US President Donald Trump’s administration has illegally deported two Asian men to South Sudan, immigration lawyers have told a court. In a submission to a federal judge in Boston, the attorneys said a flight carrying a dozen people, including citizens of Myanmar and Vietnam, landed in South Sudan on Tuesday. A previous court order bars…
Three young children who are US citizens – including one with cancer – were deported to Honduras alongside their mothers last week, according to advocacy groups and the families’ lawyers. One of the children is a four-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was sent without medication, a lawyer for the child’s family said. Donald Trump’s…
A federal judge says that a two-year-old US citizen may have been deported to Honduras with her mother and 11-year-old sister without due process amid the Trump administration’s drive to ramp up deportations. In a court filing, Judge Terry Doughty said that there was “strong suspicion” that the child – identified only as VML –…
Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News Watch: US senator Hollen says his ‘principle mission’ was to meet Ábrego García A Maryland man who the Trump administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador has been moved to a new prison, US Senator Chris Van Hollen has said. The Democratic senator was speaking after returning from El Salvador where…
Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu BBC News, Washington Watch: White House says man mistakenly deported to El Salvador will ‘never’ live in US again The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported last month from Maryland to an El Salvador mega-prison. Press secretary Karoline…
A man who was mistakenly deported from the state of Maryland to a mega-jail in El Salvador is “alive and secure”, a US official has told a judge. The update on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts came days after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration should facilitate his release and return to the US….
The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador’s notorious mega-jail. The Trump administration had conceded that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported by accident, but appealed against a lower court’s order to return him to the US. On Thursday, in…
‘We’re trying to bring democracy back’: BBC reporter speaks to protesters on the ground in Istanbul I had just sent my family a message saying how happy I was to be back in Turkey, where I used to live, and how it felt like coming home. Then, the phone in my hotel room rang. “We…
BBC correspondent Mark Lowen has been deported from Turkey after being arrested in Istanbul on Wednesday, the BBC has said. Lowen had been in Turkey for several days to report on the ongoing protests that were sparked by the Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest last week. Imamoglu – who is being held in jail on…
A US deportation flight carrying Indian nationals accused of entering the country illegally has landed in the state of Punjab. The military aircraft, which left Texas late on Tuesday, is now in the city of Amritsar where authorities say they have put measures in place to process the deportees. President Donald Trump has made the…
