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Physicians for Human Rights: Health Harms Experienced by Pregnant Women in U.S. Immigration Custody .
News: 2026
January 21. George Chidi: Pregnant woman in medical distress deported from US, says attorney. Woman who’s eight months pregnant sent to Colombia by ICE, despite belated court order to keep her out of the air .
January 23. Shefali Luthra: A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she’s bleeding — and hasn’t seen a doctor in weeks. Cecil Elvir-Quinonez, who is still breastfeeding her youngest child, is awaiting deportation in a Louisiana ICE facility states away from her family and children .
January 30. Shefali Luthra: Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care. Health care providers said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care .
February 4. The New York Times: Pregnant Women in Minneapolis Hiding From ICE Face Impossible Choice: Health care providers across Minnesota have reported federal immigration agents present in and around medical centers. As arrests continue across the state, expecting mothers are afraid to go to their appointments — and reconsidering their birth plans .
February 12. Shefali Luthra: Pregnant patients in Minnesota have postponed abortion appointments to avoid ICE: Planned Parenthood’s no-show rate has gone up almost 10 percent since the federal government’s Minnesota operation began .
February 18. Kyle Cheney: Judges decry treatment of nursing and pregnant detainees in ICE custody.
March 3. NPR: Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky .
March 18. Shefali Luthra: ICE has been deporting pregnant and postpartum immigrants. Now we know how many .
March 18. Shefali Luthra: Detained pregnant people are entitled to full medical care. They say it’s not happening .
March 31. Shefali Luthra: Trapped and alone: Fear of ICE is deepening postpartum isolation for immigrant mothers .
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July 30. Senator Jon Ossoff: The Abuse of Pregnant Women and Children in U.S. Immigration Detention .
August 6. Michael Sainato: ‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities: Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration .
September 11. Women’s Refugee Commission: Keeping women and babies safe in immigration detention .
October 7. Shefali Luthra & Mel Leonor Barclay: ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk: Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies .
October 10. Jessica Washington: The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention .
October 20. Shefali Luthra & Mel Leonor Barclay: ICE keeps detaining pregnant immigrants — against federal policy. But the number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants are in custody .
October 22. The Associated Press: Immigrant rights group calls for removing pregnant women from detention .
October 22. Maya Yang: Pregnant women report medical neglect in ICE detention, rights groups say: Women report miscarriages, delayed care, being shackled and being held in solitary confinement, letter says .
October 22. The ACLU: Nonprofits Urge ICE to End Detention of Pregnant People Following Reports of Abuse and Medical Neglect: Letter to ICE leadership details shackling, solitary confinement, and a miscarriage without care in Louisiana and Georgia facilities .
October 25. Shefali Luthra & Mel Leonor Barclay: ICE Keeps Detaining Pregnant Immigrants — But We Don’t Know How Many .
October 27. The ACLU: Pregnant and Postpartum Women Face Neglect and Abuse in ICE Detention .
October 30. Anushay Hossain: Pregnant, Postpartum, and Detained: How ICE’s Practices Fail the Most Vulnerable .
December 2. Mel Leonor Barclay & Shefali Luthra: Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention. Nayra Guzmán was arrested 15 days after her daughter’s difficult birth. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE .
December 3. Rachel Uranga: Pregnant immigrants held for months in detention despite rules against it .
December 10. Johana Bhuiyan: ICE is using smartwatches to track pregnant women, even during labor: ‘She was so afraid they would take her baby .’
Image: the detainment of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. Source: The Guardian .
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Resources
Candice Norwood:
Physicians for Human Rights: ICE Tactics and Deportation Fears Limit Access to Health Care for Children of Immigrants .
ProPublica: “I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility .
Melissa Ryan: How to talk to our kids about ICE and prepare our families .
The Detainment of Liam Ramos: January, 2026
January 21. Sam Levin: ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials .
January 22. Robert Tate: What images of a detained five-year-old boy reveal about Trump’s draconian ICE crackdown .
January 23. Roque Planas: Why the Trump administration is detaining immigrant children – and what happens to them next: The detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, age five, marks the turbocharging of a policy discontinued five years ago .
January 23. Elizabeth Shockman & Cait Kelley: Witnesses say they begged ICE agents not to detain Minnesota 5-year-old after father’s arrest .
January 24. David Martin Davies: Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos .
February 1. Coral Murphy Marcos: Five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father released from Texas detention center .
February 9. Regina Medina: ‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer .
March 18. Regina Medina: Judge ends asylum claims for Liam Conejo Ramos and his family, orders family’s removal .
March 30. Dara Kerr: Two-year-old held by ICE sick and not getting adequate care .
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January 12. WBOC: Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him.’
January 15. Kilat Fitzgerald: ICE shooting: Children hospitalized after flash bang, tear gas hits van .
