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New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will allow federal immigration officials to operate at the city's Rikers Island jail following a meeting Thursday with President Donald Trump's border czar. Adams said he will issue an executive order reestablishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement presence at the complex one of the nation's largest and most notorious lockups as had been the case under prior administrations. The Democrat said ICE agents would be focused on assisting the correction department's intelligence bureau in criminal investigations, particularly those focused on violent criminals and gangs. As I have always said, immigrants have been crucial in building our city and will continue to be key to our future success, but we must fix our long-broken immigration system, Adams said in a statement. That is why I have been clear that I want to work with the new federal administration, not war with them, to find common ground and make better the lives of New ...
A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president's immigration crackdown. In a legal filing earlier in the day, lawyers for the men said the detainees "fit the profile of those the administration has prioritized for detention in Guantanamo, i.e. Venezuelan men detained in the El Paso area with (false) charges of connections with the Tren de Aragua gang." It asked a US District Court in New Mexico for a temporary restraining order blocking their transfer, adding that the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction. During a brief hearing, Judge Kenneth J Gonzales granted the temporary order, which was opposed by the government, said Jessica Vosburgh, an attorney for the three men. "It's short term. This will get revisited and further fleshed
A plane carrying 33 persons from Gujarat, who were among 104 Indians deported from the US for illegal immigration, landed at Ahmedabad airport from Amritsar on Thursday morning, officials said. Soon after their arrival, the 33 immigrants, including some children and women, were transported to their native places in Gujarat in police vehicles, Assistant Commissioner of Police, 'G' division, R D Oza said. "A plane carrying 33 Gujarati immigrants, including children and women, landed at the airport from Amritsar in the morning. They were among those who were deported from the US. We deployed police vehicles at the airport to transport them to their respective places," Oza told reporters at the airport. While mediapersons tried to talk to the deported immigrants, they refused to say anything and left for their native places in the police vehicles. Majority of them are from Mehsana, Gandhinagar, Patan, Vadodara and Kheda districts, sources said. A US military aircraft carrying 104 ille
Republican efforts to exclude people in the US illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump's second term in office began Monday. Trump joined in the battle immediately upon returning to office, signing an executive order on Monday that rescinded a Biden administration order and signalled the possibility of a push by his new administration to change the 2030 census. Those efforts may get a boost from the GOP-controlled Congress, where Republican US Rep. Chuck Edwards from North Carolina earlier this month re-introduced legislation that would put a citizenship question on the census form. During his first term, Trump signed an order that would have excluded people in the US illegally from being included in the 2020 census numbers used to allot congressional seats and Electoral College votes to each state. The GOP ...