A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday seemed poised to block the administration of President Donald Trump from stripping nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants of protections against deportation, with one judge singling out "arguably racist" comments by the Republican president and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

As the Trump administration gears up efforts to deport immigrants en masse, asylum seekers at immigration court who thought they were playing by the rules were abruptly swept up by ICE agents in

Nine Republican House lawmakers on Tuesday signed on to the reintroduction of an immigration-related bill called the Dignity Act.

On Wednesday, four detained migrants and the law groups representing them filed the proposed class-action suit in the U.S. Southern District Court of Florida against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other high-ranking federal and state officials overseeing immigration.

A poll released Wednesday found that 64 percent of voters disapprove of the Trump administration’s decision to deport undocumented immigrants to countries other than their own. The study conducted

ICE will stop granting bond hearings for detained migrants, rather than allow them to go before an immigration judge and potentially remain free while their cases proceed.

The Trump administration is aiming to make illegal migrants ineligible for bond hearings as they contest their deportation cases in court. All foreign nationals who unlawfully crossed the U.

A woman from Columbia, South Carolina has been found guilty in a Laredo federal court of transporting migrants, authorities said.