January 22. Meg Anderson: The ICE surge is fueling fear and anxiety among Twin Cities children .
January 23. Sam Levin: US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words.’
January 24. Maanvi Singh: ICE raids turn life into a daily terror for Minneapolis schoolkids: ‘This is a generational trauma.’
January 27. Claudia Mendoza & Tiago Rogero: Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown: Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative .
January 28. Dylan Tusinski: ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest. Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history .
January 31. Jennifer Bendery: ICE Is Circling Minnesota Schools, Looking For Children To Take. Liam Ramos, 5, isn’t the only child in detention. Teachers and parents describe kids being hunted by federal agents .
February 2. Marisa Kabas: What it’s like to see ICE tear gas kids: Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack .
February 2. Juliana Lightsey: Hundreds of Kids, Including Infants, Are Still at the ICE Facility That Released Liam Ramos. Now There’s a Measles Outbreak .
February 3. Sarah Jeong: How to tear gas children: After ICE gassed a family-friendly protest in broad daylight, Portland is up in arms .
February 4. Sam Levin: Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention: Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back home to reunite with her father .
February 4. Corina Knoll: What the Crackdown Has Done to Minneapolis Children .
February 6. Mike Hixenbaugh & Daniella Silva: Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school .
February 9. ProPublica: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next .
February 10. Melissa Whitler: The kids are not alright — ICE threatens children’s short-term health, long-term prospects .
February 13. Mike Hixenbaugh: ‘Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this’: A family’s nightmare in ICE detention. A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine .
February 16. Stephanie Koithan: Two-month-old baby ‘choking on his own vomit’ while detained in Dilley. ‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility .
February 19. Barbara Rodriguez: Federal agents keep deploying tear gas near kids. We have no idea what it does to their health. Exposure to chemical irritants can cause chest tightness, coughing and shortness of breath. For kids, there’s more potential for serious side effects .
February 21. MS NOW: First grade girl recounts searching for father after ICE detained him .
February 26. Nadra Nittle: The people standing between students and ICE? Teachers. With immigration enforcement keeping kids from class, educators are going beyond the curriculum — driving students to school, delivering groceries and even paying rent to support vulnerable families .
February 26. McKenzie Funk & Mica Rosenberg: Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories .
March 7. Abené Clayton: ICE deports family, including deaf boy who wasn’t given his assistive devices .
March 10. Barbara Rodriguez: These pediatrician moms have a shared message: Release all children in immigration detention .
March 11. Lomi Kriel: “Slowly killing us on the inside”: A family of 6 at Texas’ Dilley ICE detention center begs for freedom .
March 19. Olivia Bowden: Seven-year-old Canadian girl with autism and mother detained by ICE in Texas: Mother and child held in notorious Rio Grande Valley detention centre despite presenting visa .
March 21. Mike Hixenbaugh: Children’s entertainer Ms. Rachel has a new cause: Freeing kids from ICE detention .
March 23. ProPublica: Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids .
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June 9. Howard Blume: LAUSD will deploy school police to set up safe zones around campuses, graduations amid ICE raids
July 15. Hayley Miller: Baseball coach says ICE agents questioned kids at practice: ‘This can happen to anybody .’
July 20. Laura Rodríguez Presa: ICE took her mother. Now, a 6-year-old is left without a guardian or legal path back to reunite in Honduras .
July 21. Zach Helfand: ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field .
August 20. Luis Ferré-Sadurní: Deportation of 6-Year-Old Puts Spotlight on ICE’s Detention of Families .
August 28. Marina Dunbar: ‘Nightmare’: family in shock after Ice moves LA teen out of state without their knowledge .
September 2. Valerie Gonzalez: ICE is showing up to interview parents hoping to reunite with their children who entered US alone .
October 2. Janelle Griffith: ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls .
October 6. South Side Weekly: Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children: Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing .
October 15. Marisa Kabas: ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t .
October 22. Subini Annamma and David Stovall: The Trump administration is targeting children of color .
October 26. Charles Thrush: Feds Tear Gas Northwest Side Street, Disrupting Halloween Parade For Kids .
November 4. Alexandria Jacobson: Horror of migrant kids ripped from parents by first Trump admin exposed in new book .
November 5. Maya Yang: Armed ICE agents in Chicago drag daycare worker out of facility and arrest her: Videos show ICE agents chasing woman into daycare and appearing to slam her face against glass doors .
November 5. Natasha Korecki: Chicago residents say immigration enforcement is leading to children getting tear-gassed .
November 7. Marina Dunbar: ICE facing fierce backlash after video apparently shows unconscious man clutching child during arrest .
November 11. Andrew Jeong: ICE accused of pepper-spraying 1-year-old girl and her dad near Chicago .
November 23. Marina Dunbar: ICE detained teenaged US citizen during school lunch break .
