The 2nd detainee dies a week after Dallas ICE facility shooting as Authorities said a sniper opened fire “indiscriminately” at the ICE building and an ICE van, striking three detainees.

Last week, Presner Nelson went to a shopping mall with one goal in mind: to find a suit his brother, who died in immigration federal custody in March, would wear in his casket.

Nelson’s brother, Emmanuel Damas, died after allegedly complaining for roughly two weeks of a toothache that Nelson believes could have been treated.

“This was the first time I had to do this in my life — it was not easy,” Nelson told ABC News.

The death of Damas, a Haitian immigrant who Nelson says arrived in the U.S. legally and had a pending Temporary Protected Status application, comes amid growing concerns from lawmakers and immigrant advocates about the conditions in migrant detention facilities, and a sharp increase in immigrant deaths in detention under the second Trump administration as it pursues its immigration crackdown.

Most deadly period

As of March 25, 44 people have died in government custody during the current Trump administration, according to figures shared by lawmakers, with two of those fatalities being victims of a shooting last September at a Dallas detention facility. The rise in fatalities comes as the detention population reaches record highs, with over 70,000 people currently detained in federal immigration custody.

The data analysis by the ABC news reveals a stark and rapid acceleration in the mortality rate within federal facilities. While the figure was as low as one death per 100,000 admissions in 2022, that number surged to about seven deaths per 100,000 admissions in 2025, even when excluding the two people shot while in custody. And in just the first ten weeks of 2026, the rate is currently at 12 deaths per 100,000 admissions.

Using a methodology established by researchers and detention statistics provided by ICE, ABC News calculated estimated mortality rates per 100,000 detention admissions for the calendar years 2019-2025, plus Jan. 1 through March 16, 2026. Using a rate shows whether mortality is increasing beyond what would be expected from higher detention admissions alone.

“There is really no contest — fiscal year 2026 is on track to be the deadliest year ever in the history of ICE,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an immigration policy expert with the American Immigration Council who did his own data analysis of ICE deaths, ABC news reports.

“Things are dramatically worse this year. We are seeing more deaths than ever,” Reichlin-Melnick said.

Scrutiny over the deaths of detainees has grown as the Trump administration has pressured ICE to increase arrests and has dramatically expanded detention space by converting warehouses and other spaces into detention facilities. A document shared by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency with New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte shows the government expects to spend $38 billion converting these spaces and increasing detention capacity by 92,600 beds.

Under previous administrations, the government has found ways to mitigate the number of people in detention by enrolling detainees in “Alternatives for Detention” efforts, which can involve scheduling regular check-ins with ICE, and mandating the use of ankle monitors.

The Trump administration has doubled down on invoking mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants, and in some cases even for those who are in the process of obtaining legal status. The government has also restarted detaining families with children at facilities like the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

“They’re making a decision to take a U.S. citizen child and detain them with their parents. They’re making a decision to detain someone who’s lived here peacefully for 20 years. That is their choice, and they need to be pushed further on that,” said Andrea Flores, an attorney and immigration policy expert who is a former DHS and White House official. “Nobody should lose their life because they went through our immigration system — but that, in and of itself, has been a problem across administrations. And so there’s been work that’s needed to be done on this.”

The case of Emmanuel Damas

In a statement, ICE described Damas as a “criminal illegal alien” arrested in Boston for assault and battery. His brother Nelson disputes this, saying Damas was in the country legally under a humanitarian parole program and had a pending petition for Temporary Protected Status.

Nelson also said Damas was never convicted following his arrest and that the arrest stemmed from a misunderstanding when someone called police to report that Damas’ 12-year-old son appeared to be walking by himself on a sidewalk. Damas mistakenly believed his son had called the police on him, became angry, and gestured as if to hit him but never made physical contact, Nelson said.

Damas was taken to jail where he was transferred into ICE custody before Nelson could bail him out, Nelson said.

Nelson said when he last spoke on the phone with his brother on Feb. 16, Damas complained about a toothache he’d had for the last two weeks. According to Nelson, his brother had claimed he was denied multiple requests to see a dentist.

