A former member of the Gambian military was convicted April 15 on torture charges, following his involvement in crimes committed while the West African country’s then-President, Yahya Jammeh, was still in power.
The multiagency operation took place at a construction worksite where one Haitian national and four Dominican nationals were taken into custody. All five individuals are currently being held by ICE pending removal proceedings.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found probable cause on Wednesday to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for willfully violating his order barring removals of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act, despite the U.S. Supreme Court having vacated that order.
More than 130 international students accused the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of abruptly and unlawfully terminating digital visa compliance records, saying in a complaint filed in Georgia federal court that the data deletion puts them at risk of arrest, detention and deportation.
An Eighth Circuit panel has vacated its decision barring Iowa from enforcing a state law that criminalizes noncitizens who enter the state after deportation from the U.S., after the Trump administration voluntarily dropped the suit that the Biden administration had launched against the state.
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether immigrant advocacy groups have standing to block a tax information-sharing agreement between the IRS and immigration enforcement agencies, but she also outlined concerns that the agreement could be abused.
The U.S. Department of the Interior is transferring 110,000 acres of federal land along the southern border to the U.S. Army to support Border Patrol as part of a sweeping effort by the Trump administration to crack down on illegal immigration.
The Government Accountability Office said U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services should reevaluate proposals for a $68.5 million task order to provide data strategy support services after having unreasonably evaluated technical proposals.
Former immigration judges and members of the Board of Immigration Appeals told the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday that the BIA has recently departed from the clear error standard to reverse relief to those seeking protection under the Convention Against Torture, emphasizing that the error needs to smell like "five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish."