Immigration

An aerial view of the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Facility in Jena, La., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Trump administration seeks explosive expansion of nation’s immigration detention system

The world’s largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen speaks to the press in La Libertad, El Salvador, where he arrived regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland and deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have

The Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but sets May arguments

In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., March 25, 2025. (AP Photo)

Immigration judge denies bond for Tufts University student from Turkey, her lawyers say

Micelle Beltran cries after a bill that would deny illegal immigrants access to education passed in a House Education Committee hearing in Nashville, Tenn., March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Tennessee’s GOP leads the fight to deny public education to children without documents

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Trump administration seeks explosive expansion of nation’s immigration detention system

Amid the crawfish farms, towering pine trees and sugarcane fields of rural Louisiana, nearly 7,000 people are waiting at immigration detention centers to learn whether they will be expelled from the United States. (AP Video/Stephen Smith)

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Judge to weigh Louisiana AG’s challenge to city jail’s ‘sanctuary’ policy

A member of law enforcement stand near an entrance to an apartment complex during a raid by federal agents Feb. 5, 2025, in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

What happens next after judge warns of possible contempt prosecution over deportation flights order

The Italian navy ship Libra approaches the port , as Italian authorities transfer 40 migrants with no permission to remain in the country to Italian-run migration detention centers in Albania, in Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

The EU moves to fast-track asylum claims by migrants from 7 countries to speed deportation

Lifejackets hang at the home of a local in Villa Caleta, Panama, Monday, April 7, 2025. The jackets were once used to ferry migrants after their trek across the Darien Gap on their way north to the U.S. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

A jungle route once carried hundreds of thousands of migrants. Now the local economy has crashed

President Donald Trump speaks during the Commander-in-Chief trophy presentation to the Navy Midshipman football team in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says he wants to give money and airplane tickets to immigrants who ‘self-deport’

This undated photo provided by CASA, an immigrant advocacy organization, in April 2025, shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (CASA via AP)

In their words: What judges and Trump’s government say about Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation

Migrants walk into Mexico after being deported from the United States at El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Justice Department can cut funding for legal guidance for people facing deportation, US judge says

A member of law enforcement stand near an entrance to an apartment complex during a raid by federal agents Feb. 5, 2025, in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Colorado judge puts temporary hold on deportations sought by Trump under Alien Enemies Act

This image taken from a video provided by Christopher Helali shows Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University, being detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vt., on Monday, April 14, 2025. (Christopher Helali via AP)

A Palestinian activist expecting a US citizenship interview is arrested instead by ICE in Vermont

In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., March 25, 2025. (AP Photo)

Judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student’s case

Hong Kong defends its immigration procedures after British MP was denied entry

2 bodies, 39 survivors found on Greek island after a suspected migrant boat sinking

Cyprus sentences Syrian man for bringing migrants aboard an overloaded boat

President Donald Trump greets El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele as he arrives at the West Wing of the White House, Monday, April 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

El Salvador President Bukele says he won’t be releasing a Maryland man back to the US

Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, speaks during a news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

US still won’t say whether it will return mistakenly deported man, despite Supreme Court decision

Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is seen at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

What to know about activist Mahmoud Khalil and his attorneys’ plan to appeal his deportation ruling

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer listens during a briefing, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Judge dismisses charge against North Dakota man accused of impersonating ICE officer

A U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter flies near the US-Mexico border as part of the Joint Task Force Southern Border as the border wall cuts across the landscape Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Douglas, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

What we know about the Social Security Administration listing thousands of living immigrants as dead

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho gives a DNA lesson in an enrichment biology class at Panorama High School during the district's first "acceleration days" on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, in Panorama City, Calif. (Sarah Reingewirtz/The Orange County Register via AP)

Feds say agents went to LA schools to do welfare check on migrant children

Law enforcement officers approach pro-Palestinian protesters as they congregate at MLK Plaza at the University of South Florida, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Tampa, Fla. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP, File)

Florida universities to deputize campus police for immigration enforcement

Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is seen at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported, immigration judge rules

FILE- In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo)

Tufts student from Turkey details arrest, crowded detention conditions in new court filing

A sign that prohibits the entrance of ICE or Homeland Security is posted on a door at St. Paul and St. Andrew United Methodist Church in New York, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Federal judge sides with Trump in allowing immigration enforcement in houses of worship

The relatives of Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. who were flown to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government who alleged they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, protest outside of the United Nations building in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

From classifying immigrants as dead to deportation: A guide to actions on Trump immigration policies

Alina Habba speaks after being sworn in as interim US Attorney General for New Jersey, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on March 28, 2025. (Pool File via AP)

US Attorney Habba investigating New Jersey governor over immigration enforcement policy

President Donald Trump listens to Jeff Crowe speak during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Trump administration offers no details on mistakenly deported man after court ruling

An Italian navy ship approaches the port , as Italian authorities transfer 40 migrants with no permission to remain in the country to Italian-run migration detention centers in Albania, in Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Italy sends rejected migrants to detention centers in Albania

Demonstrators gather outside of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's access to Social Security data. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say

This undated photo provided by Murray Osorio PLLC shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (Murray Osorio PLLC via AP)

Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man ICE mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison?

A 9-year-old girl with Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, who was born in Venezuela, but who fluently speaks only English and is in the gifted program at her school, watches TV in her family's apartment, Saturday, April 5, 2025, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Judge will halt Trump administration from ending humanitarian parole for people from four countries