Two days later Damas called their mother but he had difficulty speaking, Nelson said. Nelson believes his brother could not speak clearly because the toothache had developed into an abscess and his jaw had swollen. He did not complain of shortness of breath, Nelson said.

The next day, according to ICE, Damas was “immediately” taken to a hospital on Feb. 19 after allegedly reporting shortness of breath and was subsequently transferred to an Intensive Care Unit at a hospital in Phoenix for a “higher level of care.”

It’s unclear when he was placed on a ventilator, but ICE said that by Feb. 20, Damas “remained intubated” and underwent a series of tests.

On Feb. 22, the hospital in Phoenix “reported the likely diagnosis to be septic shock due to pneumonia,” ICE said.

Before he was transferred to Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center on Feb. 25, Damas “had two chest tubes placed on his right side and a thoracentesis was completed to help remove excess fluid from the pleural spaces around the lungs,” ICE said.

On Feb. 28, Nelson said his family was told they’d be allowed to visit him in the hospital and four of his relatives, including his mother, were able to see him the next day.

“But at that point on, it was too late, there was not much I could be done to save his life,” Nelson said. “So when my mom got there, he was in a coma.”

‘I don’t believe he took his life’: Family of Nicaraguan man seeks answers after his death in ICE detention facility

At 1:12 p.m. on March 2, Damas was pronounced deceased.

In a statement provided to ABC News about Damas and the number of recent detainee deaths, a DHS spokesperson said Damas “refused” dental extraction and had claimed in January that his toothache had gone away. The spokesperson said that in February, Damas was again seen “for bleeding gums and loose front teeth” and again refused to have two teeth extracted.

“It is a longstanding practice to provide comprehensive medical care from the moment an individual enters ICE custody. This includes medical, dental, and mental health services, access to medical appointments, and 24-hour emergency care,” the spokesperson said. “Many individuals receive healthcare in ICE custody that exceeds what they have previously experienced.”

Damas believes his brother would be alive if he had received adequate medical care for his toothache.

“They waited for too long to take him to the hospital to be seen by a dentist. So on the nineteenth, when they finally realized, it was too late because he had that infection going on for two weeks,” Nelson said. “He asked for help for two weeks — they said that he was faking it.”

‘Presumed suicides’

The recent surge in detainee deaths includes a number of “presumed suicides,” including 19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez, who died on March 16 in Florida, and Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in a Texas facility in January.

In a press release, DHS said that Diaz died in ICE custody on Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso, after staff found him “unconscious and unresponsive in his room.” A DHS spokesperson confirmed this month that Perez-Jimenez was found “unconscious and unresponsive” by a Glades County detention officer.

While the department noted that “the official cause of death remains under investigation,” they labeled the incident a “presumed suicide.” However, Diaz’s family told ABC News they do not believe he took his own life and are calling for a full investigation.

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In New York City, the rally began in Columbus Circle near Trump International Luxury Hotel on Saturday and marched through midtown Manhattan.  Starting from Columbus Circle, rally walk through Seventh Avenue and Broadway, through Times Square and to 34th Street. It included a who’s who of celebrities, including actor Robert de Niro.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in New York City for the “No Kings” protest. Demonstrators protested federal immigration policies and the use of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents amid an ongoing battle in Congress over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.  They chanted “No ICE, No war And No King.”

High-profile figures rallied support earlier in the day at a press conference, including civil rights leader Al Sharpton, New York Attorney General Letitia James and actor Robert de Niro, who all called for action and urged people to show up.

“We still believe in the core American values of justice, equality, decency, and kindness,” de Niro said. “Because we’re going from the streets to the ballot box and because we all deserve a country with no king.”

Protesters at the march held signs and flags reading slogans against Trump’s immigration policy, From the use of federal troops for immigration enforcement, to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis, to Trump’s war with Iran.

Protesters’ signs opposed the war in Iran, decried the cost of housing and health care, supported Ukraine in its war with Russia and raised the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. Some of them called for Trump’s impeachment. At some rallies, there were signs to “Abolish ICE.”

