Alyssa Lukpat

3 days ago | wsj.com | Alyssa Lukpat |Adrienne Tong |Jason French |Michelle Hackman

President Trump has moved to fulfill a campaign pledge by accelerating deportation efforts, in part with the controversial use of a wartime law to expedite removals. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement data show a higher pace of arrests since Trump took office, but a slightly slower pace for deportations than in the final year of the Biden administration. For immigrants living in the country, here’s how a deportation generally unfolds:Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

6 days ago | wsj.com | Alyssa Lukpat

Kaja Sokola, a Polish former model, testified in a retrial of a prominent #MeToo caseA former model alleged in searing detail Thursday that Harvey Weinstein lured her into a hotel room and raped her, offering crucial testimony for New York prosecutors trying to reconvict him for sex crimes. Kaja Sokola, who is Polish, accused Weinstein of forcibly performing oral sex on her in a Manhattan hotel room in 2006.

1 week ago | wsj.com | Alyssa Lukpat

The government has a week to transfer Rumeysa OzturkThe Trump administration must move Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont from a Louisiana detention center, a federal appeals court ruled. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Vermont judge’s order to transfer her to the state where her case is unfolding. The appeals court said the government has a week to move the Turkish student.

1 week ago | myemail.constantcontact.com | Jiahui Huang |Ian Lovett |Andrew Tangel |Alyssa Lukpat

​Quotes of the Day:"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." – Martin Luther King Jr.“He tried to make her understand. 'This was an exceptional case. It wasn't just a question of somebody being killed. Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there.

2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Alyssa Lukpat

Mohsen Mahdawi is granted bail in VermontA federal judge in Vermont ordered the government to release Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student arrested after a U.S. citizenship interview. Mahdawi, who attends Columbia University, is among the first detained foreign students to be released on bail from federal custody since the Trump administration began ramping up arrests. Masked agents detained him April 14 outside a Vermont immigration office. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.