"'I’m in the process for a U visa and they detained me, but I don’t know why they’re detaining me. I’m following all their rules,' Mendoza Méndez, a 45-year-old Mexican immigrant, said."

"The operation came days after a federal appeals court upheld a temporary restraining order against indiscriminate federal immigration stops and arrests in seven Southern California counties, including Los Angeles."

"The Trump administration’s plan to install large-scale detention facilities on U.S. military bases is taking shape, with Fort Bliss preparing to detain at least 1,000 undocumented immigrants starting this month on the Mexican border."

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"The father, Enrique, brought his son, Antonio, to the U.S. to escape the violence in their home country. Since Antonio entered as a minor, he has a protected juvenile visa allowing him to live legally in the U.S. His father does not."

"A man who has lived in the United States for four decades has been detained by immigration officers and told he could be forcibly removed not to his native Iran, but to either Australia or Romania - countries with which he has no known ties."

"Federal immigration authorities may begin removal proceedings for immigrants who lack legal status and apply to become residents through a spouse. The policy. also applies to immigrants who seek lawful permanent residency through other family members."

"Florida plans to build a 2nd detention center at a Florida National Guard training center. though DeSantis has said the state is waiting for federal officials to ramp up deportations from the South FL facility before building out the Camp Blanding site."

"A monthslong probe by the office of Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., compiled hundreds of alleged human rights violations at immigration detention centers, according to a new report about his probe first obtained by NBC News."

"This ruling will make it far more difficult for women and girls to win asylum, even though their claims often involve some of the most egregious human rights violations."

"Tactics that are being used by the government to increase detention and deportation, and especially fast-track deportation, without allowing someone to go through the regular procedures of the law that have been part of us immigration policy for decades."

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"Officials have begun separating children from their families in small numbers across the country, in what appears to be a more targeted version of one of the most explosive policies of President Trump’s first term."

"U.S. border agents have been directed to stop deporting migrants under President Trump's ban on asylum claims, following a federal court order that said the measure could not be used to completely suspend humanitarian protections for asylum-seekers."

"The discrepancy is the latest example of a gulf between what White House advisers say in public and what the Justice Department says in court. In this instance, the chasm may be undermining the DOJ’s already strained credibility with judges."

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"The ninth circuit court of appeals agreed with a federal judge that immigration agents cannot use race, ethnicity or other factors, including speaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent, as the basis for reasonable suspicion to stop people."

"If asylum-seekers miss a court hearing. judges can, and do, dismiss their entire case and order them removed from the country. That puts asylum-seekers in. a tough situation: missing court puts them at risk of deportation. But showing up could, too."

"A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday blocked the Trump administration, for now, from terminating Temporary Protected Status for people from Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal. Judge Trina Thompson's decision postpones the terminations until November."

"Attorneys for five Haitian immigrants filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for unlawfully ending Temporary Protected Status, or TPS designation."