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The main human‑rights criticisms of President Barack Obama’s immigration enforcement record focused on the scale of removals, the expansion of detention—including the use of private facilities—and pol...
In mid‑March 2025 the United States flew a large group of Venezuelan men to El Salvador’s CECOT maximum‑security prison; reporting places the flights on March 15 and the deportations at roughly 240–26...
Reporting shows multiple episodes in 2025 where Venezuelan nationals were moved across borders and into third‑country prisons — most notably a U.S. deportation of 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador in Mar...
The available reporting does not provide a single, verified tally of how many Venezuelan men deported by the United States to a Salvadoran prison in March had criminal convictions of any kind; indepen...
Since 2024, coordination between the United States and El Salvador on migrants labeled as gang-affiliated has combined formal agreements, ad hoc operational deals and law-enforcement cooperation — fro...
The Supreme Court has not, as of the reporting available, issued a definitive merits decision that “struck down” a presidential proclamation issued by President Trump; instead the Court has frequently...
Reporting shows multiple disputes over whether Trump-era orders were lawful and several courts and watchdogs have called specific administration personnel actions unlawful; public, legal, and politica...
A set of recent court disputes alleges that the Trump administration disobeyed judicial orders in at least three distinct contexts: the Abrego Garcia wrongful-deportation case, mass deportations under...
Available reporting and advocacy analyses from April through September 2025 show extensive coverage of a Department of Justice memo enabling , legal challenges to ICE arrests, and civil‑rights group c...