November 24. ProPublica: ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record .
December 4. Ana Ley & Hamed Aleaziz: ICE Separates Boy, 6, From Father During Effort to Deport Them to China .
December 7. Heidi Wigdahl: Ring camera captures Burnsville ICE raid that leaves 7-year-old without parents, according to family .
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Resources
404 Media does some of the best reporting on corporate and government surveillance .
404 Media: From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched .
Cooper Quintin: How to Detect Phone Spying Tech .
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January 6. Joseph Cox: Here is the Agreement Giving ICE Medicaid Patients’ Data .
January 8. Joseph Cox: Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods .
January 15. Joseph Cox: ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid .
January 15. Joseph Cox: New Legislation Would Rein In ICE’s Facial Recognition App .
January 19. Joseph Cox: ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice .
January 21. Dell Cameron: Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care .
January 27. Sanya Mansoor: How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota: Mobile Fortify app being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash .
January 27. Aram Roston: FBI to investigate Minneapolis activists after far-right claim about Signal chats .
January 29. Jason Koebler: Senators Push for Answers on ICE’s Surveillance Shopping Spree .
January 30. Moustafa Bayoumi: ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare .
January 30. Sheera Frenkel & Aaron Krolik: How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are: Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said .
January 30. Joseph Cox: Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE .
February 3. Zack Whittaker: Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics .
February 5. Dell Cameron & Maddy Varner: ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are. ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn’t built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules .
February 6. Jason Koebler: Inspector General Investigating Whether ICE’s Surveillance Tech Breaks the Law .
February 10. Jason Koebler: With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet: Ring’s ‘Search Party’ is dystopian surveillance accelerationism .
February 10. Mark Keierleber: Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown: Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers .
February 11. Jason Koebler: Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On .
February 12. Joseph Cox: Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds .
February 13. Sheera Frenkel & Mike Isaac: Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts: The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement .
February 18. Jason Koebler: Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs .
February 20. Brian Merchant: Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras .
February 27. Joseph Cox: The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys: On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying .
February 27. Joseph Cox: Lawmakers Demand DHS Define ‘Domestic Terrorist’ As It Uses Vast Array of Surveillance Tools .
March 3. Joseph Cox: CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements .
March 4. NPR: ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it .
March 6. Matteo Wong: OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying .
March 8. NPR: ‘We can get to you whenever we want to’: Immigrants say ICE is surveilling them .
March 18. Robert Mackey: Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans .
March 19. Meg Anderson: ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they’ve arrested
March 31. Joseph Cox: How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir .
April 2. Matthew Gault: Journalist Sues FAA Over Drone No Fly Zone Designed to Prevent Filming ICE .
April 6. Jason Koebler: Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE .
April 7. Jude Joffe-Block: ICE acknowledges it is using powerful spyware .
April 29. Joseph Cox: Apple Fixes Bug That Let FBI Extract Deleted Signal Messages After 404 Media Coverage .
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April 8. Andrew Duehren: Top I.R.S. Officials Said to Resign After Deal to Give ICE Migrants’ Data: The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s previous stance encouraging migrants to file their taxes .
April 18. Caroline Haskins: ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform .
May 9. Caroline Haskins: US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car .
May 29. Dhruv Mehrotra: The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database: Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future .
June 26. Joseph Cox: ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked
Emails Show .
June 28. Wired Magazine: ICE Rolls Facial Recognition Tools Out to Officers’ Phones .
July 9. Joseph Cox: ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find
Deportation Targets .
July 15. ProPublica: The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE .
July 17. Wired Magazine: ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data: A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants .
July 24. Douglas MacMillan & Silvia Foster-Frau: ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors: A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the number of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance .
August 20. Matt Burgess: Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High .
September 10. Jack Poulson: ICE reactivated its $2 million contract with Israeli spyware firm Paragon .
September 22. Johana Bhuiyan: Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir .
September 23. Joseph Cox: CBP Flew Drones to Help ICE 50 Times in Last Year .
September 25. Joseph Cox: How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump .
September 30. Joseph Cox: ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day .
October 3. Dell Cameron: ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team .
October 16. Joseph Cox: ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock’s Nationwide Network of Cameras .
October 17. Eva Dou: ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa: Iris scanners, facial-recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases .
October 25. Katya Schwenk: ICE Just Spent Millions on a Social Media Surveillance AI Program: The digital surveillance software, known as Zignal Labs, is also used by the Israeli military and the Pentagon .
October 29. Joseph Cox: ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship .
October 31. Joseph Cox: You Can’t Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE’s Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says .
October 31. Sam Biddle: ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants .
November 2. Ralph Thomassaint Joseph & Paz Radovic: This $470 Million Surveillance Program Is Watching Immigrants Across the US: There are no established standards for how long immigrants can be monitored or what data ICE can collect or share .
