#family-asylum-cases

#family-asylum-cases

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

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.

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.

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.

After months of deportation orders that would send asylum seekers to "third-countries," where they aren't from, it appears this practice is on pause in San Francisco immigration court. None of these deportation orders, called motions to pretermit, have been filed since Friday, local immigration attorneys told Mission Local.

President Donald Trump, to address what he called a national emergency, ordered a stretch of borderland transferred to the military so that troops could help apprehend unauthorized migrants. Because prosecutors believed Flores-Penaloza had crossed through that zone, now called a national defense area, they charged him with trespassing on military property under statutes including one enacted in 1909 to keep spies away from arsenals.

The ruling upheld a lower court's preliminary injunction, the latest rebuke to a major shift that advocates warn would push 170,000 people in federally subsidized housing back into homelessness.

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.

Due to his "lack of experience," he said, he had misunderstood federal immigration jargon and believed that De La Garza's residency bid had been denied - though it hadn't. He repeated his misunderstanding on a form that government attorneys cited in court to justify the detention. On the same form, he also wrongly reported that De La Garza had admitted to illegally entering the country in 2015.

(AP Photo/Eric Gay) Handwritten letters from children out of a Texas immigration detention center published by ProPublica on Monday offer a rare and unsettling glimpse into the lives of children caught up in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. The letters, obtained by the outlet in mid-January, were written after reporter Mica Rosenberg asked detained parents at Dilley Immigration Processing Center whether their children would be willing to describe their experiences through writing or drawings. One detainee collected the letters and carried them out upon their release from the Dilley facility on January 20, saying the parents understood the material would be shared publicly with a journalist.