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#ICE Arrests Surge at #Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
By Hamed Aleaziz and Miriam Jordan
July 28, 2026Excerpt: "The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with immigration lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation.
"Immigration agents in plain clothes have whisked away targets at check-in counters and arrival gates, with enforcement actions in at least 15 airports in recent weeks. Some of the arrests have occurred quietly, while others have happened as angry fellow passengers filmed the encounters.
"The recent arrests appear to be an expansion of an arrangement between the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Times reported in December that ICE officers were arresting people with deportation orders at airports with the help of information provided by airlines to the T.S.A.
"Now, through a review of #HomelandSecurity Department documents and interviews with lawyers for more than 25 people from more than a dozen countries recently detained at airports, The Times has learned that the program apparently now includes people with expired visas — a much larger group.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and visitors overstay visas each year. Many with expired visas occupy a legal gray area, as they are awaiting #VisaExtensions or #GreenCards and have been issued work permits. Such individuals were not prioritized for deportation in the past unless they had committed crimes, and they were rarely detained while waiting for visa extensions or green cards. But that has changed under President #Trump, whose administration has undertaken a campaign of mass deportation and views all visa overstays as illegal." 'This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,' a spokesperson for the Homeland Security Department said in a statement. The agency did not confirm the expansion of the program.
"The department, which oversees ICE, has not disclosed how many people have been detained at airports as overstays under the new initiative. The arrests come during a period in which the White House has pushed ICE for more arrests across the country, and Homeland Security Secretary #MarkwayneMullin has pledged to turn 'up the heat on the streets.' To that end, the administration has set a target of 2,000 immigration arrests a day, roughly double the pace from earlier this year.
"Interviews with more than a dozen immigration attorneys, advocacy organizations and an airline employee reveal a broad cross-section of targets: an engineer awaiting a work-visa extension, several newlyweds married to U.S. citizens, and a former au pair.
"Footage of encounters between travelers and ICE officers have flooded social media. In one widely circulated video, Chantal Morales Rojas, a 27-year-old from Ecuador, was detained by plainclothes officers as she boarded a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Oakland, Calif., on July 20. She had been spending the weekend with the family for whom she had worked as an au pair, according to the family."
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/ice-arrests-airports-visa-overstay.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/brvNl#ICESucks #USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #DefundCBP #DefundICE #TSA #TrumpSucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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#ICE Arrests Surge at #Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
By Hamed Aleaziz and Miriam Jordan
July 28, 2026Excerpt: "The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired U.S. visas as they travel through airports, including spouses of Americans, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and interviews with immigration lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation.
"Immigration agents in plain clothes have whisked away targets at check-in counters and arrival gates, with enforcement actions in at least 15 airports in recent weeks. Some of the arrests have occurred quietly, while others have happened as angry fellow passengers filmed the encounters.
"The recent arrests appear to be an expansion of an arrangement between the Transportation Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Times reported in December that ICE officers were arresting people with deportation orders at airports with the help of information provided by airlines to the T.S.A.
"Now, through a review of #HomelandSecurity Department documents and interviews with lawyers for more than 25 people from more than a dozen countries recently detained at airports, The Times has learned that the program apparently now includes people with expired visas — a much larger group.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and visitors overstay visas each year. Many with expired visas occupy a legal gray area, as they are awaiting #VisaExtensions or #GreenCards and have been issued work permits. Such individuals were not prioritized for deportation in the past unless they had committed crimes, and they were rarely detained while waiting for visa extensions or green cards. But that has changed under President #Trump, whose administration has undertaken a campaign of mass deportation and views all visa overstays as illegal." 'This administration is working diligently to ensure that aliens in our country illegally can no longer fly unless it is out of our country to self-deport,' a spokesperson for the Homeland Security Department said in a statement. The agency did not confirm the expansion of the program.
"The department, which oversees ICE, has not disclosed how many people have been detained at airports as overstays under the new initiative. The arrests come during a period in which the White House has pushed ICE for more arrests across the country, and Homeland Security Secretary #MarkwayneMullin has pledged to turn 'up the heat on the streets.' To that end, the administration has set a target of 2,000 immigration arrests a day, roughly double the pace from earlier this year.
"Interviews with more than a dozen immigration attorneys, advocacy organizations and an airline employee reveal a broad cross-section of targets: an engineer awaiting a work-visa extension, several newlyweds married to U.S. citizens, and a former au pair.
