Author Archives: Frank Rizzo

A former physician at a Georgia immigration detention center has settled his lawsuit against a true crime podcast and its host, alleging they defamed him by claiming he performed forced hysterectomies on detainees.

All children who have been born "or who will be born" in the United States are protected from President Donald Trump's executive order that aims to strip them of their right to citizenship, as a Maryland federal judge granted them class certification and blocked enforcement of the order.

A California federal judge overseeing enforcement of a decades-old settlement agreement governing the custody of immigrant children indicated Friday she will reject the government's effort to end the consent decree, and also finds recent reports of children being held for long periods at border stations "disturbing."

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order requiring that all funding opportunity announcements and grant awards be reviewed by his political appointees and allowing for grants to be terminated that fall outside the administration's priorities. 

The Third Circuit ruled that noncitizens in reasonable fear hearings — screenings to decide if they face persecution or torture if deported — have a right to counsel, vacating Alex Pino Porras’ deportation after the judge proceeded without his lawyer and cited an unsupported gang claim.

A split D.C. Circuit put an end Friday to potential criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over the possibility that it violated a court order barring the removal of a group of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act.

Noncitizens whose asylum status was terminated after criminal convictions are no longer eligible to seek green cards, a split Second Circuit panel said in a ruling issued for cases brought by immigrants from Egypt and Guatemala.