Organized by “No Kings,” a network of progressive groups opposed to the administration’s agenda, the protests are the third wave of demonstrations since the President took office for a second term. Last year, millions attended protests in June and again in October. Members of the National No Kings Coalition said Americans raised their voices in protest.

The organizers, from groups that include the ACLU, National Action Network and the United Federation of Teachers, said that they were some 3,200 events planned for the day.

Protesters said they hope events like this will bring about change in the country. 

“We’re just here to show up for our communities and our neighbors and say that we don’t accept this treatment, everyone is welcome here in New York, and that this is unacceptable,” a protester said.

“The people coming out will be asked to show up on an ongoing basis for ICE watch, for mutual aid, for support of immigrant communities, for advocacy against this illegal and catastrophic war, for voter registration and all the work of building power locally,” Leah Greenberg, co-director of Indivisible, one of the coalition’s groups, said in a statement Thursday.

Streets from coast to coast were filled with marchers who carried homemade signs, sang songs and chanted against Trump’s policies, actions and rhetoric.

The turnout was historic and It was among the largest protests in American history. This time, there were more events scheduled − 3,300 larger crowds were reported and also boosted in part by opposition to the war in Iran.

Parts of Seventh Avenue and 34th Street were closed during the march

Around 6 p.m., the NYPD announced the protests had dispersed and all traffic closures were lifted.

“We had tens of thousands of people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights, and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests,” the NYPD said.

Rallies across the country

More “No Kings” rallies were held Saturday in cities across the country, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and St. Paul, Minnesota. Streets filled across the country for ‘No Kings’ peaceful rallies protesting Trump.

In Los Angeles, 74 people, eight of whom were juveniles, were arrested for failure to disperse after the dispersal order for the march was issued at 5:30 p.m., according to police. One additional adult was arrested for possession of a dirk or dagger, police said. The event was scheduled to end at 5 p.m.

In Minneapolis, which saw tens of thousands of protesters hit the streets in January and February following the Good and Pretti killings, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Bruce Springsteen spoke at the event there, according to “No Kings” organizers. The “No Kings” organizers said over 200,000 people attended the Minneapolis rally.

The demonstration outside the Minnesota State Capitol for the marquee No Kings rally, with Bruce Springsteen and Jane Fonda on the bill, wasn’t the most notable development during the day of protests on March 28.

The left-leaning protests with the Revolutionary-era call against President Donald Trump as a would-be monarch and authoritarian had the broadest geographic reach of any single-day protest in the United States in more than a half-century. They included not only familiar precincts in New York and Los Angeles and Austin but also communities in all 50 states and every congressional district, including rural and Republican areas.

By the way, a twilight rally in West Palm Beach, Florida, included a march down President Donald Trump Boulevard toward Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, where the president was spending the weekend. Police turned back the demonstrators before they got close enough to be seen or heard there.

The White House already had dismissed the protests as meaningless.

The demonstrations weren’t only limited to cities in the U.S. as protesters in other countries held “No Kings” protests as well.

In Rome and London, the streets were filled with demonstrators. There were also demonstrations in other countries from Europe to Latin America to Australia, some of them with the title “No Tyrants” instead of “No Kings,” with a recurring demand for “a world free from wars.”

The “No Kings” protests are the latest since October and organizers said they are looking to send a message addressing what they call “the constant chaos of the Trump administration” since then.

Saturday marked the third “No Kings” demonstration since Trump returned office.

The No Kings protests on March 28, 2026, became a nationwide demonstration against President Donald Trump, drawing an estimated 8  million participants in over 3,300 locations and reflecting a mix of anti‑Trump, pro‑democracy, and other policy concerns ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

Organizers said two-thirds of participants who signed up live in suburban, small town or rural areas. That’s a 40% increase over last time in protesters from outside big cities.

The first No Kings rallies were held less than a year ago, on June 14, the day Trump presided over a military parade in Washington marking the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, which also happened to be his 79th birthday. Those protests drew about 5 million people, a number affirmed by the Crowd Counting Consortium sponsored by Harvard and the University of Connecticut.

Four months later, the second No Kings marches drew an estimated 2 million more.

The protesters were united by opposition to Trump and support for democratic institutions they accuse him of endangering.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday said Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin will replace Kristi Noem as Department of Homeland Security secretary.

