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This image taken from a video provided by Christopher Helali shows Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University, being detained at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vt., on Monday, April 14, 2025. (Christopher Helali via AP)

A Palestinian activist expecting a U.S. citizenship interview is arrested instead by ICE in Vermont

A Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University has been arrested at a Vermont immigration office.

SOUTH LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 10, 2025 - - A student walks near a sign that translates to, "Every person must obtain permission from the principal before entering a classroom or any other area of the school," at the Lillian Street Elementary School in Los Angeles on April 10, 2025. On Monday, two individuals arrived at Lillian Street Elementary School's main office and identified themselves as "representatives of a federal agency," according to a message school officials sent to parents and others. Individuals also showed up at Russell Elementary School. Both schools are located in South Los Angeles' Florence-Graham neighborhood and denied entry to Federal officials. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

House Democrats demand briefing after immigration agents try to enter L.A. elementary schools

US President Donald Trump meets with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, April 14, 2025. Trump on Monday hosted El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele, the self-described "world's coolest dictator" who is now the US leader's key ally in a controversial push to deport illegal migrants to a notorious Salvadoran prison. The meeting comes as the White House faces pressure over the case of a father who was mistakenly deported to the jail in the Central American country -- whose return a US court has ordered the Trump adminstration to facilitate (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Salvadoran president says he won’t return man wrongly deported from U.S.

Ivan Vazquez, 43, owner of Madre Oaxacan Restaurant and Mezcaleria

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An Italian navy ship approaches the port , as Italian authorities transfer 40 migrants with no permission to remain in the country to Italian-run migration detention centers in Albania, in Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Italy sends rejected migrants to detention centers in Albania, echoing U.S. practice

U.S. won’t say whether it’s facilitating return of mistakenly deported man, despite judge’s order

What to know about activist Mahmoud Khalil and his attorneys’ plan to appeal his deportation ruling

Supreme Court slows Trump’s mass deportations, but doesn’t stop them

IRS plan to give data to ICE could wallop California, where many immigrants pay taxes

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SAN YSIDRO, CA - MARCH 21, 2025 - - A construction worker in Tijuana stands above the border wall that features new concertina wire along the U.S. and Mexico border near San Ysidro on March 21, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Their hopes for asylum in U.S. dashed, migrants in Tijuana ponder next moves

With the U.S. rebuffing would-be asylum seekers, shelters in Tijuana are no longer full. But some migrants now say they might try to enter the U.S. illegally.

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