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Florida AG Wants to Build 'Alligator Alcatraz'

He says site in the Everglades could hold up to 1K immigration detainees

(Newser) - Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has made an offer that's likely to appeal to the Trump administration: In a post on X Thursday, the Republican proposed building a "one-stop shop to carry out President Trump's mass deportation agenda" at an old airport in the Everglades, calling it...

DHS Pulls Another U-Turn on Farm Raids

Agency reverses guidance intended to protect agriculture, hospitality industries

(Newser) - A week after telling agents not to conduct immigration raids at farms, hotels, and restaurants, the Department of Homeland Security has done a U-turn. On Monday, the agency told staff at 30 field offices across the country that the guidance had been reversed, coming in line with President Trump's...

Obama, Trump Butt Heads With Dueling Posts
Obama Breaks His Silence
Jun 16, 2025 8:08 AM CDT

Obama Breaks His Silence

Former president urges Americans to reject framing of immigrants as 'enemies'

(Newser) - Days after a public plea for him to speak up from the comfort of "semi-retirement," former President Obama has heeded the call. The 44th president on Sunday offered up a social media post , which stands in stark contrast to a rant from President Trump that appeared hours later...

Agency Given 54 Minutes to Comply With New Directive

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services made to hand over data on enrollees to deportation officials

(Newser) - President Trump's administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data—including immigration status—on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown. An internal memo and emails obtained by the AP show that Medicaid officials...

After 4 Months in Detention, Harvard Scientist Released

Russia's Kseniia Petrova still faces deportation, smuggling charges over frog embryos

(Newser) - Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was released on bail on Thursday after spending four months in US detention . Petrova was initially detained in February at Boston's Logan Airport for failing to declare frog embryo samples she was carrying for research. Since then, she has...

Trump Changes Tune on Migrant Farm Workers

'Our farmers are being hurt badly and we're going to have to do something about that'

(Newser) - In remarks in person and on social media Thursday, President Trump suggested he would soon issue an order to give farm and hotel workers some protection from his immigration crackdown. "Our farmers are being hurt badly and we're going to have to do something about that," he...

Trump's Plan for Guantanamo May Be Coming Back to Life

Documents indicate 9K people could be sent there as early as this week

(Newser) - Thousands of migrants facing deportation from the US could soon be sent to Guantanamo Bay, potentially as soon as this week—including detainees from European allies, according to documents viewed by Politico and officials familiar with the plan who spoke with the Washington Post . At least 9,000 people—...

In LA, 'Extraordinary Show of Force' During Raids

Protests, clashes with federal agents, dozens of arrests as national immigration crackdown continues

(Newser) - Federal agents conducted high-profile immigration raids on Friday in Los Angeles, including in the city's Fashion District, where they used flash-bang grenades and what appeared to be less-than-lethal rounds to disperse protesters after targeting a clothing wholesaler called Ambiance Apparel. The action was part of at least three...

Trump Reacts to Wrongly Deported Man's US Return

President says he wants the US court system to 'show how horrible' Kilmar Abrego Garcia is

(Newser) - President Trump has weighed in on the return to the US of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador who's become a centerpiece of resistance to the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Trump told reporters Friday on Air Force One that it...

ICE Officers, Detainees Stuck in Sweltering Shipping Container

Court order has left them all in harsh, unsafe conditions in Djibouti

(Newser) - A group of nearly a dozen US immigration officers and eight deportees have been stranded for more than two weeks at a US military base in Djibouti after a federal judge in Boston halted a deportation flight. The detainees, who include individuals convicted of crimes like murder and armed...

Judge Blocks Deportation of Boulder Suspect's Family

'It is patently unlawful to punish individuals for the crimes of their relatives,' lawyers say

(Newser) - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the government to immediately halt deportation proceedings against the family of a man charged in the firebombing attack in Boulder, Colorado, to ensure the protection of the family's constitutional rights. US District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher granted a request from the wife and...

High School Junior's Arrest Is New ICE Flashpoint

Immigration officials defend Massachusetts teen's detention while on his way to volleyball practice

(Newser) - Another arrest by federal immigration officers is drawing controversy, this one involving a high school student near Boston who was stopped on his way to volleyball practice. The details:
  • On Saturday, authorities with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva in Milford. He was born in
...

SCOTUS Lets US Revoke Protection of 500K Immigrants

Ruling allows White House to strip Biden-era legal status of people from 4 nations

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip temporary legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants, per the AP . The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba,...

Critics Decry 'Outrageous' New Office at State Dept.

Detractors say proposed 'Office of Remigration' has the ultimate goal of ethnic cleansing

(Newser) - The State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio is undergoing a major reorg , and out of that dust has emerged an apparent new subdivision: the "Office of Remigration," which an agency official says will fall under the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, per Axios . The new office, first...

DOJ: Scientist's Texts on Frog Embryos Did Her In
Judge:
Let Detained
Scientist
Out on Bail
UPDATED
May 29, 2025 7:00 AM CDT

Judge: Let Detained Scientist Out on Bail

Russian-born Harvard researcher accused of sneaking lab samples through Boston airport

(Newser) - A federal judge says a Harvard scientist from Russia should be released on bail after she was detained by immigration officials, reports the New York Times . "There does not seem to be either a factual or legal basis for the immigration officer's actions" against Kseniia Petrova, the judge...

Judge Orders Administration to Facilitate Another Return

Administration conceded a mistake in case of a gay Guatemalan it sent to Mexico

(Newser) - Saying it's likely that the deportation of a Guatemalan man "lacked any semblance of due process," a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return. The government had delivered the man, who is gay, to Mexico despite his protestations that he feared for his...

First US Charter Returns Migrants Who Volunteered

Children born in the US are among those flown to Honduras, Colombia

(Newser) - The US on Monday sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries, the first government-funded flight of what the Trump administration is calling voluntary deportations. In the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula, 38 Hondurans, including 19 children, disembarked from the charter flight carrying $1,000...

After Husband Is Deported, Tiger King Star Offers to Follow

Joe Exotic requests pardon from Trump: 'You can keep Carole Baskin'

(Newser) - Tiger King star Joe Exotic is demanding President Trump intervene after his husband was deported to Mexico. Jorge Marquez Flores, 33, who wed the former reality TV star behind bars earlier this year, was deported Friday, shortly after completing a sentence in federal prison in Texas for residing unlawfully in...

Supreme Court Maintains Block on Wartime Law Deportations

Decision keeps Trump administration's plan suspended while case is decided

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Trump administration's appeal to let it quickly resume deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law. Over two dissenting votes, the justices acted on an emergency appeal from lawyers for Venezuelan men who have been accused of being gang members, a designation...

She's Researching Aging. ICE Has Her Behind Bars

Russian scientist Kseniia Petrova writes for the New York Times from a Louisiana detention center

(Newser) - When Kseniia Petrova fled Russia two years ago, she did so because she didn't feel she could freely and safely carry out her work as a scientist there, especially after she was arrested for taking part in a protest. She landed at Harvard Medical School, and her work on...

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