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US President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025. (Pool via AP)
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Andrew Lapin
El Salvador’s president, Trump’s new deportation partner, is a pro-Israel Palestinian
The self-described ‘world’s coolest dictator’ has ancestry from Palestine on his father’s side, but compares Hamas to the MS-13 gang and claims his wife ‘has Jewish blood’
Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez)
April 19, 2025, 11:41 am
US Supreme Court blocks new deportations of Venezuelans under 18th century wartime law
Trump administration expected to try to persuade justices to lift temporary order; move comes after some were sent to El Salvador and housed in notorious prison
By Nicholas Riccardi and Mark Sherman
US President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, April 14, 2025. (Pool via AP)
April 19, 2025, 5:05 am
El Salvador’s president, Trump’s new deportation partner, is a pro-Israel Palestinian
The self-described ‘world’s coolest dictator’ has ancestry from Palestine on his father’s side, but compares Hamas to the MS-13 gang and claims his wife ‘has Jewish blood’
By Andrew Lapin
This contributed photo shows Rumeysa Ozturk on an apple-picking trip in 2021. (AP Photo)
April 17, 2025, 7:55 pm
Immigration judge denies bond for Turkish US grad student, held for anti-Israel activism
Trump admin offered one-paragraph document pointing to Rumeysa Ozturk’s involvement in anti-Israel student groups to justify continued detention amid deportation effort
By KATHY McCORMACK
Jews attend a rally in support of detained anti-Israel Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. Several Jews later left the rally after speakers began denouncing Israel. (Courtesy of Ron Newman via JTA)
April 6, 2025, 1:43 am
Jews at Tufts oppose ICE seizure of anti-Israel grad student, but are wary of protests
While condemning the arrest of Rümeysa Öztürk amid free speech concerns surrounding Trump crackdown, Jewish advocates feel isolated by the tenor of demonstrations on her behalf
By Andrew Lapin
Graduate student Momodou Taal speaks at an encampment at Cornell University campus in New York, after being suspended for disruptive behavior during anti-Israel protests, April 27, 2024. (YouTube screenshot / Cornell Daily Sun)
April 1, 2025, 11:53 am
Oct. 7-supporting Cornell student slated for deportation says he’s leaving the US
Gambian-British national Momodou Taal had praised Hamas onslaught, sued Trump administration to block deportation of anti-Israel protesters
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)
March 27, 2025, 3:48 am
US detains, revokes visa of Turkish student at Tufts who co-wrote an anti-Israel op-ed
Department of Homeland Security accuses Rumeysa Ozturk of ‘engaging in activities in support of Hamas’ after piece in school paper called for divesting from Israeli firms amid war
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A Cornell University sign is seen on the Ivy League school's campus, January 14, 2022, in Ithaca, New York. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
March 22, 2025, 5:54 am
Cornell student who praised Oct. 7 told to surrender to US immigration authorities
Order from ICE indicates Trump administration intends to deport Gambian-British national Momodou Taal, who is among those a pro-Israel watchdog has been pushing to expel
By JTA and ToI Staff
Protesters gather for a demonstration in support of Palestinian anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
March 11, 2025, 9:51 am
Liberal Jewish groups condemn arrest of Columbia anti-Israel protest leader
Groups like J Street and Zioness, which took issue with campus protests, nevertheless see Trump’s pledge to deport student activist Mahmoud Khalil as dangerous precedent
By JTA and ToI Staff
Activists hold a banner during a pro-refugee demonstration organized by HIAS outside the US Capitol, September 14, 2017. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)
April 27, 2021, 3:28 am
How the US Jewish refugee aid agency is doing after 3 months under Biden
Donations to HIAS soared in response to Trump’s tough policies, but with fewer arrivals the group struggled to spend. Now it waits for a pledged reversal that’s slow to come
By Ben Sales
Nylssa Portillo Moreno, a Jewish immigrant detained by ICE, was released following an activist campaign that included national Jewish organizations. (Photo illustration/ JTA)
August 7, 2020, 10:39 am
Jewish woman released from ICE custody following national advocacy campaign
Nylssa Portillo Moreno arrived in the US aged 8 in 1993; held since December and originally slated to be deported this week, rights groups say she was denied kosher food in custody
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Pasadena day laborers and supporters hold a 'COVID-19-safe car rally' to protest what they say is an exclusion of workers from financial protection in the wake of the current pandemic for essential immigrant workers outside the city hall in Pasadena, California, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
June 3, 2020, 6:30 am
Excluded from US stimulus, undocumented Israelis afraid to tap into state aid
California-based Israeli expats — out of work due to stay-at-home orders — fear asking for US government assistance could jeopardize their residency applications
By Noam Haykeen
Becca Heller is the co-founder and executive director of the International Refugees Assistant Project. (Courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation)
May 9, 2020, 1:45 am
Trump’s ‘xenophobic’ green card halt ‘vilifies’ immigrants, says leading lawyer
International Refugee Assistance Project head Becca Heller says moratorium on issuing work permits ignores sacrifices made by non-citizens on ‘front line’ against COVID-19
By Cathryn J. Prince
Gov. Gina Raimondo speaks during a debate at URI's Edwards Hall Auditorium on October 15, 2018. (Matthew J. Lee/Getty Images via JTA)
October 24, 2019, 8:27 am
Rhode Island governor meets Jewish anti-ICE group, backs ban on private prisons
After meeting with local Never Again chapter, Gov. Raimondo announces she would support legislation against opening such jails, although no such state bill is under consideration
By JTA
Police stand in front of protesters at a demonstration at an ICE detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, June 30, 2019. (Naftali Y. Ehrenkranz via JTA)
October 24, 2019, 12:20 am
ICE officer who drove truck into Jewish protesters won’t be charged with a crime
Grand jury declines to indict Capt. Thomas Woodworth for August incident in which he drove into row of Never Again Action activists blocking an entrance
By JTA
A migrant toddler is cradled by a Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. caregiver at a "tender-age" facility for babies, children and teens, in Texas's Rio Grande Valley, August 29, 2019, in San Benito, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
October 3, 2019, 11:15 am
White House shifting to for-profit companies for migrant child detention
Trump administration paying millions to private firms for caretaking of minors, drawing accusations of profiteering by contractors
By Martha Mendoza and GARANCE BURKE
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