaccompanied minors

The letter obtained by NPR marks a rare bipartisan critique from Capitol Hill of the administration's immigration policy.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
A woman who asked that we use only her first initial, S., says her family already got their U.S.-born children their American passports so that if they go back to El Salvador, the kids can return to the U.S. eventually.

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  • National

Should I stay or go? Immigrants across U.S. consider self-deportation

In the face of raids and threats to previously safe spaces, some immigrants in the U.S. without legal status are weighing whether to heed Trump's call to voluntarily leave the U.S.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd and
  • Ximena Bustillo
A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to discuss Abrego Garcia's arrest and deportation on April 9, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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  • National

Maryland judge again asks government to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador

A federal judge in Maryland wants the government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. after the Supreme Court largely upheld her original order.

April 11, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Twenty-two people originally from 15 different nations took the Oath of Allegiance to become United States citizens at the William Augustus Bootle Federal Courthouse in Macon Wednesday. The group was made up of students, mothers, fathers, engineers and even an entomologist.

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  • Photography

In Macon, a day to celebrate becoming an American

Close to two dozen people took the final step toward American citizenship in a ceremony in Macon's Bootle Federal Courthouse.

April 11, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference Friday at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md.

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  • Politics

Deadline looms in case of Maryland man's wrongful deportation to El Salvador

The Supreme Court has paused a deadline to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, after a federal district judge ordered the administration to bring him back by tonight.

April 07, 2025
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By:
  • Jasmine Garsd and
  • Joel Rose
NPR spoke to immigration experts and lawyers and reviewed government documents to break down the steps of the U.S. deportation process and its cost.

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  • Law

How does deportation work, and how much does it cost? We break it down

NPR spoke to immigration experts and lawyers and reviewed government documents to break down the steps and associated costs of the U.S. deportation process.

April 07, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Alyson Hurt
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
In this handout photo provided by the Salvadoran government, guards escort a newly admitted inmate inside a cell at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador.

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  • Law

Trump administration admits Maryland man sent to El Salvador prison by mistake

This latest case, in which lawyers argue their client had no proven links to MS-13, adds to the growing judicial and public scrutiny about the deportations to El Salvador's notorious mega-prison.

April 01, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Travelers wait in the security line at Boston Logan International Airport in Boston on Dec. 21, 2023.

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  • National

What green-card and visa holders should know before traveling abroad

Recently, green-card and visa holders have been facing tougher scrutiny at airports. Immigration attorneys give tips on how reduce the chances of running into problems while traveling.

March 29, 2025
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
In this handout photo provided by the Salvadoran government, a close view of handcuffs placed on the hands of a newly admitted inmate allegedly linked to criminal organizations at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Trump's administration managed to deport some people to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, the same day a judge ordered deportations under the Act paused.

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  • Law

Appeals court sides with judge who blocked deportations under wartime authority

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel denied the Trump administration's push to restart deportations of alleged gang members under a rarely used wartime authority known as the Alien Enemies Act.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Bishop Joseph Tyson (left) and the Rev. Jesús Mariscal (right) of the Yakima Diocese worry about how their parishioners will cope with broad changes to immigration policy, which have had a chilling effect on many religious communities.

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  • Religion

These churches offer shelter and sanctuary to vulnerable migrants. Here's why

Some are offering sanctuary to immigrants, others are ministering to families in different ways.

March 25, 2025
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By:
  • Patrick Davis,
  • Anna King,
  • and 1 more
Members of the Salvadoran army stand guard at the CECOT prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16. The Trump administration deported alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang and others to El Salvador.

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  • Law

Judge contends Nazis got more due process than Trump deportees did

The fight over the rarely used wartime power has become central to Trump's immigration crackdown agenda and his efforts to stretch the powers of the executive branch.

March 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak in Alaska during a tour on Monday.

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  • National

DHS revokes legal protections for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans

The Department of Homeland Security's new policy, revoking legal protections for hundreds of thousands, impacts people who are already in the U.S. and who came under a humanitarian parole program.

March 22, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court is shown March 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. A federal judge is asking the government for proof that it complied to his order in its deportation of more than 200 alleged Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1789.

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  • Law

Judge calls 'woefully insufficient' the Trump administration response to his order

Judge James Boasberg had earlier asked the Trump administration to provide more details about weekend flights that deported hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador — despite his order to turn the planes around.

March 20, 2025
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Pro-Palestinian supporters, including Mahmoud Khalil (second from left), demonstrate during a protest at Columbia University in New York in October 2023.

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  • National

Arrest of pro-Palestinian protester shows escalation in Trump deportation efforts

The move is an escalation in President Trump's effort to increase deportations from the U.S. and strip protections from those who violate the new administration's priorities.

March 10, 2025
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  • Ximena Bustillo and
  • Adrian Florido
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