Trump made the announcement on social media Thursday afternoon saying he was “pleased to announce that the Highly Respected United States Senator from the Great State of Oklahoma, Markwayne Mullin, will become the United States Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), effective March 31, 2026.”

“The current Secretary, Kristi Noem, who has served us well, and has had numerous and spectacular results (especially on the Border!), will be moving to be Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere we are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Kristi for her service at ‘Homeland,'” Trump said in the post.

Shortly after the announcement, Mullin told reporters that he was “excited” about leading DHS and “ready to get started.” Mullin still needs to be confirmed by the Senate.

“My focus is to keep the homeland secure,” he said.

Trump’s decision comes as some parts of DHS — from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the Transportation Security Administration to the Coast Guard — are shut down amid a funding fight over Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Democrats have said they will fund the department only if changes are made to the agency in the wake of the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Noem’s testimony on contracts ‘false,’ Democratic senator claims

Asked by reporters about replacing Noem, Mullin said she “is a friend” who was “tasked with a very difficult job.”

In a social media post Thursday afternoon, Noem thanked Trump for the new appointment.

“In this new role, I will be able to build on the partnerships and national security expertise, I forged over the last 13 months as Secretary of Homeland Security,” Noem said.

Several Democrats celebrated the news that Trump had fired Noem.

“Kristi Noem is gone. Good riddance,” Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said at a news conference, adding that “a change in personnel is not sufficient” to reopen DHS.

“We need a change in policy that has to be bold, dramatic, transformational and meaningful,” he said.

Sen. Chuck Schumer  said in a social media post that “the problems at DHS go much deeper than any one person. They’ve got to rein in ICE and end the violence.”

Noem has faced criticism in recent weeks over her handling of ICE operations in Minneapolis after the killings of Good and Pretti by federal law enforcement. She was removed from leading operations in the state following the scrutiny, and Border Czar Tom Homan was sent in to take over.

During hearings on Capitol Hill this week, Noem also refused to apologize for labeling the conduct of Good and Pretti as “domestic terrorism” without evidence.

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Bangladesh has also been included to this list and from January 21st, 2026 all Bangladeshi nationals seeking visit visa will require to pay the visa bond from $5000 to $15000 determined during the visa interview. The new countries covered by the requirement join Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania, Gambia, Malawi and Zambia, which were all placed on the list in August and October of last year.

This Temporary Final Rule (TFR) establishing the pilot program will take in effect on said dates from January, 2026. However, Payment of the visa bond does not guarantee a visa issuance. But the amount will be refunded if the visa is denied or when a visa holder demonstrates they have complied with the terms of visa.

 If someone pays fees without a consular officer’s direction, the fees will not be returned.

As a condition of the bond, all visa holders who have posted a visa bond must enter and exit the United States through the designated ports of entry listed below.  Not doing this might lead to a denied entry or a departure. The US authority will consider a ‘Visa bond breach’ by the individual, if the visa holder applies to adjust out of nonimmigrant status, including claiming asylum.

The visa bonds are part of stricter Trump administration policies requiring citizens from all countries that require visas to sit for in-person interviews and disclose years of social media histories as well as detailed accounts of their and their families’ previous travel and living arrangements.

Any citizen or national traveling on a passport issued by one of these countries, who is found otherwise eligible for a B1/B2 visa, must post a bond for $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000.  The amount is determined at the time of the visa interview.  The applicant must also submit a Department of Homeland Security Form I-352.  Applicants must agree to the terms of the bond through the Department of the Treasury’s online payment platform Pay.gov.  This requirement applies regardless of place of application.

Applicants should submit Form I-352 to post a bond only after a consular officer directs them to do so.  Applicants will receive a direct link to pay through Pay.gov.  They must not use any third-party website for posting the bond.  The U.S. Government is not responsible for any money paid outside of its systems.

