Tag: asylum
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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...
The State Department is preparing to revoke the B1 business and B2 tourist visas of up to 200,000 people who have applied for or are seeking asylum in the United States, according to department documents obtained by the...
Hundreds of internal U.S. immigration emails obtained by the National Iranian American Council and released Aug. 18 show ICE officials coordinating with Iranian officials on three flights that returned more than 100...
Liberian authorities said on Tuesday that the country had agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States over the next year, in one of the largest such arrangements under the administration's...
The State Department published a final rule on Aug. 3, 2026 making permanent the visa bond program it launched as a 12-month pilot in August 2025 under Executive Order 14159. Effective immediately, consular officers may...
The Department of Homeland Security announced an interim final rule on July 27, 2026 that allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to refer certain affirmative asylum applications to immigration judges without...
On June 25, 2026, the Supreme Court issued two 6-3 immigration rulings favoring the administration. In Mullin v. Doe, the Court held that the Temporary Protected Status statute bars courts from reviewing...
In late January 2026, federal immigration agents in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, detained a five-year-old boy as he arrived home from preschool, taking him and his father to a detention facility in Texas. School...
On July 2, 2025, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled in RAICES v. Noem that President Trump's inauguration-day proclamation "Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion" exceeded his authority. Moss held that...