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🟥 Week of May 5: I'm in Washington Monday-Wednesday and traveling afterward. Schedule is heavy, there are deadlines and I may be difficult to reach.
- Abrego Garcia Case
- Alien Enemies Act
- Arizona state government
- Asylum access, 212(f) border shutdown
- Birthright citizenship
- Border barriers, fencing, wall
- Brazil
- Budgets
- CBP One
- Chile
- Colombia
- Congress
- Corruption
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Darién Gap
- Deportation, “Mass Deportation”
- Deportation flights, “bridge deportations”
- Detention and conditions in custody
- Drug trafficking, fentanyl
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Enemy Combatants
- Family detention
- Family separation
- Foreign assistance and cooperation with border security and migration forces
- Guantánamo
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Humanitarian parole
- Immigration courts
- Insurrection Act
- Intelligence
- International Organization for Migration
- “Invasion” declaration
- Justice Department
- Legal aid
- Libya
- Litigation
- Mexico: asylum access, COMAR
- Mexico: deportations and returns
- Mexico: insecurity, organized crime, displacement
- Mexico: migrants stranded
- Mexico: security and migration forces
- “Migrant crime,” Laken Riley Act
- Migrant deaths
- Migration data and trends
- Militias, paramilitaries
- Military, National Guard, Defense Department
- Nominations
- Organizational culture at U.S. agencies
- Organized crime, “terrorism”
- Panama
- Polls, public opinion
- Prisons, prisoners
- Private contractors
- Proposed alternative policies
- “Reconciliation” spending bill
- Refugee admissions
- Registry requirement
- Releases of migrants into U.S. interior
- Religion
- Remain in Mexico
- Reverse, or southbound, migration
- Roosevelt Reservation “National Defense Area”
- Safe Mobility Offices
- Safe Third Country agreements
- Shelters
- Smuggling, “Coyotes”
- State Department
- Tariffs, trade
- Technologies used in border security
- Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
- Texas state government
- Title 42, public health orders
- Travel bans
- Tren de Aragua
- Unaccompanied children, Office of Refugee Resettlement
- Vehicle pursuits
- Venezuela
Abrego Garcia Case
Alien Enemies Act
- May 9, 2025: Alien Enemies Act invocation dealt setbacks
- May 2, 2025: Renditions to El Salvador blocked, for now, amid new revelations
- April 25, 2025: Controversies continue over renditions to El Salvador
- April 18, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act
- April 11, 2025: El Salvador renditions reach the Supreme Court
- April 11, 2025: Evidence points to little criminality among those rushed to El Salvador’s mega-prison
- April 4, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act invocation and El Salvador renditions have days in court
- March 21, 2025: Invocation of Alien Enemies Act raises due process, democracy, and foreign relations concerns
- March 14, 2025: Other news
- February 7, 2025: Mass deportation proceeds as Congress prepares a big funding bill
- January 31, 2025: El Salvador may receive deported migrants from other countries
- January 24, 2025: Placing criminal groups on the “terrorist list”
Arizona state government
Asylum access, 212(f) border shutdown
- May 2, 2025: Judicial updates
- April 18, 2025: Mass deportation and the coming “reconciliation” funding bill
- March 21, 2025: Other news
- February 28, 2025: “Bridge deportations” continue
- February 21, 2025: Migration dropped in January in anticipation of Trump asylum shutoff
- February 7, 2025: Reduced migration, and almost no asylum access, as groups file suit
- January 24, 2025: Shutdown of processing migrants and asylum seekers
- January 24, 2025: CBP One appointments canceled
- January 20, 2025: The Incoming Administration’s Likely Initial Actions
Birthright citizenship
Border barriers, fencing, wall
Brazil
Budgets
- May 9, 2025: Congressional updates
- May 2, 2025: “Reconciliation” mega-spending bill sails through House committees
- April 25, 2025: Notes on “mass deportation”
- April 18, 2025: Mass deportation and the coming “reconciliation” funding bill
- April 11, 2025: A $45 billion bill for migrant detention foreseen as budget bill moves slowly through Congress
- April 4, 2025: Budget resolution to move in Senate
- March 21, 2025: Notes on Congress
- March 14, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- March 7, 2025: “Mass deportation” slows a bit, pending new money from Congress
- February 21, 2025: Congress readies a massive border and deportation spending package
- February 14, 2025: “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure
- February 14, 2025: U.S. aid freeze affects programs designed to integrate migrants and receive deported people
