The U.S. government is opposing the Sierra Club's attempt to enforce a settlement pact concerning borderlands barriers as they fight over the first Trump administration's diversion of federal funds for border wall construction versus environmentalists' claims that the wall impedes wildlife passage.
An immigration consultant who was found guilty of visa fraud based on optional documents he submitted as part of an immigration application has asked the full Fourth Circuit for a review of its panel's decision upholding a jury's conviction.
The Trump administration's use of surveillance technology in immigration enforcement is raising Fourth Amendment concerns among civil liberties experts, but challenging its use in court could be tricky, experts told Law360.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Allison Goddard in the Southern District of California discusses how she uses generative artificial intelligence tools in chambers to make work more efficient and effective — from editing jury instructions for clarity to summarizing key documents.
Under the wage-based H-1B lottery rule taking effect Feb. 27, law firms planning to hire noncitizen law graduates awaiting bar admission should consider their options, as the work performed by such candidates may sit at the intersection of multiple occupational classifications with differing chances of success, says Jun Li at Reid & Wise.
A group of Senate Democrats slammed the Trump administration's "costly, wasteful and poorly monitored" policy to deport noncitizens to places other than their home countries, finding in a report released Friday it's "outsourcing responsibility to governments the United States itself does not trust."
A Massachusetts college student who was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order must be returned to the United States within two weeks, a federal judge ruled Friday, directing the government to "make amends."
Federal prosecutors reportedly investigating whether Minnesota officials’ public statements illegally impeded immigration enforcement is a dangerous overextension of obstruction law that would criminalize dissent and sow public distrust in law enforcement, say Marc Levin and Khalil Cumberbatch at the Council on Criminal Justice.
Walter Wilkins, 24, of Weslaco, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for coercion and enticement of a minor Jan. 23 following an investigation conducted by ICE Homeland Security Investigations Rio Grande Valley’s Child Exploitation Task Force. Wilkins pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material involving a child under 16.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Friday said she has decided to terminate temporary protected status for Yemen.