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4 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña
At least 50 Venezuelans who were deported and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador came to the United States legally and never violated immigration law, according to a new analysis from the libertarianCato Institute. The report compiled family accounts, along with entry documents and witness testimony, to determine how they crossed into the United States and what likely led to their detention.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña |Daniel Vergara |Amy Marino |Jon Hazell
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña |Emily Cochrane
Back transcriptICE Agents and State Troopers Team Up in Nashville OperationIn early May, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted alongside Tennessee State Highway Patrol troopers in areas of Nashville, partnering up for a weeklong operation that turned routine traffic stops into immigration arrests. It's late at night in South Nashville, and the seventh day of a weeklong immigration sweep here.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña
The Trump administration was ordered by an appeals court to facilitate the return of a Venezuelan man who was deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador - at least the second time the administration has been told to bring back a migrant it wrongly removed.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberglinea.com | David Voreacos |Alex Pena |Alex Peña
Bloomberg — Un tribunal de apelaciones ordenó a la administración Trump que facilite el regreso de un venezolano que fue deportado a una prisión de máxima seguridad en El Salvador - al menos la segunda vez que se le ha dicho a la administración que traiga de vuelta a un migrante que expulsó erróneamente. En un fallo de 2-1, la Corte de Apelaciones del 4to Circuito de EE.UU.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña
WASHINGTON - With cameras rolling in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump told reporters this week that he would carefully study the law before deciding whether to exile Americans accused of violent crimes to prisons overseas, where, according to his administration, U.S. courts are powerless to respond.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña
President Donald Trump’s deportation of alleged foreign gang members, including the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, has made headlines, with his administration facing allegations that it is not following due process and wrongly imprisoning innocent people. Tren de Aragua, which was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. in February 2025, has been repeatedly mentioned by Trump as part of his hardened immigration crackdown.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña
Stars, crowns, roses and watch tattoos can land you in prison if you are a Venezuelan man in the United States. U.S. immigration agents have been flagging Venezuelans, especially men, for suspected ties to the feared Tren de Aragua gang based on tattoos, including animals, basketball symbols and reggaeton lyrics. The Trump administration invoked a 227-year old wartime law last month to target Venezuelans, sending hundreds of alleged members of the gang to a mega prison in El Salvador.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña
WASHINGTON - A divided U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump resume using a wartime law to try to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, giving the administration a boost in a high-profile clash over the limits of presidential power. Granting an emergency request by Trump on a 5-4 vote, the justices tossed out a lower court order that had paused deportations under the Alien Enemies Act while litigation continues.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Alex Pena |Alex Peña
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene Monday and block a lower court order mandating the return of an immigrant mistakenly deported to El Salvador in a high-profile challenge to the administration's immigration crackdown. Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and his family filed a lawsuit in Maryland federal court, arguing that the removal violated an immigration judge's 2019 order that he not be deported to El Salvador due to possible persecution.
