Trump’s Deportation Agenda Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists
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Trump’s Deportation Agenda Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines U.S. immigration agents wearing masks arrested a Georgetown University academic outside his home in Virginia. They detained two German tourists for weeks when they tried to enter the country legally through the southern border. They knocked on doors at Columbia University apartments, searching…

Administration’s Details on Deportation Flights ‘Woefully Insufficient,’ Judge Says
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Administration’s Details on Deportation Flights ‘Woefully Insufficient,’ Judge Says

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In a display of open frustration, a federal judge in Washington told the Trump administration on Thursday to explain in detail why officials had not violated an order he issued last weekend pausing the deportation of scores of Venezuelan immigrants under a rarely…

Trump Administration Sends a New Group of Migrants to Guantánamo Bay
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Trump Administration Sends a New Group of Migrants to Guantánamo Bay

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration sent a new group of migrants to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday to await deportation, claiming that they may have ties to a Venezuelan gang, according to officials with knowledge of the operation. An Immigration…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

How the G.O.P. Went From Championing Campus Free Speech to Fighting It
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Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power…

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say
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Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his…

Judge Says Khalil’s Deportation Case Can Be Heard in New Jersey
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Judge Says Khalil’s Deportation Case Can Be Heard in New Jersey

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A New York federal judge on Wednesday transferred the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration this month, to New Jersey, where his lawyers will continue their efforts to seek his release. Mr. Khalil, a leader of…

Trump Administration Pushes Back Against Judge’s Orders on Deportations
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Trump Administration Pushes Back Against Judge’s Orders on Deportations

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been waging a multifront attack on the federal judge who is deciding whether the president may use a wartime statute to deport people suspected of belonging to a Venezuelan street gang. Lawyers for the Justice…

Courts Defer to Executive Branch Factual Claims. Trump Complicates That.
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Courts Defer to Executive Branch Factual Claims. Trump Complicates That.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The government typically has an advantage when defending its policies against legal challenges. Courts generally defer to the executive branch’s factual declarations and formal representations about what is happening and why, rather than probing for what may actually be going on. But the…