Soliman’s removal to Equatorial Guinea violated his due process rights under the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, said the Trump appointee, who wrote that the man has faced “irreparable harm” after being “unlawfully” deported.

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📍 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐗, 𝐀𝐙:

Since being deported to country he doesn’t know, Arizona resident Ahmed Soliman “has been confined under armed guard, assaulted, held at gunpoint, and, most recently, arrested, hooded, beaten, and held incommunicado,” a federal judge said.

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:
Democracy Forward, a nonprofit organization, obtained government documents showing that ICE was surveilling and investigating voter registration organizations "as part of their efforts to catch noncitizens voting."
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“With the directive on daily arrests, ICE returns to a previous White House imposed push to arrest 3,000 people a day, an unprecedented number that the agency has previously struggled to meet. ICE had recently been taking around 2,000 people into custody daily on average …”

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

ICE leadership told agents nationwide on Tuesday to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive.

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“Once inside the ICE facility, she continued to ask why she’d been arrested. ‘You spoke too much, that’s why,’ came the reply, according to María. ICE agents then said, ‘You should have thought about it before speaking up to defend your friend.””

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📍 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀:

“Why are you taking him if he isn’t the one you were looking for,” farmworker María told the masked agents who were harassing her friend. “At that moment they turned toward me and said they would arrest me, too, for asking questions and complaining.”

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“We already don’t have an independent [immigration] judiciary,” said MIRC’s Ana Raquel Devereaux, “and to have the defense side of representation also be within the government makes me feel like it’s all a farce and everybody is working together to get the kids removed.”

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:

The Trump administration has quietly announced that its own lawyers will represent unaccompanied migrant children in immigration court, facing off against other administration lawyers who are trying to deport the kids.

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📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋:
A whistleblower filed two complaints alleging that the FBI opened an investigation into anti-ICE protesters in California after Trump was reportedly watching TikToks of protests against ICE and CBP agents. #AbuseofPowerWatch

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More broadly, Judge Gary Brown “concluded that the agency’s claim — that it had confused the two men it arrested with the intended targets — was part of a ‘troubling’ pattern by ICE to justify erroneous arrests."

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📍𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊:

A Trump-appointed federal judge condemned ICE’s tactics when it wrongfully arrested two Hispanic men, including a U.S. citizen, in the Bronx in May, finding that ICE had “falsified official records trying to conceal” its “illegal actions.”

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📍 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄, 𝐌𝐃:

Immigration officials “failed at every single turn” to comply with a court order aimed to limit overcrowding at a Baltimore holding facility, and further violations could lead to contempt proceedings, a federal judge ruled.

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“Many of us have been separated from our families,” reads the letter, which was signed by 45 detained immigrants, as dozens joined in to stage the hunger strike. “We have missed births, funerals, years of our lives while sitting behind fences without having committed any crime.”

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📍 𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐀:

A group of people detained inside a privately run ICE jail in Georgia have launched a mass hunger strike this week to protest against their prolonged detention and the facility’s conditions, according to advocates and family members.

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