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Congressional lawmakers denounced the treatment of Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, the students being detained by US immigration authorities for their pro-Palestinian activism, as a “national disgrace” during a visit to the two facilities in Louisiana where each are being held. “We stand firm with them in support of free speech,” the
Immigration officials detained a US citizen for nearly 10 days in Arizona, according to court records and press reports. As the NPR affiliate Arizona Public Media, first reported
A US-born American citizen who was arrested then detained in county jail at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Florida, sparking uproar this week when he was accused of being in the US illegally, has been released. An advocate for Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez had displayed his birth certificate in court initially, and […]
The new US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, placed a note from President Donald Trump in the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday morning in what he called his “first act” in his new role. The former governor of . . .
Maryland’s Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen says the government of El Salvador has denied his request to visit Kilmar Ábrego García, his constituent who was wrongly deported to the Central American country last month. Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday with the intention of meeting Ábrego García at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), […]
The Trump administration called on Harvard University to apologize Tuesday and questioned the purpose of federal funding after it froze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants to the school on Monday.
The US has deported another 10 people that it alleges are gang members to El Salvador, secretary of state Marco Rubio said on Sunday, a day before that country’s president is due to visit the White House. “Last night, another 10 criminals from the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua Foreign Terrorist Organizations arrived in
Delegations from Iran and the United States will meet again this week after wrapping up “constructive” nuclear talks yesterday that included the first direct contact between a Trump administration and Iranian official.
Amir Makled thought he was being racially profiled. A Lebanese American who was born and raised in Detroit, the attorney was returning home from a family vacation in the Dominican Republic when he said an immigration official at the Detroit Metro airport asked for a “TTRT” agent after scanning his passport on Sunday. Makled said […]
The United States has ordered consular offices to significantly expand their screening processes for student visa applicants, including through comprehensive social media investigations, to exclude people they deem to support terrorism. Coming after several high-profile visa revocations and targeted arrests over pro-Palestinian campus activism, a state department cable from 25 March, obtained by the Guardian, […]