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Yomiuri Shimbun
04-08-2025
- Politics
- Yomiuri Shimbun
He Left Iran 40 Years Ago. He May Be Deported to Romania. Or Australia.
Sharp knocks on the front door interrupted Firouzeh Firouzabadi's Saturday morning coffee. On the porch of her suburban Maryland home were two law enforcement agents and a very familiar pit bull mix named Duke. 'Can you take this dog?' Firouzabadi recalled one of the men saying. 'I said, 'This is my son's dog. Where is he?' They wouldn't say.' At that moment, her adult son, Reza Zavvar, was handcuffed in the back of an SUV parked two houses down in the Gaithersburg neighborhood where the Iranian-born family has lived since 2009 – apprehended, he later said, that late June day by at least five federal immigration agents in tactical gear who told Zavvar they had been waiting for him to take Duke out for his regular morning walk. More than a month later, Zavvar, 52, remains in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Texas, part of a surge of arrests of immigrants with standing court orders barring their deportation to their native countries. The Trump administration has increasingly turned to sending people to third countries. In court papers, ICE said it plans to send Zavvar to Australia or Romania. He has no ties to either place. Zavvar left Tehran alone when he was 12, arriving in Virginia in 1985 on a student visa secured by his parents as a way to escape eventual conscription into the Iranian army. He eventually received U.S. asylum, and then a green card. His family joined him and they settled in Maryland, but in his 20s, Zavvar's guilty pleas in two misdemeanor marijuana possession cases jeopardized his immigration status. In 2007, an immigration judge issued a withholding of removal order, determining it was unsafe for Zavvar to return to Iran. He built a life, went to college and has been working as a white-collar recruiter for a consulting firm. But now, President Donald Trump's ramped-up immigration enforcement has left families like Zavvar's with what feels like a random and sudden disappearance, facing an unpredictable road ahead as the administration deploys tactics in ways immigration lawyers say they haven't seen before. Vanessa Dojaquez-Torres, counsel at the nonprofit American Immigration Lawyers Association, said the organization's 18,000 members have reported a rapid expansion of clients being similarly detained, shifting the role of such withholding of removal orders from a protection against deportation into a tool for delivering one. The federal statute that created those withholding orders, passed by Congress in the 1990s under the international Convention Against Torture, allows deportation to a third country, but it has rarely happened. On paper, 'it had always been a possibility' the government could use such orders to deport someone to a third country, Dojaquez-Torres said. 'But this is the first time it's happened on such a large scale.' Shortly after the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear facilities on June 22, the Trump administration began publicizing enforcement against Iranian nationals – people with and without criminal convictions. The Department of Homeland Security highlighted the arrests of 11 Iranian nationals whose records included drug charges, convictions of child abuse or gun crimes, along with allegations that one was a former Iranian Army sniper and that another had ties to the terrorist group Hezbollah. The agency also detained a married Iranian couple who are Louisiana State University students with pending U.S. asylum applications, arrested in June after a ruse led them to waiting ICE agents. An Iranian father in Oregon, accused of overstaying his visa, was detained outside his son's preschool in July. In response to questions about Zavvar's case, DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin described him as 'a criminal illegal alien from Iran' and offered no explanation for his detainment beyond enforcing the 2007 order. The agency did not respond when asked whether Zavvar fit the characterization it used for other Iranian nationals detained under an effort of 'keeping known and suspected terrorists out of American communities.' In the habeas corpus case filed in Maryland's U.S. district court that Zavvar's lawyer filed to seek his release, the U.S. government has not made any allegations against him besides the marijuana possession charges. 'Under President Trump and Secretary [Kristi L.] Noem, if you break the law, you will face the consequences,' McLaughlin said in a statement. 'Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.' An upended life Everyone else in the family, besides Zavvar, became U.S. citizens threedecades ago, his mother said. Firouzabadi, 73, stays at home most days, strategizing how to deal with an upended life. 'Just, why?' she asked from her living room recently, Duke at her feet. 'I just hope no mother experiences this. The unknown is killing me.' In a plain manila folder, she keeps everything Zavvar's family and friends gathered as their evidence he belongs in the United States. She flips through photos as if auditioning which best demonstrates his worthiness to strangers: a smiling boy in Tehran or on the high school football team one town over from where they now live? Maybe with her, pinning something to his chest at the eighth-grade graduation from the military boarding school in Virginia that sponsored his first visa back in 1985? Firouzabadi said her son's sudden absence awoke a grief she hasn't known since her husband, Zavvar's father, died of an aggressive pancreatic cancer in 1997. Zavvar was 24. 