A Minnesota federal judge on Monday considered whether to preliminarily block the Trump administration from sending thousands of immigration enforcement officers to the state, questioning if the surge is a coercive federal act in violation of state sovereignty.
Refugees living in Minnesota have filed a proposed class action urging a federal court to block the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from targeting them and other lawfully admitted refugees in the state with warrantless arrests and unauthorized detentions.
An Eighth Circuit panel denied the Trump administration's push to secure arrest warrants for five people it accused of unlawfully disrupting a church service to protest immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis after a federal judge refused to issue them.
A pair of Republican lawmakers is backing President Donald Trump's push for the U.S. Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship, filing an amicus brief Friday claiming that the Fourteenth Amendment doesn't automatically grant citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil.
A Massachusetts federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of more than 8,400 migrants who were invited to stay in the U.S. while awaiting green cards under a family reunification program.
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A D.C. federal judge on Friday nixed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration illegally suspended visa processing under a program aimed at diversifying the immigrant community in the United States, noting the statutory expiration of the visas after Sept. 30 has rendered their claims moot.
Attorneys for asylum seekers, who are a part of a class the government is barred from deporting until their immigration cases conclude, told a Maryland federal judge that the Trump administration keeps deporting class members anyway.
A federal judge rejected a local trucking group's bid to force California to lift its freeze on immigrant truck driver's licenses, saying the Golden State cannot run afoul of federal mandates in a way that would jeopardize highway funding or risk the state's licensing program getting decertified altogether.
The government is appealing a Massachusetts federal court's finding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees whom the agency apprehended in the state are entitled to a bond hearing.