A Massachusetts federal judge has blocked the U.S. Department of State from imposing a nationality-based immigrant visa pause on a Bangladeshi man seeking to come to the U.S. to support his elderly and ailing U.S. citizen father, ruling that the challenged pause is likely unlawful.
Among those arrested were criminal illegal aliens with convictions for theft, assault and driving while intoxicated and arrests for possession of a controlled substance, criminal trespass and illegal reentry into the U.S.
The fastest civil trial courts in the country are currently in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Florida, and their chief judges provide insights into the court rules that keep them ahead, says Robert Tata at Hunton.
Justice Stephen Breyer’s book “Making Our Democracy Work” offers a useful lens through which to consider what is at stake for the Executive Office for Immigration Review's legitimacy as the government asks the D.C. Circuit to revive an interim final rule that would have fast-tracked decisions by Board of Immigration Appeals, says Tara Kennedy at Kennedy Law.
CINCINNATI — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists at Cincinnati’s Port of Entry inspected and seized a shipment arriving from Germany containing 337 hatching eggs placed in foam layers on May 27.
The shipment, headed for…
Jeremiah Johnson was fired from his job as an immigration judge without any warning in November, along with several of his colleagues. He says the terminations point to larger structural problems within the immigration court system, which is overseen by the Department of Justice and subject to the shifting whims of different administrations.
The Seventh Circuit has rejected a Mexican citizen's petition challenging an immigration court's removal order on the merits, while sanctioning his attorney $5,000 for filing two legal briefs "riddled with" fabricated quotes and case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT.
A Salvadoran national who previously lost his bid to avoid removal was too late in seeking to reopen his case before an immigration appeals board, the Tenth Circuit has ruled, rejecting his arguments over why his motion should still be deemed timely.
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the IRS is inviting comments on the information collection request outlined in this notice.