'He became the man of the house,' she said. 'I don't want to compare that situation to this, but I am going through the same thing: devastation,' she said. She shuffled through letters that supporters dropped off to help his case. One neighbor explains Zavvar was to kind to animals. Another points out he brings the newspaper to the porch of a woman unable to leave her house. In May, Zavvar and Duke left behind a nearby apartment and moved into the family home to help his mom and uncle care for his grandmother who, at 94, has dementia. Zavvar insisted on the move, his mother says, after she called him to quickly come over and lift up the older woman after a fall. Firouzabadi smiled as she said he also calms her down when the frustrations of dealing with dementia boil over. 'That's why he's my backbone,' she said. When Israel launched strikes on Iran on June 12 and then the U.S. bombed her home country's nuclear facilities 10 days later, Firouzabadi braced herself for the impact on extended family in Iran. 'We were worried about them, mostly, not about us,' she said. The worry shifted to Zavvar, as his friends and extended family reach for anything that could help. Someone hired a dog walker to handle all 60 pounds of Duke a few times a day. An uncle drove an hour each way to the ICE holding facility in Baltimore to deliver warmer clothes, which were turned away. A family friend arranged an interview with a local television station. Food keeps coming. 'We need to convince the authorities that, hey, he's a pure American boy,' said his older sister, Maryam Zavar, who spells her Americanized last name differently than her brother. 'He's been here since he was 12 – the past 40 years,' his sister continued. 'All his family's here. We're all here. We're not going anywhere.' 'They were trying to save him' Zavvar was the first person in his immediate family to move to the U.S. In 1985, his parents secured a student visa and enrolled him at Linton Hall Military School in Northern Virginia. The family said it paid $28,000 for Zavvar's seventh- and eighth-grade schooling, a way to spare him from being conscripted into the Iranian army during the height of the conservative Islamic regime's eight-year war with Iraq. 'They were trying to save him,' his sister said. Zavvar spoke only Farsi, but he knew the English word 'car' and already had a love of the Washington area's football team. His father fallen for the team, now called the Commanders, when he was a student in the U.S. in the late 1960s, and he exported the fandom to Tehran when he returned there, Maryam Zavar said. Firouzabadi immigrated from Iran two years after Zavvar, leaving her daughter and husband behind for a few years. She enrolled her son at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland, and applied for his green card. She got her first job ever, in a department store, learned English and became a U.S. citizen in the mid-1990s. After graduation, in his 20s, Zavvar faced legal trouble a few times. In 1994, he pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance in Maryland, paid a $100 fine for the marijuana-related charge and served a year's probation, according to court records. In 1998, he pleaded guilty to attempted possession of marijuana in D.C. and paid a $50 fine. Separately, in 1996, a female acquaintance asked a judge for a civil protective order against him. The court, which classified the request as a domestic violence dispute, denied it. No criminal charges were filed. In 2004, Zavvar spent five months in Iran trying to sell the Tehran home in which he grew up, his family said. When he returned to the U.S., immigration agents at Dulles International Airport noticed that the FBI had flagged the cannabis charges, which ultimately triggered deportation proceedings that stretched for three years, according to court records. Unlike now, Zavvar during that time had been granted bail and was free to live and work in the U.S. until the case was resolved in 2007, with a judge issuing an order barring his removal to Iran. Now, that same order is the basis of the Trump administration's claim that Zavvar should be deported – just not to Iran – and its argument that he should have chosen to settle in another country. 'Zavvar had almost 20 years to self-deport and leave the U.S.,' said McLaughlin, the DHS spokeswoman. Until recently, the U.S. government rarely tried to deport people to countries where they were not citizens or recent residents. An American Immigration Council analysis of data from the 2017 fiscal year, for example, found that 1.6 percent of the 1,274 people granted withholding of removal orders that year were deported to third countries. 'They weren't going to just roll up on some guy walking his dog in the suburbs,' Zavvar's lawyer, Ava Benach, said about how ICE previously treated such orders. 'The idea that I may have to go to Texas about the deportation of an Iranian man to Romania is something I have never contemplated in 30 years of immigration law,' she said. 'It's just so far outside the bounds of anticipated reality that it's hard to get your head around.' The embassies of Romania and Australia did not respond to requests for comment on whether they have agreed to accept Zavvar. 