November 8. Jude Joffe-Block: Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people .
November 12. Joseph Cox: ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants .
November 17. Joseph Cox: This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country .
November 18. Jason Koebler: Two Weeks of Surveillance Footage From ICE Detention Center ‘Irretrievably Destroyed.’
November 18. Joseph Cox: Contractor Recruiting People on LinkedIn to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE, Will Pay $300 .
December 5. Joseph Cox: DHS’s Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store .
December 9. Joseph Cox & Jason Koebler: Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses .
December 13. Joseph Cox & Ashley Cleek: How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech: Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go .
December 18. Joseph Cox: ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents .
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February 19. Coral Murphy Marcos: Army veteran sues federal government after ICE detains him for three days: US citizen George Retes was held without access to family, an attorney or information about the charges against him .
February 23. Matthieu Aikins & Wesley Morgan: They Fought for the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. In America, They’re Living in Fear .
April 3. Suzanne Gamboa & Betsy Badell: Some Marines graduate without their parents present amid ICE fears: News that ICE would be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events upended family plans, elicited national reaction and drew out protesters, including Marine veterans .
April 6. Maya Yang: ICE agents reportedly detain wife of US soldier just days after their marriage: ‘She got ripped away from me,’ army soldier Matthew Blank said after his wife Annie Ramos was detained in Louisiana .
April 20. Victoria Bekiempis: Federal agents detain wife of another US army member: ‘ICE is out of control.’ Jose Serrano, a sergeant, said Deisy Rivera Ortega, his wife, was arrested at an immigration appointment .
April 21. New York Times: Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo .
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April 9. Michael Embrich: Trump Is Trying to Deport a Purple Heart Veteran .
April 28. Michael Embrich: Trump’s War on the Vulnerable Has Now Reached Military Families: The Trump Homeland Security Department turned on one of its own, as it moved to deport an active duty Coast Guard wife from a naval station in Key West .
May 28. Billal Rahman: Veteran’s Daughter Living in US 48 years Locked Up by ICE .
June 22. Jack Cook: ICE detains Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby .
June 23. Julie Watson: Marine veteran says Border Patrol agents beat his dad, while agency says he swung trimmer at them .
June 24. Juliana Kim: Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S .
June 24. Ramon Antonio Vargas: US marine veteran says he feels ‘betrayed’ after father arrested by Ice agents: Alejandro Barranco describes in CNN interview how his father was detained while doing landscaping in California .
June 26. Ramon Antonio Vargas: Purple heart army veteran self-deports after 50 years from ‘country I fought for’: Green card holder Sae Joon Park left for South Korea after saying he was being targeted by Trump administration .
June 28. José Olivares: Ice arrests of US military veterans and their relatives are on the rise: ‘a country that I fought for’: As Trump urges more deportations, veterans are seeing their parents, children and even themselves detained .
July 4. Michael Embrich: Trump Celebrates Fourth of July by Deporting Veterans and Their Families .
July 8. Zoe Sottile: He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to .
July 17. Olga R. Rodriguez: Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone .
August 31. Marie-Rose Sheinerman: For noncitizen veterans who commit crimes, deportation like a ‘second punishment’: Some U.S. veterans who have served prison sentences are being stripped of their legal residencies and could be deported .
September 30. Home of the Brave: I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions .
November 20. Gloria Rebecca Gomez: Veterans condemn deportations of immigrant service members under Trump: Advocates demand repatriation as estimates suggest 10,000 veterans have been deported since January .
December 11. Katie Herchenroeder: We’d Never Deport Veterans, Noem Says in Earshot of Deported Veteran .
Image: from Mahmoud Khalil’s wife says pro-Palestinian voices won’t be silenced .
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Mahmoud Khalil
2026
January 15. Maya Yang & Alice Speri: US appeals court reverses decision that freed Mahmoud Khalil from ICE detention .
February 12. Joseph Gedeon: Mahmoud Khalil is still fighting for others as he fights his own deportation: ‘It’s about raising the alarm.’
March 9. Ximena Bustillo & Carrie Johnson: One year later: Mahmoud Khalil remains in limbo but ready to fight .
March 10. Haley Cohen: ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion .
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March 10. Prem Thakker: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained .
March 11. Ben Sales: A growing number of Jewish groups are condemning Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest .
March 16. Jonathan Ben-Menachem: I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Mahmoud Khalil Is One of the Most Upstanding People I Have Ever Met .
March 21. Debbie Nathan: The Insidious Doctrine Fueling the Case Against Mahmoud Khalil: How a century of immigration law has evaded constitutional rights .
April 3. Aaron Sánchez-Guerra: U.S. government terminates visas of two NC State international students .
