The U.S. Department of Homeland Security must halt the construction of a planned immigration detention facility in Maryland, a federal judge has ordered, saying that the department likely failed to take a "hard look" at the construction's potential environmental impact.
A panel of the First Circuit has paused a district court order holding that a class of noncitizens facing removal to countries to which they have no ties must receive meaningful notice and an opportunity to raise fears about being deported to those countries.
The full Ninth Circuit declined to rehear a unanimous January panel ruling that ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked authority to vacate a temporary protected status extension for Venezuela, with judges sparring across a 51-page order in dueling concurrences and dissents.
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims said Thursday that most of the Gateway Development Commission's claims against the Trump administration are now moot since the federal government recently released millions in previously withheld funds for New York and New Jersey's Hudson Tunnel Project.
An immigrant advocacy group says several Massachusetts sheriffs' departments are improperly relying on a federal regulation to withhold records documenting their relationships with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents.
The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago are pushing back on the Trump administration's bid to dismiss their lawsuit challenging National Guard deployment to the state because all the troops have since been demobilized or withdrawn, with no plans to return, telling an Illinois federal judge that the president's social media posts and public statements tell a different story.
A South Carolina federal judge has declined to block a U.S. Department of Labor administrative enforcement action accusing a farming company of underpaying foreign agricultural workers, finding the employer failed to show it was likely to succeed on its constitutional claims or face irreparable harm.
A Florida federal judge has ordered federal immigration authorities to send back two U.S. citizen children who were deported to Guatemala with their mother, noting it already conceded they were unlawfully detained.
Maryland accused the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unlawfully refusing to provide records for a civil rights investigation into an immigrant holding facility in Baltimore where people commonly complain of being "treated like animals."
These individuals, all with prior convictions for sex crimes, were taken into custody as part of ICE’s ongoing commitment to public safety and the removal of dangerous criminals from our communities. They will face justice for their crimes and will be removed from the United States, never to terrorize our communities again.