Immigration

More than two dozen members of Congress demanded answers for Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained by ICE earlier this week.

According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in California, the groups argue that for years Congress has approved and allocated to the federal government millions of dollars to help pay for legal services for unaccompanied children in immigration court.

In response to more federal cuts by the Trump administration, another lawsuit has been filed by nearly a dozen groups who say the cuts could impact thousands of children in immigration court.

A leader of the gang MS-13 was arrested in Virginia early Thursday, top Trump administration officials announced amid a crackdown on immigrants accused of gang activity.

A Tufts University student is being held at an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, and there are growing questions about how she was taken into custody and the timeline of sending her out of state.

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody Tuesday night outside an off-campus apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, according to the university and her attorney.

Finalizing applications filed by certain immigrants to become legal permanent residents is being put on hold to comply with an executive order President Donald Trump signed in January.

The Trump admin invoked a “state secrets privilege” and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law.

Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney, who starred in “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love,” is speaking out after she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly two weeks while trying to renew her work visa. The entrepreneur was detained by immigration officials after she attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border on March 3 and reapply for the...

The Department of Homeland Security says it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month.

Families and lawyers fear for the deportees who may face indefinite detention in a prison known for human rights abuses.

A federal judge has ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown University scholar that the government detained until the court has had a chance to rule.

Federal immigration authorities have detained a Georgetown University graduate student from India who was teaching at the Washington institution on a student visa, his attorney said Wednesday. Masked agents arrested the graduate student, Badar Khan Suri, outside his home in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, attorney Hassan Ahmad said. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland...

“The Government maintains that there is no justification to order the provision of additional information,” the agency said in a court filing.

A family that was deported to Mexico is requesting an investigation into abuses they say they faced in U.S. detention.

The court fight focuses on the Trump administration’s use of a 1798 law to deport people it claims are part of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

The Alien Enemies Act is a rarely used 1798 law which allows the president to imprison and deport non-citizens in time of war. Here’s what you need to know.

A doctor and professor was deported after she returned from a trip to Lebanon despite having a valid U.S. visa, according to a court petition filed on her behalf, NBC News reported.

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite a federal judge’s order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday evening blocking the deportations but lawyers told him there...

El Salvador is agreeing to accept from the United States about 300 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang for one year.