Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Wrongful Deportation Case More About Individual Rights Than Foreign Policy
The wrongful deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is more about individual rights and due process. Not foreign policy.
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“Designed to Scare People”: Self-deportation notices
Lawyers warn taking the offer on these self-deportation notices could backfire. On April 28, lawyer Paul O’Dwyer opened his email inbox to find some good news. A New York City immigration judge had…
NYU Demands Law Students Renounce Protests or Be Barred from Sitting Final Exams
After being banned from campus buildings following peaceful sit-ins, students said the disciplinary processes broke from school policies.
Fewer Texans see immigration as helping US, poll finds
Eight years ago, 62% said immigration was more helpful than harmful. This year, that has fallen to 32%, according to the Texas Lyceum poll.
U.S. Citizen Children Deported
The Trump administration has now deported several children, who are U.S. citizens, with their mothers with no due process.
Gaps in Native property rights exposed by eviction
Olive Oshiro, a disenrolled Nooksack citizen, died before the four-year legal battle with Nooksack Indian Tribe to keep her home of two decades was over. Nooksack ordered her family’s eviction by…
A Bomb Threat Targeted Student Protesters. So Why Did They Get Blamed for It?
A bomb threat at Barnard College targeted the “terrorists/communists that are protesting.” But you wouldn’t know that from the school’s statements.
Court Orders Immigration Officials to Restore Legal Status of Three People Who Came to Texas on Student Visas
The three former students went to UT-Arlington and UT-Dallas. While they have prevailed in court so far, many other international students’ education futures remain uncertain.
U.S. Citizen Released From Jail After Arrest Under Florida’s New Anti-Immigration Law
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez held his mother in a tight embrace and wept following his release from the Leon County Jail Thursday evening, where the U.S. citizen was held after his arrest for illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien.” An official with Homeland Security Investigations in…
Van Hollen Meets With Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday with the wrongly deported Maryland resident, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who’s been held for more than a month at a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. The…
Students Sue Department of Defense for Pulling ‘DEI’ Books From its School Libraries
The lawsuit accuses the agency of violating the First Amendment rights of students by restricting lessons and library books related to race, gender and sexuality.
“How Can I Take Anyone Seriously Talking About Mohsen Being Antisemitic?”
Mohsen Mahdawi is not antisemitic. Just ask his Jewish-Israeli friends. Our government is lying about green card and student visa holders who are Brown so they can deport them. —Zany Editor
Pro-Palestinian University Students March in and Outside the Michigan Capitol
Editor: I am so proud of young people today who stand up for the people of a foreign country. When I was their age, I can't say that I knew anyone that was willing to risk arrest to speak out about something happening across the world. They’re brave to hold a pro-Palestinian protest at the…
Horrifying News: Mahmoud Khalil Will Be Deported
A Louisiana judge has ruled that Mahmoud Khalil can be deported after he was arrested for advocating for peace and a safe haven for both Israel and Palestine.
Black laws for White supremacy
Ohio’s “Black Laws,” as the measures became known, gave white supremacy priority over justice.
Jewish Americans Feel Echoes of History in Transgender Passport Restrictions
LGBTQ+ Jewish people see passports — now outing them for being trans — as part of a familiar playbook from the Holocaust.