Trump administration ordered to return wrongly deported man from El Salvador

Trump administration ordered to return wrongly deported man from El Salvador

A federal appeals court has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of another man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador in violation of a court order. The order to facilitate the return of Jordin Alexander Melgar-Salmeron, a 31-year-old Salvadoran who was deported last month minutes after a federal appeals court barred his … Read more

Administration asks Supreme Court to clarify order allowing deportations to 3rd countries

Administration asks Supreme Court to clarify order allowing deportations to 3rd countries

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to clarify its order allowing migrants to be deported to third countries after a federal judge in Boston said that eight migrants being held in the African country of Djibouti are protected from immediate removal. In an order Monday, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said the … Read more

The one thing the Trump administration got very right

The one thing the Trump administration got very right

Doctors examining a monkey at a lab in France. | Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via Getty Images If there’s anything the Trump administration has gotten unequivocally right (besides inadvertently helping Mark Carney become prime minister of Canada), it’s this: Modern science, for all its remarkable capabilities, still remains far too dependent on one of the most … Read more

Judge rules Trump administration cannot continue to detain Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

Judge rules Trump administration cannot continue to detain Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil

A New Jersey federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from deporting or continuing to detain Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. In his ruling issued on Wednesday, Judge Michael Farbiarz is barring the administration from seeking to remove Khalil based on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s determination that his continued … Read more

Trump administration says it will appeal order granting El Salvador deportees due process

Trump administration says it will appeal order granting El Salvador deportees due process

The Trump administration says it will appeal a court order requiring it to allow hundreds of noncitizens who were deported in March to El Salvador to challenge their detentions. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg last week ordered the Trump administration to give the hundreds of men deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act … Read more