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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump administration tried to reopen deportation proceedings for man who was long dead: ‘They’re very negligent’

Thousands of immigrants who have legally lived and worked in the United States for years have assumed they would be protected against their removal from the country after their cases were frozen.

But the Trump administration is stripping immigrants of their legal status and reopening removal proceedings as the Department of Homeland Security expands its mass deportation machine.

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