US judges block Trump’s Venezuelan deportations that used 1798 wartime law
New York City, US Reuters US judges in Texas and New York dealt blows on Wednesday to President Donald Trump’s effort to revive deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members under a wartime law after the US Supreme Court struck down a nationwide ban on such removals. Wednesday’s actions marked early victories for the American Civil […]
US Supreme Court lets Trump pursue deportations under 1798 law, with limits
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed Donald Trump to pursue deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime as part of the Republican president’s hardline approach to immigration, but with certain limits. The court, in an unsigned 5-4 ruling powered […]
Alleged Venezuelan gang members deported by US arrive in El Salvador
Washington DC, US Reuters More than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang have been deported by the US and sent to El Salvador where they were taken to a high-security prison, the Salvadoran President said on Sunday. In a proclamation published on Saturday, US President Donald Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to […]
Asylum seeker rights: Migrants in limbo in Panama jungle camp after being deported from US
SARAH KINOSIAN, of Reuters, reports on concerns over the rights of migrants deported from the US to the Panamainian jungle…
Twenty-two Democratic-led US states sue over Trump’s birthright citizenship order
Boston, US Reuters Democratic-led states and civil rights groups filed a slew of lawsuits challenging US President Donald Trump’s bid to roll back birthright citizenship on Tuesday in an early bid by his opponents to block his agenda in court. After his inauguration on Monday, Trump, a Republican, ordered US agencies to refuse to recognise […]
Biden imposes sweeping asylum ban at US-Mexico border
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Joe Biden on Tuesday instituted a broad asylum ban on migrants caught illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, a major enforcement move in the run-up to November elections that will decide control of the White House. Migrants caught crossing illegally could be quickly deported or turned back to Mexico under […]
Criminal justice: Four years after George Floyd killing, police reform in US slow to follow
BIANCA FLOWERS and STEPHANIE KELLY, of Reuters, report that federal attempts at wide-ranging reform have been mostly unsuccessful…
Vatican, other faith leaders join in push for end of death penalty in US state of Louisiana
United States RNS The Vatican has joined US faith leaders and anti-death penalty activists in supporting the Louisiana Governor’s desire to clear the death row cells in his state. Governor John Bel Edwards, a Catholic Democrat, called in August for the Louisiana Board of Pardons to reconsider applications for clemency of 56 prisoners on the […]
The Long Read: Biden vowed to reform immigration detention. Instead, private prisons benefitted
TED HESSON, MICA ROSENBERG AND KRISTINA COOKE, of Reuters, report…
Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents
Washington DC, US Reuters Nearly 1,000 migrant children separated at the US-Mexico border by the administration of former President Donald Trump have yet to be reunited with their parents despite a two-year effort by President Joe Biden. The US Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday of the 998 children still separated, 148 were in […]