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Islamic Society of Milwaukee President Salah Sarsour on June 18, 2026, shortly after his release from Clay County Jail in Brazil, Indiana, where he was detained after his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in March. (Yaseen Najeeb via AP)
August 5, 2026, 8:23 am
Defense claims US effort to deport Palestinian mosque head based on forced confession in Israel
US says Salah Sarsour was convicted decades ago of throwing firebombs, lied on immigration form; defense lawyers charge conviction result of torture, does not stand up to scrutiny
By AP
Tufts University student from Turkey, Rumeysa Ozturk, left, who was arrested by immigration agents while walking along a street in a Boston suburb, talks to reporters on arriving back in Boston, May 10, 2025, a day after she was released from a Louisiana immigration detention center on the orders of a federal judge. (Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via AP)
April 13, 2026, 9:14 pm
Trump admin fires judges who blocked deportations of pro-Palestinian activists
Roopal Patel, who stopped efforts to deport Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, and Nina Froes, who halted removal of Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi, both dismissed in crackdown
By Grace Gilson
Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack in Armon Hanatziv neighborhood in Jerusalem on May 10, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 10, 2026, 8:45 pm
In first, Israel to revoke citizenship of 2 Israeli terror convicts and deport them
Mahmoud Ahmad and Mohammed Ahmad Hussein al-Halsi reportedly to be sent to Gaza; Netanyahu vows ‘many more like them are on the way’
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Luxury business jet with open door ready for passenger boarding. (dicus63, iStock at Getty Images)
February 9, 2026, 10:35 am
Trump donor’s private jet used to deport Palestinians to West Bank – report
UK’s Guardian says plane owned by Israeli-American billionaire Gil Dezer used at least twice to ferry Palestinians rounded up by ICE in America to Israeli airport
By ToI Staff
A general view shows the Iranian capital Tehran with the snow-covered Alborz mountain range in the background on December 8, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
December 8, 2025, 10:13 pm
Second flight carrying deportees back to Iran leaves US, Tehran says
Islamic Republic claims 55 people on plane sought repatriation, in second mass deportation since September, as Trump policies conflict with US position as safe haven from regime
By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell
British commentator Sami Hamdi at London Heathrow Airport after being deported from the US, November 13, 2025. (X/5 PiIlars)
November 13, 2025, 7:27 pm
UK commentator who praised Oct. 7 ‘victory’ lands in London after US deportation
Sami Hamdi arrives at Heathrow two weeks after being detained by ICE, claims deportation linked to his Gaza advocacy, calls measure an attack on free speech
By Reuters
Illustrative: Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States peer through windows of an Eastern Airlines plane upon arriving at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
November 11, 2025, 6:18 pm
US deported 54 Iranian dissidents back to Iran despite pleas lives were in danger – NYT
1st such flight to Tehran carried Christian converts, a critic of Islam, ethnic minorities; many had alleged terror ties; one pleaded: ‘They will kill me. Please don’t send me back’
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian woman harvests olives in the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya on October 20, 2025. (Hazem Bader/AFP)
October 23, 2025, 5:17 am
Israel deports 32 foreign activists who helped West Bank Palestinians harvest olives
Deportation notice accuses activists of violating ‘a military commander’s order’ and belonging to Union of Agricultural Work Committees, which Israel designates as a terror group
By AFP and ToI Staff
US President Donald Trump signs the Gold Card executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, September 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
September 30, 2025, 4:35 pm
US plans to deport some 400 Iranians in agreement with Tehran
Islamic Republic says first group of 120 of its nationals to arrive in next two days, after plane reportedly carrying deportees departed Louisiana for Qatar Tuesday
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Protesters rally in support of detained Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil outside Columbia University in New York on March 14, 2025. (AP/Jason DeCrow)
September 19, 2025, 4:50 pm
University leaders endorse US Jewish letter decrying Trump’s campus antisemitism wars
Among over 100 signatories to missive slamming the president’s ‘disingenuous claims’ of Jew-hatred to deport students are a Ben & Jerry’s co-founder and heads of a leading anti-Zionist group
By Andrew Lapin
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the suspect who allegedly attacked pro-Israel activists in Boulder, Colorado on June 1, 2025. (Screen capture/X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 4, 2025, 3:03 am
US court says family of Boulder attacker who firebombed hostage rally can be deported
Decision overturns lower court’s ruling against expulsion of wife and 5 kids of Egyptian Mohamed Sabry Soliman, who were staying in the country illegally
By Grace Gilson
Dozens of protesters arrive at San Francisco International Airports after border officials deny entry to two Palestinian activists who arrived with valid visas for a speaking tour. (Courtesy of Chase Carter/Center for Jewish Nonviolence via JTA)
June 14, 2025, 5:28 pm
Bay Area synagogue mobilizes for two Palestinian visitors detained at airport
Cousins from Masafer Yatta face deportation after arriving on valid visas for awareness mission sponsored by local synagogue; authorities revoked their visas for unknown reasons
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Activists from the Madleen boat, Rima Hassan (left) and Reva Viard, seen on a plane departing Israel after they were deported on June 12, 2025. (Foreign Ministry/X)
June 12, 2025, 8:18 pm
Six more flotilla activists who tried to sail to Gaza deported from Israel
Group departing Israel includes French member of European Parliament Rima Hassan; remaining two activists, also French nationals, slated to be deported on Friday
By Jeremy Sharon and Agencies
Greta Thunberg on a plane leaving Israel, June 10, 2025 (Foreign Ministry via X)
June 10, 2025, 1:02 pm
Thunberg, 3 other flotilla activists booted from Israel; 8 held for refusing deportation
She claims she was kidnapped, interrogated; Trump: ‘Israel has enough problems without kidnapping Thunberg’; Report: Katz wanted to film activists watching Oct. 7 atrocity film, but was stopped
By ToI Staff and Agencies
FILE: A Palestinian woman walks past a damaged wall bearing the UNRWA logo at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 28, 2024. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
April 26, 2025, 11:40 pm
Israel said to deport UNRWA employee who is married to an Israeli Jew
Report says the woman, who has three kids and lived in the country for 17 years, was questioned at airport about the UN agency and deported for ‘considerations of public security’
By ToI Staff
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