Updates | The Week of July 24, 2017
Eve Levin // 7/30/17 //
The Trump administration has banned Americans from traveling to North Korea, with a special exception available for those who travel for humanitarian reasons (The Hill).
A veteran ICE agent is concerned about a shift in the agency’s culture, including a new push to deport young people, writes Jonathan Blitzer at the New Yorker.
U.S. District Court Judge Mark Goldsmith extended a preliminary injunction to halt the deportation of Iraqi immigrants until further immigration hearings can be held (LA Times, Detroit Free Press).
- Bonsitu A. Kitaba-Gaviglio, a staff attorney for the ACLU, describes the ACLU’s reaction to the ruling and anticipates many battles to come.
At an Ohio rally, President Trump celebrated a purported crackdown on immigrant gangs (News Week).
One of the individuals who died in the San Antonio truck catastrophe was a DACA recipient who was deported at the age of nineteen (WaPo).