Alejandro Juarez, 39, was detained in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 15 after he showed up for a check-in at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. As his wife waited for him outside, agents placed him in a cell before transferring him to a facility in Newark. Four days later, he was flown to Texas and forced to walk across a bridge over the Rio Grande to Mexico.
Yes. I mean, look, I've been doing this for 20 years now, and it really is one of the craziest cases I've worked on. One minute, I'm here waiting for a hearing following week. And then I get a call from him, and he says, I'm in Mexico. Mexico? We have a hearing in front of a judge. And I went in front of the immigration judge. The judge had no idea what was happening. DHS had no idea what was happening.
Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu was jailed for 12 months in September for the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl and was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford on Friday morning instead of being sent to an immigration detention centre. The migrant, who had been living at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, when he assaulted the girl, took a train from Chelmsford to Stratford, east London, the day he was released and was later spotted in Dalston
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A Pennsylvania man who was recently exonerated after spending more than four decades behind bars has now been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and faces possible deportation to India. Earlier this month, Centre county's district attorney dismissed murder charges against 64-year-old Subramanyam Subu Vedam. However, shortly after his exoneration, Vedam was detained by Ice based on a 1988 deportation order tied to his now-vacated convictions.
This is not an isolated case, because like this marriage, in which one spouse is undocumented and the other is a U.S. citizen, there are 1.4 million mixed-nationality couples who live in fear of being separated. Separation, however, has become a lesser evil in many cases, given the treatment received by those who end up in ICE custody. Many couples prefer to continue their relationship long-distance rather than enter the uncertain process of detention and deportation.
A Toyota Sienna minivan was traveling southbound on Pope Valley Road in unincorporated Napa County, 12 miles north of St. Helena, when it crashed into a tree on the side of the road. The minivan had eight men in it, including the driver, 53-year-old Norberto Celerino of Stockton. Six of the passengers were killed and one was critically injured. Celerino, who did not have a valid driver's license, survived, and we learned a few days later that he had three previous DUI convictions.
Israel's Foreign Ministry announced on X on Monday that it had expelled a total of 171 activists from the flotilla's ships, which were intercepted last week while trying to bring aid to blockaded Gaza. This brings the total deported so far up to 341. The Greek Foreign Ministry confirmed that 161 of the expelled activists including 27 Greeks and 134 nationals from 15 other countries arrived on a flight to Athens on Monday, according to news agency AFP.
The initial 14 were brought to Ghana on September 6. Three were deported that night. 11 were held in military detention. Out of that 11, 10 were deported with the matter in court, and eight of them are in Togo,
We are very frightened of what will happen to us, said one. We were told we can claim asylum in France but nobody has explained to us what we need to do. I escaped from the smugglers in Calais when I travelled to UK and I am scared they will find me here and kill me.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) The Trump administration deported a planeload of around 100 Iranians back to Tehran late Monday under a deal struck with the Iranian government, officials have confirmed. A U.S.-chartered flight left Louisiana and was scheduled to land in Iran on Tuesday via Qatar, two senior Iranian officials involved in the negotiations and a U.S. official familiar with the plan told The New York Times. All spoke on the condition of anonymity.