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U.S. Has Spent  Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at Guantánamo

U.S. Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at Guantánamo

Five senators who visited the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, criticized the migrant mission there over the weekend as a waste of resources, after the Pentagon estimated that the operation had cost $40 million in its first month. The Senate delegation on Friday toured Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities where about 85 migrants were […]

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Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants’ Social Media

Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants’ Social Media

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats overseas to scrutinize the social media content of some applicants for student and other types of visas, in an effort to ban those suspected of criticizing the United States and Israel from entering the country, U.S. officials say. Mr. Rubio laid out the instructions in a long

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U.S. Says Decision to Turn Back French Scientist Had Nothing to Do With Trump

U.S. Says Decision to Turn Back French Scientist Had Nothing to Do With Trump

The French government’s claim that a scientist was denied entry into the United States because of an opinion he expressed about the Trump administration is “blatantly false,” a U.S. official has said. Even as the authorities in France continued to call the case a concerning violation of academic freedom, the U.S. official, Tricia McLaughlin, who

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What to Know About Crossing the U.S. Border as an International Visitor

What to Know About Crossing the U.S. Border as an International Visitor

In recent weeks, a flurry of international visitors attempting to enter the United States from other countries have been denied entry at border checkpoints, leading to either deportations to their home countries or days or weeks of detention. A 28-year-old British woman arrived in Britain earlier this week after she was held at an immigration

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Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations to El Salvador

Venezuelan Families Fear for Relatives as Trump Celebrates Deportations to El Salvador

According to Ms. Casique, her son had no gang affiliation and had entered the United States to seek asylum in late 2023 after several years spent working in Peru to support his family back home. During his journey north, he had been injured in Mexico after a fall from a train, she said. Mr. García,

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How Trump’s Crackdown Is Drastically Driving Down Migration

How Trump’s Crackdown Is Drastically Driving Down Migration

Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are down to their lowest level in decades. Once-crowded migrant shelters are empty. Instead of heading north, people stranded in Mexico are starting to return home in bigger numbers. The border is almost unrecognizable from just a couple of years ago, when hundreds of thousands of people from around

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This Christian Convert Fled Iran, and Ran Into Trump’s Deportation Policy

This Christian Convert Fled Iran, and Ran Into Trump’s Deportation Policy

She first entered a church on a visit to Turkey. She remembers feeling a sense of calm so overpowering that she purchased a small Bible. She wrapped it in her clothes and smuggled it back to her hometown, Isfahan, in central Iran. Artemis Ghasemzadeh’s conversion from Islam to Christianity evolved over a few years starting

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