A federal judge in Texas has ruled against the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants Julio Cesar Sanchez Puentes and Luddis Norelia Sanchez Garcia. District Judge David Briones ordered their release from a Texas detention facility, finding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) failed to provide a lawful basis for their continued detention. The court has found that the allegations against the couple relied on hearsay without personal knowledge from the declarants involved.
The couple entered the U.S. in 2022 in El Paso and were initially detained by immigration officials. After being paroled the next day, the family lived in Washington, DC, with their three children under temporary protected status. Their status was terminated due to an alleged association with the Tren de Aragua gang.
Tag Archives: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Reuters: Tufts student detained by US immigration authorities must be released, judge rules
- Rumeysa Ozturk ordered released immediately from Louisiana detention center
- Ozturk was detained after pro-Palestinian campus advocacy
- Judge said her detention chills free speech of non-citizens
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to immediately release a Tufts University student from Turkey who has been held for over six weeks in a Louisiana immigration detention facility after she co-wrote an opinion piece criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza.
U.S. District Judge William Sessions during a hearing in Burlington, Vermont, granted bail to Rumeysa Ozturk, who is at the center of one of the highest-profile cases to emerge from Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign to deport pro-Palestinian activists on American campuses.
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Massachusetts-based Tufts has said it plans to help provide Ozturk housing upon her release. In a statement, a university spokesperson said it hoped she would be able to rejoin its community as soon as possible to resume her doctoral studies.
F*ck y** and rot in Hell, unAmerican *ssh*l* Stephen “Goebbels” Miller:
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller called the judge’s ruling another sign of what he considers a “judicial coup” in the United States. Several parts of the president’s hardline immigration agenda have been blocked by judges.
“We cannot individually litigate every single visa that we want to revoke,” Miller told reporters.
Newsweek: ICE Probe Into Foreign Teachers Sparks Backlash
A federal immigration enforcement operation targeting Filipino teachers in Hawaii has ignited a firestorm of backlash, drawing widespread outrage from lawmakers and top education officials.
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Multiple Filipino teachers on Maui were questioned by ICE agents as part of a federal search operation.
According to ICE, the warrant was executed on May 6 as part of an immigration investigation. A special agent confirmed that the residents were cooperative during the search.
“The occupants of the location were cooperative and HSI was able to conduct its search without interference or any impediment. For the safety of the agents and the occupants, residents of the home were briefly detained and interviewed in addition to the search. At the conclusion of the search, HSI special agents left the location without any arrests made,” ICE said in a statement.
This is just bigotry and harassment by cops too stupid and lazy to find real criminals to apprehend. What was their probable cause for a warrant? Something along the line of “there’s a lot of fereners living there, gotta go harass them and shake ’em down”?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-probe-into-foreign-teachers-sparks-backlash/ar-AA1EptXM
Daily Beast: Leaked Trump Memo Instructs ICE to Break Into Homes Without Warrant
The Trump administration has allowed immigration agents to invade homes without a warrant for over a month, according to a leaked internal memo.
The memo, obtained by USA Today and issued by Attorney General Pam Bondi [Bimbo #3] March 14, orders Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to break into the homes of suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua without a warrant.
Reuters: Exclusive: Trump administration moved Venezuelan to Texas for possible deportation despite judge’s order
- US judge had ordered that the man remain in Pennsylvania
- Supreme Court ruling halted deportation effort last week
- Transfer shows Trump’s aggressive deportation tactics
President Donald Trump‘s administration moved a Venezuelan man who had worked in construction in Philadelphia to Texas for possible deportation after a federal judge had issued an order blocking his removal from Pennsylvania or the United States, according to court records.
A plane transporting the man took off on April 15 from an airport in the state capital Harrisburg about a half hour after U.S. District Judge Stephanie Haines issued an order temporarily blocking the administration from moving him out of her western Pennsylvania judicial district or the country, Justice Department lawyer Laura Irwin told an April 17 hearing, conducted as a conference call.
Washington Post: Her husband was mistakenly deported. Now she’s caught in a political frenzy.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura has fought to bring her husband, Kilmar Abrego García, home from a Salvadoran prison while caring for their three kids, two of whom are disabled.
The wife of Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration, has been moved to a safe house by supporters after U.S. officials posted a court document on social media that included the family’s address.
This is unconscionable: It seems that King Donald and his cronies are trying to make life as hellish as possible not only for the improperly deported Kilmar Abrego García but also for his wife and children.
USA Today: Tourists detained by ICE say they were treated like ‘the worst criminal’
Uncommon detainees are bringing new attention to the U.S. immigration detention system
A British backpacker. A Harvard researcher. A Canadian actress. An Australian mixed martial arts coach. Dozens of international college students.
The Trump administration’s sweeping immigration-and-visa crackdown has begun ensnaring a class of people long-accustomed to being welcomed with open arms into the United States.
And those uncommon detainees are bringing new attention to the often-harsh U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention system, where people can be held without charge indefinitely, sometimes in shocking conditions, or abruptly removed from the country.
This type of treatment has long been the case in ICE detention, but the people held by the government often didn’t have the resources ‒ the access, language or middle-class expectations ‒ to denounce the conditions.
Now, with President Donald Trump’s crackdown, native English speakers, people with PhDs, and others are getting the word out to a broader public about a system they describe as arbitrary and punishing ‒ although ICE detention is not supposed to resemble prison.
“It’s insane how easily someone can take away your freedom, lock you in a federal prison, without a clear reason. No explanation. No warning,” ….
Newsweek: US Airline Agrees To Deport Migrants For ICE
Boycott Avelo Airlines!
Budget carrier Avelo Airlines has signed a deal to conduct deportation flights for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with operations beginning in May out of Arizona, the company confirmed.
The Houston-based airline will provide both domestic and international flights for the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration enforcement arm as part of what CEO Andrew Levy described as a “long-term charter program.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-airline-agrees-to-deport-migrants-for-ice/ar-AA1Cx53b
El País: Latino businesses collapse under deportation terror: ‘What is happening now is worse than what we experienced during Covid’
In January, just days after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, immigration agents came to Dana Beauty Salon in Mount Rainer, Maryland, located just two minutes from the Washington D.C. border. They were looking for one of the employees, an undocumented migrant, who was taken into custody and is being held at a detention center in New Hampshire pending a court hearing. That day changed the life of the salon’s owner, Daysi García. “They showed up one day, I think it was a Thursday. By the time the weekend came around, no one was coming in, our workers weren’t coming in for their shifts, not even the clients were coming in,” she recalls sadly.
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“What is happening now is worse than what we experienced during Covid. Back then, people could put on a mask and come in. Now, they don’t even want to leave their homes,” says García.
Meanwhile, Nero fiddles, Trump plays golf.
CBS News: Minnesota State University student detained by ICE near Mankato campus
In a statement released Monday, the president of Minnesota State University-Mankato said a student was detained by ICE at an off-campus residence last Friday.
“No reason was given,” Edward Inch said. “The University has received no information from ICE, and they have not requested any information from us.”
The detained student is currently in the jail in Albert Lea, a facility that partners with ICE.
Inch said he has contacted elected officials to share his concerns and ask them for assistance in “stopping this activity within our community of learners.”
“Our international students play an important role in our campus and community,” Inch said. “They are a valued part of our campus culture. This action hurts what we try to accomplish as a university—support all learners to receive the education they desire to make the impact they want in their communities.”

Minnesota State University student detained by ICE near Mankato campus – CBS Minnesota