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Will ICE Deportations Stop If Democrats Win Congress? No. Even if Democrats win control of Congress, ICE deportations will not automatically stop. There are three main reasons: That does not mean a Democratic Congress would have no power. It could investigate ICE, hold hearings, demand records, propose spending restrictions, try to recover unspent funds and…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is re-arresting some immigrants shortly after federal judges order their release from detention. A November 2, 2026 investigation by The Guardian identified at least 20 cases nationwide in which people were detained again after winning habeas corpus relief. The central legal question is whether ICE can lawfully return someone…
The Trump administration is preparing to deport more than 150 Afghan immigrants from the United States by flying them to Pakistan, where Pakistani authorities are expected to oversee their expulsion across the border into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, according to The New York Times, which cited U.S. officials. Reporting says the first charter flight could leave Louisiana…
The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to revoke the citizenship of Salah Osman Ahmed, also known as Salman, a Somali-born man who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2007 and later pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorists in connection with al-Shabaab. The government filed a civil denaturalization…
On October 23, 2026, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled 10-7 that the Fifth Amendment does not require individualized bond hearings for certain noncitizens who entered the United States without lawful admission and are detained under a federal mandatory-detention statute. The ruling covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Current status (as…
Yes, the United States can revoke naturalized citizenship, but only by proving a legally recognized ground in court, to a very high standard of proof, or by securing a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1425. An investigation, an accusation, a press release, a political statement or an agency referral does not cancel anyone’s citizenship….
If a federal court were to finally revoke U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s citizenship, she would face a serious constitutional obstacle to serving in the House of Representatives, because Article I, Section 2 requires every member to have been a U.S. citizen for at least seven years. But that is a hypothetical. No court has revoked…
Homeland Security Investigations agents searched U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area home on October 12, 2026, under what the Department of Justice called a judicially authorized search warrant, as part of what it described as an ongoing federal criminal investigation. Reports say the inquiry centers on her family’s immigration paperwork and could lead to fraud charges…
No, the Ninth Circuit did not decide both California laws. On October 14, 2026, it ruled only on Section 10 of the No Vigilantes Act (SB 805), the visible-identification requirement (Penal Code § 13654). It directed the district court to enter a preliminary injunction against enforcing that requirement against the United States, federal agencies and…