'I miss silence' Firouzabadi has tried to visualize her son's experience, but all the images she conjured were just scenes from the 'Orange is the New Black' TV show he used to tease her for watching, she said. Every day of his detention in Texas, Zavvar calls briefly from the dorms. He brushes off his mom's questions about conditions there. She hasn't mentioned she's lost 10 pounds. She cajoles him to meditate, warns him to conduct himself safely and threatens to put Duke up for adoption if he doesn't listen to her advice. 'I keep telling Reza maybe something good comes out of it, and you use this quiet time for you,' she said. He and his sister didn't tell their mother he once abruptly ended a call when a fight broke out, telling his sister: 'I have to go sit in a corner and not get caught up in it.' He urges his mom to rejoin the Persian singing groups she's been skipping. He tells her to find a way to have fun. Firouzabadi's been turning down her friends' offers to get out of the house, she said. 'I feel like if I leave home, I'm losing control,' she said. 'What if he calls?' As she spoke, a robotic voice on her cellphone announced, 'unknown caller.' 'That's him!' she said. Duke perked up when she put Zavvar on speaker phone. 'My only fear is that they will wrongfully deport me at any second without letting my lawyer know, or anybody else, and send me to a third country that I don't know,' Zavvar said in a pay-by-the-minute call from Texas. He said he noticed a beige sedan with tinted windows parked on his block that June morning a few seconds before a man wearing 'ICE POLICE' body armor stepped out of it, asking if his dog was friendly. As more agents surrounded him, he said, 'I kept asking him, 'Why are you guys doing this?' And they wouldn't answer me.' He said he wished he'd applied for citizenship when he was younger, but it seemed like something he would get to eventually. He said he didn't know 27 years ago that pleading guilty to cannabis charges could trigger a deportation and make him ineligible for citizenship; the judge didn't tell him, and he didn't have a lawyer then, he said. In the detention dorm, he plays cards or chess with a handful of other Iranian men. He tries to walk around and watches the news. He said he talks with as many people as possible about the circumstances, taking notes and writing about his experiences. 'I get a little bit of what they're trying to do,' he said of the Trump administration, 'but I think how they're going about it is wrong. It's kind of like going out to sea and trying to fish for a certain type of fish and throwing a wide net into it and just gathering up every kind of fish. And then, in time, sorting through them to see what fish they can find.' He said he sleeps during the early half of the day, when it's slightly quieter. 'I miss silence. I haven't had any silence in three weeks. It's constant noise in this place,' he said. After he hung up, Firouzabadi cried. She said she tries to visualize his return. She sees him dropping to the living room carpet to play with Duke, the hug she'll give him, the party she'll throw in the driveway, the slap she'll deliver for all the trouble he caused. His bare-bones studio apartment in the basement is how he left it. Every night, Duke sleeps on his bed. Every morning, she goes down and remakes it, just in case.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
ICE bars detained immigrants from getting bond hearings
The Trump administration wants to make millions of immigrants who entered the United States without legal authorization ineligible for bond hearings. This means they would need to remain in immigration detention as they fight deportation proceedings in court, which can take months and in some cases years. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson told NBC News in an email Tuesday that the recently issued guidance "closes a loophole" in immigration law that had long been applied mostly to detain those who had recently arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border. 'All aliens seeking to enter our country in an unlawful manner or for illicit purposes shall be treated equally under the law, while still receiving due process,' the ICE spokesperson wrote. 'It is aligned with the nation's long-standing immigration law.' The Washington Post first reported about the new ICE memo instructing immigration officials to keep immigrants detained 'for the duration of their removal proceedings.' 'I don't think it's beyond anyone's notice that we are starting to see policies to keep people detained and keep people detained longer,' Vanessa Dojaquez-Torres, practice and policy counsel at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told NBC News. 'We're seeing the administration's goal of detaining and deporting more people grow,' Dojaquez-Torres added. The new guidance seems to give immigration authorities broader discretion to detain other types of immigrants — such as those who have lived in the U.S. for decades and have U.S. citizen children, and may potentially have legal pathways to remain in the country. Bond hearings help detainees show to immigration judges that they 'are not a flight risk or a public safety risk,' Dojaquez-Torres. Under the new policy guidance, 'the judge doesn't even have the power to hear your bond case,' Dojaquez-Torres said. 