The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun deporting immigrants from Alligator Alcatraz, a hastily built detention camp in the Florida Everglades, Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Friday. Erected in the space of eight days on the grounds of an old airstrip, Alligator Alcatraz is part of a detention system that represents a core [...]
US President Donald Trump vowed Friday to sue The Wall Street Journal over a report claiming he wrote a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein, adding to his legal battles against major news organizations as his administration faces backlash for closing the Epstein case despite transparency promises. The report, published Thursday, claimed Trump had written [...]
A US federal court on Thursday granted a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, delivering a significant victory to civil rights groups in an escalating legal battle that has already reached the Supreme Court. The Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution establishes that: “All persons born or naturalized in the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted an injunction that had blocked President Donald Trump from implementing sweeping reforms aimed at restructuring the federal government. The case centers on Executive Order 14210, signed in February, which directs federal agencies to undertake “large-scale reductions in force” and submit reorganization plans that could eliminate or consolidate existing [...]
A group of academic associations filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the administration of US President Donald Trump of pursuing an illegal “ideological-deportation policy” targeting non-citizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestine protests. The move comes amid broad efforts by the Trump administration to reshape US policy related to education, immigration, law enforcement, and [...]
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare public rebuke of President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the president called for the impeachment of a federal judge who blocked deportations under a controversial executive action invoking a centuries-old wartime law. Last week, Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to order the immediate apprehension and deportation [...]
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student and legal US resident, who was transferred to a Louisiana detention facility following his arrest by immigration officials. The case has garnered intense media scrutiny due to Khalil’s legal immigration status in the US, and his arrest in the [...]
Two major US federal employee unions filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging President Donald Trump’s systematic dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which the complaint claims has triggered a global humanitarian crisis. Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, USAID had served as America’s primary foreign assistance organization for over six decades. [...]
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and demanding a review of US involvement in the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). As of the time of writing, the Trump administration had yet [...]
The administration of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded a directive to freeze funding across federal agencies just one day after announcing the sweeping measure, which had left agencies and beneficiaries scrambling to determine its impact. However, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that only the memo instating the freeze was being rescinded, [...]
