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Florida’s immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will probably be empty of detainees within days, a state official has said, indicating compliance with a judge’s order last week that the facility must close. The Republican governor Ron DeSantis’s administration appealed the order by federal court judge Kathleen Williams that the tented detention camp in the Florida Everglades, which attracted criticism …

Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran man who was taken into immigration custody after he was released pending a criminal trial, has asked an immigration judge to reopen his immigration proceedings and is seeking asylum in the United States, his lawyer said during a court hearing Wednesday. Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, Abrego Garcia’s attorney, told a federal judge overseeing a legal …

Trump targets art again—this time, a Texas painter’s take on immigration  Chron President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian  The White House (.gov) Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art  NPR Trump escalates attacks against Smithsonian museums, says there’s too much focus on ‘how bad slavery was’  CNN Trump is targeting several Smithsonian artworks. Here they are.  The Washington Post …

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed an unusual Trump administration lawsuit against every federal judge in Maryland over a standing order that limits the government’s ability to quickly deport immigrants. U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, who normally sits in Virginia but was assigned the case because the Maryland judges could not participate, wrote in the ruling that filing …

Trump Live Updates: Kilmar Abrego Garcia Is Detained By Immigration Authorities  The New York Times Kilmar Abrego Garcia taken into ICE custody at appointment  NBC News Abrego Garcia to appear at ICE office in Baltimore amid talk of Uganda deportation  Fox News Abrego Garcia Detained Again, Faces Deportation to Uganda After 3 Days of Freedom  Democracy Now! Kilmar Abrego Garcia Taken into ICE Custody …

Early on Tuesday morning, as parents went to drop off their young children at a bilingual childcare center in north-west Washington DC, they received a message from the administrator saying that unmarked cars were parked directly outside. Shortly after 8am, federal agents in tactical vests arrested two people unaffiliated with the center, the administrator said. “While these activities are not …

Facebook Tweet Email Link A mom in Texas feels it’s no longer safe to walk her kids to school. A grocery store in Virginia lost the butchers at its meat counter. At a cherry orchard in Oregon, unpicked berries are rotting in the sun. And at a mall in Georgia once packed with shoppers, a jewelry seller sighs on a …

Upwards of 1,700 National Guard soldiers will be sent to 19 U.S. states to help the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as it tackles President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to stop illegal immigration and crime, according to a report. Citing Pentagon officials, FOX News broke the story Friday. The states include the following: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Iowa …

The Trump administration has said it plans to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda, months after he was mistakenly sent to El Salvador, in a case that has become a flashpoint in the president’s wider crackdown on immigration. In a filing, lawyers for Ábrego asked the courts to dismiss the case against him on grounds that it is a vindictive …

Upwards of 1,700 National Guard soldiers will be sent to 19 U.S. states to help the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as it tackles President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to stop illegal immigration and crime, according to a report. Citing Pentagon officials, FOX News broke the story Friday. The states include the following: Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Iowa …