- February 7, 2025: Mass deportation proceeds as Congress prepares a big funding bill
- February 7, 2025: First detainees taken to Guantánamo
- January 20, 2025: The Incoming Administration’s Likely Initial Actions
- January 10, 2025: Republican-led Congress Accelerating Border and Migration Agenda
CBP One
Chile
Colombia
Congress
- May 9, 2025: Congressional updates
- May 2, 2025: “Reconciliation” mega-spending bill sails through House committees
- April 25, 2025: Notes on “mass deportation”
- April 25, 2025: Other news
- April 18, 2025: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Case and Nayib Bukele’s Washington visit
- April 11, 2025: A $45 billion bill for migrant detention foreseen as budget bill moves slowly through Congress
- April 4, 2025: Budget resolution to move in Senate
- March 21, 2025: Notes on Congress
- March 14, 2025: Congressional opponents grow more vocal
- March 14, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- March 7, 2025: “Mass deportation” slows a bit, pending new money from Congress
- March 7, 2025: Other news
- February 28, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- February 21, 2025: Congress readies a massive border and deportation spending package
- February 14, 2025: “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure
- February 7, 2025: Mass deportation proceeds as Congress prepares a big funding bill
- January 24, 2025: Other news
- January 20, 2025: The Incoming Administration’s Likely Initial Actions
- January 20, 2025: “Laken Riley” Bill Nears Passage
- January 10, 2025: Republican-led Congress Accelerating Border and Migration Agenda
Corruption
Costa Rica
Cuba
Darién Gap
- May 9, 2025: Other news
- April 25, 2025: Notes from the migration route
- April 18, 2025: March migration data show further declines
- April 11, 2025: Other News
- April 4, 2025: Low border numbers in March
- March 14, 2025: CBP publishes February border data
- March 7, 2025: Notes on the impact in Mexico and further south
- February 21, 2025: Darién Gap migration declines sharply
- February 14, 2025: Migration plummeting along the U.S.-bound route as the new U.S. administration leads people to pause
- January 31, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- January 10, 2025: Migration Appears to be Declining Ahead of Inauguration
Deportation, “Mass Deportation”
- May 9, 2025: New cases highlight the humanitarian impact of Trump administration crackdown
- May 9, 2025: Other news
- May 2, 2025: Accumulating accounts of cruel and possibly unlawful removals and detentions
- May 2, 2025: Scrutinizing the administration’s first-100-day deportation claims
- May 2, 2025: “Reconciliation” mega-spending bill sails through House committees
- April 25, 2025: Notes on “mass deportation”
- April 18, 2025: Mass deportation and the coming “reconciliation” funding bill
- April 11, 2025: A $45 billion bill for migrant detention foreseen as budget bill moves slowly through Congress
- March 21, 2025: Other news
- March 14, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- March 7, 2025: “Mass deportation” slows a bit, pending new money from Congress
- February 28, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- February 21, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- February 14, 2025: “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure
- February 7, 2025: Mass deportation proceeds as Congress prepares a big funding bill
- January 31, 2025: Mass deportation
- January 31, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- January 24, 2025: “Mass deportation”
- January 24, 2025: Domestic use of the U.S. armed forces
- January 20, 2025: The Incoming Administration’s Likely Initial Actions
- January 20, 2025: Mass Deportation
- January 10, 2025: Bracing for Executive Orders and “Mass Deportation”
Deportation flights, “bridge deportations”
- May 9, 2025: Updates on third-country migrant renditions
- May 9, 2025: Other news
- May 2, 2025: Accumulating accounts of cruel and possibly unlawful removals and detentions
- April 25, 2025: Notes on “mass deportation”
- April 25, 2025: Notes from the migration route
- April 11, 2025: El Salvador renditions reach the Supreme Court
- April 11, 2025: Other News
- April 4, 2025: Notes about deportation flights
- April 4, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act invocation and El Salvador renditions have days in court
- March 21, 2025: Invocation of Alien Enemies Act raises due process, democracy, and foreign relations concerns
- March 14, 2025: The impact in Panama and elsewhere
- March 7, 2025: “Mass deportation” slows a bit, pending new money from Congress
- February 28, 2025: “Bridge deportations” continue
- February 21, 2025: Deportation flights send third countries’ citizens to Panama and Costa Rica
