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Updated July 31, 2026 at 11:37 AM EDT The Justice Department has activated a special court that's never before been used to argue for the removal of a woman accused of supporting the Islamic State. Prosecutors detailed some of the government's case in ...

The Trump administration doubled down Monday on how it is viewing Venezuelan detainees in the US that could be subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act, telling a federal judge in Pennsylvania one detainee isn’t designated to be sent to a brutal ...

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Expedited removal proceedings were proposed initially in the early 1980s as summary exclusions in response to the Mariel boatlift, a reaction to Cuba’s Castro regime that brought approximately 125,000 Cubans and 30,000 Haitians to South Florida without ...