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Detentions and Deportations of US Citizens
April 5. María Luisa Paúl: As Trump cracks down on immigration, U.S. citizens are among those snared.
April 10. Kelsey Ables: Trump wants to send U.S. citizens to foreign prisons. Experts say there’s no legal way.
April 13. NPR Staff: Why one deportation case has legal scholars afraid for even U.S. citizens.
July 25. Clare Considine: Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest.
Deportations of American-Born Babies & Children
April 25. Michael D. Shear: 2-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Deported ‘With No Meaningful Process,’ Judge Suspects.
April 26. Nick Miroff: Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana.
May 13. Nancy Guan: Mother of 1-year-old girl among dozens of Cubans deported from Florida last month.
May 16. Suzanne Gamboa & Carmen Sesin: Why U.S. citizen children sent with their deported moms can’t come back easily.
Detentions and Deportations of Green Card Holders
March 14. Sarah Betancourt: Green card holder from New Hampshire ‘interrogated’ at Logan Airport, detained.
March 22. Ben Gutierrez: Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders.
April 28. Rory Carroll: Irish woman living in US for decades detained by immigration officials. Cliona Ward, who had returned from trip to Ireland, held over criminal record from almost 20 years ago.
May 1. Claire Fahy: What Green Card Holders Should Know in Preparing to Travel Outside the U.S.
June 4. Martin Kaste: More green card holders are being detained over criminal records.
July 29. Kim Bellware: Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation: Tae Heung Kim, a Korean citizen studying in the United States, is being held in San Francisco after returning from his brother’s wedding overseas.
July 11. Michael Rosenfield: N.H. green card holder denied re-entry to U.S. after visiting native Canada.
Deportations of Migrants who had been Granted Asylum or Other Legal Protections
May 24. Karina Tsui: Judge rules Trump administration must work to return asylum seeker from Guatemala who was wrongfully deported.
June 1. Jonathan Blitzer: Trump Makes America’s Refugee Program a Tool of White Racial Grievance.
July 23. Asawin Suebsaeng: Trump Wants to Deport a Children’s Hospital Chaplain to Egypt, Where He ‘Faces Death’.
August 10. Ximena Bustillo: Asylum-seekers thought they were following the rules. Now some are told to start over.
Revoking of Temporary Legal Status
May 30. Lawrence Hurley: Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke temporary legal status of 500,000 immigrants from 4 countries.
June 27. Tom Phillips: US says Haitians can be deported – days after ruling Haiti unsafe for Americans. Trump administration revokes temporary protected status for citizens of country racked by deadly violence.
July 17. Lauren Kaori Gurley: Here legally since 1999, thousands of immigrants have 60 days to leave: In September, the Department of Homeland Security will end temporary protections for more than 50,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans who have lived in the U.S. for decades.
Detentions & Deportations of Long-Term Residents
June 24. Leila Fadel: Salvadoran journalist’s arrest in Georgia sets ‘alarming precedent.’
August 4. The LA Times: Can the U.S. deport someone who’s lived here for 30 years without an immigration hearing?