- February 21, 2025: Guantánamo detainees sent back to Venezuela via Honduras
- February 14, 2025: “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure
- February 14, 2025: Venezuela sends two planes to pick up deportees
- February 14, 2025: Updates about the U.S. military border deployment
- February 7, 2025: The U.S. military at the border and in the deportation effort
- February 7, 2025: “Migration diplomacy” in Venezuela and Central America
- January 31, 2025: Controversies about military deportation flights to the Americas
- January 10, 2025: Other news
Detention and conditions in custody
- May 9, 2025: New cases highlight the humanitarian impact of Trump administration crackdown
- May 2, 2025: Accumulating accounts of cruel and possibly unlawful removals and detentions
- April 25, 2025: Notes on “mass deportation”
- April 11, 2025: A $45 billion bill for migrant detention foreseen as budget bill moves slowly through Congress
- April 11, 2025: A woman dies by suicide in Border Patrol custody as internal oversight is decimated
- March 21, 2025: Other news
- February 28, 2025: Another Guantánamo flight arrives, as released detainees reveal horrific conditions
- February 14, 2025: “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure
- February 7, 2025: Mass deportation proceeds as Congress prepares a big funding bill
- January 31, 2025: The U.S. military role
- January 31, 2025: Other news
- January 24, 2025: “Mass deportation”
- January 20, 2025: Mass Deportation
- January 10, 2025: Bracing for Executive Orders and “Mass Deportation”
Drug trafficking, fentanyl
Ecuador
El Salvador
- May 9, 2025: Updates on third-country migrant renditions
- May 9, 2025: Congressional updates
- May 2, 2025: Renditions to El Salvador blocked, for now, amid new revelations
- April 25, 2025: Controversies continue over renditions to El Salvador
- April 18, 2025: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Case and Nayib Bukele’s Washington visit
- April 18, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act
- April 11, 2025: El Salvador renditions reach the Supreme Court
- April 11, 2025: Evidence points to little criminality among those rushed to El Salvador’s mega-prison
- April 4, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act invocation and El Salvador renditions have days in court
- April 4, 2025: Noem’s travel to Latin America
- March 21, 2025: Invocation of Alien Enemies Act raises due process, democracy, and foreign relations concerns
- March 14, 2025: The impact in Panama and elsewhere
- February 7, 2025: “Migration diplomacy” in Venezuela and Central America
- January 31, 2025: El Salvador may receive deported migrants from other countries
- January 10, 2025: Bracing for Executive Orders and “Mass Deportation”
Enemy Combatants
Family detention
Family separation
Foreign assistance and cooperation with border security and migration forces
Guantánamo
- May 9, 2025: More migrants charged with trespassing in “Defense Areas”
- April 18, 2025: The Roosevelt Reservation and other military developments
- April 4, 2025: Notes on the U.S. military’s border and migration role
- March 14, 2025: Guantanamo base is currently empty
- March 7, 2025: “Mass deportation” slows a bit, pending new money from Congress
- February 28, 2025: Another Guantánamo flight arrives, as released detainees reveal horrific conditions
- February 21, 2025: Guantánamo detainees sent back to Venezuela via Honduras
- February 14, 2025: Guantánamo: as planes keep bringing migrants, some are not “the worst of the worst”
- February 7, 2025: First detainees taken to Guantánamo
- January 31, 2025: The U.S. military role
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Humanitarian parole
Immigration courts
Insurrection Act
Intelligence
International Organization for Migration
“Invasion” declaration
Justice Department
Legal aid
Libya
Litigation
- May 9, 2025: Alien Enemies Act invocation dealt setbacks
- May 9, 2025: Updates on third-country migrant renditions
- May 2, 2025: Judicial updates
- May 2, 2025: Renditions to El Salvador blocked, for now, amid new revelations
- April 25, 2025: Controversies continue over renditions to El Salvador
- April 25, 2025: Other news
- April 18, 2025: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Case and Nayib Bukele’s Washington visit
- April 18, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act
- April 11, 2025: El Salvador renditions reach the Supreme Court
- April 4, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act invocation and El Salvador renditions have days in court
- April 4, 2025: Notes about deportation flights
- March 21, 2025: Invocation of Alien Enemies Act raises due process, democracy, and foreign relations concerns
- February 14, 2025: Guantánamo: as planes keep bringing migrants, some are not “the worst of the worst”
