The Trump administration has fired two judges who ruled against them in their cases attempting to deport pro-Palestine student advocates Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, as officials seek to reshape federal immigration courts to speed deportations. According to The New York Times, the two judges, Roopal Patel and Nina Froes, were dismissed by the administration alongside four other judges…
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a second executive order on elections, this one giving the U.S. Postal Service unprecedented oversight over who is voting by mail, a move experts and state election officials said will quickly draw legal challenges. The order, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” says that states can send the U.S.
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The state of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, seeking to obtain withheld evidence that could be used to prosecute Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents who committed three separate shootings — two of them fatal — during their brutal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities earlier this year. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District…
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Markwayne Mullin was sworn in Tuesday as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, replacing Kristi Noem, who was ousted earlier this month. Mullin has served as senator for Oklahoma since 2023 following a decade in the House of Representatives. He joins the Trump administration amid a partial government shutdown, with Democrats demanding reforms to immigration enforcement before fully…
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On Monday, at the order of President Donald Trump, ICE agents were deployed to over a dozen airports across the United States, purportedly to help handle Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) duties amid a continued Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown. The shutdown is the result of disagreements on funding the department, with Democrats demanding reforms to Immigration…
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On March 13, multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in unmarked vehicles surrounded Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal in front of his home in Texas as he prepared to drive his children to school. The 41-year-old father of six children, who had served alongside the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan, died in ICE custody the next day, leaving his family in shock…
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