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.

Law enforcement and extremism experts say there is no evidence that the Tesla vandalism tied to Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s claims is being coordinated.

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.

Jeanne Kay Whitefeather and Donald Lantz were sentenced to hundreds of years in prison after being convicted of forcing their adopted Black children to work as slaves.

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

Yeshiva University has agreed to recognize an LGBTQ student club after years of legal fights, ending a long dispute over whether the school had to allow it.