- February 14, 2025: Other news
- February 7, 2025: Reduced migration, and almost no asylum access, as groups file suit
Mexico: asylum access, COMAR
Mexico: deportations and returns
- May 2, 2025: Scrutinizing the administration’s first-100-day deportation claims
- April 4, 2025: Noem’s travel to Latin America
- March 21, 2025: Other news
- March 14, 2025: The impact in Panama and elsewhere
- March 7, 2025: Notes on the impact in Mexico and further south
- March 7, 2025: “Mass deportation” slows a bit, pending new money from Congress
- February 28, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- February 21, 2025: Notes on the impact in Mexico
- February 14, 2025: “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure
- January 31, 2025: Controversies about military deportation flights to the Americas
- January 31, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- January 24, 2025: “Remain in Mexico” restarts
- January 24, 2025: Reactions in Mexico and elsewhere
- January 20, 2025: Mass Deportation
- January 10, 2025: Bracing for Executive Orders and “Mass Deportation”
Mexico: insecurity, organized crime, displacement
- April 18, 2025: The Roosevelt Reservation and other military developments
- April 4, 2025: Low border numbers in March
- March 7, 2025: Citing cross-border fentanyl trafficking, Trump again imposes and then withdraws tariffs on Mexico
- March 7, 2025: Vance brings cabinet members to Eagle Pass
- March 7, 2025: Notes on the impact in Mexico and further south
- February 14, 2025: Migration plummeting along the U.S.-bound route as the new U.S. administration leads people to pause
- February 14, 2025: Eight Latin American criminal groups to be added to the U.S. terrorist list
- February 7, 2025: Other news
- January 10, 2025: Other news
Mexico: migrants stranded
- May 9, 2025: Other news
- May 2, 2025: Other news
- April 25, 2025: Notes from the migration route
- April 18, 2025: Other News
- April 11, 2025: Notes on the impact in Mexico
- April 4, 2025: Low border numbers in March
- March 14, 2025: The impact in Panama and elsewhere
- March 7, 2025: Notes on the impact in Mexico and further south
- February 28, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- February 21, 2025: Notes on the impact in Mexico
- February 21, 2025: Deportation flights send third countries’ citizens to Panama and Costa Rica
- February 14, 2025: Migration plummeting along the U.S.-bound route as the new U.S. administration leads people to pause
- February 7, 2025: Reduced migration, and almost no asylum access, as groups file suit
- January 31, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- January 24, 2025: CBP One appointments canceled
- January 24, 2025: Reactions in Mexico and elsewhere
- January 24, 2025: Other news
- January 20, 2025: Mass Deportation
- January 10, 2025: Migration Appears to be Declining Ahead of Inauguration
Mexico: security and migration forces
“Migrant crime,” Laken Riley Act
Migrant deaths
Migration data and trends
- May 2, 2025: Scrutinizing the administration’s first-100-day deportation claims
- May 2, 2025: Other news
- April 18, 2025: March migration data show further declines
- April 4, 2025: Low border numbers in March
- March 14, 2025: CBP publishes February border data
- March 7, 2025: February saw the fewest Border Patrol migrant apprehensions this century, and perhaps since the 1960s
- February 28, 2025: Other news
- February 21, 2025: Migration dropped in January in anticipation of Trump asylum shutoff
- February 21, 2025: Darién Gap migration declines sharply
- February 21, 2025: Notes on the impact in Mexico
- February 14, 2025: Migration plummeting along the U.S.-bound route as the new U.S. administration leads people to pause
- February 7, 2025: Reduced migration, and almost no asylum access, as groups file suit
- January 31, 2025: An already quiet border gets quieter
- January 20, 2025: Migration continued to decline in December
- January 20, 2025: Other news
- January 10, 2025: Migration Appears to be Declining Ahead of Inauguration
Militias, paramilitaries
Military, National Guard, Defense Department
- May 9, 2025: More migrants charged with trespassing in “Defense Areas”
- May 2, 2025: First migrants arrested for trespassing in “defense area”
- April 25, 2025: The U.S. military role
- April 18, 2025: The Roosevelt Reservation and other military developments
- April 4, 2025: Notes on the U.S. military’s border and migration role
- March 21, 2025: U.S. military presence at the border continues to expand
- March 14, 2025: Active-duty deployment nears 9,600 soldiers
- March 14, 2025: Guantanamo base is currently empty
- March 7, 2025: The U.S. military presence grows at the border
- March 7, 2025: “Mass deportation” slows a bit, pending new money from Congress
