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Attorneys for Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman arrested in New Jersey and being detained in an ICE facility in Alvarado, are demanding her release in federal court.
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Roughly 200,000 Afghans have come to the U.S. since the Taliban seized Kabul in August 2021. There are now about 10,000 in Greater Houston. Even those with a pathway to U.S. citizenship are worried about their future as President Donald Trump has steadily eliminated their legal protections.
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DHS is telling some migrants who entered the U.S. using the CBP One app to leave immediately, part of a broader push to revoke temporary legal protections known as humanitarian parole.
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ICE said in a news release it had arrested Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, for overstaying her expired student visa. She was also arrested last year for her involvement in the protests at Columbia University against the war in Gaza.
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The ruling ends a long-running lawsuit between the Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued over a 鈥渮ero-tolerance鈥 policy on illegal immigration that resulted in more than 5,000 children being separated from their parents at the border during the Trump administration.
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The Biden Administration has extended Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 residents from four countries, but thousands more have no protections.
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said during a visit to Texas that the administration will enforce measures that he hopes will discourage migrants from making the dangerous journey to the United States.
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Pat Fallon, R-Sherman, filed articles of impeachment late Monday, delayed a week because of the contentious majority vote for the U.S. House speaker.
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El Paso and the federal government are sending migrants away from crowded border facilities ahead of the scheduled end to Title 42.
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Activists are calling for better protections for immigrants who speak out about mistreatment at the workplace.
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In July, Abbott authorized state law enforcement to transport migrants to ports of entry. It鈥檚 unclear how and why migrants are being detained, raising civil rights concerns and questions about whether the state is overstepping federal authority.
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It was the single deadliest migrant smuggling case in U.S. history, according to a Homeland Security official. Citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were among the victims.