The US Department of State has identified nationals from these countries as needing visa bonds.  The implementation dates are in parentheses:

Algeria (January 21, 2026),Angola (January 21, 2026),Antigua and Barbuda (January 21, 2026),Bangladesh (January 21, 2026),Benin (January 21, 2026),Bhutan (January 1, 2026),Botswana (January 1, 2026),Burundi (January 21, 2026),Cabo Verde (January 21, 2026),Central African Republic (January 1, 2026),Cote D’Ivorie (January 21, 2026),Cuba (January 21, 2026),Djibouti (January 21), 2026, Dominica (January 21, 2026),Fiji (January 21, 2026),Gabon (January 21, 2026,The Gambia (October 11, 2025),Guinea (January 1, 2026),Guinea Bissau (January 1, 2026),Kyrgyzstan (January 21, 2026),Malawi (August 20, 2025),,auritania (October 23, 2025),Namibia (January 1, 2026),Nepal (January 21, 2026),Nigeria (January 21, 2026),Sao Tome and Principe (October 23, 2025),Senegal (January 21, 2026),Tajikistan (January 21, 2026),Tanzania (October 23, 2025),Togo (January 21, 2026),Tonga (January 21, 2026),Turkmenistan (January 1, 2026,Tuvalu (January 21, 2026),Uganda (January 21, 2026),Vanuatu (January 21, 2026),Venezuela (January 21, 2026),Zambia (August 20, 2025),Zimbabwe (January 21, 2026).

Required ports of entry

As a condition of the Visa bond, all visa holders who have posted a visa bond must enter and exit the United States through the designated ports of entry listed below.  Not doing this might lead to a denied entry or a departure that is not properly recorded:

Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) (August 20, 2025)

John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) (August 20, 2025)

Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) (August 20, 2025)

Visa bond compliance

Visa Bond terms are set on the bond form (Department of Homeland Security’s Form I-352 Immigration Bonds) and on Travel.State.Gov.  The bond will be canceled and the money returned automatically in these situations:

The Department of Homeland Security records the visa holder’s departure from the United States on or before the date to which they are authorized to stay in the United States, or

The visa holder does not travel to the United States before the expiration of the visa, or

The visa holder applies for and is denied admission at the U.S. port of entry.

Visa bond breach

The Department of Homeland Security will send cases where the visa holder may have broken the visa bond terms to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).  This is to determine if there was a breach.  It includes, but is not limited to, these situations:

The Department of Homeland Security records indicate that the visa holder departed from the United States after the date to which he or she is authorized to stay in the United States.

The visa holder stays in the United States after the date to which he or she is authorized to do so and does not leave.

The visa holder applies to adjust out of nonimmigrant status, including claiming asylum.

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On a larger scale, advocacy groups keep seeing the same patterns. People with Arabic, South Asian, Hispanic names are show up over and over in complaints. They’re not always on any real “list.” Their names just look too much like those of someone else who is. That tiny overlap, a few letters in common, can be enough to flip their lives into slow motion.

What’s really happening is a software system is cross‑checking each name against sprawling watch lists and databases. Some names hit a red light automatically. The human clerk can’t override it. The file goes into a back room, into a queue, into someone else’s hands.

The system doesn’t shout “no”. It whispers “pending” and leaves them hanging for weeks or months. No clear explanation. No precise accusation. Just an opaque “additional processing” note linked, in many cases, to their name.

Behind those quiet delays sits a mix of watch lists, automated filters, and security databases that cross-check every application in the background. On paper, it all sounds reasonable: protect borders, track threats, and keep people safe. In real life, it often looks like this: ordinary travelers unable to visit family, attend a funeral abroad, or take the job they were just offered in another country.

While visiting the support centers people are  hearing “Your application has been flagged. We can’t process this today.”  His or her name hasn’t changed,  record is clean. The only answer they  gets is a printed notice about a mysterious “security review” and a phone number that never picks up.

Clerks say “Your passport renewal is in automatic review. I can’t override it.”

The clerk shrugs, almost apologetic. “It happens with certain names.”

In such reality passport renewals and updates are being automatically blocked when an applicant’s current name does not match the name printed on their existing passport—and there is no legal proof of the change. And an increasing number of Americans and naturalized citizens are discovering that a seemingly minor name change can quietly disrupt their travel plans that many people view as a harmless adjustment made years ago for work, marriage, or personal reasons is now triggering strict federal checks within the U.S. passport system.

