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Judges Keep Restrictions on Los Angeles Immigration Arrests

An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.

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Federal agents blocked people protesting an immigration raid at a licensed cannabis farm near Camarillo, Calif., in July.
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Florida Is Buying Plane Tickets for Unauthorized Immigrants to Self-Deport

Immigrants in custody, with no felony convictions, may be offered direct commercial flights home — and avoid “Alligator Alcatraz.”

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Gov. Ron DeSantis said that unauthorized immigrants could avoid being taken to the state-run detention center in the Everglades if they chose to self-deport.
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A Trump Ally Pressed for a Mexican Citizen’s Release From ICE Custody

The office of Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana asked the Department of Homeland Security to release the detainee, who is married to a U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

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Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, helped release Paola Clouatre from detention after an immigration judge halted her deportation order.
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How Louisiana Became ICE Detention Central

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to operate more like a business — like FedEx or Amazon. Brent McDonald and Campbell Robertson traveled to a small commercial airport in Alexandria, La., that has become the No. 1 ICE transit hub in the country.
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House Democrats Sue ICE for Barring Them From Detention Facilities

The 12 Democrats accused the Trump administration of violating the law when it turned them away from immigrant detention sites and imposed a new policy limiting congressional access.

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Representative Dan Goldman at an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations field office in New York last month. He is one of the dozen Democrats seeking to have the new ICE guidance on congressional visits dismissed.
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First Deportation Flights Depart From Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

Gov. Ron DeSantis said hundreds of immigration detainees had departed a state-run detention center in the Everglades on planes, some for federal facilities, and others out of the country.

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An aerial view of the state-run detention center built on the site of a former training airport in Ochopee, Fla.
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Venezuelan Migrant Takes First Step Toward Suing the U.S. Over Detention in El Salvador

Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, who was held in a prison in El Salvador, filed a claim Thursday against Homeland Security, accusing it of wrongful detention.

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Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel was held for four months at the Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, in El Salvador.
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Justice Dept. Asks California Sheriffs for Names of Undocumented Inmates

An A.C.L.U. lawyer said it was possible that any sheriff who complied with the request could be in violation of California’s so-called sanctuary state law.

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Sheriff Robert Luna of Los Angeles County, third from right, with deputies in Altadena, Calif., in January. His agency signaled it would not honor a request the Justice Department’s request for the names of noncitizen inmates.
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The Chaotic Early Days Inside Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center

Several immigrant detainees described high tension and anxiety at the remote, hastily constructed facility over a lack of information, recreation and access to medication.

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Florida raced to open the Everglades detention center on July 3, eager to help President Trump’s immigration crackdown by providing more detention capacity.
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Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries

Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”

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Downtown Juba, South Sudan, last year. Third-country deportations could accelerate under new internal guidance issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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