"Footage of encounters between travelers and ICE officers have flooded social media. In one widely circulated video, Chantal Morales Rojas, a 27-year-old from Ecuador, was detained by plainclothes officers as she boarded a Southwest Airlines flight from Denver to Oakland, Calif., on July 20. She had been spending the weekend with the family for whom she had worked as an au pair, according to the family."
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/ice-arrests-airports-visa-overstay.htmlArchived version:
https://archive.ph/brvNl#ICESucks #USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #DefundCBP #DefundICE #TSA #TrumpSucks #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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Judge: #Trump can’t deport #researchers just for working in #contentModeration
This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) won a key battle in its fight to reverse a visa-restriction policy that the Trump administration had used to attempt to revoke #greencards and #deport non-US citizens who work on #misinformation , #disinformation , fact-checking, content moderation, #compliance , and trust and safety.
In an opinion published Tuesday, US District Judge James Boasberg granted a preliminary #injunction blocking the #StateDepartment from enforcing the policy until the CITR’s lawsuit is resolved.
On its face, the policy does not require #visa denials or #deportations. Instead, it authorizes #immigration investigations into individuals suspected of helping foreign adversaries attempt to manipulate public opinion by suppressing US speech.
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Judge: #Trump can’t deport #researchers just for working in #contentModeration
This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) won a key battle in its fight to reverse a visa-restriction policy that the Trump administration had used to attempt to revoke #greencards and #deport non-US citizens who work on #misinformation , #disinformation , fact-checking, content moderation, #compliance , and trust and safety.
In an opinion published Tuesday, US District Judge James Boasberg granted a preliminary #injunction blocking the #StateDepartment from enforcing the policy until the CITR’s lawsuit is resolved.
On its face, the policy does not require #visa denials or #deportations. Instead, it authorizes #immigration investigations into individuals suspected of helping foreign adversaries attempt to manipulate public opinion by suppressing US speech.
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#immigration #citizenship #GreenCards
"Under Trump, spouses of U.S. citizens face policy changes in the immigration system
The Trump administration's sweeping effort to slow down the rate of legal migration has affected a group traditionally immune from such efforts: spouses of U.S. citizens.
The administration has implemented a slew of policy changes since President Trump returned to the White House last year, ranging from pausing immigrant visas for people from 75 countries to imposing greater scrutiny of applicants at green-card interviews and widening the scope of who is a target for deportation. The changes have hit all immigrants hard, including those who sought to enter and stay in the country through marriage.
Some non-U.S.-citizen spouses have been separated from their American loved ones and are afraid to engage with the U.S. immigration system, according to lawyers and NPR interviews with affected families.
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'We saw so many of our members make the decision to self-deport, to leave the country for fear of this indefinite detention,' DeAzevedo said. 'We saw some members who had their spouses detained — and that was something we had not experienced previously because there was always this prioritization of who was going to be detained.'
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Sharvari Dalal-Dheini, senior director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said the United States government has always vetted and scrutinized immigrants who sought to stay in the U.S. through marriage.
However, while applying to stay, spouses of U.S. citizens were generally not swept up in broader immigration enforcement efforts.
'This group of individuals have always had a special place under the law,' Dalal-Dheini said. 'Spouses of U.S. citizens aren't subject to the immigrant quotas. They don't have to have a cap. Spouses of U.S. citizens don't [have to have maintained] their legal status here in order to adjust. And so the law has considered them to be a privileged class.
But this administration is treating them like all other immigrants.'
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Immediate family sponsorship, including for spouses and fiancés, is one of the top ways U.S. citizens interact with the immigration system.
The latest data released by the Homeland Security Department, from 2024, shows that about 343,000 people received their green cards through their spouses — about a quarter of all green-card approvals. For about a decade, the number has hovered somewhere between 200,000 and 340,000 people.
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Eric Welsh, an immigration attorney in California, said clients must prepare for questions about when and how they applied for a green card, including providing evidence of 'good moral character' and other information — something that previously wasn't required for those seeking to gain permanent residency or U.S. citizenship through marriage.
'What's important to keep in mind is that spouses are vulnerable,' Welsh said, noting that while there are some pathways to be granted something like a green card or citizenship, it's not guaranteed. 'There's no absolute right to remain and there's no absolute right to be afforded adjustment to status. And so I think that's something that most people don't commonly understand, especially not the U.S. citizens.'"