An Immigration attorney in New York told a story of a client who born in New Jersey never left the country for more than a week. When he tried to update his passport after marriage to add his spouse’s name, the system froze his application. No explanation, no criminal record, just a familiar, “You’ve been flagged for additional review.”

He missed a cousin’s wedding abroad. He spent hours on hold with the National Passport Information Center. The clerk at the post office just shook her head: “This happens with some names.” Months later, his passport finally arrived with no comment, no apology, no clue what had gone wrong. The next time he travels, the memory of that delay will be in the back of his mind.

A software engineer born in New Jersey also faced similar issues. His passport renewal should have been routine; he’d already had two passports before. This time, the online status turned to “under review” and stayed there. Weeks became months. His employer kept asking for updates on his transfer to the company’s London office. He kept refreshing the tracking page, watching the same vague message.

There was no letter asking for more documents. No phone call. Just a silent algorithm treating his very common Middle Eastern name as a potential match for one of the many names on US terror and sanctions lists. The resemblance was enough to flip an invisible switch. The trip, the promotion, the life plan he’d been building – all put on hold by a software rule he wasn’t allowed to see.

Technically, this isn’t a secret program. The State Department has long said that passport applications are checked against databases from law enforcement and national security agencies. That includes versions of the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Database and other watch lists that most of us will never see. The systems look for name matches, close matches and sometimes partial matches. When the algorithm thinks it’s found one, the file is blocked automatically for manual review.

Legally, US authorities are allowed – even expected – to run names against huge databases: the Terrorist Screening Dataset, Interpol notices, sanctions lists, criminal records. The problem starts when automation turns a “possible hit” into an almost automatic freeze. Many of these lists are full of partial names, spelling variants, and duplicates.  So when your name looks “close enough”, the system can lock your case by default.

On paper, a human agent should then quickly check whether it’s really you or just an unlucky name collision. In practice, backlogs, staffing gaps, and security culture mean those reviews can drag on. No one wants to be the person who clears a case that later makes headlines. people with certain names pay the price in silence.

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The letter was sent Saturday.

Dugan wrote that over the past decade she handled thousands of cases with “a commitment to treat all persons with dignity and respect, to act justly, deliberately and consistently, and to maintain a courtroom with the decorum and safety the public deserves.”

But she said the case against her is too big of a distraction.

“As you know, I am the subject of unprecedented federal legal proceedings, which are far from concluded but which present immense and complex challenges that threaten the independence of our judiciary. I am pursuing this fight for myself and for our independent judiciary,” Dugan said in her letter.

Last April, federal prosecutors accused Dugan of distracting federal officers trying to arrest a Mexican immigrant outside her courtroom and leading the man out through a private door. A federal jury convicted her of felony obstruction.

Republicans had been making plans to impeach her ever since her Dec. 19 conviction. A spokesperson for Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, said his office received Dugan’s letter, and he would work to fill the vacancy without delay.

The case against Dugan was highlighted by President Donald Trump as he pressed ahead with his sweeping immigration crackdown. Democrats insisted the administration was trying to make an example of Dugan to blunt judicial opposition to the operation.

On April 18, immigration officers went to the Milwaukee County courthouse after learning 31-year-old Eduardo Flores-Ruiz had reentered the country illegally and was scheduled to appear before Dugan for a hearing in a state battery case.

Dugan confronted agents outside her courtroom and directed them to the office of her boss, Milwaukee County Chief Judge Carl Ashley, because she told them their administrative warrant wasn’t sufficient grounds to arrest Flores-Ruiz.

After the agents left, she led Flores-Ruiz and his attorney out a private jury door. Agents spotted Flores-Ruiz in the corridor, followed him outside and arrested him after a foot chase. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced in November he had been deported.

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It came after an immigration judge who was fired by the Trump administration filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, alleging she is a victim of unlawful discrimination according to the reports.

Tania Nemer, a former immigration judge in Ohio, filed a lawsuit Monday claiming she was dismissed based on her gender, her dual citizenship with the country of Lebanon, and her previous run for local office as a Democrat, in violation of civil rights law reports says.

