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At first, the bar association for immigration attorneys began receiving inquiries from a couple students a day. These were foreigners studying in the U.S., and they discovered in early April. Their legal status had been terminated with little notice. To their knowledge, none of the students had committed a deportable offense. In recent days, the calls have begun flooding in. Hundreds of students have been calling to say they have lost legal status, seeking advice on what to do next. “We thought it was going to be something that was unusual,” said Matthew Maiona, a Boston-based immigration attorney who...

After hiding in Thailand for seven years, two Cambodian journalists arrived in the United States last year on work visas, aiming to keep providing people in their Southeast Asian homeland with objective, factual news through Radio Free Asia. But Vuthy Tha and Hour Hum now say their jobs and legal status in the U.S. are at risk after President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order gutting the government-run U.S. Agency for Global Media. The agency funds Radio Free Asia and other outlets tasked with delivering uncensored information to parts of the world under authoritarian rule and often without...

U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying for benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from Donald Trump. The March 5 notice raised alarms from immigration and free speech advocates because it appears to expand the government’s reach in social media surveillance to people already vetted and in the U.S. legally, such as asylum seekers, green card and citizenship applicants – and not just those applying to enter the country. That said, social media monitoring by immigration...

Should I stay or should I go, from Meta’s social media platforms? That is what some Facebook, Instagram, and Threads users have been wondering since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s shocking announcement in January, in response to President Trump’s return to the White House. The company changed its rules on harmful content, such as hate speech, in what critics condemn as appeasement of Trump and disregard for public safety. The platform also abandoned its fact-checking program, replacing it with an ineffective crowdsourced solution. The changes have renewed interest among some users about deleting their Meta social media accounts. If you...

A long sliver of federal land along the Mexico-U.S. border that Donald Trump is turning over to the Department of Defense would be controlled by the Army as part of a base, which could allow troops to detain any trespassers, including migrants, said U.S. officials. The transfer of that border zone to military control, and making it part of an Army installation, is an attempt by the Trump administration to get around a federal law that prohibits U.S. troops from being used in domestic law enforcement on American soil. But if the troops are providing security for land that...

Donald Trump on April 14 reiterated that he would like to send U.S. citizens who commit violent crimes to prison in El Salvador, telling that country’s president, Nayib Bukele, that he would “have to build five more places” to hold the potential new arrivals. Trump’s regime has already deported immigrants to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison CECOT, known for its harsh conditions. The convicted felon and occupant of the White House has also said he is trying to find “legal” ways to apply extrajudicial tactics to ship U.S. citizens there, too. Trump has disingenuously insisted these would just be “violent...