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#immigration #citizenship #GreenCards
"Under Trump, spouses of U.S. citizens face policy changes in the immigration system
The Trump administration's sweeping effort to slow down the rate of legal migration has affected a group traditionally immune from such efforts: spouses of U.S. citizens.
The administration has implemented a slew of policy changes since President Trump returned to the White House last year, ranging from pausing immigrant visas for people from 75 countries to imposing greater scrutiny of applicants at green-card interviews and widening the scope of who is a target for deportation. The changes have hit all immigrants hard, including those who sought to enter and stay in the country through marriage.
Some non-U.S.-citizen spouses have been separated from their American loved ones and are afraid to engage with the U.S. immigration system, according to lawyers and NPR interviews with affected families.
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'We saw so many of our members make the decision to self-deport, to leave the country for fear of this indefinite detention,' DeAzevedo said. 'We saw some members who had their spouses detained — and that was something we had not experienced previously because there was always this prioritization of who was going to be detained.'
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Sharvari Dalal-Dheini, senior director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said the United States government has always vetted and scrutinized immigrants who sought to stay in the U.S. through marriage.
However, while applying to stay, spouses of U.S. citizens were generally not swept up in broader immigration enforcement efforts.
'This group of individuals have always had a special place under the law,' Dalal-Dheini said. 'Spouses of U.S. citizens aren't subject to the immigrant quotas. They don't have to have a cap. Spouses of U.S. citizens don't [have to have maintained] their legal status here in order to adjust. And so the law has considered them to be a privileged class.
But this administration is treating them like all other immigrants.'
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Immediate family sponsorship, including for spouses and fiancés, is one of the top ways U.S. citizens interact with the immigration system.
The latest data released by the Homeland Security Department, from 2024, shows that about 343,000 people received their green cards through their spouses — about a quarter of all green-card approvals. For about a decade, the number has hovered somewhere between 200,000 and 340,000 people.
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Eric Welsh, an immigration attorney in California, said clients must prepare for questions about when and how they applied for a green card, including providing evidence of 'good moral character' and other information — something that previously wasn't required for those seeking to gain permanent residency or U.S. citizenship through marriage.
'What's important to keep in mind is that spouses are vulnerable,' Welsh said, noting that while there are some pathways to be granted something like a green card or citizenship, it's not guaranteed. 'There's no absolute right to remain and there's no absolute right to be afforded adjustment to status. And so I think that's something that most people don't commonly understand, especially not the U.S. citizens.'"
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Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson disagreed, writing that the decision to put Lau on immigration parole effectively sentenced him to “immigration limbo” before he’d been convicted of any crime, she wrote.
“I worry that the Court has now handed the Government a massive blank check,” she wrote in a dissent joined by her two liberal colleagues.
The liberal group Alliance for Justice echoed that concern, saying it could provide an expanded path for revoking #GreenCards.
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Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson disagreed, writing that the decision to put Lau on immigration parole effectively sentenced him to “immigration limbo” before he’d been convicted of any crime, she wrote.
“I worry that the Court has now handed the Government a massive blank check,” she wrote in a dissent joined by her two liberal colleagues.
The liberal group Alliance for Justice echoed that concern, saying it could provide an expanded path for revoking #GreenCards.
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The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The policies, enacted by #US #Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], included a global hold on #asylum applications filed with the agency. It also paused decisions on immigration applications filed by people from the 39 countries subject to #Trump’s #TravelBan, halting their ability to obtain #GreenCards, US citizenship & other benefits.
#law #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #DualState #AbuseOfPower #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The cruelty is the point.
https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2090114/the-cruelty-is-the-point
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The cruelty is the point.
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"A new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo may significantly restrict who can obtain a green card in the United States. A likely goal is to reduce legal immigration by forcing employers, individuals and families to endure long delays at understaffed U.S. consulates and by barring people from reentering the country. Attorneys dispute the memo’s claim that 'adjustment of status' in the United States is an exception to the norm of consular processing. In FY 2024, 782,770 of 1,356,760 people (58%) gained immigrant status (permanent residence) through adjustment of status. The memo is expected to require additional guidance and may be challenged in court.
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'The memo could affect everyone, including H-1B visa holders, people on Temporary Protected Status and others,' said Liz Goss of Goss & Associates in an interview. 'The memo states that it is up to an officer’s discretion.'
