Immigration

The world’s largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations.

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday evening with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is being held in an El Salvador prison after wrongly being deported from Maryland.

A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an “illegal alien” who illegally entered Florida.

“I was born in National City, California,” National City resident Aldo Martinez told NBC 7. “I was never paroled, I was never admitted into this country, I am no type of parole.”

A Cromwell woman was left stunned after getting an email from the federal government telling her to leave the country, but she said she was born a U.S. citizen and has never been in trouble with the law.

A Cromwell woman was left stunned after getting an email from the federal government telling her to leave the country, but she said she was born a U.S. citizen and has never been in trouble with the law. “It is time for you to leave the United States.” That’s the first sentence Lisa Anderson saw in an email she...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadoran immigrant at the center of a legal battle that could reshape American immigration policy. Here’s what you need to know.

A federal judge said in an order Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt over the deportation flights that it sent to El Salvador, NBC News reports. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found “the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude...

Marilu Domingo Ortiz said when ICE vehicles began following she and her husband Monday and then surrounded their car in New Bedford, Massachusetts, she took out her cell phone and started recording.

Nicole Micheroni, an immigration attorney and U.S. citizen born and raised in Massachusetts, has not heard from the Department of Homeland Security since it told her to leave the country

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the administration to provide evidence on any steps it’s taken to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Immigration law expert Elizabeth Ricci says that undocumented immigrants who pay taxes may stop filing for fear of being deported. 

Like millions of American citizens and immigrants, Ivan filed his taxes last year. But Ivan, 54, a Massachusetts resident who hails from Colombia, is worried a recent agreement between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement means he is in danger of being deported for doing what he believed was the right thing. And if taxpayers like Ivan decide not to file...

Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont

A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University was arrested Monday at a Vermont immigration office where he expected to be interviewed about finalizing his U.S. citizenship, his attorneys said.

UConn said they have learned that the federal government has revoked visas for 12 international students and one international alumnus in a post-graduate professional program. The university has around 3,450 international students, most of whom are based at the Storrs campus. The school has been reviewing Student and Exchange Visitor Program records and found that, as of Monday, visa approval…

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland sheet metal worker, was wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Trump administration officials emphasized he is a citizen of El Salvador and that the U.S. has no say in his future.

Sitting beside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele told reporters he would not return a man the Justice Department said it mistakenly deported to his country, NBC News reported.

A federal judge warned of a possible constitutional crisis while hearing arguments Monday in the latest hearing over a Tufts University student who was detained by immigration officials near her home last month.

When Nicole Micheroni received an email from DHS telling her to leave the country, she was baffled. She’s an immigration attorney born in Massachusetts.