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WATCH: Trump ‘simply floated’ idea of deporting U.S. citizens, White House’s Leavitt says

By Molly Finnegan

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that the Trump administration is not sure it is legal to deport U.S. citizens to El Salvador, but that President Donald Trump has “simply floated” the idea for the sake of transparency.

Chief justice pauses deadline for Trump administration to return Maryland man from El Salvador

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The temporary order comes hours after a Justice Department emergency appeal to the Supreme Court arguing U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis overstepped her authority when she ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the United States.

Tufts student from Turkey threatened with deportation, latest Palestinian supporter swept up in crackdown

By Michael Casey, Jake Offenhartz, Kathy McCormack, Associated Press

Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was swiftly moved out of Massachusetts, a demonstration of how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is sending immigrants who are taken into custody to detention centers or deporting them altogether before…

Chief Justice Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching a judge who ruled against him

By Chris Megerian, Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in a rare statement.

Doctor who was deported to Lebanon supported Hezbollah leader, Homeland Security officials say

By Michael Casey, RODRIQUE NGOWI, Kathy McCormack, Associated Press

The department's statement, posted on social media, provides a possible explanation for Dr. Rasha Alawieh's deportation, which has sparked widespread alarm, especially after a federal judge ordered that she not be removed until a hearing could be held.

Judge orders Trump administration not to deport Palestinian activist

By Associated Press

A federal judge in New York City has ordered that a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University not be deported while the court considers the lawsuit challenging his detention.

Some immigrants are already leaving the U.S. in ‘self-deportations’ as Trump’s threats loom

By Christopher Sherman, Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated Press

There isn't data on these departures, but history has seen other eras of public backlash that drove migrants — with or without legal status — out.

Fear of mass deportations pose new challenges for educators across the country

By Bianca Vázquez Toness, Associated Press

Educators and legal observers say children of immigrants may avoid school out of fear.

Federal judge strikes down Biden’s program shielding immigrant spouses from deportation

By Hannah Schoenbaum, Associated Press

The program, lauded as one of the biggest presidential actions to help immigrant families in years, allowed undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to apply for a green card without first having to leave the country.

Here’s what’s in Biden’s plan to offer some migrants a pathway to citizenship, and how it will work

By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

It is one of President Joe Biden's most sweeping immigration policies and one that migrant advocates had been heavily lobbying the administration to undertake.