Immigration

A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday said that a 2-year-old U.S. citizen appears to have been deported with her mother to Honduras with no meaningful due process.

A judge in Milwaukee is accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities. The case immediately became a high-profile confrontation between the Trump administration and judiciary over the Republican administration’s immigration policies.

Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by FBI agents in the Milwaukee County Courthouse parking lot on April 25. Here’s what you need to know.

“It’s like somebody flipped a light switch on,” said one attorney whose client had a visa termination suddenly reversed.

The FBI arrested a county judge in Milwaukee on Friday, alleging that she obstructed the detention of an undocumented immigrant who was wanted by federal authorities on an administrative immigration warrant by escorting the man and his defense attorney though a non-public jury door.

As President Trump seeks to make good on his campaign pledge of removals of migrants, the U.S. immigration detention system is bulging with prisoners.

Federal agents arrested Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan on obstruction charges, FBI Director Kash Patel said.

Speaking to NBC Washington in 2020, an undocumented worker named Kilmar Abrego Garcia described his worst fear after an arrest led to him being labeled a gang member. “All my hopes were gone,” he told News4 through an interpreter. “I only imagined being deported to El Salvador, and a lot of things could happen to me because they were labeling…

A federal judge has temporarily halted her order directing the government to explain what it’s done to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis came Wednesday, just one day after she blasted the Trump administration for ignoring her orders by refusing to provide information. The seven-day pause is the first sign of...

Five years ago, News4 and Telemundo 44 interviewed Kilmar Abrego Garcia as part of an investigation into a federally funded law enforcement database of suspected gang members. He said he was wrongly accused then. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.

A Venezuelan man says he and his family back home have been anguished about the “forced disappearance” from the U.S. of Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel.

An immigration judge has found the U.S. government’s initial deportation case against Kseniia Petrova to be legally deficient, her attorney said.

Mexico wants to ban paid “propaganda” from foreign governments after a TV ad campaign by President Trump’s administration targeting “criminal aliens.”

A class action lawsuit filed Friday asks a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students caught up in a Trump administration crackdown.

Dr. Noor Abdalla said she welcomed the couple’s son on Monday without his father, despite a request for ICE to allow him to attend the birth.

Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Experts recommend seeking an immigration attorney and collecting documentation to prove your U.S. citizenship, like birth certificates and passports.

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D- Md., returned from El Salvador Friday and provided an update on his meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is being held there after being wrongly deported. News4’s Paul Wagner reports.

A federal judge ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana be brought to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper.

The fight over Abrego Garcia is the latest partisan flashpoint as Democrats have struggled to break through and push back during the opening few months of Trump’s second time in office.