April 8. Dr. Noor Abdalla: Letter to My Husband Mahmoud Khalil .
April 11. Adrian Florido: Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported .
April 21. Diana Ramirez-Simon: Mahmoud Khalil’s wife Noor Abdalla gives birth as Ice denies his request to attend .
May 21. By Aida Alami: The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla: How the wife of Mahmoud Khalil has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom .
May 24. Adrian Florido: Mahmoud Khalil told a judge his deportation could be a death sentence. Here’s why .
May 28. Adrian Florido: Judge says Rubio ‘likely’ violated Constitution in ordering Mahmoud Khalil deported .
May 29. Angelina Chapin: Noor Abdalla’s First Month of Motherhood: With her husband, Mahmoud Khalil, locked in a detention center, the dentist is suddenly a single parent .
June 5. Democracy Now! Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in “Immigration Gulag” for Nearly 3 Months, Challenges Deportation Efforts .
July 23. Akbar Shahid Ahmed: Mahmoud Khalil Visits Washington To Demand End To U.S. ‘Complicity’ In Gaza: The activist, only out of federal detention for a month, is already back to work advocating for Palestinians facing mass hunger and Israeli attacks, both enabled by the U.S .
September 8. Oliver Laughland: Mahmoud Khalil on exile, liberation and Ice detention: ‘It was a clear act of cruelty.’
September 17. Chloe Atkins & Marlene Lenthang: Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria or Syria: “It is no surprise that the Trump administration continues to retaliate against me for my exercise of free speech,” Khalil, a former Columbia University grad student, said in a statement .
September 18. Jonah E. Bromwich: Mahmoud Khalil Asks Federal Judge to Intercede After Deportation Order .
September 30. Nadine El-Bawab: Judge finds Trump administration violated constitutional rights of pro-Palestinian protesters .
October 17. Edward Helmore: Mahmoud Khalil can freely travel within US, federal judge rules: Palestinian activist can speak across country at events while pushing back on Trump’s attempts to deport him .
November 20. Jenna Amatulli: Mahmoud Khalil sues Trump officials over ‘collusion’ with anti-Palestinian groups .
Leqaa Kordia
2026
February 11. Ulaa Kuziez: Leqaa Kordia returned to ICE detention after lawyers say she was ‘disappeared.’Lawyers for Kordia say the Department of Homeland Security denied multiple requests asking where she was hospitalized, raising concerns about the agency’s transparency and medical care .
February 13. Alice Speri: Calls mount for release of Palestinian protester held by ICE for nearly a year: Leqaa Kordia was taken into custody last March, nearly a year after being arrested at a protest at Columbia .
March 9. Mahmoud Khalil: To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention – I will carry you until you are free. One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged – also for daring to speak the truth .
March 16. Maanvi Singh: Leqaa Kordia, a pro-Palestinian activist, released after a year in ICE custody: Kordia was taken at a check-in at an ICE office in New Jersey and was held despite court ruling thrice for her release .
April 1. Alice Speri: ‘Human tragedy’: Leqaa Kordia on how ICE jail echoes life in occupied Palestine .
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October 17. Aida Alami: The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention: Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months .
November 3. NPR: Columbia protester Leqaa Kordia is still detained .
Mohsen Mahdawi
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April 21. Michael Santi Keezing: Mohsen Mahdawi, the Buddhist .
April 29. Leila Fadel, Jan Johnson, Kaity Klinef: Mohsen Mahdawi — the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment — speaks
May 19. Coral Murphy Marcos: Mohsen Mahdawi, released from Ice custody, graduates from Columbia .
July 26. Mohsen Mahdawi: Mohsen Mahdawi on His ICE Detention and Justice in Palestine .
Rümeysa Öztürk
2026
February 9. Alyssa Lukpat: Immigration Court Drops Case Against Tufts Student Rumeysa Ozturk: Turkish national had been arrested by plainclothes federal officers outside her apartment .
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April 11. Joanna Slater:Turkish student grabbed by ICE says she feared for her life
April 25. The New York Times Editorial Board: We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All. .
May 9. Adrian Florido: Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk freed from immigration detention .
May 11. The Associated Press: Rümeysa Öztürk, Tufts student held by Ice, vows to continue legal action after jail release .
July 15. Holmes Lybrand: Homeland Security agent says he was told not to inform Rümeysa Öztürk her visa was revoked when she was arrested .
July 17. Rümeysa Öztürk: “Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison .
Badar Khan Suri
2025
March 19. Archit & Murtaza Hussain: Georgetown Postdoc the Latest to Be Detained by ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens: Badar Khan Suri was detained by DHS agents after a public campaign against him and his wife by pro-Israel groups .
March 19. Kyle Cheney & Josh Gerstein: Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country. Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage .
