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52 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 3, 2026.
A sworn ICE declaration shows a Nov. 3 charter would land in Pakistan before deportees are moved overland to Afghanistan, alarming advocates for those tied to the U.S. war effort.
Almost 1,900 children were in federal custody in September, and advocates say the Trump administration has turned a child-welfare program into a tool of its deportation campaign.
A five-month CBS investigation found a Ghana-bound flight whose passengers were largely sent on to countries where U.S. judges had barred their return.
Temporary Protected Status for tens of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of Sudanese was set to end Monday, but the department says enrolled immigrants will "retain protection" until a final decision.
The judge accepted a Secretary of State memo that his actions undermine U.S. foreign policy. His lawyer says that standard makes the case "game over," and an appeal is coming.
Lower courts ruled migrants must get notice and a chance to object before being sent to countries where they have no ties. The government says that already grounded a flight of 70 deportees.
Judge Seth Aframe wrote that the government's reading of the law 'would deny access to that protection to a substantial swath of noncitizens.' DHS general counsel James Percival said the policy stays in force because the ruling has not taken effect, and the case is expected to go back to the Supreme Court.
Nazira Haji Zada, 47, whose son and son-in-law were convicted in an ISIS-inspired Election Day 2024 plot, left voluntarily rather than fight charges built on classified evidence she was not allowed to see.
Six Cuban and Afghan nationals landed in Georgetown on Friday under a one-year arrangement run through a U.N. migration agency. Guyana pays nothing for their housing, and none of them are being resettled.
Homeland Security says the agency has now topped its own arrest record three consecutive months. An independent data project puts July's number several hundred lower than the government does.
A new Office of Legal Counsel opinion discards a 1998 reading of the welfare law and stretches the reporting duty far beyond the agencies that hand out the benefits.
Judge Noel Wise ruled for The Stanford Daily, whose international staff said they were afraid to report on the war. It is the second federal court in a year to find the deportation policy unconstitutional.
The British commentator, a longtime advocate of aggressive deportation, was picked up near New Orleans. DHS says he entered legally in 2019 and overstayed.
A June Supreme Court decision stripped federal courts of the power to second-guess DHS on Temporary Protected Status. Judges in Boston and Chicago said, in effect, that there was nothing left for them to review.
WatchAn Associated Press investigation counted 52 cases in which immigration officers took the immediate family of a service member into custody — at green-card appointments, at check-ins, and once outside a Walmart in front of a 6-year-old.
WatchThe July total beat June's record of roughly 43,000, with about 1,500 people entering custody every day. Roughly 68,000 people are currently being held across the detention network.
The government contract that pays for legal representation of unaccompanied minors expired Friday. Providers say HHS is withholding $65 million and will only pay if they hand over confidential information about the children they represent.
The interim final rule took effect immediately, ending the guarantee of a non-adversarial interview with an asylum officer. Immigration judges can now dismiss applications on the paperwork alone.
Temporary Protected Status expires Monday after a federal appeals court bought Haitians three extra days. Immigration agents plan to move quickly, and deportation flights can only land in one Haitian city.
For the first time in its three-decade existence, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court has received a case — a sealed, classified petition seeking to deport an unnamed individual.
The suit says U.S. agencies shared confidential records — including claims of religious conversion and LGBTQ persecution — with Tehran through the Pakistani embassy.
Unidentified aircraft are setting off security concerns across European airspace while immigration policies create World Cup complications.
The state's new government says it has expelled 4,800 alleged undocumented migrants and detained hundreds more, fulfilling a campaign vow that rights groups warn is sweeping up Bengali-speaking citizens.
The ruling highlights ongoing concerns about the Trump administration's deportation practices after a woman was sent to the wrong continent despite being from Colombia.
The denaturalization push represents the latest escalation in the administration's targeting of the legal immigration system, expanding beyond traditional deportation efforts.
Federal surge strains nationwide immigration system, with lawyers reporting widespread errors and confusion in proceedings.
Mayor Ras Baraka restricted movement near the GEO Group-run facility after weeks of protests, a detainee hunger strike, and arrests of people carrying weapons.
Dominican Republic's immigration crackdown leads to births in squalid, unsupervised settings as pregnant women avoid hospitals.
After a year targeting undocumented immigrants, the Trump administration pivots to making it harder for legal migrants to remain in the country.
The Department of Homeland Security has created a specialized unit dedicated to reviewing thousands of permanent residents for potential deportation, marking an unprecedented expansion of immigration enforcement.
The agreement reverses President Luis Abinader's previous stance and represents a key diplomatic victory for Trump's expanded deportation strategy.
A key judicial decision in Mr. Khalil's immigration case was expedited significantly and included the recusal of multiple judges.
Justices appeared sharply divided over whether DHS Secretary Kristi Noem complied with the Temporary Protected Status statute. Lower court found Trump revocation was 'partly motivated by racial animus.'
California lawsuit exposes administration researcher privately disputed claims about Haitians while publicly supporting deportation policy.
Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé recounts detention and deportation experience in first interview since being separated from late G.I. husband's homeland.
Federal appeals court rules controversial 2023 state law allowing local police to detain migrants is constitutional, setting up likely Supreme Court battle.
A CBS News investigation finds that experienced jurists are being systematically replaced by judges recruited for their willingness to order removals, leaving tens of thousands of cases in limbo.
Lyons led the agency through its highest-ever single-month deportation total. His departure leaves ICE without Senate-confirmed leadership at a critical juncture in Trump's immigration drive.
Lyons oversaw the Trump administration's aggressive deportation campaign and will leave his post by May 31 in the latest in a series of DHS leadership changes.
The bipartisan vote was largely symbolic since Trump would likely veto the bill, but it reflected resistance within his own party on his signature immigration issue.
The first official deportation data released under the Trump administration shows a historic enforcement surge that nonetheless comes nowhere close to the campaign pledge, with nearly two-thirds of those removed having no criminal record.
Federal judge's yearlong investigation into whether the administration violated court orders becomes latest point of contention between Trump and the judiciary.
Trump administration dismisses immigration judges for halting removal proceedings, marking latest effort to reshape immigration courts.
Judges report facing significant pressure to order deportations or risk losing their jobs as administration accelerates removal proceedings.
The 22-year-old immigrant came to the U.S. as a toddler and was arrested at the military installation where the couple planned to live together.
Trump immigration architect continues push for "moratorium on third world immigration" as administration faces mounting challenges
In a detailed investigation, HRW documented that only 10.5% of deportees to CECOT had violent criminal convictions — and that the system constitutes enforced disappearance under international law.
Administration leveraged favors and funding to pressure African nation into accepting covertly deported migrants in unprecedented arrangement.
Thirty-four former service members placed on deportation track in past year as administration expands immigration enforcement to include military families.
The justices accepted the expedited TPS challenge for both Haiti and Syria but declined the administration's request to immediately end the protections, setting oral arguments for late April in what could be the biggest immigration ruling of the Trump era.
An NPR analysis found that the Board of Immigration Appeals — reduced from 28 to 15 judges, packed with Trump loyalists, and pumping out a record 70 precedent-setting decisions in 2025 — has eliminated due process protections for millions of immigrants with almost no public scrutiny.
The Trump administration cut the nation's top immigration court from 28 judges to 15, stacked it with loyalists, and used it to issue precedent eliminating bond eligibility, allowing third-country deportations, and restricting asylum — setting policy for every immigration judge in the country.