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The process of remedying wrongful deportations of U.S. citizens, including the role of the courts and executive branch.
Being present in the without lawful immigration status is, in most cases, a civil violation subject to —not a standalone criminal offense—and U.S. law and courts distinguish “unlawful presence” from c...
both expanded and formalized aggressive while also creating legal priorities intended to focus removals on criminals and recent border crossers; critics argue those policies sacrificed individualized ...
Yes — multiple reputable reports document that U.S. citizens were mistakenly detained and, in at least some instances, deported during President Trump’s most recent administration; courts intervened t...
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...
When an immigrant is deported without notice or access to counsel, the law offers a narrow set of post‑ remedies — administrative motions to reopen or reopen based on fraud or lack of notice, collater...
—people admitted to the after screening under the —enter under a different legal status than other noncitizens, and that status carries distinct protections, screening requirements, and international-...
in the can sometimes obtain lawful status through a mix of long-standing immigration forms (family petitions, asylum, humanitarian visas), special statutory mechanisms (registry, section 245(i)), reli...
Interior deportations are removals of noncitizens arrested or processed inside —predominantly handled by ICE—while border deportations are returns or removals of people encountered at or near the U.S....
A U.S. citizen who believes they were wrongfully deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) faces a pathway that is part administrative complaint, part litigation: document and preserve evi...
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) fundamentally rewrote how the United States removes noncitizens by streamlining and accelerating removal procedures, ex...