- February 28, 2025: Another Guantánamo flight arrives, as released detainees reveal horrific conditions
- February 21, 2025: Guantánamo detainees sent back to Venezuela via Honduras
- February 21, 2025: Congress readies a massive border and deportation spending package
- February 21, 2025: Other news
- February 14, 2025: Guantánamo: as planes keep bringing migrants, some are not “the worst of the worst”
- February 14, 2025: Updates about the U.S. military border deployment
- February 7, 2025: The U.S. military at the border and in the deportation effort
- February 7, 2025: First detainees taken to Guantánamo
- January 31, 2025: The U.S. military role
- January 31, 2025: Controversies about military deportation flights to the Americas
- January 24, 2025: Domestic use of the U.S. armed forces
Nominations
Organizational culture, accountability at U.S. agencies
- May 2, 2025: CBP nominee hearing refocuses attention on 2010 migrant killing
- May 2, 2025: Accumulating accounts of cruel and possibly unlawful removals and detentions
- April 25, 2025: Notes on “mass deportation”
- April 25, 2025: Other news
- April 11, 2025: A woman dies by suicide in Border Patrol custody as internal oversight is decimated
- April 4, 2025: Notes about deportation flights
- March 14, 2025: Other news
- March 7, 2025: Other news
- February 28, 2025: Another Guantánamo flight arrives, as released detainees reveal horrific conditions
- February 21, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- February 21, 2025: Other news
- February 14, 2025: Other news
- January 20, 2025: Other news
- January 10, 2025: Other news
Organized crime, “terrorism”
Panama
- May 9, 2025: Updates on third-country migrant renditions
- May 9, 2025: Other news
- April 25, 2025: Notes from the migration route
- April 18, 2025: March migration data show further declines
- April 4, 2025: Low border numbers in March
- March 14, 2025: The impact in Panama and elsewhere
- March 7, 2025: “Mass deportation” slows a bit, pending new money from Congress
- February 28, 2025: Reports of southbound migration as people abandon hope of seeking protection in the United States
- February 28, 2025: “Bridge deportations” continue
- February 21, 2025: Darién Gap migration declines sharply
- February 21, 2025: Deportation flights send third countries’ citizens to Panama and Costa Rica
- February 14, 2025: Migration plummeting along the U.S.-bound route as the new U.S. administration leads people to pause
- February 14, 2025: “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure
- February 7, 2025: “Migration diplomacy” in Venezuela and Central America
- January 31, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- January 10, 2025: Migration Appears to be Declining Ahead of Inauguration
Polls, public opinion
Prisons, prisoners
- May 9, 2025: New cases highlight the humanitarian impact of Trump administration crackdown
- May 2, 2025: Renditions to El Salvador blocked, for now, amid new revelations
- April 25, 2025: Controversies continue over renditions to El Salvador
- April 18, 2025: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Case and Nayib Bukele’s Washington visit
- April 18, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act
- March 21, 2025: Invocation of Alien Enemies Act raises due process, democracy, and foreign relations concerns
- February 7, 2025: “Migration diplomacy” in Venezuela and Central America
- January 31, 2025: El Salvador may receive deported migrants from other countries
Private contractors
Proposed alternative policies
“Reconciliation” spending bill
- May 9, 2025: Congressional updates
- May 2, 2025: “Reconciliation” mega-spending bill sails through House committees
- April 25, 2025: Notes on “mass deportation”
- April 11, 2025: A $45 billion bill for migrant detention foreseen as budget bill moves slowly through Congress
- April 4, 2025: Budget resolution to move in Senate
- March 7, 2025: “Mass deportation” slows a bit, pending new money from Congress
- February 28, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- February 21, 2025: Congress readies a massive border and deportation spending package
- February 14, 2025: “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure
- February 7, 2025: Mass deportation proceeds as Congress prepares a big funding bill
- January 20, 2025: The Incoming Administration’s Likely Initial Actions
- January 10, 2025: Republican-led Congress Accelerating Border and Migration Agenda
Refugee admissions
Registry requirement
Releases of migrants into U.S. interior
Religion
Remain in Mexico
Reverse, or southbound, migration
Roosevelt Reservation “National Defense Area”
Safe Mobility Offices
Safe Third Country agreements
Shelters
- April 4, 2025: Other News
- March 21, 2025: Other news
