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Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil released on bail

1 week ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Adrian Florido

Updated June 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM MDTMahmoud Khalil was released from federal custody on Friday, more than three months after immigration agents arrested and detained him as the first student targeted for deportation by President Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters. On Friday evening, hours after a federal judge in New Jersey ordered the government to release him, Khalil walked out of the rural Louisiana immigration detention center where he's been held since early March.
DHS secretary's vow

2 weeks ago | laist.com | Adrian Florido |Liz Baker

Sen. Alex Padilla: During Noem's press conference, U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) entered the room to confront her. As he shouted a question, he was dragged from the room , pushed to the ground, handcuffed, and briefly detained. "If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers" throughout California and across the country, he said to reporters later.
Redadas y denuncias por venganza: Dentro de la operación de deportación del ICE en Puerto Rico

3 weeks ago | kpbs.org | Adrian Florido

Lee esta historia en inglés. Nadie sabe exactamente cuántos inmigrantes viven sin estatus legal en el territorio estadounidense de Puerto Rico. Rebecca González-Ramos, investigadora principal del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) en la isla, calcula que son unos 20,000 y, desde enero, su trabajo consiste en localizar y deportar hasta el último de ellos.
Daily Immigration News Clips - June 3, 2025

3 weeks ago | aila.org | Megan Messerly |April Rubin |Adrian Florido |NPR Raids

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Raids and revenge tips: Inside ICE's Puerto Rico deportation operation

3 weeks ago | kuow.org | Adrian Florido

Rebecca González-Ramos runs Immigration and Customs Enforcement's intelligence office — known as Homeland Security Investigations — in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her mandate under President Trump, she said, is to find every deportable immigrant in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. NPR No one knows exactly how many immigrants are living without legal status in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
Mahmoud Khalil told a judge his deportation could be a death sentence. Here’s why

1 month ago | opb.org | Adrian Florido

Mahmoud Khalil has asked an immigration judge to grant him asylum, saying he feared being targeted by Israel if he's deported to Syria or Algeria. The immigration judge was looking out over her courtroom. Mahmoud Khalil was sitting at a table next to his lawyers as they tried to convince her not to order him deported to the Middle East. “His life is at stake, your honor,” one of them, Marc Van Der Hout, told the judge. Khalil was focused and stern. But he kept getting distracted.
Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk freed from immigration detention

1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Adrian Florido

Updated May 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM MDTRümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student and Turkish national, was released from federal custody on Friday, hours after a judge in Vermont ordered the Trump administration to free her.
Government says - for now - it will restore international students' status

2 months ago | wgbh.org | Adrian Florido

April 28, 2025 In a major reversal, the federal government is restoring the records of hundreds, and possibly thousands, of international students whose entries in a crucial database the government had abruptly terminated in recent weeks, a move that had complicated their ability to stay in the country.
Government says - for now - it will restore international students' status

2 months ago | nhpr.org | Adrian Florido

In a major reversal, the federal government is restoring the records of hundreds, and possibly thousands, of international students whose entries in a crucial database the government had abruptly terminated in recent weeks, a move that had complicated their ability to stay in the country.
Why is Trump sending immigrant university scholars to Louisiana and Texas?

2 months ago | mprnews.org | Jaclyn Diaz |Adrian Florido

After a dinner with his wife and friends, Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by immigration agents at his New York apartment on March 8. The next night, the Columbia University graduate student went to bed in a remote Louisiana detention center almost three hours from the nearest city. Mask-wearing agents picked Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk up off the street near Boston, and less than a day later checked her into a private prison in rural, southern Louisiana.

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