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By issuing a memo rather than engaging in the rulemaking process, USCIS increased the likelihood that the new policy will be challenged under the Administrative Procedure Act.
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The Trump administration may hope that it can force people from Iran, Cuba, Nigeria and other countries out of the United States and block their reentry."
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"A new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo may significantly restrict who can obtain a green card in the United States. A likely goal is to reduce legal immigration by forcing employers, individuals and families to endure long delays at understaffed U.S. consulates and by barring people from reentering the country. Attorneys dispute the memo’s claim that 'adjustment of status' in the United States is an exception to the norm of consular processing. In FY 2024, 782,770 of 1,356,760 people (58%) gained immigrant status (permanent residence) through adjustment of status. The memo is expected to require additional guidance and may be challenged in court.
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'The memo could affect everyone, including H-1B visa holders, people on Temporary Protected Status and others,' said Liz Goss of Goss & Associates in an interview. 'The memo states that it is up to an officer’s discretion.'
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By issuing a memo rather than engaging in the rulemaking process, USCIS increased the likelihood that the new policy will be challenged under the Administrative Procedure Act.
(. . .)
The Trump administration may hope that it can force people from Iran, Cuba, Nigeria and other countries out of the United States and block their reentry."
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'Non-immigrant visa holders must return to home countries to apply for green cards, Trump administration says
In a typical year, 1 million people apply for green cards and half of those apply from within the U.S. to change their status while they are living here, a former USCIS official said.
The Trump administration said Friday that people with temporary visas seeking to adjust their immigration status to obtain green cards must return to their home countries to 'do so through consular processing,' in a major change from current practice.
'From now on, an alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply, except in extraordinary circumstances,' U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson Zach Kahler said in a statement. 'When aliens apply from their home country, it reduces the need to find and remove those who decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the U.S. illegally after being denied residency.'
The statement said that those who come to America on non-immigrant visas, including students, temporary workers and tourists, are expected to be in the United States for a short time and for a specific purpose.
'Our system is designed for them to leave when their visit is over. Their visit should not function as the first step in the Green Card process,' Kahler said."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/visa-holders-green-cards-return-home-country-trump-rcna346546
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'Non-immigrant visa holders must return to home countries to apply for green cards, Trump administration says
In a typical year, 1 million people apply for green cards and half of those apply from within the U.S. to change their status while they are living here, a former USCIS official said.
The Trump administration said Friday that people with temporary visas seeking to adjust their immigration status to obtain green cards must return to their home countries to 'do so through consular processing,' in a major change from current practice.
'From now on, an alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply, except in extraordinary circumstances,' U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson Zach Kahler said in a statement. 'When aliens apply from their home country, it reduces the need to find and remove those who decide to slip into the shadows and remain in the U.S. illegally after being denied residency.'
The statement said that those who come to America on non-immigrant visas, including students, temporary workers and tourists, are expected to be in the United States for a short time and for a specific purpose.
'Our system is designed for them to leave when their visit is over. Their visit should not function as the first step in the Green Card process,' Kahler said."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/visa-holders-green-cards-return-home-country-trump-rcna346546
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Ah, the Department of Homeland Security—a bastion of efficiency and customer service—has decided to "almost" stop granting green cards. 🚫📜 So basically, they're doing what they've always done but with a new coat of red tape. 🎨🔴 Welcome to the bureaucratic Twilight Zone, where nothing changes except the excuses! 🙄✨
https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-granting-green-cards-almost-entirely #DHS #GreenCards #Bureaucracy #RedTape #TwilightZone #CustomerService #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the Department of Homeland Security—a bastion of efficiency and customer service—has decided to "almost" stop granting green cards. 🚫📜 So basically, they're doing what they've always done but with a new coat of red tape. 🎨🔴 Welcome to the bureaucratic Twilight Zone, where nothing changes except the excuses! 🙄✨
https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-granting-green-cards-almost-entirely #DHS #GreenCards #Bureaucracy #RedTape #TwilightZone #CustomerService #HackerNews #ngated -
DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost
https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-granting-green-cards-almost-entirely
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DHS Quits Granting Green Cards–Almost
https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-granting-green-cards-almost-entirely
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Someone got the memo that US doesn’t train enough doctors, and we have to give green cards to practitioners from other countries, especially those who have been subject to a travel ban. Shortage of about 65,000 doctors in U.S. Not clear about healthcare in underserved areas.
