Mar 18, 2025
English Reuters Trump administration likely overstepped authority in immigration crackdown, experts say By Luc Cohen, Tom Hals and Jack Queen March 18, 2025 The New York Times Justice Department Stonewalls Federal Judge Over Deportation Flights By Alan Feuer and Zolan Kanno-Youngs March 17, 2025 The Washington Post Trump escalates...
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Mar 17, 2025
English The Bulwark ‘A Horrifying Escalation’: How Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Could Galvanize Trump Opposition By Adrian Carrasquillo March 14, 2025 CNN David L. On CNN By CNN March 16, 2025 El Periódico USA (TX) Trump gives no respite By Maribel Hastings March 14, 2025 El Semanario (CO) Discrimination outweighs...
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Washington, DC —In a chilling escalation, it appears the Trump administration has begun executing deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority never before used in this manner. This ruthless move is both unlawful and a dangerous expansion of executive power. Early this morning, the ACLU...
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Washington, DC — On a virtual event held today (recording available here), leading legal experts and advocates gathered to assess the details and implications of several key immigration storylines, including the Mahmoud Khalil case and the chilling larger implications for weaponizing immigration law to quash free speech; the latest...
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Washington, DC —This week alone, by using new levers of state power and old, inapplicable statutes, the Trump administration has: Initiated deportation proceedings against a green card holder for protesting on a college campus – a clear attempt to weaponize immigration law to chill political dissent and free speech...
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SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH: THE LARGER, CHILLING SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MAHMOUD KHALIL CASE The Trump administration’s alarming arrest and detention of Columbia University Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil raises several troubling, larger implications. Notably, the Trump administration’s effort to deport Khalil rests solely on a determination by...
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CNN Trump expected to invoke wartime authority to speed up mass deportation effort in coming days By Priscilla Alvarez, Jennifer Hansler and Alayna Treene March 14, 2025 The Washington Post Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest violates First Amendment protections, lawyers say By Sarah Ellison March 13, 2025 NPR DHS official defends...
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Washington, DC – The arrest and detention of Columbia University Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil raises several troubling, larger implications. As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the Trump administration’s effort to deport Khalil rests solely on a determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio – “immigration...
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The reimplementation of family detention by the Trump administration means more cruelty — and more money for private prisons The Trump administration is bringing back the detention of migrant families, a costly and unnecessary practice that has been condemned as “cruel and inhumane” by immigrant and human rights advocates...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: Apart from being more damaging than the first, this second administration of Donald Trump gives no respite. Each day...
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