May 8. Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff: How a Georgetown scholar went from ‘quiet’ researcher to detainee: Conservative groups stumbled across Badar Khan Suri by investigating the academic centers where he and his wife studied .
May 14. Kimmy Yam & Gary Grumbach: Georgetown scholar released from ICE detention says they treated him like a ‘subhuman’: “There was no charge, there was nothing,” Khan Suri said after his release .
June 28. Kimmy Yam: How Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri parented his three kids while in ICE detention: Khan Suri said parenting from detention “was one of the most heartbreaking parts of my experience — but also the one that kept me going.”
August 5. Josh Gerstein & Kyle Cheney: Georgetown researcher targeted for deportation settles with Trump admin: The agreement allows Badar Khan Suri to resume his employment as a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service .
General News
2025
February 26. Schuyler Mitchell: Trump Threatened to Revoke Visas of Students Who Dissent. Where’s the Pushback? Universities that decried Trump’s “Muslim ban” in 2017 are largely silent now as Trump bullies international students .
March 7. Andrew Silverstein: State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews .
March 20. Emily Blumenthal: US deports French scientist after officials ‘find texts critical of Trump. ’
March 24. Jonah E. Bromwich & Hamed Aleaziz: Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation: Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations .
April 2. John Washington: Eight international students at ASU have had their visas revoked .
April 8. Jaclyn Diaz, Adrian Florido: Why is Trump sending immigrant university scholars to Louisiana and Texas? .
June 5. Chloe Atkins: Judges bring Trump’s sweeping plan to deport foreign students to a standstill: Multiple federal judges have rejected the administration’s arguments for deporting foreign students who condemned the war in Gaza, but the Supreme Court could have the final say .
July 9. Holmes Lybrand: Pro-Israel website was used to find names of student protesters to investigate, senior ICE official says .
Image: from Trump Administration Issues Another Warning to Green Card Holders .
This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration .
See also: ICE Detentions of US Citizens .
Detentions and Deportations of Green Card Holders
2026
March 6. Sam Levin: ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care.’
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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 .
December 15. Adam Gabbatt: US green card holder sues ICE over claims of ‘violent assault’: Hilda Ramirez Sanan and her two US citizen children were ‘illegally and forcefully detained.’
Detentions and Deportations of People with Work or Business Visas
2026
February 9. Rory Carroll: Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months: Seamus Culleton has lived in US for two decades, married a citizen and runs a plastering business but faces deportation .
February 10. Shawn Pogatchnik: Ireland pushing to free citizen held by ICE in Texas: Irish PM Micheál Martin is wary of provoking the U.S. administration, but behind-the-scenes efforts to free Seamus Culleton from ICE custody have proven fruitless .
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September 12. Lydia DePillis & Hamed Aleaziz: Georgia ICE Raid Netted Workers With Short-Term Business Visas: Last week’s immigration operation at a battery plant highlighted a tactic that companies use to bring in foreign workers to establish new operations .
Detentions & Deportations of Migrants who had been Granted Asylum or Other Legal Protections
May 24. Vivian Ho: Judge orders government to facilitate return of deportee after error: A gay Guatemalan man with withholding protection was deported to Mexico. The government has since acknowledged an error in how it presented his case .
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 .
June 26. Andy Olsen: ICE Goes After Church Leaders and Christians Fleeing Persecution. On Tuesday, Iranian asylum-seekers were detained in Los Angeles, adding to the count of church members taken despite lawful status .
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?
Image: The notorious El Salvadorian CECOT Prison & torture site, run by dictator Nayib Bukele. The Trump administration “deported” hundreds of migrants to CECOT, with no due process. Image from Ruth Ben Ghiat’s Bukele’s Bodies: Authoritarian Aesthetics and Transnational Repression .
This page is part of a resource collection Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration .
Deporting Migrants to Guantánamo
2026
January 28. Carol Rosenberg: The Journey of a Group of Cuban Deportees Stuck at Guantánamo .
April 10. José Olivares: Human rights groups decry US plan for Guantánamo camp for Cuban migrants .
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February 9. Silvia Foster-Frau: Why lawyers worry migrants sent to Guantánamo are in a ‘legal black hole’. The Trump administration has released scant information on the migrants sent to the U.S. detention facility in Cuba. Human rights lawyers are demanding they be allowed access to legal counsel .
March 14. The Wall Street Journal: The Unraveling of Trump’s Plan to Detain Thousands of Migrants at Guantanamo: The U.S. military has started making plans to draw down personnel deployed to the naval base in the coming weeks .
June 11. John Hudson and Alex Horton: Trump to ramp up transfers to Guantánamo, including citizens of allies
June 24. Sacha Pfeiffer: Trump said he wants to send 30,000 immigrants to Gitmo. It’s ready for a few hundred .
