Thousands of soccer fans gathered in my hometown of Pasadena, California, on June 24, 2026, to watch Mexico’s World Cup win against the Czech Republic. City officials erected a large TV screen outside the Civic Auditorium in the heart of the commercial district. Fans wore green jerseys, the signature color of Mexico’s men’s soccer team. Several people waved Mexican flags and danced and hugged when…
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The Trump administration divulged sensitive information about Iranian asylum seekers to the Iranian government as it sought to deport them, putting their lives in danger, a lawsuit filed on Tuesday alleges. The lawsuit, filed by the Iranian American Legal Defense Fund and Public Citizen Litigation Group, says that Trump administration officials held secretive meetings in which they shared…
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For nearly eight hours, a group of Haitian immigrants and asylum seekers had waited at the Manhattan immigration courthouse on Broadway last Tuesday before they found out it had all been for naught. They would have to come back another time to see the judge. One man rocked with his head between his hands as the judge explained that all the Haitian interpreters had dropped off their calls.
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Coalitions of attorneys, rights groups, and other organizations are developing a powerful new infrastructure to challenge the Trump administration’s mass deportation machine. Several so-called habeas projects have been created in states or regions across the country in recent months to connect noncitizens facing unlawful detention with pro bono attorneys who can file habeas corpus petitions on…
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A military plane carrying five U.S. immigrants took off from Djibouti in July 2025. Its destination was Eswatini, a small country nestled on the border between South Africa and Mozambique. Ruled by a king, Eswatini had made a deal with the Trump administration to receive up to 160 people removed from the United States in exchange for $5.1 million. According to a complaint filed with the…
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On Friday morning, the Senate passed a $70 billion reconciliation package to provide additional funding for President Donald Trump’s brutal crackdown on immigrant communities across the country. The funding, which Republicans have called the “Secure America Act,” is allocated to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and particularly to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and…
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