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Pointing to the government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Justice asked a North Dakota federal judge to pause litigation over a regulation that allowed immigrants brought to the U.S. as children without authorization to access Affordable Care Act health coverage.

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The Trump administration threw its weight behind a Texas law that allows local law enforcement to arrest people suspected of crossing the border illegally, telling the Fifth Circuit the law "complements existing federal immigration law."

A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday denied the government's request to stay proceedings in a proposed class action brought on behalf of nearly a million migrants that alleges their legal status was illegally ended by the Trump administration via an app.

Multiple Afghans who fought for the United States claim a Trump administration proclamation has kept their families in Afghanistan, saying in a Tuesday complaint that the administration's blanket denial of asylum for their families puts them at risk of persecution.

The Texas attorney general said Monday he would appeal to the Fifth Circuit a district court decision that left him alone defending a suit challenging a state law prohibiting local officials from limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

The Third Circuit on Tuesday appeared skeptical of the government's bid to deport a green card-holding former Columbia University graduate student over his pro-Palestinian views, suggesting that the case raised serious constitutional concerns about retaliation for protected speech and the proper forum for adjudicating such claims.

The Ninth Circuit revived an immigration officer's suit alleging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security fired him after his autism caused him to misremember a workplace injury's details, ruling the lower court was too quick to find what the government called "lack of candor" doomed his case.