If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks canât be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until theyâre 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administrationâs immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions. None has received a reply.
The closure of the 150-person office, which protected the civil rights of both immigrants and U.S. citizens, strips Homeland Security of its internal guardrails as the Trump administration turns DHS into a mass-deportation machine, analysts say.