What do you wear on a visit to one of the world’s most notorious prisons? If you’re Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary who visited El Salvador’s massive Terrorism Confinement Center on Wednesday, the answer was a white long-sleeve top,…
Tag: Deportation
Rubio Says He Has Revoked 300 or More Visas in Trump’s Deportation Push
Secretary of State Marco Rubio estimated that he had signed perhaps more than 300 letters revoking the visas of students, visitors and others to force their expulsion from the United States because of their foreign policy views or criminal activities.…
Trump Administration Cites Alien Enemies Act as It Plans New Extraditions
The Trump administration said on Monday that it planned to extradite a handful of Venezuelan men to Chile after declaring them subject to the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law whose novel use is the subject of a pitched court…
Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Find Themselves Stranded and in Limbo
When the first buses of newly freed migrants arrived this month in Panama City from a detention camp at the edge of a jungle, three people were visibly ill. One needed H.I.V. treatment, a lawyer said, another had run out…
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak…
U.S. Denied Entry to French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says
A French scientist was prevented from entering the United States this month because of an opinion he expressed about the Trump administration’s policies on academic research, according to the French government. Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister for higher education and research,…
Humiliation as Propaganda: Videos of Shackled Detainees Have History in El Salvador
In a propaganda video released by the government of El Salvador, shackled detainees are forcefully led off planes as drones film overhead. The music builds and the men are pushed into armored vehicles and taken to a large prison. Their…
Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s Leader, Sees Opportunity in Trump’s Deportations
Shortly after the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador this weekend, the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, posted a three-minute video on social media. It featured shackled men being marched off a plane over a dramatic electronic soundtrack…
Judge Sets Hearing to Press Trump Administration on Deportation Flights
The Trump administration asked a federal judge in Washington to cancel a hearing set for Monday evening where he planned to press officials about whether they have violated an order he issued barring the deportation of any detained noncitizens —…
Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations to El Salvador
According to Ms. Casique, her son had no gang affiliation and had entered the United States to seek asylum in late 2023 after several years spent working in Peru to support his family back home. During his journey north, he…