October 14. Carol Rosenberg: ICE Sends More Migrants to Guantánamo Bay, Resuming Operations .
October 17. Carol Rosenberg: U.S. Empties Migrant Detention Space at Guantánamo .
Deporting Migrants to Warzones
May 7. The Washington Post: Judge warns Trump administration against Libya deportations May 7. Kate Bartlett: Trump administration plans to deport migrants to Libya .
May 21. ABC News: Judge rules DHS violated court order in deporting 8 migrants to South Sudan .
May 26. The New York Times: What to Know About the Deportees the U.S. Is Trying to Send to South Sudan .
June 1. NPR: The White House is deporting people to countries they’re not from. Why?
July 3. Ann E. Marimow: Supreme Court clears deportations to conflict-ridden South Sudan The move clears the way for the deportation of eight men being held in a detention center at a U.S. naval base in East Africa to conflict-ridden South Sudan .
July 5. Mattathias Schwartz: U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo. Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward .
November 14. The Washington Post: Trump officials preparing to deport some Ukrainians despite conscription fears .
November 18. Ximena Bustillo & Polina Lytvynova: U.S. deports dozens of migrants to Ukraine amid war .
Deporting Migrants to Brutal El Salvadorian Prisons
2026
March 3. Justo Robles: Venezuelan man says his rose tattoos got him deported to El Salvador’s brutal prison: ‘I thought my life had ended .’
March 26. Maanvi Singh: Venezuelans deported by US detail fresh claims of torture and abuse at El Salvador mega-prison .
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March 22. The Washington Post: They were arrested during routine ICE check-ins. Then they disappeared. Deportation proceedings are often shrouded in secrecy. But lawyers say the lack of information about the Venezuelan migrants deported under the Alien Enemies Act is nearly unprecedented .
March 26. Noah Lanard & Isabela Dias: “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”: The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers .
March 28. Will Carless & Rick Jervis: FBI and DHS question using tattoos to accurately ID Venezuelan criminal gangs :” Tattoos are typically related to the Venezuelan culture and not a definite [indicator] of being a member or associate of the” TdA, reads a 2023 “Situational Awareness” bulletin
April 3. Nikki McCann Ramírez: The ‘Judicial Black Hole’ of El Salvador’s Prisons Is a Warning for Americans: President Nayib Bukele used a crackdown against criminals as cover to erode institutions and destroy civil rights. The parallels to Trump are undeniable .
April 25. Nick Penzenstadler and Will Carless: Exclusive: DOJ memo offers blueprint to Tren de Aragua deportation plan
April 30. Noah Lanard And Isabela Dias: “A Mockery of Due Process”: The Men Who Could Be Sent to El Salvador Next .
May 4. The Washington Post: Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.
May 6. Thomas Graham: Does Nayib Bukele’s campaign against democracy give a blueprint for Trump? El Salvador’s populist leader extols a hardline approach to crime and an assault on civil society – drawing envy from many in the Trump administration .
May 8. Maanvi Singh: The desperate search for a father disappeared by Trump to El Salvador: ‘We don’t know anything.’ Jerce Barrios told his family he might be transferred from a California detention center – no one’s heard from him since .
June 1. Manuel Rueda: Months after deportation, dozens of Venezuelan migrants are still locked inside a Salvadoran prison .
July 22. Mississippi Free Press: Venezuela Investigating Mistreatment of Migrants Trump Sent to El Salvador .
July 27. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán & Manuel Rueda: ‘Hell on Earth’: Venezuelans deported to El Salvador mega-prison tell of brutal abuse .
July 29. Melissa Sanchez: He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison .
July 30. ProPublica: Now That They’re Free: Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released is proof of how senseless their detentions were .
July 31. The Washington Post: ‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants .
October 19. The Washington Post: Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal .
November 8. The New York Times: ‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison .
November 12. Robert Tait: Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture .
November 26. Jacob Knutson: DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order .
Jerce Reyes Barrios
2025
March 20. Armando Garcia: Man deported to El Salvador under Alien Enemies Act because of soccer logo tattoo .
July 25. Armando Garcia: Soccer coach who says he was deported over his tattoo celebrates his release from CECOT .
August 2. Jessica Schulberg & Matt Shuham: Pro Soccer Player Sent To El Salvador Over Tattoo Details ‘Hell On Earth’ At CECOT .
Kilmar Abrego Garcia
2026
April 7. The Associated Press: US seeks to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Liberia despite new Costa Rica deal .
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April 14. Franco Ordoñez, Danielle Kurtzleben: El Salvador’s Bukele says ‘preposterous’ to suggest he return Abrego Garcia to U.S.
April 15. NPR: The risk Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case poses for citizens, according to legal scholar .
April 17. Associated Press: Maryland senator meets Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador amid battle over US return .
