Rachel Uranga covers immigration for the Los Angeles Times. She previously reported for the Los Angeles Business Journal, Reuters in Mexico City and Southern California News Group, where she later served on its editorial board. She can be reached at rachel.uranga@latimes.com or via Signal at Uranga.64.
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L.A.’s top prosecutor moves to end-run state sanctuary rules, filing federal charges against immigrants who had been deported and reentered the country illegally.
The Department of Homeland Security is asking to dismiss its own deportation cases, after which agents arrest immigrants as they leave the courtroom and pursue expedited removals, which require no hearings before a judge.
Acting ICE director says U.S. is using ‘safe third countries’ to remove public safety threats. Lawyers argue the immigrants — from Myanmar, Vietnam, Cuba, South Sudan and Mexico — were denied due process.
A Vietnamese and a Burmese man, and up to nine others, appear to have been abruptly removed from immigration detention in Texas to South Sudan, in defiance of a federal court order, attorneys said.
A Vietnamese man was one of 13 immigrants who sat waiting on a tarmac for hours to be deported to Libya. Then the operation got called off.
New rules require families who want to reunify with migrant children to provide proof of income and U.S. identification and, often, to take a DNA test.
A federal judge found Border Patrol agents engaged in “a pattern and practice” of violating people’s constitutional rights after they detained and arrested dozens in a Central Valley raid in January.
Dijon Barber, a convicted robber, has been captured in Las Vegas after walking away from an L.A. County reentry program, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.
Families of detained children find themselves in an ‘impossible bind’ as tough new rules make it harder to reunite. Advocates worry about the mental health of children waiting in custody.
Congressional members warn that bottlenecked courts will be hurt as Trump administration fire immigration judges, demand that Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi explain