#medicine #travelban #GreenCards #ICE #doctors
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/trump-travel-ban-doctors-us-immigration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.f1A.izi-.6bMfqGwQyJw7&smid=url-share -
"The State Department's March 2026 Visa Bulletin brings a clearer sense of momentum for some green card applicants after a relatively quiet February.
While many categories remain frozen in place, March introduces several meaningful forward moves—especially for employment‑based visas—and reverses one of February's biggest setbacks.
Employment‑based applicants—especially those in EB‑2, EB‑3, EB‑4 and religious worker categories—see the clearest gains. Family‑sponsored visas remain mostly stalled, though a handful of groups benefit from modest filing and approval advances."
https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-update-full-list-changes-11553188
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"The State Department's March 2026 Visa Bulletin brings a clearer sense of momentum for some green card applicants after a relatively quiet February.
While many categories remain frozen in place, March introduces several meaningful forward moves—especially for employment‑based visas—and reverses one of February's biggest setbacks.
Employment‑based applicants—especially those in EB‑2, EB‑3, EB‑4 and religious worker categories—see the clearest gains. Family‑sponsored visas remain mostly stalled, though a handful of groups benefit from modest filing and approval advances."
https://www.newsweek.com/green-card-update-full-list-changes-11553188
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The arrests of the #refugees, who are mainly from #Somalia & include #children, come after an announcement last Friday that the #Trump admin would “re-examine thousands of refugee cases through new background checks,” focusing on people who have yet to obtain #GreenCards after arriving in the #US. But that announcement, by US Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], did NOT say that the refugees would be subject to #arrest & transfer to immigrant #detention facilities.
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The arrests of the #refugees, who are mainly from #Somalia & include #children, come after an announcement last Friday that the #Trump admin would “re-examine thousands of refugee cases through new background checks,” focusing on people who have yet to obtain #GreenCards after arriving in the #US. But that announcement, by US Citizenship & #Immigration Services [#USCIS], did NOT say that the refugees would be subject to #arrest & transfer to immigrant #detention facilities.
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These columns of ads…not really looking for applicants underscore the challenges facing US #TechWorkers & the striking disparities in the current #immigration landscape. As restaurants, meatpackers & countless other businesses now risk having workers targeted by #ICE, #tech employers have…escaped #Trump admin scrutiny for use of #ForeignLabor. Among companies sponsoring many #H1B employees for #GreenCards …are ones aligned w/ #Trump, such as #Oracle, #Palantir & #Musk’s #Tesla.
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These columns of ads…not really looking for applicants underscore the challenges facing US #TechWorkers & the striking disparities in the current #immigration landscape. As restaurants, meatpackers & countless other businesses now risk having workers targeted by #ICE, #tech employers have…escaped #Trump admin scrutiny for use of #ForeignLabor. Among companies sponsoring many #H1B employees for #GreenCards …are ones aligned w/ #Trump, such as #Oracle, #Palantir & #Musk’s #Tesla.
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First they came for the gooners... | @destiny
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First they came for the gooners... | @destiny
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"Even green card holders are not safe from illegal deportations, a recent arrest has proven. On Monday, Palestine-born Mohsen Mahdawi was detained in Vermont despite holding a green card. After living in the U.S. for ten years, Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University, had hopes of passing his interview to become a naturalized citizen.
However, such dreams were dashed as he was arrested while attending the interview at the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont. Footage capturing the moment Mahdawi was taken into custody from the interview surfaced on X.
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Up until 2024, Mahdawi was one of the leaders of the pro-Palestine student protest movement. In 2023, he was tagged as anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas after a lecturer at the University published a thread about the protest organizers.
Unfortunately, since Trump took office, there has been heavy scrutiny on foreign students participating in the campus pro-Palestine movement. Mahdawi is now facing a deportation order"
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"Even green card holders are not safe from illegal deportations, a recent arrest has proven. On Monday, Palestine-born Mohsen Mahdawi was detained in Vermont despite holding a green card. After living in the U.S. for ten years, Mahdawi, a student at Columbia University, had hopes of passing his interview to become a naturalized citizen.
However, such dreams were dashed as he was arrested while attending the interview at the U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont. Footage capturing the moment Mahdawi was taken into custody from the interview surfaced on X.
