In immigration news, ICE plans to spend as much as $2 million to purchase “robot dogs” to aid in immigration enforcement operations. It follows the agency’s recent decision to purchase electric shock gloves for officers.
CBS News reports that in the span of 10 days the Trump administration deported more than 100 immigrants from the U.S. to at least eight countries in Africa they have no ties to — among them, Afghans who helped U.S. military members. The U.S. deportees have been sent to the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia and several other nations across Africa, as Trump expands secretive third-country agreements.
This comes as another federal appeals court has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to indefinitely detain immigrants without access to bond hearings. This was the eighth ruling rejecting the policy.
In more related news, the Board of Immigration Appeals has overturned a policy that allowed people with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, to travel outside of the United States and reenter the country with government permission. The policy is known as “advanced parole.” The Trump administration will now have the ability to penalize DACA recipients who leave the U.S. under advanced parole by denying them the right to apply for permanent U.S. residency for at least 10 years.











