“President Trump on Monday complained of being ‘stymied at every turn’ by the courts, arguing the administration can’t hold trials for migrants it plans to deport amid accusations they are gang members,” The Hill reports.

“The remark was Trump’s first on the topic since the Supreme Court agreed to intervene early Saturday morning, halting flights as the administration prepared to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants, presumably to a prison in El Salvador.”

“Representatives for the U.S. DOGE Service have received permission to access a highly sensitive Justice Department system that contains information including the addresses and case history for millions of legal and undocumented immigrants,” the Washington Post reports.

Washington Post: “The National Intelligence Council, drawing on the acumen of the United States’ 18 intelligence agencies, determined in a secret assessment early this month that the Venezuelan government is not directing an invasion of the United Statesby the prison gang Tren de Aragua, a judgment that contradicts President Donald Trump’s public statements.”

Arizona Public Media: “Immigration officials in Tucson arrested the 19-year-old man from Albuquerque on April 8, saying he had entered the country illegally, before a judge dismissed his case on April 17.”

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told NBC News he disagreed with President Trump’s idea to deport U.S. citizens to foreign prisons, saying it should not be “considered appropriate or moral.”

Dan Balz: “From the day he came down the escalator to announce his candidacy for the White House, President Donald Trump has had one go-to issue in his political playbook: immigration. He rode it to the White House in 2016 and again in 2024. He has now ridden it into a major confrontation with the courts.”

“The battle has been building for weeks, a clash over the rule of law and due process vs. the Trump administration’s assertions of presidential power and its resistance to challenges by federal district court judges.”

Peter Baker: “In the unlikely yet profound showdown between the president and the migrant that has captured international attention, the courts have uniformly determined that one of them recently violated the law. And it wasn’t the migrant.”

“According to liberal and conservative judges all the way up to the Supreme Court, President Trump’s administration broke the rules by deporting Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia and must try to fix the mistake. But Mr. Trump and his team are trying to rewrite the narrative so that it is a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law.”

“It is a fight that Mr. Trump seems to welcome. His administration could easily have avoided it by simply bringing Mr. Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador and following a process that might have resulted in him being deported anyway. Instead, Mr. Trump opted to double down, defying the courts and reverse-engineering a justification for a deportation that his administration initially acknowledged was wrong.”

The Independent: “The spelled-out ‘MS-13’ doesn’t appear on his hand in recent photos of Abrego Garcia posted on his wife’s TikTok account.”

“A federal judge in DC told lawyers for migrants in Texas who believed the Trump administration is about to swiftly deport them under the Alien Enemies Act that he did not have the power to pause the deportations, even though he was concerned about the administration’s actions,” CNN reports.

“Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said on Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported by the Trump administration, reported having been traumatized during nearly three weeks inside a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador before being transferred to another detention facility where he remains in isolation,” the New York Times reports.

Said Van Hollen: “He said that the conditions were better at this new detention center, but he was still in a total blackout. No news from the outside world. Can’t speak to anybody at all.”

“A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges,” the AP reports.

“The charge of illegal entry into Florida was dropped Thursday after his mother showed the judge his state identification card, birth certificate and Social Security card.”

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) “said on Thursday night that he had met in San Salvador with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose unlawful deportation to El Salvador last month has become a flashpoint in the debate over U.S. immigration policy,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, shared a photo of the two men speaking on Thursday afternoon, hours after the senator had been denied entry to the prison where Mr. Abrego Garcia was being held.”

“A doctor born in the United States says she received an email from federal immigration authorities demanding that she leave the country immediately,” NBC News reports.

Caitlin Dickerson: “Many Trump supporters, including undocumented immigrants themselves, took to heart Trump’s repeated assurances that the administration would put the emphasis squarely on people who clearly threatened public safety.”

“That hasn’t happened. In the face of immense pressure to hit the president’s stated goals for arrests and deportations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are arresting people who, polling suggests, most Americans believe should be left alone, if not offered a pathway to legal residency after completing an application process.” 

Members of Elon Musk’s government-slashing task force are building a system for the United States to sell special immigration visas, which President Trump has labeled “gold cards,” for $5 million apiece, the New York Times reports.

“The government of El Salvador denied a request from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to see or speak to his Maryland constituent who was mistakenly deported there, the senator said during a visit to the country on Wednesday,” Axios reports.