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Up until 2024, Mahdawi was one of the leaders of the pro-Palestine student protest movement. In 2023, he was tagged as anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas after a lecturer at the University published a thread about the protest organizers.
Unfortunately, since Trump took office, there has been heavy scrutiny on foreign students participating in the campus pro-Palestine movement. Mahdawi is now facing a deportation order"
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#immigants #GreenCards #OccupiedPalestine #FreeSpeech
"Chung’s family moved to the United States from South Korea when she was seven, and she became a lawful permanent resident in 2021, according to a court filing that is challenging the bid by the Department of Homeland Security officials to detain her.
Her attorneys won a temporary restraining order against the federal government in that case on March 25 that requires the government to get court approval before detaining or transferring Chung out of state.
Chung was arrested in early March for participating in a protest on Barnard College’s campus, which is affiliated with Columbia, that challenged disciplinary measures taken by the university against pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Four days later, DHS agents visited the home of Chung’s parents, and four days after that federal agents executed a search warrant of the campus apartments of Chung and another student.
'The Warrant would only have been properly supported factually if the materials submitted to the issuing Magistrate Judge, including under oath, stated that Ms. Chung was unlawfully present in the United States. But Ms. Chung is a lawful permanent resident… and Secretary Rubio does not have the unilateral authority to revoke her status,' says the April 4 court filing. 'Any possibility that the Court may have been provided incorrect or false information as a basis for the Warrant makes release of the materials critical.'
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Two of Chung’s attorneys told THE CITY they were only aware of two cases, hers and Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, where federal officials have sought to detain and deport legal permanent residents — known as green card holders."
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/07/yunseo-hung-columbia-warrant-deportation-legal-challenge/
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#immigants #GreenCards #OccupiedPalestine #FreeSpeech
"Chung’s family moved to the United States from South Korea when she was seven, and she became a lawful permanent resident in 2021, according to a court filing that is challenging the bid by the Department of Homeland Security officials to detain her.
Her attorneys won a temporary restraining order against the federal government in that case on March 25 that requires the government to get court approval before detaining or transferring Chung out of state.
Chung was arrested in early March for participating in a protest on Barnard College’s campus, which is affiliated with Columbia, that challenged disciplinary measures taken by the university against pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Four days later, DHS agents visited the home of Chung’s parents, and four days after that federal agents executed a search warrant of the campus apartments of Chung and another student.
'The Warrant would only have been properly supported factually if the materials submitted to the issuing Magistrate Judge, including under oath, stated that Ms. Chung was unlawfully present in the United States. But Ms. Chung is a lawful permanent resident… and Secretary Rubio does not have the unilateral authority to revoke her status,' says the April 4 court filing. 'Any possibility that the Court may have been provided incorrect or false information as a basis for the Warrant makes release of the materials critical.'
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Two of Chung’s attorneys told THE CITY they were only aware of two cases, hers and Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, where federal officials have sought to detain and deport legal permanent residents — known as green card holders."
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/07/yunseo-hung-columbia-warrant-deportation-legal-challenge/
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With heightened scrutiny from the US government, Indian green card holders are concerned about their status. Experts advise that as long as they adhere to US laws, maintain strong ties, and avoid long stays abroad, they have little to fear. Important documentation and lawful compliance are crucial.
#Indians #GreenCards #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/indians-on-green-cards-are-advised-not-to-panic-but-to-carry-relevant-documents-when-returning-to-the-us-from-abroad/articleshow/119419156.cms -
With heightened scrutiny from the US government, Indian green card holders are concerned about their status. Experts advise that as long as they adhere to US laws, maintain strong ties, and avoid long stays abroad, they have little to fear. Important documentation and lawful compliance are crucial.
#Indians #GreenCards #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/indians-on-green-cards-are-advised-not-to-panic-but-to-carry-relevant-documents-when-returning-to-the-us-from-abroad/articleshow/119419156.cms -
The #Trump regime is revoking the #student #visas and #GreenCards of any foreign national that expresses an opinion they disagree with.
The message is clear. If you are a foreign national, you are not welcome in the United States.
Spread the word. #USpol
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is raising its fees for work visas and green cards for the first time in more than 7 years.
#Immigration #News #COVID19 #GreenCards #H1B #USCitizenshipAndImmigrationServices
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is raising its fees for work visas and green cards for the first time in more than 7 years.
#Immigration #News #COVID19 #GreenCards #H1B #USCitizenshipAndImmigrationServices