The agency’s policy requires detaining noncitizen parents who are primary caretakers or have custody of minors in facilities close to their children.

A former Columbia University graduate who has been fighting deportation over his participation in pro-Palestinian protests was ordered released from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility by a federal judge.

On March 8, 2025 Mahmoud Khalil was detained by ICE in the lobby of his apartment building in New York. Mahmoud is well know for his involvement in protest related to

An immigration judge on April 10 declared Khalil deportable as a national security risk in response to a declaration from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The judge, Jamee E. Comans, found that the government had established that Khalil being in the U.S. posed “potentially serious foreign policy consequences," according to The Associated Press.