Nemer was “abruptly fired” in the middle of her probationary period despite receiving “the highest possible performance,” the lawsuit alleges.

“The lightning-fast, precipitous timing indicates that the incoming Administration’s decision was made — not as part of a careful evaluation of Ms. Nemer’s qualifications or fitness for office — but instead as part of a rushed attempt by the new Administration to target disfavored civil servants,” the complaint states.

ABC report says, the former Cleveland judge is among the more than 100 immigration judges who have been fired or resigned through the Department of Government Efficiency’s “Fork in the Road” offer, or transferred out of immigration adjudication, according to the union representing immigration judges.

The latest firings also come as the Department of Homeland Security is actively hiring “deportation judges.”

In a post on X last week, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the jobs offer potential full-time remote work with salaries ranging from $159,951 to $207,500.

Immigrant advocates have called out the Trump administration for dismissing immigration judges who have experience in immigration law. There is also a backlog of more than 3.7 million immigration cases.

Immigration Judge Nemer’s attorneys said in the filing that she was escorted out of court at the time of her dismissal, and that Nemer’s supervisor and the acting chief immigration judge both said they did not know why she was being fired.

“And to this day, the government has failed to offer any coherent and legitimate nondiscriminatory rationale for her termination,” the lawyers wrote.

Shortly after she was fired, Nemer filed a formal discrimination complaint with an Equal Employment Opportunity office, which dismissed the case.

“The EEO office issued a final agency decision that dismissed Ms. Nemer’s complaint and asserted that Title VII does not constrain discriminatory dismissal against immigration judges because the statute purportedly conflicts with the Article II removal power,” according to the complaint.

“That is simply not true,” her attorneys said in the complaint. “Nothing in the Constitution gives the executive branch the right to discriminate.”

The lawyers called the DOJ’s position that it can fire federal employees without a reason — despite civil rights statutes — a “breathtaking assault on a landmark federal statute.”

According to the complaint, a DOJ official submitted an affidavit that detailed driving infractions involving Nemer, as well as two local tax cases from 2010 and 2011, which the former immigration judge alleged in the complaint that she had disclosed as part of a background check to become an immigration judge.

Nemer’s attorneys said in the complaint that the DOJ official “created the misleading impression that the prior infractions were somehow connected to Nemer’s termination.”

The former immigration judge is asking a court in D.C. for a “declaration that the government violated her rights; reinstatement; and compensatory damages.”

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“We don’t want those people. We have enough problems,” Trump told reporters on board Air Force One on Sunday, Nov. 30. “Many of them are no good and they shouldn’t be in our country.”

When asked about who “those people” are, the president said “people from different countries that are not friendly to us and countries that are out of control themselves.” He again referred to “Third World Countries,” a term used to refer to poor and less developed nations.

“I don’t think they are all ‘Third World,’ but in many cases they are ‘Third World.’ They are not good countries. They are crime-ridden countries. They’re countries that don’t do a good job,” Trump said. “We frankly don’t need their people coming into our country telling us what to do.”

After the Nov. 26 attack, the Trump administration ordered widespread reviews of immigration policies, including a sweeping reexamination of green cards issued to people from 19 countries considered “high-risk.”

Trump had vowed to halt migration from all “Third World Countries” following an attack in Washington, DC, that left a member of the West Virginia National Guard dead and another critically injured. Trump also threatened to possibly denaturalize some U.S. citizens. “If I have the power to do it, I’m not sure that I do, but if I do I would denaturalize, absolutely,” he said.

The deadly shooting was allegedly carried out by a suspect identified as an Afghan national who entered the U.S. under a Biden-era refugee program in 2021 and was granted asylum in April of this year by the Trump administration.

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Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform after a gunman opened fire near the White House on Wednesday, killing a National Guard member and wounding one of her colleagues.

Authorities identified the suspected shooter as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national.

Trump condemned the shooting on Wednesday as “an act of evil and act of hatred and an act of terror,” calling it “a crime against our entire nation.”

President Trump said the suspension will remain in place until the U.S. immigration system “fully recovers,” and vowed to terminate what he called “the millions of Biden illegal admissions.”

