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Biden, Trump and Migrants

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US judge blocks Trump from revoking thousands of migrants' legal status
A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday from revoking the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States.
Migrants who entered U.S. via Biden-era app stripped of legal status
Migrants who came to the U.S. via a Biden-era online appointment app​​ have been told to leave "immediately" in a message from the Department of Homeland Security.
Up to 1M migrants who used Biden's CBP One app ordered to deport by Trump admin
The Trump administration has ordered migrants who used the Biden-era CBP One app to leave the U.S. immediately and terminated their parole status

Migrants in US send more money

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Trump administration prepares to send more deported migrants to notorious El Salvador prison
The Trump administration is preparing to send more immigrants with criminal records to El Salvador’s notorious mega prison on the heels of a Supreme Court order allowing the use for now of a sweeping wartime authority for deportations,
Here’s Where Trump’s Deportations Are Sending Migrants
The Trump administration’s deportations of undocumented immigrants are accelerating as part of a broader crackdown on unauthorized immigration. The focus so far has been on hundreds of flights,
Migrants in US send more money home amid threat of deportation by Trump
Central American migrants currently living in the United States sent home around 20% more in remittances in the first quarter of 2025, according to official data released this week. Economists have claimed this reflects their fear of deportation by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Pressuring Migrants to ‘Self-Deport,’ White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to ...
Judge to Temporarily Block Trump Order for Half-Million Migrants Granted Humanitarian Parole to Leave U.S.
A federal judge said she would issue a stay on an order for more than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans ...
Trump seeks to cancel migrants' Social Security numbers to force self-deportation: Report
The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is looking to strip migrants of Social Security numbers to pressure ...
Top I.R.S. Officials Said to Resign After Deal to Give ICE Migrants’ Data
The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s previous stance encouraging migrants to file their ...
Trump admin unveils plan costing migrants massive fine for every day they don't self-deport
The Trump administration is planning to issue a daily fine of nearly $1,000 to illegal immigrants who do not self-deport ...
Supreme Court ruling on Alien Enemies Act raises new due process concerns for migrants
The Supreme Court ruling that permits President Donald Trump to use a centuries-old wartime authority to speed deportations ...
Takeaways from Trump’s move to send Venezuelan migrants in the US to a prison in El Salvador
President Donald Trump has invoked a rarely used 1798 law that gives a president immense powers to arrest and deport ...
Authorities suspend 10 international aid groups offering assistance to migrants
Libyan authorities have ordered 10 international aid organizations to suspend operations and close offices in the country, ...
Kristi Noem says illegal migrants sent to El Salvador’s hell-hole megaprison should stay there ‘for the rest of their lives’
"We're confident that people that are [imprisoned in El Salvador] should be there, and they should stay there for the rest of ...
What Rights Do Migrants Have?
Of all Trump’s actions so far, few have alarmed democracy scholars more than his mass deportations of migrants without a ...