- March 14, 2025: Other news
- February 28, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- February 21, 2025: Notes on the impact in Mexico
- February 14, 2025: U.S. aid freeze affects programs designed to integrate migrants and receive deported people
- February 14, 2025: Other news
- February 7, 2025: Reduced migration, and almost no asylum access, as groups file suit
- January 31, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- January 24, 2025: Other provisions
- January 24, 2025: Reactions in Mexico and elsewhere
- January 20, 2025: Mass Deportation
- January 10, 2025: Other news
Smuggling, “Coyotes”
State Department
Tariffs, trade
Technologies used in border security
Temporary Protected Status (TPS)
- May 2, 2025: Judicial updates
- April 18, 2025: Mass deportation and the coming “reconciliation” funding bill
- April 11, 2025: New measures to undo legal pathways and punish the undocumented
- April 4, 2025: Other News
- March 21, 2025: Notes on Congress
- March 7, 2025: Other news
- February 21, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- February 14, 2025: Other news
- February 7, 2025: Administration cancels TPS for Venezuelans
- January 31, 2025: Other news
- January 20, 2025: Other news
Texas state government
- May 2, 2025: Other news
- April 25, 2025: Other news
- March 21, 2025: Other news
- March 14, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- March 14, 2025: Other news
- February 14, 2025: “Mass deportations”: as Trump blasts their pace, Congress begins work on a giant spending measure
- February 7, 2025: Texas seeks reimbursement for “Operation Lone Star”
- January 31, 2025: Mass deportation
- January 31, 2025: Other news
Title 42, public health orders
Travel bans
Tren de Aragua
- May 9, 2025: Alien Enemies Act invocation dealt setbacks
- May 2, 2025: Renditions to El Salvador blocked, for now, amid new revelations
- April 18, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act
- April 11, 2025: Evidence points to little criminality among those rushed to El Salvador’s mega-prison
- April 11, 2025: El Salvador renditions reach the Supreme Court
- April 4, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act invocation and El Salvador renditions have days in court
- March 21, 2025: Invocation of Alien Enemies Act raises due process, democracy, and foreign relations concerns
- March 14, 2025: Guantanamo base is currently empty
- February 14, 2025: Guantánamo: as planes keep bringing migrants, some are not “the worst of the worst”
- January 31, 2025: El Salvador may receive deported migrants from other countries
- January 24, 2025: Placing criminal groups on the “terrorist list”
- January 10, 2025: Other news
Unaccompanied children, Office of Refugee Resettlement
Vehicle pursuits
Venezuela
- May 9, 2025: New cases highlight the humanitarian impact of Trump administration crackdown
- May 9, 2025: Alien Enemies Act invocation dealt setbacks
- May 2, 2025: Accumulating accounts of cruel and possibly unlawful removals and detentions
- May 2, 2025: Renditions to El Salvador blocked, for now, amid new revelations
- May 2, 2025: Other news
- April 25, 2025: Controversies continue over renditions to El Salvador
- April 25, 2025: Notes on “mass deportation”
- April 18, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act
- April 18, 2025: Other News
- April 11, 2025: Evidence points to little criminality among those rushed to El Salvador’s mega-prison
- April 11, 2025: Other News
- April 4, 2025: The Alien Enemies Act invocation and El Salvador renditions have days in court
- April 4, 2025: Notes about deportation flights
- April 4, 2025: Other News
- March 21, 2025: Invocation of Alien Enemies Act raises due process, democracy, and foreign relations concerns
- March 21, 2025: Travel ban appears imminent
- March 14, 2025: The impact in Panama and elsewhere
- February 28, 2025: Another Guantánamo flight arrives, as released detainees reveal horrific conditions
- February 28, 2025: The impact on Mexico
- February 21, 2025: Guantánamo detainees sent back to Venezuela via Honduras
- February 21, 2025: “Mass deportation” updates
- February 14, 2025: Migration plummeting along the U.S.-bound route as the new U.S. administration leads people to pause
- February 14, 2025: Guantánamo: as planes keep bringing migrants, some are not “the worst of the worst”
- February 14, 2025: Venezuela sends two planes to pick up deportees
- February 14, 2025: Other news
- February 7, 2025: Administration cancels TPS for Venezuelans
- February 7, 2025: “Migration diplomacy” in Venezuela and Central America
- January 31, 2025: Other news
- January 24, 2025: Foreign relations
- January 10, 2025: Bracing for Executive Orders and “Mass Deportation”
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