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• Another Week, Another Date: Navigating TPS EAD Extensions, Court Stays, and the I-9 Compliance Tightrope

  By: Dawn M. Lurie, Alexander J. Madrak, and Selene Malench* Updates at a Glance: TPS El Salvador EAD Extension On April 28, USCIS updated its TPS website. It now notes that individuals with TPS-related EADs showing a facial expiration date of March 9, 2025 are authorized to work through July 22, 2026. USCIS has not posted any...

• Fight or Flight?

  I recently met with the family of a man from El Salvador who we’ll call Jorge. Jorge was detained by […]

• El Salvador partners with xAI on nationwide AI education program

  El Salvador has partnered with xAI to implement a nationwide AI-powered education program, aiming to provide personalized tutoring to over one million students across more than 5,000 public schools. Utilizing xAI’s Grok model, the initiative seeks to tailor learning experiences to each student’s pace and preferences, thereby transforming the country’s education system into a model...

• OPINION: Kilmar Ábrego García and Our Constitutional Crisis

  Kilmar Ábrego García fled El Salvador as a teenager, running from gang violence that would have consumed him. For fourteen years, he built America—literally. His hands laid the concrete, raised the steel, and constructed the roads and buildings that form the backbone of our infrastructure. He married Jennifer Vasquez Sura, a U.S. citizen, and together...

• Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported migrant, released from federal custody

    NBC News reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and accused of being a gang member, was released from federal custody this afternoon.  Abrego Garcia’s case made it to the Supreme Court, which held that the U.S. government should facilitate his return to the United States.  He was...

• Justice Department Hits Judge in El Salvador Deportation Case With Ethics Complaint

  The misconduct claim against US District Chief Judge James Boasberg was announced by Attorney General Pam Bondi

• Court Delays Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from federal custody

  Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Wrongfully removed to El Salvador, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has much experience in the U.S. courts.  The Supreme Court ordered the U.S. government to facilitate his return from El Salvador.  After languishing in Salvadoran prison for several months, Abrego Garcia was returned to the United States only to be charged with...

• El Salvador Sends U.S. Venezuelan Deportees to Venezuela and Americans Home

  Reuters reports that over 200 Venezuelans who were deported from the United States on allegations of gang membership earlier this year and detained in an El Salvador jail arrived home to Caracas on Friday. The release was part of an exchange, with 10 Americans held in Venezuela returned to the United States.  See also here....

• New Republic: “Whistleblower Emails Expose Fresh Trump Abuses in Abrego Garcia Case Newly released communications show the lengths the Trump administration went to in order to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia an MS-13 leader.”

  The New Republic reports that “Emails provided to Congress by a whistleblower and 15-year veteran of the Justice Department reveal that administration officials went to striking lengths to prop up the claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a “leader” of the MS-13 gang—even as President Trump was coming under intense pressure to return him from...

• Lawyers say new evidence challenges Trump on El Salvador prisons

  They say Salvadoran officials, not US administration, have legal authority over the men

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• Blogging from El Salvador #4

  In conversations with many church activists here in El Salvador, the name of Father Dean Brackley comes up time and time again. He passed away this past October. The Rev. Dean Brackley belonged to an order of priests, the Jesuits, sometimes referred to as “God’s Marines,” because...

• The Beat Goes On: Trump has finalized an agreement to deport asylum seekers to El Salvador

  Nicole Narea, who is writing some great immigration stuff on Vox, reports that the Trump administration is continuing the full court press on immigration into the final days of the Trump presidency.  Earlier this week, the administration announced that will commence implementation of a...

• Venezuelan Professional Goalkeeper Deported to El Salvador

    As the Trump administration moves with lightening speed on removals of alleged criminals and gang members, we are learning of troubling cases.  Here is one. The Trump administration reportedly deported a Venezuelan professional soccer player, a youth soccer coach with no criminal record, to a...

• Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported migrant, released from federal custody

    NBC News reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador and accused of being a gang member, was released from federal custody this afternoon.  Abrego Garcia’s case made it to the Supreme Court, which held that the U.S. government should facilitate his return to...

• Blogging from El Salvador #6

  We met with Maria Serrano who is now the Minister of the Interior of El Salvador. She is definitely not a prototypical politician. Minister Serrano is the subject of the film: Maria’s Story: A Documentary Portrait Of Love And Survival In El Salvador’s Civil War, first released some 20...

• Immigrant of the Day: Judge David Bernhard

  JamG, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Judge David Benhard sits on the Fairfax County Circuit Court in Virginia, a job he’s held since being appointed by the state’s General Assembly in 2017. He’s the state’s first immigrant from Latin American to be appointed a Virginia circuit court judge....

• Time’s Stunning Coverage of Renditions to El Salvador

  THIS IS A MUST READ: Time’s What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced. The photographs alone are worth the click through. I don’t think anything else would be quite as compelling to bring to the classroom when discussing the recent rendition of Venezuelans to El Salvador. Then, the...

• OPINION: Kilmar Ábrego García and Our Constitutional Crisis

  Kilmar Ábrego García fled El Salvador as a teenager, running from gang violence that would have consumed him. For fourteen years, he built America—literally. His hands laid the concrete, raised the steel, and constructed the roads and buildings that form the backbone of our infrastructure. He...

• Immigrant of the Day: Blanca Medina (El Salvador)

  Blanca Medina is a survivor of five rapes—four in El Salvador and one more by a smuggler after she fled north to seek safety in the United States. Reeling from the trauma, Blanca did not manage to attend her immigration hearing and was ordered deported in absentia. Six years later, ICE...

• Biden administration takes steps to dismantle Trump asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras

  Yesterday, continuing to reverse Trump administration asylum initiatives, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that “The United States has suspended and initiated the process to terminate the Asylum Cooperative Agreements with the Governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as the...