We are very frightened of what will happen to us, said one. We were told we can claim asylum in France but nobody has explained to us what we need to do. I escaped from the smugglers in Calais when I travelled to UK and I am scared they will find me here and kill me.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The Trump administration deported a planeload of around 100 Iranians back to Tehran late Monday under a deal struck with the Iranian government, officials have confirmed. A U.S.-chartered flight left Louisiana and was scheduled to land in Iran on Tuesday via Qatar, two senior Iranian officials involved in the negotiations and a U.S. official familiar with the plan told The New York Times. All spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old Hercules resident who worked in Berkeley for 20 years, has been deported to India after a 15-day detention during which, she said, she experienced harrowing conditions. Courtesy of her family Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old East Bay woman who was detained for 15 days by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a routine check-in was deported to her home country of India this week.
The DHS posted a montage of ICE raids to X on Monday accompanied by the Pokémon theme song and the caption "Gotta Catch 'Em All." The clip also features images from the cartoon and text overlays using a sort of Temu version of the Pokémon font. A day later, the agency posted a video featuring a viral clip of Theo Von where he stares into the camera and says " heard you got deported, dude... bye,"
Yooo DHS i didnt approve to be used in this. I know you know my address so send a check. And please take this down and please keep me out of your 'banger' deportation videos. When it comes to immigration my thoughts and heart are alot more nuanced than this video allows. Bye! https://t.co/5v5gagf4Dr - Theo Von (@TheoVon) September 24, 2025
Carlos, the main subject, is one such case: originally from Mexico, he crossed the border at the age of nine with his three brothers and his parents. Now in his late 30s, Carlos has spent all of his adult life in America, yet there is no legal pathway for him to citizenship. A tragedy looms large. Jorge, one of Carlos's siblings, was deported to Mexico after a minor driving offence, leaving behind his partner and his son.
Donald Trump triumphantly returned to the Oval Office on January 20, 2025, with the mission of inaugurating a new golden age for the United States. And transforming immigration was always a central component of that grand vision that began with an avalanche of executive orders signed on his first day in office. The promise was to carry out the largest deportation in history and expel all undocumented immigrants from the country.
Marc Lamont Hill speaks with Mahmoud Khalil about detention, dissent and the fight for Palestinian rights. After fleeing Syria's civil war, Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was detained in the United States for more than 100 days after protesting against Israel's genocide in Gaza. He says his arrest was meant to silence dissent and intimidate others from speaking out.
It will come as a relief to the government amid pressure to tackle the small boats crisis, with Donald Trump on Thursday suggesting Keir Starmer should use the military to stop illegal migration. The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said the first return showed people crossing the Channel that if you enter the UK illegally, we will seek to remove you. She said she would continue to challenge any last-minute, vexatious attempts to frustrate a removal in the courts.
a visa "means you're a visitor to the United States" and "we are not in the business of inviting people to visit our country who are going to be involved in negative and destructive behavior."
The migrants have been detained for five days in Ghana in squalid conditions and surrounded by armed military guards in an open-air detention facility, called Dema Camp, the complaint says. Conditions are abysmal and deplorable, with tents for shelter and little running water. The migrants are not from Ghana and have been told they will be sent to other countries that have been determined to be too dangerous by U.S. immigration judges
He was only 11 when Russia launched its full-scale invasion of his homeland in 2022. After the storming of Mariupol, Russian soldiers took him and his mother to a "filtration camp." Russia has set up such camps in the territories it occupies to subject Ukrainians to ideological screening before transferring them to Russia. Sasha was separated from his mother in the camp and taken to occupied Donetsk.
In comments to journalists in Juba, Munoz-Gutierrez said he felt kidnapped when the US sent him to South Sudan. I was not planning to come to South Sudan, but while I was here, they treated me well, he said. I finished my time in the United States, and they were supposed to return me to Mexico. Instead, they wrongfully sent me to South Sudan.
OAKLAND A man who allegedly struck it rich through fentanyl sales in the Bay Area has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison, court records show. Milton Varela-Arteaga, 29, was sentenced last month by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, after pleading guilty to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl. He must serve a four-year supervised release term afterwards, but because he's already been deported to Honduras once, a similar fate likely awaits him after completion of his prison term, according to court records.
18th-century Alien Enemies Act cannot be used to deport Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, but deportations proceed under immigration laws. A federal appeals court ruled on September 2 that the Trump administration cannot use an 18th-century law to quickly deport suspected gang members. Its decision largely hinged on the administration's assertion that the Venezuela-based gang Tren de Aragua had invaded the United States.