The U.S. Government Accountability Office said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement improperly awarded a $26.6 million maintenance contract at a Georgia facility, finding it failed to follow its own solicitation criteria when evaluating the technical aspects of proposals.
Migrants suing over an alleged scheme to lure them onto flights to Martha's Vineyard asked a federal magistrate judge Wednesday to order a private contractor to turn over documents they say will illuminate the broader contours of a plan for migrant relocation trips.
The Board of Immigration Appeals shifted a case involving Brazilian nationals back to Boston after finding the immigration judge granted a change of venue without proper consideration and should have limited off-the-record discussions.
The GEO Group Inc. said Washington state conveniently ignored the fact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied health inspectors access to a detention center when the state asked a federal judge to require the company to let them in.
An attorney and onetime Connecticut lawmaker should be temporarily suspended after a criminal conviction for receiving campaign funds during a law firm party and further disciplined for charging an immigration client a $30,000 flat fee, some of which he called his firm's "pocket money," state ethics authorities have said.
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico — Air and Marine Operations, along with the US Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations interdicted a maritime smuggling attempt in western Puerto Rico, resulting in the apprehension of 64 migrants.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services played a critical role in the arrest of Jose Calles Henriquez, 24, an illegal alien from El Salvador and self-confessed MS-13 gang member.
Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.
This final rule contains provisions to improve implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including payment parameters and provisions related to the HHS-operated risk adjustment and risk adjustment data validation (HHS-RADV) programs, as well as 2027 user fee rates for issuers offering qualified health plans (QHPs) through Federally-facilitated Exchanges (FFEs) and State-based Exchanges on the Federal platform (SBE-FPs). This final rule also includes provisions related to civil money penalties (CMPs) for noncompliant issuers and other responsible entities; standards governing agents, brokers, and web-brokers; the expansion and codification of hardship exemption eligibility; implementation of the State Exchange Improper Payment Measurement (SEIPM); provider access standards and essential community provider standards for QHP certification; QHP certification of non-network plans; a prohibition on issuers from including routine non-pediatric dental services as an Essential Health Benefit (EHB); requirements related to defrayal for the cost of any State-required benefits in addition to the EHB; cost- sharing flexibilities for catastrophic and individual market bronze plans; establishment of catastrophic plans with plan terms of up to 10 consecutive plan years; QHP issuer quality improvement strategies (QISs); and revisions affecting which enrollees are included in Federal Basic Health Program (BHP) payment calculations to States. This final rule also includes amendments to implement certain provisions of the Working Families Tax Cut (WFTC) legislation.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), Department of Justice (DOJ), will be submitting the following information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.