A Homeland Security Investigations Seattle-led, multinational investigation has led to a 10-year federal prison sentence for an Albany, Oregon, man who possessed child sexual abuse material.
U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday held that green card holders with pending criminal charges should be paroled rather than admitted into the country when returning from abroad.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Ninth Circuit was wrong to reinstate an Alien Tort Statute suit alleging that Cisco helped the Chinese government's allegedly unlawful crackdown on the Falun Gong religious movement, saying federal courts lack authority to create causes of action for alleged violations of international law.
In accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is making updates to an existing system of records maintained by the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) within HHS' Administration for Children and Families (ACF), System No. 09-80-0375, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Data. The system of records contains data about TANF clients received from TANF grantee agencies in the states, territories, and Tribal organizations, as well as verification information obtained from those agencies, other HHS records, or other government agencies or entities engaged to assist ACF with program integrity reviews or projects.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to adjust the fees that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) charges for Form N-400, and Form N-336, to end both the reduced fee option for Form N-400, and the availability of fee waivers for both forms. Current and former armed forces service members would remain exempt from paying the fees when filing for naturalization under statutes for members of the armed forces. The proposed rule is intended to align these fees with the relative costs to adjudicate these forms.
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction of 1995 ("PRA"), the Executive Office for Immigration Review ("EOIR"), Department of Justice ("DOJ"), requested the Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") conduct an emergency review and approval of a revision to a currently approved collection of information. EOIR requested and OMB granted emergency approval on March 2, 2026, authorizing the revised collection through July 31, 2026. EOIR is seeking PRA authorization for three years. The information collection was previously published in the Federal Register on March 5, 2026, allowing a 60-day comment period. This notice responds to several comments received by EOIR during the 60-day comment period.
This action extends the Order Limiting Operations at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) published on January 18, 2008, and most recently extended on October 27, 2024. The Order remains effective until October 28, 2028.
The full D.C. Circuit on Monday vacated a split panel ruling halting U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's criminal contempt inquiry into the Trump administration's Alien Enemies Act removals last year, agreeing to rehear the matter.
A Trump administration attorney Monday couldn't answer repeated questions about what changed when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced last December that its agents were no longer responsible for collecting biometric data from immigration detainees, a key requirement for noncitizens seeking legal status.