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Bloomberg
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Trump Promised Record Deportations. How's That Going?
President Donald Trump has vowed to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history, a promise that mirrors one he made but failed to fulfill during his first term. This time, Trump has shown greater determination. He has expanded the scope of his ambitions to include anyone in the country illegally and moved to strip temporary deportation protections from more than a million non-citizens. His administration has targeted for eviction thousands of student visa holders and some green card holders, employed wartime powers to deport alleged gang members, deployed thousands of active-duty troops to the southwest border and expanded their authorities there, and offered incentives for unauthorized immigrants to 'self deport.' He's even gone so far as to suggest expelling from the country US citizens who've committed crimes.
New York Times
13-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Venezuelan Deportations to Resume
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday evening for permission to deport a group of nearly 200 Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members and detained in Texas. In a filing to the court, the administration contended that 'serious difficulties have arisen' from the detention of the group of 176 migrants, who were shielded from deportation in an emergency overnight ruling by the court in mid-April. According to a declaration by a Homeland Security Department official included in the court filing, a group of 23 migrants had barricaded themselves inside a housing unit for several hours on April 26. The group threatened to take hostages and harm immigration officers, and tried to flood the unit by clogging the toilets, according to the filing. 'The government has a strong interest in promptly removing from the country' gang members 'who pose a danger to ICE officers, facility staff and other detainees while in detention,' Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the court filing. The details of the episode, which had not been previously reported, occurred at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Texas, where migrants 'barricaded the entrance doors of their housing unit using bed cots, blocked the windows and covered surveillance cameras,' according to a declaration by Joshua D. Johnson, a Homeland Security official and the acting director of the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement's Dallas Field Office. The group then 'threatened to take hostages' and to 'injure' ICE officers and facility staff members, and 'remained barricaded in the housing unit for several hours,' Mr. Johnson said in the declaration. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
