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(GUANTANAMO BAY) -- One of the Venezuelan migrants who is believed to be among the latest group sent to El Salvador on Sunday night was in Guantanamo Bay and had a final order of removal, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).Maiker Espinoza Escalona was the lead plaintiff in one of the Guantanamo cases brought by the ACLU against the Department of Homeland Security filed last month. His partner […]

(NEW YORK) -- In recent weeks stories have emerged about college students whisked off campuses by immigration agents – targeted for deportation based on their writings or activism – and detained in federal custody despite never being charged with a crime.While the number of impacted students appears to be small -- with Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicating around 300 students were targeted last week -- the actions, part of […]

(BOSTON) -- Karen Read's second trial is set to begin Tuesday, seven months after a first prosecution in the alleged murder of her police officer boyfriend ended with the jury unable to reach a verdict.Read is accused of killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O'Keefe, in January 2022. Prosecutors alleged Read hit O'Keefe with her vehicle and left him to die as Boston was hit with a major blizzard. […]

(BALTIMORE) -- A Maryland man with protected legal status was sent to the notorious prison in El Salvador following an "administrative error," a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official admitted in a sworn declaration on Monday.Kilmer Armado Abrego-Garcia who has a U.S. citizen wife and 5-year-old child is currently at CECOT, the notorious prison in El Salvador.The filing is part of a new lawsuit filed by Abrego-Garcia's attorneys who […]

(MERRITT ISLAND, FL) -- With the successful launch of SpaceX's Fram2 mission on Monday night, an all-civilian crew is attempting to do what professional astronauts have never tried -- orbit the Earth from pole to pole.Riding on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, a SpaceX Dragon lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida just after 9:46 p.m. and carried the team into a 90-degree […]