CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulls a 60 Minutes investigative segment about deportee abuse at El Salvador’s CECOT prison approximately three hours before its scheduled Sunday night broadcast. The segment, reported by veteran correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, featured interviews with …
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem faced one of the most contentious congressional hearings of the Trump administration’s second term on December 11, 2025, when Representative Seth Magaziner (D-R.I.) publicly confronted her with a Purple Heart recipient she had ordered deported, …
On October 25, 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported Chanthila “Shawn” Souvannarath, 44, to Laos in direct violation of a federal court order issued just one day earlier. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana had issued a …
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In a 6-3 decision in DHS v. D.V.D., the Supreme Court allowed DHS to deport immigrants to “third countries”—nations they’re not from—without meaningful opportunity to contest deportation. The ruling stayed a Massachusetts district court order that had required 15 days notice and …
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On February 18, 2025, the official @WhiteHouse social media account posted a video titled “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight” showing immigrants in shackles being transported on a deportation flight, with audio prominently featuring the sound of jingling chains being laid out on …
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President Bill Clinton signs the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) in response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, despite the attack having no connection to immigration. While primarily focused on death penalty procedures and terrorism prosecution, the law contains sweeping …
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Following the acquittal of Los Angeles police officers in the Rodney King beating and the subsequent civil unrest, the Immigration and Naturalization Service collaborates with the LAPD to conduct sweeping arrests targeting undocumented immigrants among those detained during the riots. INS officials …
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President Ronald Reagan signs the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, introducing the “aggravated felony” concept into immigration law for the first time. Initially defined narrowly to include murder, federal drug trafficking, and illicit trafficking in certain firearms or destructive devices, …
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On January 2, 1920, the Palmer Raids reached their peak with coordinated mass arrests in 33 cities across the United States, targeting alleged radicals, communists, and anarchists. Under the direction of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and 24-year-old J. Edgar Hoover, who headed the Justice …
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