immigrant deportations

A Nicaraguan exile who was imprisoned and tortured after protesting against that country's government was deported by the U.S. back to his country, where he was immediately imprisoned once again by authorities.

HRW researchers said they visited Cap-Haïtien in the last week of August and interviewed 44 Haitian deportees who had arrived on the first two deportation flights following the end of TPS.

Liexer De La Cruz had spent five years building a life in the United States after crossing almost a dozen countries by car, foot, bus and boat. But in early January, while attending what he thought was a routine hearing on his immigration case, he was forced to choose between deporting himself or staying in the U.S. and risk deportation at any moment. He chose Cuba.

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has promised to deport thousands of migrants who are in the country without residence permits. In a video released on his X account Sunday, de la Espriella said that he would order the country's national immigration service to conduct raids as early as this week.

The United States has deported nearly 2,300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year and sent dozens more to Honduras. Authorities report this marks a shift from earlier in President Trump's second term when such transfers were minimal. Until now, Mexicans deported from the U.S. were mostly sent back to Mexico.

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump's administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops. The administration has rolled back immigration protections as part of its mass deportation agenda. The AP found that since Trump took office for a second term, more than 50 family members have been detained, with at least six deported.

“If roughly one in five Haitian TPS holders works in healthcare occupations, as national workforce analyses indicate, as many as 35,000 healthcare workers in Florida could be affected by recent policy changes,” a July 7 letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin from FHCA Chief Executive Officer J. Emmett Reed notes.

DHS officials did not say how many detainees were transferred or where they were taken. Nor did it say whether the facility would close permanently or only temporarily.

Thousands of U.S-based Cuban immigrants have been deported to Mexico under the Trump administration, according to Human Rights Watch. Left in limbo, they are stranded in the country — unable to return to either the U.S or Cuba.

Following a state-approved visit Tuesday to Alligator Alcatraz, U.S. Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a Democrat from Orlando, said he wants state and federal officials to disclose where remaining immigrant detainees are being transferred amid reported plans to permanently close the detention facility.

The rally is in response to the latest reports that show the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE arrests of suspected undocumented immigrants has surged since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025.

When migrant children come to the U.S. illegally with their families, an Obama-era policy known as DACA is supposed to protect them from immigration enforcement into adulthood while they await permanent legal status. But a growing number of program recipients have been placed in immigration detention — including a 32-year-old man from Miami.