'It doesn't matter if you're the best person in the world, a judge won't be able to hear your case… If they are agreeing with DHS' view.' In a Tuesday post on X, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said President Donald Trump and his administration plan on "keeping these criminals and lawbreakers off American streets." "Now thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill," which set aside $45 billion to build new immigration detention centers, "we will have plenty of bed space to do so," DHS wrote on social media. Rebekah Wolf, director of immigration justice campaign at the American Immigration Council, told NBC News the organization has already received reports from across the nation of some immigration judges who are already 'accepting the argument' from DHS and ICE. 'And because the memo isn't public, we don't even know what law the government is relying on to make the claim that everyone who has ever entered without inspection is subject to mandatory detention,' Wolf said. There have also been reports of other immigration judges who have disagreed with the new guidance and have granted a bond hearing since the policy went into effect last week, Dojaquez-Torres said. In these cases, 'ICE has appealed and refused to release people in the interim until the appeal has been finalized.' In the memo, ICE acting Director Todd M. Lyons, who oversees the nation's immigration detention facilities, wrote that the new policy will likely face legal challenges, The Washington Post reported. This article was originally published on
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Should Harvard enter into a deal with the Trump administration?
As Harvard University fights two federal lawsuits against the government, reports of a 'mindbogglingly HISTORIC' deal with the Trump administration drew apprehension from the institution's community and higher education leaders. To Charles Kuck, former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and an immigration lawyer, Harvard is in a strong position in court right now, so backing down isn't likely. 'I hope I'm not wrong, but my experience doing litigation for 36 years against the government is when they know they're going to lose, they settle,' he said. But for Harvard junior Nuriel Vera-DeGraff, there are 'very few positive aspects' of Harvard making a deal with the federal government. Vera-DeGraff fears that if Harvard makes a deal by backing down from defending its academic freedom, it allows the federal government to continue attacking higher education until it gets what it wants. Read more: Judge rules Trump can't invoke national security powers to ban foreign Harvard students The university has so far largely prevailed in court in lawsuits against the Trump administration. A federal judge granted two preliminary injunctions, allowing Harvard University's international students to continue attending school and enter the U.S. to study until the legality of the case is decided. Harvard hasn't officially confirmed whether a deal is in the works. However, Harvard President Alan Garber privately told a group of around 60 international donors that the institution was in talks with the federal government, according to The Harvard Crimson. Garber didn't expand upon the timeline or how the institution might settle with the White House. Instead, he focused on concerns about Harvard's community feeling uncomfortable speaking to one another across ideological boundaries or on controversial topics, the outlet said. A Harvard spokesperson said the institution is continuing to fight in court and pointed to the federal judge siding with the university in the past two preliminary injunctions. 'Harvard will continue to defend its rights — and the rights of its students and scholars," the spokesperson said. Read more: Harvard Kennedy's backup plan for foreign students: Study online, or in Canada The deal follows a months-long battle between the university and the Trump administration. In April, the Trump administration demanded an overhaul of Harvard's leadership structure, admissions and hiring. If the university didn't comply, it risked losing $9 billion in funding, the federal government said. The actions were taken in the name of antisemitism, as the Trump administration claimed Harvard failed to protect Jewish students, particularly in the wake of the war in Gaza. Harvard rejected the administration's demands and set the stage for a historic showdown. The 'stakes are very high' both for higher education and the United States as Harvard considers cutting a deal with the Trump administration, according to Phil Hanlon, former Dartmouth University President. 'I think the Trump administration is likely to use whatever agreement it reaches with Harvard as a template for agreements with other universities, especially elite universities. And it's really important from the university's perspective that whatever agreement is reached, it allows universities to continue to be engines of innovation and prepare students to lead lives of leadership and impact. But I think the stakes are even higher for the nation,' Hanlon said. If he were the president of Harvard, Hanlon said he would be looking for 'red lines' that the institution shouldn't cross — such as telling faculty what they can teach or what research to do. Harvard student Vera-DeGraff said giving in to any of the initial demands from the Trump administration would be 'extremely dangerous.' 