Border security, immigration & deportations

Judge finds probable cause to hold Trump administration in contempt over deportation flights​

WASHINGTON — A federal judge said in an order Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt over the deportation flights that it sent to El Salvador.

“If Defendants opt to purge their contempt, they shall file by April 23, 2025, a declaration explaining the steps they have taken and will take to do so," U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote.

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Appeals court backs judge in Abrego Garcia case, saying Trump DOJ ‘would reduce the rule of law to lawlessness’​

A federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s request that it halt the next steps Judge Paula Xinis is seeking to take in the case concerning a migrant who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, with a strident warning about the rule of law and the possibility the dispute presented an “incipient crisis.”

The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals said in its seven-page ruling Thursday that the Trump administration’s assertions in the case “should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.”

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Supreme Court Halts New Trump Deportations Under Wartime Law​

The Supreme Court blocked, for now, the deportation of a group of Venezuelan migrants whom the Trump administration is seeking to remove under a rarely used wartime law.

The order came early Saturday after lawyers for the migrants asked the justices to step in on an emergency basis to halt their deportations as reports came that immigration officials began loading the detainees onto buses for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act.

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The horse-racing industry needs workers on visas. Employers hope to still get them.​

For her entire life, Diana Pinones' parents took care of racehorses.

Her mom, now retired, would walk the horses each morning. Her dad still grooms them, which can mean feeding, brushing and dressing the horses in preparation for race day.

Originally from Michoacán, Mexico, the Pinones became U.S. citizens and have turned horse-racing into a family affair, as have many others in the industry.

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DOD Support to the Southern Border in Photos, April 24, 2025​

Straight Down the Middle Ep. 16: The Abrego Garcia Case​

Apr 26, 2025

Join Professor Jed Rubenfeld as he breaks down the Abrego Garcia case.

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Straight Down the Middle Ep. 17: The Alien Enemies Act Deportations​

Apr 26, 2025

Join Professor Jed Rubenfeld as he breaks down the Alien Enemies Act deportations.

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