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Human Rights

Appeals court over Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi rules 10-7 that ICE can jail undocumented immigrants without bond hearings, even longtime residents with no criminal record.

ICE frees a 78-year-old Ugandan priest from its Colorado jail with no wheelchair after 13 months, so jailed immigrants carry him half a mile out.

Supreme Court blocks Trump from cutting off hormone therapy for transgender federal prisoners, after letting him ban transgender troops.

ICE says Dallas painter who died in its Laredo jail was a green-card holder accused of hiding a 2004 theft arrest, which his daughter disputes.

Dallas painter jailed since June dies in Laredo ICE cell, Texas’ seventh ICE custody death this year, as daughter says staff withheld his medication.

Ambassador to Israel Huckabee calls West Bank settlers’ beating of an American photojournalist “terror,” as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu calls it “alleged.”

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sues to shut down Dakota Access pipeline, challenging the Army Corps’ approval of its Missouri River crossing upstream of tribal drinking water.

Rubio bars US business with the International Criminal Court to cripple its operations, and the EU vows “any necessary measures” to defend it.

Federal prosecutors charge captured former Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife with torture conspiracy, alleging electrocution, beatings and simulated drowning of political opponents.

Arlington, Virginia, man left with a brain hemorrhage after an August ICE arrest files a $35 million claim against DHS, the first step toward suing.

ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.

Federal court abruptly cancels hearing for mistakenly deported Kilmar Ábrego Garcia over sending him to Liberia, though Costa Rica agreed to take him.

ICE knew an Army study found shock gloves cause intense pain and fear before signing a $16.7 million deal for 6,000 pairs, records show.

Attorneys say Christa Pike is conscious but shackled to her hospital bed a week after surviving two rounds of Tennessee’s lethal injection.

US kills four in a Caribbean boat strike, the first since a UN expert found grounds to call the campaign a crime against humanity.

Trump tells Ohio rally Springfield is better off without Haitians as the city mourns a Haitian student whose family blames his suicide on an ICE ankle monitor.

Tennessee prison chief Strada resigns three days after Christa Pike survived two lethal injection doses, as Gov. Lee names a former US attorney to review the failed execution.

Miramar, Florida, ICE field office built for 56 jails up to 150 for days without beds or medical care, a class action alleges.

Federal judge orders the Pentagon to give him the secret Justice Department memo justifying boat strikes that have killed more than 200 people.

State Department ends health aid to Zimbabwe, where the US funded over 40% of HIV spending, after Zimbabwe’s government rejected a deal demanding health data.

Human rights groups ask a UN panel to call ICE’s removal of 16,000 jailed immigrants with deportation orders from its online locator an enforced disappearance.

Trump nominates the State Department official who runs its “Office of Remigration” for third-country deportations as ambassador to Cameroon, which takes deportees under the deals.

Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting immigrants to countries not their own without meaningful notice, over three liberal justices’ objections, with arguments set for December.

At least 10 people detained at North Carolina sheriff’s checkpoint where Latino drivers were asked where they were born, advocacy group says.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own, after an appeals court revived a ban.

Trump administration proposes a refugee ceiling “primarily” for white Afrikaners, after South Africans made up over 99% of this year’s refugees.

Type 1 diabetic Costa Rican man dies in Louisiana ICE custody after complaining of missed insulin, family says, third death there in under six months.

ICE takes Austin man its agent shot back to the hospital, a day after he was discharged to detention with the bullet still inside, Rep. Joaquin Castro says.

Trump administration prepares sanctions barring most business with the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Trump administration has sent over 25,000 deportees to countries where they have no ties under secret deals with 35 nations worth $410 million, investigation finds.

US military kills four in Caribbean strike on a boat it says carried drugs, offering no evidence, bringing boat-strike deaths to at least 231.

UN-commissioned rights panel finds “reasonable grounds” the US committed war crimes in two Iran strikes that killed at least 178 civilians.

Family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks after doctors denied an abortion, sues Texas Attorney General and Senate nominee Paxton over the ban.

DHS watchdog finds Alligator Alcatraz held 79 detainees in 18-square-foot metal cages, calling it “unprecedented” at ICE sites, then closed every recommendation because the camp shut in June.

Justice Department deports Afghan permanent resident in first case ever decided by secret terrorism court dormant since 1996, on classified evidence her lawyers never saw.

US Ambassador to Israel Huckabee tells Palestinian Americans in the West Bank that Israeli settler attacks are “an act of terror,” a label US envoys normally reserve for Palestinians.

Arlington, Virginia, police open an investigation of ICE agents accused of a beating that left a man with a brain hemorrhage, as Homeland Security calls it “necessary force.”

ICE frees a Washington state roofer in Louisiana without his passport, 2,000 miles from home, after a judge ruled his pending trafficking visa barred his detention.

Labor Department rules a civilian mariner’s alleged rape by her captain aboard a Navy ship, in her locked cabin, was a workplace injury, leaving workers’ comp as her only remedy.

Masked, armed CBP agents escort border wall contractors onto Tohono O’odham Nation land to begin drilling, 11 days after a judge refused to halt construction.

ICE signs a no-bid $16.7 million contract for 6,000 pairs of electric shock gloves to use on detainees and protesters, hours after 16 senators asked it to cancel.

US strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean kills 4, pushing the campaign’s toll to 227 as Hegseth claims 3 nations approved land operations.

Judge orders the US to retrieve a cartel witness it deported to Mexico despite torture protections, after ICE and Rubio revoked them without a hearing.

US strike on an alleged drug boat in the eastern Pacific kills 2, pushing the campaign’s death toll past 200 with no trafficking evidence provided.

State Department prepares to revoke up to 200,000 tourist and business visas from people who sought asylum, the largest mass revocation in US history.

Judge rules a 1-year-old in government custody with no lawyer must file an asylum application or face deportation, after HHS replaced the contract funding children’s attorneys.

ICE emails show Iranian officials edited US deportation manifests, adding cases at the embassy’s request while the administration urged Tehran’s evacuation during the war.

Sen. Kim says Delaney Hall medical staff deny responsibility for 3 detainee deaths as detainees describe being refused doctors and prescription medication.

First deportation flight since Haitian TPS ended lands with 161 people, as the US plans to return 250 weekly to a country the UN calls very dangerous.

First 20 deportees land in Liberia under the deal to send 1,200 people, the largest of 35 third-country arrangements the US has struck.

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