We consider every person who has been sent to the Tecoluca (El Salvador prison), Guantanamo naval base, or detained in other prisons throughout the country to be innocent until proven guilty. We will include students who have been expelled for protesting genocide.  This article will be updated as long as is necessary.

RECENT VICTIMS:

Badar Khan Suri  A federal judge has blocked immigration officials from deporting a Georgetown University professor and postdoctoral scholar who was detained by the Trump administration earlier this week.  (4/4) Story here

Rumeysa Ozturk:  The 30-year-old was arrested and physically restrained by immigration officers near her apartment, close to Tufts University’s Somerville campus where she was a PhD student, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai told CNN.  (4/4)  Six plainclothes officers surrounded Ozturk as she walked alone, neighborhood surveillance video appears to show. The officers did not show their badges until she was restrained, the video shows.   story here

 Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a doctor and assistant professor with a visa to work in Rhode Island, was deported to her native Lebanon over the weekend despite an ongoing dispute over her detention by federal agents and a court order intended to keep her in the United States. (4/4)  story here. 

 Kilmar Abrego Garcia The Trump administration admitted in a court filing Monday that an "administrative error" and an "oversight" resulted in a Salvadoran man's deportation and imprisonment in a supermax prison in El Salvador, despite a legal order prohibiting his removal there. Story here.

Momodou Taal: U.K. and the Gambia, am a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell.
Returning from honeymoon in Puerto Rico. Story here

Jasmine Mooney: Detained Trying to Renew Visa 2/15. Canadian, sent to Louisiana. Story here

Rómulo Avelica-González: Detained while taking his daughter, Fatima Avelica, to school. He has not yet been released. He is the father of 4 daughters. Story here.

Kevenson & Sherlie Jean.  They have lived in the Florida Panhandle since being granted humanitarian parole by the U.S. government in July 2023. Their specific parole program was available to residents of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and it required them, in addition to passing rigorous background checks, to have a financial sponsor. Story here.

Franco Caraballo, CBS News has learned that a barber from Venezuela was among those on the list for the deportation flights even though documents show he has no criminal record. Married, sent to El Salvador. Story here

Andry Hernandez: A Venezuelan asylum seeker, gay man, no gang affiliation, deported to El Salvador. Story here.

Mahmoud Khalil : Columbia student, a Palestinian, green card holder, a pro-Palestinian activist. Story here

Yunseo Chung: legal permanent resident and junior who has participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the school Story here

Mother and 3 children (names not revealed). Taken from a dairy farm in New York to Texas, 1800 miles away. Governor of New York Hochul suspects ICE was looking for an actual criminal. 
Story here.

Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution (The Bill of Rights)

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.