#asylum-deportation

#asylum-deportation

The Congolese Ministry of Communications stated that the deportees will start arriving in Congo this month, although no specific date or number of deportees was provided.

The DRC will begin receiving deportees this month, described as a temporary arrangement that reflects Congo's commitment to human dignity and international solidarity.

In 2024, almost 1.2 million people were granted citizenship in EU countries, compared to 762,100 in 2014, according to the EU statistical office.

Kordia was arrested in 2024 during the Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University. The charges against her were dropped the next day, but she was detained in March 2025 by ICE during a routine immigration check-in.

Emergency services, including a helicopter, were seen searching the area, and French maritime authorities recovered people from the water, with one person treated for hypothermia.

They want to self-deport: they packed their bags, bought their tickets, and showed up at the airport to leave. And yet, they couldn't board the plane.

Recently, as the world becomes increasingly hostile to my community, I have been haunted by the feeling that every horizon is a wall. Last Thanksgiving, when the Trump administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for Burma, a temporary immigration pathway that over 3,000 Burmese immigrants are relying on, a friend of mine remarked that we fled a tyrant only to run into the arms of a worse one.

The board has made it harder for immigration courts to offer immigrants bond in lieu of detention. It's made it easier to deport migrants to countries other than their own.

It is not normal for a healthy 41-year-old man to die less than 24 hours after being taken into government custody, said Shawn VanDiver, president of AfghanEvac, a San Diego-based group that helps Afghans who sought refuge in the United States after cooperating with U.S. authorities during the war in Afghanistan.

He was arrested because on February 15, 2025, he was out for a walk in his neighborhood when he got lost and wandered onto a woman's porch, who called the police. He was using a curtain rod as a walking stick, which officers demanded he drop. When he didn't, they tased, beat, and arrested him.

The memo was filed as a part of documents submitted in a federal court case tied to refugees who were arrested in Minnesota. In it, USCIS Director Joseph Edlow and ICE acting Director Todd Lyons direct their agencies to "detain and inspect" refugees who do not "voluntarily return to DHS custody for inspection and examination" to be a legal permanent resident at the one-year mark of being in the country.