'I have a very hard time imagining the Trump administration agreeing to a deal that would be, I guess, 'mindbogglingly historic' in his words — which seems pretty positive from his perspective — that would not, again, compromise academic freedom in some way or free speech in some way," he said. Vera-DeGraff isn't surprised by the prospect of a deal. He said he believes Harvard at least partially sides with the Trump administration, especially when it comes to suppressing pro-Palestine speech on campus, he said. However, the damage of a deal isn't just theoretical, especially to scientists who have had their funding cut at Harvard. The impact on research still remains in limbo even if a deal is to go through, according to John Quakenbush, Professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 'There is still so much collateral damage and it is unclear how things get restarted now that projects have disrupted,' he said. 'A lot of plates have been broken, some irreparably,' he said. Harvard alumni, through Crimson Courage, whose mission is to stand up for academic freedom, sent an open letter to Harvard administrators on Monday morning calling for the institution to resist caving into the federal government. They believed the university should live up to its motto of 'veritas,' which means 'truth' in Latin. 'We cannot stand for 'veritas' if we refuse to stand up for truth when the moment demands it or if we dilute our values because it is expedient,' said the community of Harvard alumni. The Harvard alumni said that academic freedom 'cannot be negotiated away nor yield to political pressure and coercion.' Read more: 'Devastating': 10 Harvard researchers detail 'essential' work set to be cut by Trump In a separate letter to the Harvard administration, Jewish faculty, through Concerned Jewish Faculty & Staff, a group of Boston-area-based Jewish faculty, called on Harvard to protect free expression, academic freedom and resist the 'weaponization' of antisemitism in the negotiation process. The group is made up of 150 Jewish faculty at Harvard and 24 other Boston-area universities. 'Those negotiations are framed by the Trump administration's groundless allegations of institutionalized antisemitism. The accusations have been used to suppress academic freedom and create a climate of fear at Harvard and throughout the US, particularly among Arab and Muslim community members and those who support Palestinian rights,' the faculty wrote in an open letter to Harvard on Monday. Since Harvard's two lawsuits against the Trump administration began, the university has garnered widespread support, calling into question, for some, why Harvard would want to cut a deal with the Trump administration right now. Twelve thousand alumni and other individuals and groups expressed their support through legal documents known as amicus briefs, including two dozen universities, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Council on Education, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression — also known as FIRE — and Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom. During graduation and alumni day, Harvard President Garber had to wait on stage to give his speeches because he was met with unrelenting applause. At Columbia University's graduation, by contrast, students booed the president. It was in part a response from the university acquiescing to an ultimatum from the federal government — either abide by a list of requirements laid out for them or jeopardize its 'continued financial relationship with the United States government.' Read more: Trump admin threatens Columbia U. accreditation over Jewish student harassment While Columbia agreed to implement a list of policy changes, the university later pledged — after Harvard's decision to push back — not to make any agreement with the federal government that would 'relinquish our independence and autonomy,' according to a message from the university's president. Columbia's efforts to negotiate haven't 'done them any good' as they haven't been any less susceptible to attacks, according to Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and a former president at Mount Holyoke College. For instance, the U.S. Department of Education threatened Columbia University's accreditation due to its response to campus antisemitism. While that could happen to Harvard as well with a deal, Pasquerella said society 'cannot afford to say we're not going to listen to the other side.' Harvard's president has been mindful of the impact of compromising academic freedom thus far and hopes the institution continues not to capitulate to the federal government's demands, Pasquerella said. To Kuck, the power of the negotiation is more in Harvard's court because of the federal judge siding with Harvard on two preliminary injunctions. A deal would also ultimately bypass mounting expenses for lawyers and associated costs with going to federal court, Kuck said. Regardless of what happens: a deal or continued litigation, Kuck said the fight with Harvard accomplished its purpose — to paint elite institutions as 'outliers in American society.' 'They could fight and look like idiots, or they could negotiate and claim victory, which is what they'll probably do,' he said. 'The MAGA crowd will now move on to the next thing. All they'll remember in this episode, even though Harvard gets what they want, is Trump stood up to Harvard,' Kuck said. Harvard subpoenaed in Ivy League tuition price-fixing investigation Lawsuit: MIT professor harassed Israeli researcher, Jewish student as president stood by Harvard Kennedy's backup plan for foreign students: Study online, or in Canada Why a database of bug genes could be one of Trump's most devastating cuts at Harvard Data breach affecting over 75,000 people at UMass leads to lawsuit Read the original article on MassLive.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
