Federal judge rules Trump’s policy of deporting immigrants to countries they have no connection to is illegal, ordering notice and the chance to challenge removals before they happen.
Texas grand jury declines to indict ICE agent who fatally shot 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Martinez on South Padre Island, days after the only passenger who contradicted the government’s account died in a car crash.
Rep. Al Green escorted out of second consecutive State of the Union after holding sign reading “Black People Aren’t Apes” referencing Trump’s deleted social media post depicting the Obamas.
Legal advocates seek court order to stop CBP from pressuring unaccompanied immigrant children to self-deport before reaching shelters where federal law guarantees them attorneys and judges.
DOJ sues University of California over alleged antisemitism at UCLA, weeks after dropping appeal of ruling that its $1.2 billion penalty against the school was unconstitutional.
Supreme Court rules 5-4 that USPS cannot be sued for intentionally failing to deliver mail, sending Black landlord’s racial harassment case back to lower courts.
Trump-appointed judge holds administration in civil contempt after ICE transferred a detainee to Texas in defiance of a court order, then released him without his belongings.
Maryland attorney general sues to block ICE from converting a $102 million warehouse into a 1,500 person detention facility in a town of 2,000 without environmental review or public input.
Only witness to federal agent’s fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas dies in car accident days after his draft affidavit contradicted DHS account.
U.S. military kills three more people in Caribbean boat strike, bringing total to at least 150 dead across 44 strikes since September with no evidence released.
New Mexico orders investigation into forced sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service, which a 1976 federal audit found sterilized 3,406 women without informed consent before the government stopped counting.
DHS seeks to build a single biometric search engine combining face recognition, fingerprints and iris scans across all its agencies after dismantling its own privacy review process.
ICE quietly changes cause of Cuban detainee’s death from “medical distress” to “spontaneous use of force” weeks after medical examiner ruled it a homicide by asphyxiation during restraint.
Lawmakers find ICE holding facility in Mesa designed for 12-hour stays has detained people for days and weeks with no beds, showers, medical staff or oversight policies.
Appeals court allows Trump administration to halt reinstallation of Philadelphia slavery exhibit one day after panels honoring nine people enslaved by George Washington were restored.
HUD proposes evicting families from federal housing if any household member is undocumented, reversing a policy that allowed reduced assistance for mixed-status families.
Federal judge accuses Trump administration of “terror” against immigrants and violence against its own citizens, finding DHS violated her order to end mandatory detention nationwide.
DHS orders arrest and indefinite detention of an estimated 100,000 legal refugees who lack green cards, months after the administration halted the green card process for their countries.
Trump administration appeals order to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibits as judge sets Friday deadline and invokes Orwell’s 1984 in ruling.
ICE deports 2-month-old with bronchitis and his family from Dilley detention center to Mexico with $190, a day after the infant was hospitalized for being unresponsive.
HUD opens investigation into North Texas Muslim community development eight months after the Justice Depaement investigated the same project and closed the case without charges.
NYU Langone shuts its transgender youth medical program after Trump administration proposed pulling federal funding from hospitals providing gender care for minors.
Federal judge bars ICE from re-detaining Kilmar Ábrego García, ruling his detention was unconstitutional and dismissing administration threats to deport him to Africa as “empty.”
U.S. military kills 11 people in strikes on three boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, bringing the total dead to more than 140 since September with no evidence released.
Trump administration sends second deportation flight to Cameroon carrying eight more third-country nationals days after first flight of nine, most with court orders against removal, was exposed.
Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits removed from President’s House in Philadelphia, quoting Orwell and comparing government to “Ministry of Truth.”
Trump administration secretly deports nine people to Cameroon despite most having court protections against removal, none of them from that country, shackled on a DHS flight from Louisiana.
Congressman Raskin confirms a whistleblower’s account of inhumane conditions at a Baltimore ICE facility after a surprise inspection found 55 detainees packed into a single room.
Federal judge orders ICE to allow Catholic priests into a Chicago-area detention facility for Ash Wednesday, ruling the agency violated religious freedom law by ending a decade of weekly visits.
ICE agents followed Minnesota protesters to their homes, shouted their addresses, aimed rifles at them and mocked the death of Renee Good, according to nearly 100 sworn statements filed in federal court.
ICE places two agents on administrative leave for lying under oath about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, one week after an agent killed Renee Good in the same city.
Affordable housing residents ask federal judge to restrict DHS chemical munitions near Portland ICE facility, saying tear gas seeping into units caused heart failure and breathing problems.
Federal prosecutor moves to dismiss charges against the Venezuelan man an ICE agent shot in Minneapolis, saying newly discovered evidence contradicts the government’s own complaint and testimony.
Federal judge orders the government to fly deported Venezuelans back to the U.S. for court hearings, ruling the 137 men were denied due process before being sent to an El Salvador prison.
Columbia protest detainee Leqaa Kordia says she was chained to a hospital bed for 72 hours after a seizure, nearly a year into detention without criminal charges.
Hundreds gather as New York officials re-raise the pride flag at Stonewall National Monument two days after the Trump administration ordered it removed.
Federal judge orders ICE to stop blocking thousands of Minnesota detainees from contacting attorneys, calling the agency’s claim it provided access “threadbare” and unsupported by evidence.
Border czar Tom Homan announces the end of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, claiming credit for “unprecedented coordination” from the same local officials who said ICE never contacted them.
Customs and Border Protection chief tells senators Alex Pretti was “fighting back nonstop” after watching video showing the unarmed nurse standing with his hands up before agents shot him.
Government loses three hard drives plaintiffs purchased to store court-ordered ICE detention footage, then claims it ran out of storage space and has no footage from isolation cells.
Trump administration sends all pregnant unaccompanied children to a single Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate, where abortion is virtually banned, over its own officials’ objections.
Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission removes member Carrie Prejean Boller after she challenged witnesses on Zionism and Israel’s war in Gaza during an antisemitism hearing.
Vance’s office deletes post acknowledging the Armenian genocide during his visit to Armenia’s memorial, reverting to Trump policy of refusing the term.
Newly released body camera video contradicts DHS account of Border Patrol agent shooting Chicago woman five times during October immigration raid.
National Park Service removes rainbow Pride flag from Stonewall National Monument, site of the 1969 uprising that launched the modern Pride movement.
Appeals court rules the government can move forward with deporting more than 60,000 immigrants from Nicaragua, Honduras and Nepal, overriding a judge who found the decision was racially motivated and “preordained.”
Trump administration moves to cut $600 million in CDC-administered public health funding from California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota, calling grants for HIV prevention and disease outbreak management “inconsistent with agency priorities.”
Federal officials denied seeking to expedite deportation of the Minneapolis family whose 5-year-old son Liam was photographed surrounded by immigration officers, after their lawyer called the proceedings “extraordinary” and possibly “retaliatory.”
Ghislaine Maxwell invoked the Fifth Amendment more than a dozen times during her House Oversight deposition, while her lawyer offered to exonerate Trump and Clinton in exchange for presidential clemency.
Oregon family detained by ICE while taking their 7-year-old to a Portland emergency room released after three weeks in a Texas detention center.
