News for March 21, 2025

A federal judge questioned the Trump administration’s use of a wartime deportation law and criticized the Justice Department for not following his order to halt two flights.

The Department of Homeland Security is cutting back three oversight offices, including civil rights and immigration complaint services, as it says it wants to remove barriers to enforcement.

Experts say tattoos alone do not prove Tren de Aragua gang membership, even as U.S. immigration authorities used them to help justify deportations and detentions of Venezuelan men.

ICE detainee Joel Jose Gonzalez-Gonzalez was captured after escaping a Colorado jail during a power outage, while a second detainee remained missing.