U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's acting director Todd Lyons must personally appear in Minnesota federal district court to face a contempt hearing, a judge ruled, after ICE failed to release a detained Ecuadorian citizen.
An Eighth Circuit panel has refused to reinstate a lower court's injunction barring federal immigration agents from retaliating against peaceful protesters in Minneapolis, ruling that it is unlikely to survive an appeal from the Trump administration.
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.
My move to private practice has reaffirmed my belief in the value of adaptability, collaboration and strategic thinking — qualities that are essential not only for successful client outcomes, but also for sustained professional satisfaction, says Dabney O’Riordan at Fried Frank.
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.

