Banished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation deals

After a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy deals made with dozens of countries. An in-depth investigation reveals the ‘show of force’ costing American taxpayers millions…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/21/trump-deportation-deals 

Appeals court rejects ICE detention policy, setting stage for SCOTUS - POLITICO

“Mass detention of marginalized individuals without due process harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history,” 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Nicole Berner, a Biden appointee, wrote in a 2-1 majority opinion joined by Judge Barbara Keenan, an Obama appointee. 

 “Those shameful and abhorrent past detentions were limited in scope in comparison to the mandatory detention that the Government urges us today to find that Congress established thirty years ago in an ambiguously worded statutory provision. We decline to do so,” Berner wrote…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/10/trump-ice-detention-appeals-courts-01070427

 

Pete Hegseth’s Year of Blowing Up Boats – Mother Jones

“The United States is simply killing individuals unilaterally without any legal basis or process.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/hegseth-caribbean-boat-strikes-bombings-drones-year-227-killed/ 

Appeals court delivers 8th straight blow to ICE’s mandatory detention policy - POLITICO

A divided panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that ICE’s novel interpretation of mandatory detention laws distorted a 30-year-old statute that was generally meant to require detention for people who recently crossed the border. 

The panel also concluded that ICE detainees with extensive ties to the U.S. have a constitutional due process right to a bond hearing…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/28/trump-ice-third-circuit

 

Judge rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn conviction - POLITICO

Engelmayer, a New York-based Obama appointee, called Maxwell’s claims “all meritless and all or almost all are frivolous.” 

“On the contrary, to the extent it is relevant, far from exculpating her, it incriminates her or reinforces the correctness of the legal rulings Maxwell challenges,” he said of her claims...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/25/ghislaine-maxwell-conviction-challenge-01049268

‘We’ve never seen anything like this’: ICE’s detention crackdown swamps the courts - POLITICO

The flood of cases has stretched the judiciary to a breaking point across the country. Thousands of rulings, from hundreds of judges rushing to respond to the individual cases in front of them, have added up to an overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s unprecedented policy.

 “The third branch of government is saying no. We’re not going to do it this way,” U.S. District Judge Fred Biery said in an interview…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/10/ice-detentions-trump-administration-01027440 

Republicans Turn on The Second Amendment

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7xEwUCS42mI

 

Appeals court sharply limits ICE’s massive expansion of detention - POLITICO

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 ruling concluded that detainees awaiting the outcome of their deportation proceedings must be afforded a bond hearing within 90 days...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/02/appeals-court-texas-limits-ice-detention-00986586

 

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to OK its unprecedented immigration detention policy - POLITICO

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to bless its massive expansion of ICE detention — a policy that federal district courts have overwhelmingly rejected...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/26/trump-ice-detention-supreme-court-00978482

 

SCOTUS Gave the Government a “Blank Check” to Weaken Due Process for Green Card Holders – Mother Jones

In a 6–3 decision signed by Justice Clarence Thomas, the conservative supermajority held that border officers don’t need to have “clear and convincing evidence” that a lawful permanent resident committed a crime involving moral turpitude—a vaguely defined immigration law term that can cover a wide spectrum of crimes generally involving intent to defraud or cause bodily harm—before jeopardizing their rights and ability to stay in the country. In other words, agents at the border have just been given exceptional discretion to bypass protections generally afforded to green card holders...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/scotus-gave-the-government-a-blank-check-to-weaken-due-process-for-green-card-holders/ 

 

‘We are not criminals’: protests erupt as hunger strike rocks New Jersey ICE jail

“We are detained, we are on hunger strike, demanding due process rights and the improvement of conditions,” one of the men said in an interview with the Guardian. “We are not criminals. We are people who enter [the facility] with a clean record. We pay our taxes. [We are] Fathers. Mothers. Spouses of citizens with existing petitions.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/27/new-jersey-ice-immigration

 

Israeli security minister stirs diplomatic outrage with flotilla activist abuse video

“The team reports systemic violations of due process, and widespread physical and psychological abuse by Israeli authorities,” the rights group Adalah said in a statement. There were “a large number of complaints of extreme violence”.

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/20/israeli-security-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-stirs-diplomatic-outrage-with-flotilla-activist-abuse-video

 

6th Circuit Court: Trump’s “mandatory detention” immigration policy unconstitutional

The court majority wrote that the government cannot “subject long-term law-abiding residents of the United States…to the hardship of mandatory detention without due process.” It also found the current policy overturned decades of precedent for bond hearings in immigration cases...

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-justice-legal-system/2026-05-11/6th-circuit-court-trumps-mandatory-detention-immigration-policy-violates-constitution

 

Judge orders Trump administration to bring back DACA recipient deported to Mexico - POLITICO

In a Monday order, U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins called the deportation a "flagrant violation" of DACA's promise of protection to those who arrived in the country as minors, as well as a violation of Estrada's constitutional due process rights. Coggins, a Biden appointee, directed the administration to facilitate Estrada's return by March 30...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/24/daca-recipient-deportation-ruling-00841604

 

Judges keep ordering immigration hearings — but say the results are often a sham - POLITICO

The courts say the Trump administration isn't complying in good faith with demands to give ICE detainees a measure of due process...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/06/immigration-case-hearings-judges-00815660 

 

How Trump’s Justice Department Scrapped Due Process to Attack UCLA — ProPublica

Trump's DOJ threatened UCLA with discrimination lawsuits, demanded more than $1 billion in fines and pressed for changes that had nothing to do with antisemitism...

https://www.propublica.org/article/ucla-antisemitism-investigation-trump-doj 

 

Boasberg escalates contempt inquiry over Alien Enemies Act deportations - POLITICO

After lawyers for the men rushed to court overnight to stop the deportations, Boasberg attempted to halt the operation, citing grave concerns about the lack of due process. But the administration refused to turn around planes that had already left U.S. airspace and ultimately handed over the Venezuelan men, despite protests that they had been misidentified…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/judge-boasberg-alien-enemies-act-deportations-el-salvador-00681503 

 

Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | The Guardian

Across the country, ICE has been criticized for its use of holding facilities, which are not subjected to traditional audits, inspections and general oversight that larger ICE detention centers are required to face. 

Now, advocates and former ICE officials are sounding the alarm that their extended use puts people in unsafe conditions, raises the risk of abuse and medical neglect, and violates due process rights. The facilities are secretive and face minimal oversight, and detainees have very little contact with family members or attorneys...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/ice-hidden-detention-sites

 

Trump administration moves to curtail appeals by fired workers - The Washington Post

The legal arguments mark the latest effort by President Donald Trump to exert more control over independent agencies and remove protections for federal workers. The administration is now aiming to use the MSPB to assert that the presidential powers in the Constitution outrank the right to due process for workers, although the MSPB has previously said it lacks the statutory authority to consider constitutional claims. 

"The Trump administration's effort to assert control over the interpretations of the MSPB is alarming because the MSPB needs some degree of independence from the executive branch to fairly adjudicate the claims brought by federal employees," said Nick Bednar, a law professor at the University of Minnesota Law School...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/29/trump-firings-appeals-merit-board/

GOP Rep. heckled and exits town hall during questions

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZLImNh15klc