Immigration officials have brought a civil denaturalization action in Florida federal court against the former mayor of North Miami, alleging he fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship through a sham marriage and lied about his identity.
The Eleventh Circuit has ruled that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security cannot yet deport an immigrant convicted of attempted first-degree sexual abuse because his crime does not meet the federal definition of rape needed to remove him from the country.
The California Bar’s campaign against discourteous behavior by attorneys, including a newly required annual civility oath, reflects a growing concern among states that professionalism in law needs shoring up — and recognizes that maintaining composure even when stressed is key to both succeeding professionally and maintaining faith in the legal system, says Lucy Wang at Hinshaw.
Texas has suffered through a shortage of judges for its federal courts for a while now, but the recent influx of immigration cases is pushing the system to the brink.
A Salvadoran immigrant detained for removal proceedings did not get a constitutionally-compliant bond hearing after Trump administration officials were ordered to allow the man to seek his release, a Virginia federal judge has ruled.
Congress authorized the U.S. Department of Labor to impose $580,000 in penalties and back wages on a New Jersey farm for alleged violations of the H-2A program, the department said last week, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case after the Third Circuit deemed the fines improper.
The North Texas Trafficking Task Force, led by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations Dallas, helped secure a 50-year sentence Jan. 30 for Jamal Howard, a 59-year-old sex trafficker, narcotics dealer and money launderer in the Northern District of Texas.
A man pled guilty Thursday in New York federal court to trying to bribe a juror in heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic's drug trafficking trial as part of a deal with prosecutors, following an alleged conspiracy to sway the verdict with an illicit six-figure payment.
A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday ordered a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer to pay $500 a day until an immigrant recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention gets his identification documents returned, according to the case docket.
Section 214 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980, as amended ("Section 214"), prohibits the Secretary of HUD from making financial assistance available to persons other than United States citizens or certain categories of eligible noncitizens in HUD's public and specified assisted housing programs. This proposed rule would revise HUD's Section 214 implementing regulations to require the verification of U.S. citizenship or the eligible immigration status of all applicants and recipients of assistance under a covered program regardless of age. The proposed rule would also make prorated assistance a temporary condition pending verification of eligible status of all family members, where permitted by statute, as opposed to under HUD's current regulations where prorated assistance could continue indefinitely. These amendments would bring HUD's regulations into greater alignment with the wording and purpose of Section 214 and align with the current Administration's priorities and regulatory reform efforts.