Immigration

The United States government has filed a status update in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador — as ordered by Judge Paula Xinis, but it doesn’t say much. An official with the State Department simply states that Abrego Garcia is alive and being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center…

The government has filed a status update in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, stating that he is alive and is being held in the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador.

The move will make it much harder for those affected to use banks or other basic services where Social Security numbers are required.

More than two dozen religious groups filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing the policy violated the right to practice their religion.

The Trump administration’s decision to revoke the visas of hundreds of international college students studying in the U.S. prompted protests. News4’s Jessica Albert spoke with an immigration attorney about what steps impacted students can take.

A group of demonstrators at Georgetown University took to the streets on Friday to denounce the Trump administration and its actions on immigration and students’ visas. In the D.C. area and across the U.S., students say the administration is targeting those who participated in demonstrations against the war in Gaza. “Stop these abductions, stop these visa revocations, stop all...

A group of demonstrators at Georgetown University took to the streets on Friday to denounce the Trump administration and its actions on immigration and students’ visas. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration can deport Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to give her daily updates on the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident mistakenly deported. News4’s Paul Wagner reports. 

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Trump is considering deporting American criminals, if it is legal. A Georgetown law professor says the Constitution is clear on the issue.

A federal judge said Friday that it is “extremely troubling” that a government lawyer couldn’t explain what, if anything, the Trump administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The Supreme Court says the Trump Administration must find a way to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home to the United States after he was mistakenly sent to El Salvador. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

The Supreme Court says the Trump administration must facilitate the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.

Students from California to Ohio to North Carolina are losing their visas with no explanation, being taken off the street by plainclothes officers and finding themselves subject to accusations reserved for terrorists.   Authorities had revoked the visas of international students in at least 24 states as of Wednesday— with officials largely citing a seldom-used 1952 foreign policy statute to take aim at their activism....

The newly appointed public defender for Henrry Villatoro Santos is asking the court to delay the dismissal of his charges for 14 days in order to get Santos immigration counsel. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports.

President Trump has suggested deporting U.S. criminals to a prison in El Salvador “if it’s legal.” But the Constitution is clear on the issue, according to a legal scholar at Georgetown. For more context, News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.

The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia filed a motion to drop a charge against a man arrested last month, who top federal officials accused of being one of the U.S. leaders of the gang MS-13.

The DHS said in a court document that the IRS has agreed to share certain tax information filed by undocumented taxpayers with ICE.

The Department of Homeland Security has revoked legal status for the more than 900,000 people who’ve entered the U.S. at its southern border using the CBP One app since January 2023.

The Department of Homeland Security is telling migrants who entered the country using an online app to leave the United States immediately.