NEW: The government is holding Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, a Sacramento DACA-protected mother deported after her February green card interview, at the San Ysidro port of entry despite an approaching court-ordered deadline to bring her back to the United States, advocates and her legal team say.
"I followed the rules and trusted the process, and I just want to return to my family and rebuild my life."
A judge ordered her return after a wrongful deportation. Now comes the hard part.
“I think a lot of people assume that the story ends when your loved one comes back. But that’s just the beginning of when the healing process starts.”
Deaths in ICE custody have reached a record high; 49 people since January 2025. As many as 29 just in this fiscal year.
But the Trump administration is shutting down an independent DHS oversight office that handles complaints about conditions and treatment in detention facilities.
Immigrants are dying in ICE detention. A key watchdog office is now gone.
The "justices’ immigration histories span much of the American experience...In each case, these newcomers paved the way for a descendant to reach the privileged pinnacle of the country’s civic life. These nine men and women will now sit in judgment of citizenship for their fellow countrymen."
Jared Kushner’s leading role in the bungled negotiations makes him complicit in what, by most accounts, has been a costly and humiliating defeat for the administration—and for the nation.
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Estrada Juarez went to Mexico City over the weekend to pray at the Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe then flew to Tijuana Sunday morning, before driving to the border today. Her parole authorization was approved, according to her lawyer. Her daughter Damaris Bello is waiting to reunite with her.
When the SCOTUS justices hear oral arguments over Trump’s effort to rewrite the Constitution and limit birthright citizenship in Trump v. Barbara tomorrow, they'll be considering arguments pushed by a handful of controversial legal scholars. @pemalevy.bsky.social and I unpacked their theories here:
On March 23, a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to facilitate Estrada Juarez's return within seven days, finding that she “was removed in flagrant violation of the regulatory protections afforded to her under DACA."
“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life."
On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.
"They failed me once, they made a mistake once, what makes you think it's not going to happen again?"
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"An utter disregard for safety and just humane treatment."
