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Venezuelan mothers organize on chat group to fight Guantánamo detentions

6:00pm February 20, 2025

The mothers met in a Whatsapp group. They have vowed to fight until their sons, who they say have not committed crimes and do not have ties to gangs, are released.

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ICE has arrested scores of migrants in the U.S. who have no criminal records

4:18am February 05, 2025

by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

The Trump administration says it has already arrested thousands of immigrants in the U.S. without legal status. Officials say some have committed heinous crimes, but many don't have criminal records.

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ACLU sues Trump administration over asylum ban

5:33pm February 03, 2025

The lawsuit alleges Trump's actions go against protections provided by Congress and backed by the courts.

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President Trump's suspension of asylum marks a break from U.S. past

11:15am January 23, 2025

Lee Gelernt with the ACLU said the action goes "way beyond anything that even President Trump has tried in the past."

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Trump's promise to end CBP One app worries migrants waiting in Mexico

4:58pm December 19, 2024

Incoming president Donald Trump has vowed to end the CBP One app, which people outside the U.S. use to book appointments to petition for asylum.

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The son of Singapore's founder says he has been granted political asylum in the U.K.

9:20am October 22, 2024

Lee Hsien Yang, the brother of Singapore's former prime minister, said he is a "political refugee" after the U.K. government granted him asylum from what he described as persecution at home.

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At the border in Arizona, Harris lays out a plan to get tough on fentanyl

5:04pm September 27, 2024

Vice President Harris is trying to shore up one of her biggest political liabilities. She focused her border security remarks on disrupting fentanyl smuggling.

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President Biden Delivers Remarks On New Border Policy

ACLU sues Biden administration over new executive action on the southern border

6:19pm June 12, 2024

by Franco Ordoñez

President Biden is using new executive actions to block migrants from seeking asylum at the southern border. The ACLU says this goes against U.S. asylum laws.

Migrant crisis on the border of Mexico and the United States

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Biden’s new executive order denies asylum claims to most migrants crossing the border unlawfully

7:04pm June 04, 2024

by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán

New White House measure will go into effect if more than 2,500 migrants cross illegally per day.

In this file photo, migrants board a plane in Harlingen, Texas, on October 18, 2023 for deportation to Venezuela.

Biden is tweaking an asylum rule to speed up deportation for some migrants

5:35pm May 08, 2024

by Deepa Shivaram

President Biden had said he wanted the power to effectively "shut down the border" when migration numbers surge. But this rule is an incremental shift.