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The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Trump has invoked for deportations
Read full article: The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Trump has invoked for deportationsPresident Donald Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II, granting himself sweeping powers under a centuries-old law to deport people associated with a Venezuelan gang.
Judge rules against advocates trying to help migrants sent to Guantanamo and to stop more transfers
Read full article: Judge rules against advocates trying to help migrants sent to Guantanamo and to stop more transfersA federal judge has ruled against immigration and civil rights advocates attempting to help migrants who had been sent to the Guantanamo Bay military base and trying to prevent further transfers.
Immigration officials defend authority to hold migrants at Guantanamo Bay
Read full article: Immigration officials defend authority to hold migrants at Guantanamo BayU.S. immigration and military authorities say that immigrants from 27 countries were being held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba, while revealing new details of conditions of confinement and defending the government’s authority to transfer and hold immigrants to the military base.
Attorneys are suing to keep 10 migrants out of Guantanamo Bay as others say they were abused there
Read full article: Attorneys are suing to keep 10 migrants out of Guantanamo Bay as others say they were abused thereCivil rights attorneys are suing the Trump administration to prevent it from transferring 10 migrants detained in the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
ACLU sues for access to migrants flown to Guantanamo this month
Read full article: ACLU sues for access to migrants flown to Guantanamo this monthCivil rights attorneys have sued the Trump administration to gain access to detained migrants who they say have been flown to Guantanamo Bay and held there without being able to consult lawyers or speak to relatives.
US pulls out of settlement talks in family separation suits
Read full article: US pulls out of settlement talks in family separation suitsThe U.S. government has withdrawn from settlement negotiations to end lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who were forcibly separated under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border policy.
No settlement for separated migrant families amid criticism
Read full article: No settlement for separated migrant families amid criticismMigrants whose children were taken from them under former President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance border policy have not reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. government.
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Search persists for parents of 628 kids separated at border
Read full article: Search persists for parents of 628 kids separated at borderA court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump administration. The committee has found other family members for 168 of the 628 children whose parents have yet to be located. The search committee said it is too early to know how useful the additional phone numbers will be in finding more parents. The ACLU wants Biden to allow separated families to return to the United States to be given “some kind of legal status,” Gelernt said. "We will find the families but we cannot provide the families with the right to return to the United States and give legal status.