Immigration enforcement, detention, deportation, citizenship and related due-process or civil-rights controversies.
The New York Times reported on Aug. 30, 2026 that ten people deported to Liberia described abusive or violent treatment by ICE officers. Leonardo Sanchez, a Cuban deportee, said officers twisted the handcuffs of four men...
The United States deported dozens of people to the Central African Republic on Aug. 29, 2026, among them an Afghan man in his early twenties whose brothers had worked with the U.S. military, his lawyer and an advocacy...
A confidential Department of Homeland Security memo dated April 2025, obtained by American Oversight under the Freedom of Information Act and reported Aug. 28, 2026 by NOTUS, set out a legal rationale for using National...
U.S. District Judge Noel Wise ruled on Aug. 28, 2026 that the administration's use of the Immigration and Nationality Act to revoke international students' visas over pro-Palestinian activism violated the First and Fifth...
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a petition on Aug. 28, 2026 asking the Supreme Court to review a D.C. Circuit ruling that barred the Pentagon from enforcing its ban on service by people with gender dysphoria. Sauer...
ICE said it arrested the British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Aug. 27, 2026 at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, Louisiana. The agency said he entered the country legally on May...
ICE posted a $16.7 million no-bid contract on Aug. 27 for 6,000 pairs of electric-shock gloves, signed the day before with Compliant Technologies LLC of Kentucky. The device, marketed as the G.L.O.V.E. — Generated Low...
An autopsy released by Tyrin Johnson's family on Aug. 27 says a single bullet entered the right side of the 20-year-old's back and exited his upper right chest on a slightly upward path. Tennessee National Guard members...
Federal data obtained from ICE by the Deportation Data Project shows the agency arrested an average of more than 800 people a day with no criminal record in July, a record, while averaging more than 1,580 arrests a day...
Documents obtained by The New York Times and reported Aug. 27 show the administration plans to raise deportation flights to Haiti from once a month to once a week, adding hundreds of removals a month. A U.S. official...