The Republican promised mass deportations of illegal immigrants, focusing on known serious and violent criminals, such as those in transnational criminal gangs like TdA. He also said upward of 11 million people could be removed from the country, referencing those without legal status. Many have been in the U.S. for decades.

The federal judge Republicans want to impeach for blocking deportation flights to El Salvador will handle a new lawsuit alleging Trump officials violated federal law by discussing an attack on Yemen in a Signal chat.

The U.S. judge whom President Donald Trump has argued should be impeached for blocking him from using wartime powers to deport Venezuelan migrants is set to hear a new lawsuit over administration officials' use of the messaging app Signal to share highly sensitive military plans.

WASHINGTON—An appeals court upheld an order that blocked the Trump administration from using a wartime law to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members, on the same day Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the prison in El Salvador where the migrants are being detained.

The Trump administration is invoking state secrets privilege to avoid giving a judge more information about last week's deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act.

The Trump administration has invoked a “state secrets privilege” and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18t