Immigration

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.

Donald Trump has widely signaled he would invoke the 1798 Act, last used to justify the internment of Japanese-American civilians during World War 2.

Mahmoud Khalil was taken into custody by immigration authorities last weekend, prompting outrage.

Visa processing times in Vermont have gone from one month to three. In California, it previously took two to four months, but now, it’s eight.

The mother of four U.S. citizen children, including a 10-year-old girl recovering from brain cancer, is pleading for her family’s return to the United States, NBC News reported.

The Department of Homeland Security says its immigrant detention centers are at capacity, housing about 47,600 individuals.

All U.S. population growth in 2022-2023 happened because of immigration, not births — the first time that’s occurred since 1850, a migration think tank reported Wednesday.

The Trump administration has overhauled a cellphone app once used to let migrants apply for asylum.

A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration from deporting a prominent Palestinian activist who was arrested over the weekend for helping lead protests last spring at Columbia University.

The Department of Homeland Security launched an update on the CBP Home mobile app on Monday that enables migrants to indicate their plan to leave the U.S.

Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the condition that they would leave the Central American nation in 30 days.

A Chicago landlord who threatened to call immigration authorities on a couple who rented an apartment from him in 2020 has been fined $80,000.

Reports say the Trump administration may soon roll back protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants granted temporary protected status