March 10 (Day 50) | A pro-Palestinian protester who attended Columbia University is arrested by ICE. The man, Mahmoud Khalil, is a green card holder and married to an American citizen. | More ›
March 15 (Day 55) | Trump invokes the Alien Enemies Act to speed up deportations of Venezuelan gang members. The administration quickly deports many alleged members to El Salvador, in apparent contravention of a court order. | More ›
March 16 (Day 56) | The White House argues it didn’t defy a “written order” in regards to deported alleged gang members, but the judge’s verbal order was: “Any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States.” They were deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison. | More ›
March 24 (Day 64) | Federal Judge James Boasberg maintains his block on Venezuelan flight deportations. He said in the ruling, “It follows that summary deportation following close on the heels of the government’s informing an alien that he is subject to the proclamation — without giving him the opportunity to consider whether to voluntarily self-deport or challenge the basis for the order — is unlawful.” A D.C. Circuit judge says that Nazis were treated better than Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act. | More ›
March 25 (Day 65) | Immigration officials — in plain clothes and in broad daylight in a Boston suburb — approach, apprehend and then take Turkish Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to Louisiana. Ozturk was one of four students who wrote an op-ed in the campus newspaper criticizing the university’s response to student activists demanding that Tufts “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide,” disclose its investments and divest from companies with ties to Israel. | More ›
March 26 (Day 66) | Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits the El Salvador prison where deported Venezuelans are being held. “If you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you could face,” Noem said in a video she posted on X. “This facility is one of the tools in our toolkit that we will use if you commit crimes against the American people.” | More ›
April 7 (Day 78) | Trump gets a 5-4 win at the Supreme Court, overturning a lower court ruling that had banned Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants to El Salvador. The court didn’t say if it was constitutional and said immigrants should be given advance notice and an opportunity to be heard. The court says Alien Enemies Act objections have to be brought by individuals not as a class. | More ›
April 10 (Day 81) | The Supreme Court orders the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return to the U.S. of a Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly taken to El Salvador and remains in custody there — a rare win for those challenging the administration’s deportation orders. | More ›
April 14 (Day 85) | Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele says during a meeting with Trump in the Oval Office that he will not return Abrego Garcia. “How can I return him to the United States?” he says. “I smuggle him into the United States? Of course I’m not going to do it.” In the same meeting, Trump opens the door to U.S. citizens being sent to an El Salvador prison. “The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns,” Trump says to Bukele. “You’ve got to build about five more places.” | More ›
April 16 (Day 87) | Judge Boasberg launches contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for violating his order not to deport Venezuelan migrants. He said there is “probable cause” that the government showed a “willful disregard” for the judge’s order. He gave the government a week to “cure” the problem, potentially by allowing the migrants to appeal from the Salvadoran prison. He also noted that if the Justice Department declines to cooperate, he could potentially appoint an outside prosecutor. | More ›
April 17 (Day 88) | The Supreme Court schedules oral arguments for May 15 on Trump’s executive order to ban birthright citizenship despite the guarantees of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. | More ›
April 17 (Day 88) | A three-judge appeals court panel said the Trump administration’s refusal to try to bring Abrego Garcia back “should be shocking” to all Americans who care about an “intuitive sense of liberty.” | More ›