Maanvi Singh

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Hannah Moore |Maanvi Singh |Matthew Pearce |Joel Cox |Homa Khaleeli

Kilmar Ábrego García was 16 when he came to the US, after his family were targeted by criminal gangs in his home of El Salvador. He joined his brother in Maryland and started a new life. In 2019, he was arrested by immigration officials and accused of being a gang member, but his lawyers argued there was no evidence for this, pointed out he had no criminal convictions and insisted he should not be sent back to a country where he was himself at risk from criminal gangs.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Maanvi Singh

The Trump administration is justifying its efforts to deport a student at Columbia University by saying that his activities could “potentially undermine” the Middle East peace process.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Maanvi Singh

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University student who was detained by US immigration authorities last month, says she has had multiple asthma attacks since she was arrested and detained and has had difficulty getting medical attention. Öztürk, 30, was detained by masked, plainclothes officers as she walked in a Boston-area suburb on 25 March. A judge ordered that the Turkish national and doctoral student who was in the US on an F-1 student visa cannot be deported without a court order.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Maanvi Singh

Sergei and Marina escaped Russia three years ago under threat of arrest after protesting against the Ukraine war, seeking asylum in the US. Now their best chance of remaining together, as a family, is to flee again. In a whirlwind three weeks, the couple’s plans to rebuild their lives in the US were abruptly upended. On 27 March, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (Ice) called Sergei into the agency’s San Francisco office for a seemingly routine administrative appointment – and arrested him.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Maanvi Singh |Will Craft

Jorge, a 22-year-old asylum seeker from Venezuela, reported in February to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Portland, Oregon, for what he figured would be a routine check-in. Instead, he was arrested and transferred to a detention center in another state. Alberto, a 42-year-old from Nicaragua who had been granted humanitarian parole, checked in with Ice using an electronic monitoring program that same month. Three days later, he was arrested.