Constitutional concerns took center stage during a hearing in Minnesota federal court on Thursday on whether to continue blocking the Trump administration from further detaining any of the roughly 5,600 refugees in Minnesota who have not yet secured their green card.
A Detroit police sergeant on Thursday sued the city in Michigan federal court, alleging the police chief wrongfully suspended her for summoning U.S. Border Patrol agents to a traffic stop to identify a Spanish-speaking suspect in violation of department policy and a city ordinance forbidding biased policing.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Operation Twin Shield is yielding yet more results with the arrest of a Minnesota correctional officer and AWOL National Guard member masquerading as a U.S. citizen despite having no legal status in the United States.
A coalition suing the IRS over its data-sharing deal with immigration enforcement authorities should not be allowed to investigate the agency's revelation that it shared some data improperly, the IRS told a D.C. federal court, saying it made the admission "in good faith."
Attorneys for three anonymous Venezuelan asylum seekers who claim they were among 49 migrants lured into boarding flights to Massachusetts have urged a federal judge to deny the flight operator's bid to unmask their identities, saying nothing has changed to warrant disclosure.
New York and New Jersey officials said Wednesday that construction on the $16 billion rehabilitation of aging commuter train tunnels under the Hudson River would resume next week after the federal government released $130 million in funds that a federal judge in Manhattan recently ruled had been unlawfully frozen.
An Eighth Circuit panel refused to fault the Board of Immigration Appeals for affirming the denial of a Honduran woman's attempt to reopen removal proceedings when it wasn't clear her ineffective counsel claim was shared with the appropriate disciplinary authority.
A Second Circuit panel has denied the Trump administration's request to stay a district court order postponing the termination of temporary protected status for Syria, holding that the federal government isn't likely to win on appeal.
A senior U.S. Department of Justice official acknowledged that the government has violated dozens of court orders involving immigrants since early last December, according to a New Jersey federal judge's order directing government officials to detail how the Trump administration will ensure compliance with orders in the judicial district.