ICE data sparse, despite releases boasting high arrests, detentions in Maryland
BALTIMORE — In Maryland, it's almost impossible to know how many have been detained or arrested by ICE since January — and immigration and data experts say this time-sensitive data is vital for transparency and accountability. Despite regular news releases trumpeting arrests and detentions of immigrants, the federal immigration agency — Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE — has sharply reigned in actual data releases on its activities, and in some cases, stopped entirely since President Donald Trump took office. In theory, ICE publishes data on its website bi-monthly and quarterly detailing arrests, removals, and detentions, as well as pertinent demographics of those individuals, such as their country of origin and the region in which they were arrested. But the dashboard ICE uses to showcase the data hasn't been updated since Trump took office, except for some partial bimonthly statistics on arrests and detentions. A 2020 Congressional bill requires ICE to publish the bimonthly data. At a time when fears are heightened and immigration officials are pushing for increased rates of deportation, experts say the agency needs to post its data at a faster rate. 'It's important for us to be able to see,' said Vanessa Dojaquez-Torres, practice and policy counsel for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. 'Are they detaining as many people as they say? Are they deporting as many people as they say? Are they detaining or deporting more people than they are … letting on?' At the same time, protests against ICE raids span the country. This week alone, protestors in Maryland gathered at three different sites because of a perception of increased ICE detentions. ICE did not respond to repeated requests for comment by the deadline. The banner at the top of ICE's website links to an explainer on how to self-deport. 'ICE Rio Grande Valley conducts worksite enforcement resulting in 25 arrests,' read one headline. 'ICE conducts worksite inspection at Baton Rouge massage parlors,' read another. It also features a 100-day news release, in which the agency announced 66,463 arrests of undocumented individuals since Jan. 20. But real numbers have been hard to pin down, despite these news releases, and a number of organizations rely on the data to inform their work. Government officials and private companies involved in the field of immigration use the data to track the effects of legislation and policies. The American Immigration Lawyers Association uses the statistics to track the effects of legislation on immigrants, said Dojaquez-Torres. The data allows her organization to determine if promises of mass deportations are coming to fruition, she added. 'It's critical to policymakers to have this kind of data that organizations like mine can analyze and compare policies and their effectiveness and compare the records of the agency over time,' said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies of the Center for Immigration Studies, an immigration think tank. Vaughan helped the first-term Trump administration design its deportation guidelines and the center's research is cited by the Trump administration on policy decisions. Vaughan, too, uses the data, but instead uses it to track transnational gang members, as well as keep records of jails across the nation that have not cooperated with ICE. Ernesto Castaneda, director of policy research group The Immigration Lab and professor at American University, told The Baltimore Sun that visualizing this data holds the government accountable to its goals and contrasts what administration officials say with reality. Immigration lawyers and data analysts say they don't know why the Trump administration has delayed publication of its monthly and quarterly data. Some speculate that the arrests and detention numbers aren't hitting their desired benchmarks. Or, it might not be a priority for the administration to publicize the data in a timely manner, said Dojaquez-Torres. But another reason for the delay could be the sharp uptick in ICE arrests, Castaneda said. The entire immigration system — from ICE officers to immigration courts — is overwhelmed by the amount of incoming cases, he said, and that creates a bottleneck. It's not due to lack of personnel, but rather that the agency likely doesn't see a benefit of releasing more information, Vaughan said. But, she said, that shouldn't be the case. 'ICE is one of the biggest law enforcement agencies in the country with an important mission, and the public should have access to information about what they're doing,' Vaughan said.
Bloomberg
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
What Are The Legal Implications of Los Angeles Protests?
David Leopold, Former President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, discusses the legal implications of the Los Angeles protests and talks about whether or not the Pentagon mobilizing 700 Marines escalates things. He also talks about the Trump Administration making threats to arrest California Governor Gavin Newsom. David speaks with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on the late edition of Bloomberg's "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)
