Law & Crime: ‘We have concerns’: Appeals court shoots down Trump DHS bid to continue carrying out ‘third country’ deportations

Posted on May 20, 2025 by M

A federal appellate court on Friday declined to lift a nationwide injunction that bars the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from carrying out President Donald Trump’s plans to summarily deport immigrants to countries where they are not from, allegedly without due process.

The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals issued the ruling in a two-page order, denying an emergency motion from the government for a stay of an April 18 preliminary injunction. The three-judge panel determined that DHS failed to satisfy the criteria required for such relief, and the court has “concerns regarding the continuing application of the Department of Homeland Security’s March 30 Guidance Regarding Third Country Removals,” among other things, according to the order.

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The ruling stems from a class-action lawsuit filed by immigration advocates after DHS issued new guidance authorizing the removal of certain noncitizens to “third countries” not named in their immigration proceedings, and with which they allegedly have no historical or legal ties. The plaintiffs argued that the policy violates the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, as well as obligations under the Convention Against Torture human rights treaty.

1st Circuit shoots down Trump DHS bid to continue ‘third country’ deportations

A federal appeals court on Friday declined to lift a nationwide injunction that blocks Trump’s plans to summarily deport immigrants to countries they are not from, allegedly without due process.

‘We have concerns’: Appeals court shoots down Trump DHS bid to continue carrying out ‘third country’ deportations

Irish Star: Irish woman living legally in US for 30 years detained after visit to Ireland

Posted on April 29, 2025 by M

A woman who has been living in the US for more than 30 years was taken into detention by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after she paid a visit to her sick father in Ireland.

Cliona Ward, 54, went to the US in her early teens and has been residing in Santa Cruz, California, for over three decades. She recently traveled back to Ireland, a country not on the impossible immigration list, with her stepmother to visit her father, who has dementia. Upon her return, Ward was questioned about 20-year-old drug possession convictions that have reportedly been “expunged” under state but not under federal law.

Ward was reportedly released, but when she returned to the airport last Monday to show documentation to officials from US Customs and Border Protection recording how the convictions had been expunged, she was taken into custody just weeks after ICE detain students over visa issues.

According to the enforcement agency’s website, Ward is being held in an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington state. According to reports, she is due before the courts on May 7th.

Irish woman living legally in US for 30 years detained after visit to Ireland

Cliona Ward, 54, is being held in an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington state, after she was questioned by ICE agents upon her return to the United States last week

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irish-woman-living-legally-in-us-for-30-years-detained-after-visit-to-ireland/ar-AA1DLJl2

ICE detains Irish woman residing in US over decades-old expunged conviction

Cliona Ward, a 54-year-old Irish woman living in the US for over four decades, was detained by ICE due to a supposedly expunged 20-year-old conviction. View on euronews

https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other/ice-detains-irish-woman-residing-in-us-over-decades-old-expunged-conviction/ar-AA1DVMxM

AFP: Palestinian protest leader detained by US misses son’s birth

Posted on April 22, 2025 by M

Detained pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil missed the birth of his son on Monday after US authorities refused a temporary release, his wife said.

A graduate student at New York’s Columbia University who was one of the most visible leaders of nationwide campus protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, Khalil was arrested by immigration authorities on March 8.

He was ordered deported even though he was a permanent US resident through his American citizen wife, Noor Abdalla.

Abdalla said that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) denied a request to release Khalil temporarily for the birth of their child.

“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud and our son suffer,” she said in a statement.

MSN

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/palestinian-protest-leader-detained-by-us-misses-son-s-birth/ar-AA1DlyOg

CNN: Trump’s retribution sends a chilling message to dissenters

Posted on April 14, 2025 by M

Donald Trump’s White House has a threatening message for anyone who might even be perceived to disagree with the president: Don’t. Or else.

Even though he has promised to end what he viewed as “weaponization” of the Department of Justice, Trump is treating people who disagree with him more like the “enemy from within” he talked about during the presidential campaign.

The president took the unusual step this week of issuing official proclamations ordering the federal investigations of people who worked in his first administration.

He’s demanding free work from law firms who represented his perceived enemies, threatening to impeach judges, deporting campus protesters and so much more.

The underlying message, for anyone who hasn’t put all these things together, is that dissent will not be tolerated under Trump 2.0.

Analysis: Trump’s retribution sends a chilling message to dissenters | CNN Politics

Donald Trump’s White House has a threatening message for anyone who might even be perceived to disagree with the president: Don’t. Or else.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/12/politics/trump-krebs-khalil-taylor-crackdown-dissent-what-matters/index.html

Jasmine Mooney, Canadian actress, jailed 12 days after trying to renew visa at border, deported

Posted on March 30, 2025 by M

Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney said she felt like she had been kidnapped and forced to take part in “some sort of insane . . . psychological, social experiment”. She spent 12 days in detention after trying to renew an expired work visa at a border.

Avoid Trump’s Amerika. You’ll be sorry if you don’t.

‘I still have nightmares’: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders

Becky Burke, Welsh backpacker, jailed for 19 days, deported “in leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs”

Posted on March 30, 2025 by M

Others have included Becky Burke, a Welsh backpacker who was detained for 19 days. Her parents complained she was taken to the airport for deportation “in leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs” after being accused of travelling on the wrong visa. “She’s not Hannibal Lecter,” her father Paul Burke told the BBC.