He also promised to “remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States or is incapable of loving our Country,” strip federal benefits from non-citizens, and deport any foreign national deemed a security risk, public burden or “incompatible with Western civilization.”

National Guard troops have been stationed in Washington since August, when Trump ordered their deployment as part of his intensified immigration enforcement and crackdown on street crime. Shortly after the shooting, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Trump had instructed him to deploy an additional 500 National Guard troops to Washington.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed to POLITICO that Lakanwal had previous ties to the U.S. — including to the intelligence agency.

“In the wake of the disastrous Biden Withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden Administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. Government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” Ratcliffe said.

“This individual — and so many others — should have never been allowed to come here. Our citizens and servicemembers deserve far better than to endure the ongoing fallout from the Biden Administration’s catastrophic failures. God bless our brave troops,” he added.

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President Trump calls National Guard shooting ‘act of evil.’ In an address Wednesday night,  Trump called the shooting “an act of evil, an act of hatred and an act of terror,” adding, “It was a crime against our entire nation.”

The White House posted a video Wednesday evening in which Trump called the shooting an “act of hatred,” and noted the alleged suspect, identified as Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national, was among hundreds flown to the U.S. during and after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 during the Biden administration.

Trump railed against immigrants and those fleeing war-torn countries, calling for the reexamination of all Afghan immigrants admitted under Biden.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem posted on X that the suspect entered the U.S. “under Operation Allies Welcome on September 8, 2021.” It wasn’t clear whether the flight was part of the evacuation or resettlement process. Officials have confirmed Lakanwal worked for the CIA and the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

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“This attack underscores the greatest national security threat facing our nation,” he said. “The last administration let in 20 million unknown and unvetted foreigners from all over the world, from places that you don’t even want to know about. No country can tolerate such a risk to our very survival.”

“We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden, and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country, who does not belong here, or add benefit to our country. If they can’t love our country we don’t want them,” he added.

                                                                                                                                                                       U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday evening that it had paused immigration applications from Afghans.

 “Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols,” the agency said in an X post.

While Trump was quick to blame Biden, Lakanwal applied for asylum in 2024 and was granted asylum in April 2025, under Trump’s second administration.

Groups that have supported Afghan nationals pushed back against the administration’s actions.

Richard Bennett, the U.N. special Rapporteur for human rights in Afghanistan, said Thursday that “the perpetrator should face accountability but the entire Afghan community must not be punished due to the actions of one individual.”

“That would be terribly unjust and complete nonsense,” he said.

Authorities are holding an Afghan national in connection with the ambush shooting of two West Virginia National Guard members near the White House in Washington, DC, an assault that is being investigated as a possible act of terrorism.

The Nov. 26 attack left both the National Guard members in critical condition, according to FBI Director Kash Patel.

Kash Patel said at a news conference that the FBI will work with the D.C. police, Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies on the investigation. “We have assembled the full force of both the federal and state and local law enforcement agencies,” he said.

The suspect was shot moments after the attack and is described as a “lone gunman” by Jeffery Carroll, executive assistant chief of the Metropolitan Police Department. Mayor Muriel Bowser called the attack a “targeted shooting.”

The identity of the suspect has not been made public by law enforcement officials.

President Donald Trump said in a speech from Palm Beach, Florida that the that the Department of Homeland Security is confident that the suspect entered into the U.S. from Afghanistan in 2021 but did not identify the suspect.

Lakanwal came to the U.S. in 2021 on a special visa program for Afghans who assisted the U.S. during the Afghanistan war and were vulnerable to reprisals from the ruling Taliban after the U.S. withdrawal, the official told Reuters. But Lakanwal overstayed his visa and is in the country illegally, the official said.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on X that the suspect came into the country under Operation Allies Welcome on September 8, 2021 but did not name the suspect, saying that “should be starved of the glory he so desperately wants.”

The attack occurred outside a subway station in the heart of the nation’s capital and prompted the White House and other government buildings to lock down after the shooting. President Donald Trump, who was at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida at the time of the shooting, said the suspect was an “animal” and would pay “a steep price” in a social media post.

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