Silvia Foster-Frau

Families cheered the return of their relatives, who had been deported from the U.S., jailed in El Salvador and sent home months later in a swap with Venezuela.

Officials acknowledge that more than 130 Venezuelan migrants at a megaprison in El Salvador remain under U.S. responsibility, contradicting Trump administration claims.

The GOP tax bill stands to deliver a $170 billion windfall to turbocharge immigrant detentions and deportations. But public approval of Trump’s approach has soured.

Refugees that a federal judge had ordered the Trump administration to admit are being barred from entry under the president’s travel ban even as Afrikaners are allowed in.

ICE is working with local police to arrest more undocumented immigrants at traffic stops. In a break with the past, many arrestees have no violent criminal record.

A South African family was given a fast track to entering the U.S. as refugees. A family from Myanmar is struggling amid cuts to resettlement agencies under Trump.

The case of Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal sparked concern about the potential for family separations as the Trump administration looks to expedite removals.

A growing number of cases — including a 2-year-old kept in U.S. custody after her mother was deported to Venezuela – reignites fears of child separation policies.

The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, has “experienced trauma, he said he’s sad every day.”

Reporters Silvia Foster-Frau, Marianne LeVine and Natalie Allison joined readers for a live chat on immigration.

President Donald Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members. Relatives of men sent to El Salvador deny the allegation.

Tren de Aragua, a gang born out of a Venezuelan prison, is a loose network that doesn’t operate like groups typically considered terrorist organizations.

Trump’s plan to vastly expand migrant detentions at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba has proven costly and logistically complicated.

The 40 men were transported to Louisiana as the detention operation faces a number of logistical and legal hurdles.

A contract to reopen a privately owned Newark detention center may be the first in a wave of reopenings of shuttered facilities once accused of poor care.

Three migrants sent to Guantánamo said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating strip searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.

Many of the migrants were being kept in a detention facility that has historically held suspected terrorists. They were flown back to Venezuela Thursday after a stop in Honduras.

Details on some of the Guantánamo migrants have begun to emerge. They are young Venezuelan men, and relatives say they have been falsely branded Tren de Aragua gang members.

The Trump administration has released scant information on the migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay. Human rights lawyers are demanding they be allowed access to legal counsel.