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U.S. quietly deporting Mexican migrants to Guatemala and Honduras, angering Mexico

The Trump administration has been quietly deporting migrants from Mexico to different countries in Central America despite the Mexican government’s willingness to accept the return of all its citizens, two Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News. U.S. immigration authorities have been sending deportees from Mexico to Guatemala and Honduras, flying them around Mexican…

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Haitian pregnant woman in Florida fears deportation as TPS ends: “I’ve been in this country most of my life”

In Florida, a 29-year-old expectant mother is in hiding, concerned that she will be deported at any moment.    She is among the more than 300,000 Haitian nationals who held Temporary Protective Status until the Trump administration ended the decades-long program earlier this week after a prolonged legal fight, citing improved conditions in Haiti. Just…

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Afghan woman plans to fight DOJ efforts to deport her over allegation she is an “alien terrorist”

A court-appointed lawyer for an Afghan woman and U.S. permanent resident whom the Justice Department alleges is an “alien terrorist” vowed Thursday to vigorously fight the government’s efforts to deport her, telling a federal judge that the entire legal process is unfair and unconstitutional. In the first-ever test case before the secretive and never-before-used Alien…

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DOJ asking secretive court to deport Afghan woman allegedly tied to ISIS-linked plot, in first-ever test case

The Justice Department is seeking to convince a federal judge to deport a Texas-based Afghan woman who prosecutors allege is an “alien terrorist,” it revealed Wednesday, in the first-ever test case before a secretive court that has never convened since it was created three decades ago. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, will…

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Reports of airport immigration arrests come amid increased TSA-ICE collaboration, sources say

Recent reports of immigration arrests at U.S. airports, some of them captured in videos that have gone viral, stem from increased collaboration between the Transportation Security Agency and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE sources tell CBS News. TSA has been sharing more information about noncitizen travelers with ICE, including on immigrants who lack criminal records but…

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Ohio’s GOP governor calls Trump’s plans to deport Haitians a “mistake”: “You’d be sending people … back to hell”

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine told CBS News the Trump administration’s plan to ramp up arrests and deportations of Haitian migrants is a “mistake,” arguing the move could bruise the state’s economy and risk putting Haitians in danger in their home country. More than 300,000 people from Haiti are set this week…

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