Suzanne Gamboa

6 days ago | nbcnews.com | Gary Grumbach |Suzanne Gamboa |Julia Ainsley

The Department of Homeland Security appeared on Friday to be preparing to send a new group of Venezuelan men from the U.S. to El Salvador and its notorious CECOT prison, even as lawyers from the American Civil Liberties union scrambled in the courts to stop the administration from moving forward. On Friday afternoon, a charter bus rolled up to the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, a town about 200 miles west of Dallas, where the men are being held.

1 week ago | nbcnews.com | Suzanne Gamboa |Cristian Santana

A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an “illegal alien” who illegally entered Florida. Juan Carlos Gomez-Lopez, 20, was arrested Thursday evening by Florida Highway Patrol and charged under a state immigration law that has been temporarily blocked since early this month.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Gary Grumbach |Chloe Atkins |Chloë G. K. Atkins |Suzanne Gamboa

A federal judge in Texas issued an order Wednesday temporarily blocking the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport people held in a south Texas immigration detention center, without due process. A second judge in New York said in a hearing that he planned a similar order applying to migrants held in the Southern District of New York's federal court jurisdiction.

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Suzanne Gamboa

The Department of Homeland Security said in a court document that the IRS has agreed to share certain tax information filed by undocumented taxpayers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The announcement of the agreement came in a document filed late Monday in a case challenging the legality of the IRS sharing tax information with other agencies. The document was filed with several key parts blacked out.

3 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Suzanne Gamboa

A pregnant 16-year-old girl who had been a victim of sex trafficking since she was 6 crossed the border from Mexico seeking to prevent the same kind of abuse from happening to her child.