Good afternoon and welcome to your afternoon news update from AP. Today, routine court hearings have turned into deportation traps for migrants; a new hurdle emerges in the Comey case; and a Russian attack on Ukraine's western city of Ternopil has killed at least 25 people.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pull a man out of an elevator as he and his daughter attempt to leave following a hearing in immigration court in New York in September. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova) |
Migrants thought they were in court for a routine hearing. Instead, it was a deportation trap |
The nation's immigration courts have undergone a fundamental change under the administration of President Donald Trump. He pledged to impose hardline immigration policies, an issue that was popular with his voters. In practice, the administration has resorted to unusually aggressive tactics, many of which have played out in immigration courts in the United States. Read more. |