April 18. Chris Stein: Kilmar Abrego García ‘traumatized’ by threats in prison, Maryland senator says: Chris Van Hollen describes meeting with constituent held in Salvadorian prison against supreme court order .
May 8. Associated Press: Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in Kilmar Ábrego García case: Lawyers say they’re ‘still in dark’ about government’s efforts to free the man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador .
May 24. Samantha Schmidt: As a boy in El Salvador, Abrego García feared gangs, avoided recruitment: Abrego García studied alongside gang members. But he showed “very good conduct,” according to his school .
June 29. Maria Sacchetti: Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed. Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the case .
June 30. Steve Thompson: Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers describe ‘severe beatings’ in El Salvador prison. In a court filing, the Salvadoran migrant’s attorneys say he was repeatedly struck and held in a crowded, windowless cell that was brightly lit around the clock .
July 2. Alan Feuer: Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say .
July 23. CBS News: Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from criminal custody, second judge bars ICE from immediately detaining him .
August 23. Jazmine Ulloa: A Muted Homecoming for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: Mr. Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador, is keeping a low profile as his lawyers prepare to fight the Trump administration’s proposal to deport him to Uganda .
August 23. Maria Sacchetti & Jeremy Roebuck: Kilmar Abrego García’s lawyers say threat to deport him to Uganda is coercion: The undocumented immigrant’s legal team contends the Trump administration is trying to force him to plead guilty or face deportation to an African nation where crime and terror threats abound .
August 25. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán: Kilmar Abrego Garcia detained by ICE during Baltimore check-in .
August 25. The Washington Post: Judge temporarily bars Kilmar Abrego García’s deportation to Uganda .
August 26. Moira Donegan: The case against Kilmar Ábrego García is a study in sadistic absurdity .
August 28. Devan Cole: Abrego Garcia’s attorneys ask judge overseeing his trial for gag order on Trump administration officials .
August 30. Ben Finley: What to know about Abrego Garcia’s asylum claim. Experts say it’s a smart but risky legal move .
September 5. Laura Romero: Trump administration now plans to deport Abrego Garcia to Eswatini, Africa .
September 15. Cristian Farias: The U.S. Government’s Extraordinary Pursuit of Kilmar Ábrego García: The Trump Administration’s maneuvers are rising to a political prosecution .
September 27. Minyvonne Burke: Kilmar Abrego Garcia transferred to Pennsylvania detention center .
October 2. The Guardian: Judge denies Kilmar Ábrego García’s bid for asylum in the US .
October 3. Katelyn Polantz: Kilmar Abrego Garcia may have been charged because of Trump administration’s vindictiveness, judge finds .
October 10. Maria Sacchetti & Jeremy Roebuck: Three African nations rebuff U.S. effort to deport Kilmar Abrego García .
October 10. Minho Kim: Judge Signals She Is Likely to Order Abrego Garcia’s Release Soon .
October 20. Brad Reed: DOJ Whistleblower Details Being Ordered to Lie in Court About Kilmar Abrego García: “It is the highest, most egregious violation of a lawyer’s code of ethics to mislead a court with intent,” said Erez Reuveni .
November 21. Maria Sacchetti: Costa Rica says it would accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting U.S.: A Costa Rican official rebutted the Trump administration’s claim that the only possible destination to deport the undocumented Salvadoran immigrant is the West African nation of Liberia .
December 11. Marina Dunbar: Kilmar Ábrego García ordered released from ICE custody in fight over Trump immigration .
December 12. The Guardian: Judge issues temporary order to block officials from detaining Kilmar Ábrego García .
Andry Hernandez Romero
2025
April 1. Tom Phillips and Clavel Rangel: ‘He is not a gang member’: outrage as US deports makeup artist to El Salvador prison for crown tattoos: Andry José Hernández Romero sent to an El Salvador prison after claim ‘crown’ tattoos proved he was a gang member .
April 6. CBS: Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador .
April 7. Sara Dorn: Photo Shows Deported Gay Makeup Artist Andry Hernandez Romero Pleading With Guards At El Salvador’s CECOT .
August 4. Clavel Rangel: ‘We have to clear our names’: Venezuelan makeup artist who survived Ice detention tries to rebuild his life .
July 24. Christopher Wiggins: Makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador .
August 17. Christopher Wiggins: Andry Hernández Romero on surviving CECOT: ‘They told us we would die there.’
Arturo Suárez
2025
April 4. Efrain Otero: Family of Venezuelan singer jailed in El Salvador call for due process .
April 20. Tom Phillips: ‘I just ask God that he’s OK’: family of Venezuelan musician sent to El Salvador prison agonizes over his fate .
July 29. Tom Phillips & Clavel Rangel: ‘Cemetery of the living dead’: Venezuelans recall 125 days in notorious El Salvador prison .
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