#deportation

#deportation

Growing up, Kevin Gonzalez, 18, dreamed of going to college and becoming a lawyer. But as he lay in a hospital bed in Chicago this winter, his gaunt frame ravaged by colon cancer, those aspirations narrowed to one final wish: seeing his parents before he died. Fulfilling that dream meant a desperate fight against time in his final weeks of life as his father, Isidoro Gonzales Aviles, and his mother, Norma Anabel Ramirez Amaya, sat in President Trump's immigration-detention system.

Israel has deported two foreign activists who had been abducted from a Gaza-bound flotilla in international waters, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says. Saif Abu Keshek, a Spanish national of Palestinian origin, and Brazilian Thiago Avila were among dozens of activists sailing with the flotilla when it was intercepted by the Israeli navy off the coast of the Greek island of Crete on April 30.

Immigration judges issued more than 80,000 “voluntary departure” orders from January 2025 through March of this year, according to court data obtained by the Vera Institute of Justice and shared with The Washington Post. Such orders are granted to immigrants who request to leave on their own terms while giving up the opportunity to seek a new life in the U.S. They are not given a formal deportation order, which could make it easier for them to return legally in the future.

Alvarez-Gonzalez's truck looked like an undercover Border Patrol vehicle - with an agency sticker on its windshield, radio communications antennae on the roof, a lightbar on the dashboard, a license plate bearing with the words 'Ferderal Truck' and handcuffs hanging from the rear-view mirror.

We feel pressured to agree to go back to our country, regardless of the risks, a 29-year-old Colombian woman, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of reprisals, told Reuters.

Bustamante Leiva was also accused of a second theft on April 17 at the Westin Hotel in Washington, DC. In both cases, the stolen credit cards were later used at a grocery store to purchase gift cards.

T described her deportation experience as traumatizing, stating, 'I was so scared.' Upon her return, she faced harassment from Salvadoran authorities who demanded she strip naked for tattoo checks, fearing gang affiliation.

The fact that it took nearly nine months of litigation and a decision by the highest court of the land to obtain something as innocuous as permission for my clients to meet with a local lawyer speaks volumes about how hard the government of Eswatini is fighting to deny these men the most basic of rights.

Even if you were a convicted felon, at the end of the day we still deserve due process. If our due process is taken away, anybody else's due process can be taken away.

The Congolese Ministry of Communications stated that the deportees will start arriving in Congo this month, although no specific date or number of deportees was provided.

They want to self-deport: they packed their bags, bought their tickets, and showed up at the airport to leave. And yet, they couldn't board the plane.