Immigration

The Trump admin invoked a “state secrets privilege” and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law.

Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney, who starred in “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love,” is speaking out after she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly two weeks while trying to renew her work visa. The entrepreneur was detained by immigration officials after she attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border on March 3 and reapply for the...

With all the immigration changes the Trump administration has made, some green card holders say they are confused whether they can leave the United States without putting their permanent residency at risk. Social media posts have generated fear among some green card holders about whether or not they risk losing their permanent residency status by traveling outside the U.S....

The Department of Homeland Security says it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month.

A federal judge examining the Trump administration’s use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador has vowed to determine whether the government defied his order to turn the planes around. During a hearing Friday, Chief Judge James Boasberg said he is trying to determine if the administration ignored his turnaround order last weekend when at...

Following social media posts on detention when traveling internationally, green card holders fear they might be at risk of deportation or losing their legal status. Sister station Telemundo44’s Catalina Pérez de Armiñán spoke to the community on this fear. 

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner asked officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to explain how a U.S. citizen came to be detained and handcuffed in Manassas, Virginia, earlier this month. Jensy Machado, who says he voted for President Donald Trump, told Telemundo 44 that on March 5, ICE agents blocked in his pickup truck not…

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner asked officials at the Department of Homeland Security and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to explain how a U.S. citizen came to be detained and handcuffed in Manassas, Virginia, earlier this month. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

Families and lawyers fear for the deportees who may face indefinite detention in a prison known for human rights abuses.

A federal judge has ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown University scholar that the government detained until the court has had a chance to rule.

A federal judge ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown scholar detained by the Trump administration and accused of spreading Hamas propaganda in the latest battle over speech on U.S. college campuses. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder is following the story.

Federal immigration authorities have detained a Georgetown University graduate student from India who was teaching at the Washington institution on a student visa, his attorney said Wednesday. Masked agents arrested the graduate student, Badar Khan Suri, outside his home in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday night, attorney Hassan Ahmad said. The agents identified themselves as being with the Department of Homeland...

Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown University graduate student, was detained by ICE and is currently in Louisiana waiting for an immigration hearing. News4’s Joseph Olmo shares that Suri’s lawyer calls his arrest “beyond contemptible” in a statement.  

A federal judge gave the U.S. Department of Justice an additional day to answer questions about three deportation flights to El Salvador after his order Saturday for the planes to return to the United States. The government motioned Wednesday for more time to answer Judge James Boasberg’s questions about the deportation flights, calling the judge’s queries “a picayune dispute...

A federal judge gave the Justice Department an additional day to answer questions about three deportation flights to El Salvador. News4’s Paul Wagner reports the judge wants to know if the government ignored his Saturday order that the planes return to the United States.

A man was deported from Maryland under the Alien Enemies Act — a 1798 law invoked by President Donald Trump — according to his wife, but she says he’s not part of a criminal organization and has protected status in the U.S. The Alien Enemies Act allows the U.S. government to detain and deport nationals of an enemy nation during…

A man was deported from Maryland under the Alien Enemies Act — a 1798 law invoked by President Donald Trump — but his wife says he’s not part of a criminal organization and has protected status in the U.S. News4’s Paul Wagner explains.

It’s mid-morning in Hagerstown, Maryland, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been at work for hours. They’re part of President Donald Trump’s ramped-up efforts to deport undocumented immigrants. After hours of surveillance, a team the News4 I-Team witnessed made its third arrests of the day. “We’re with immigration. We have a warrant for your arrest,” one of...

Investigative Reporter Tracee Wilkins rode along with ICE in Maryland as they targeted undocumented immigrants who were ordered to leave the country.

“The Government maintains that there is no justification to order the provision of additional information,” the agency said in a court filing.