Reuveni produced texts between him and an unnamed colleague discussing Drew Ensign's claimed ignorance of deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act at an emergency hearing before James Boasberg. Reuveni describes that they were 'About to enter the find out phase following fuck around.'
Eight men deported from the US have reached South Sudan after a federal judge cleared their removal, following a Supreme Court ruling that allowed quicker deportations. These men, convicted of violent crimes in the US, were held for weeks in Djibouti. Administration officials praised the decision as a win for the safety of the American people, despite South Sudan being deemed dangerous by the State Department.
Austria's interior minister, Gerhard Karner, stated that Austria carried out its first deportation to Syria since the fall of the Assad regime, emphasizing a strict asylum policy.
The Department of Homeland Security accused media outlets of peddling a sympathetic narrative around Trump deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia for reporting on new allegations detailed in a chilling new legal complaint of the graphic torture and abuse he suffered inside El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. Lawyers for Abrego Garcia, who was removed from the U.S. despite a court order blocking his deportation, said he was beaten, denied sleep, deprived of food, and psychologically tortured for nearly a month inside CECOT, the sprawling mega-prison hailed by President Nayib Bukele.
Sakeik's family is from Gaza, but she was born in Saudi Arabia, which does not grant birthright citizenship to the children of foreigners. She and her family came to the US on a tourist visa when she was eight and applied for asylum but were denied.
During a visit to a migrant detention facility, President Trump expressed his approval for Governor DeSantis to appoint National Guard officers as immigration judges to expedite deportations.