A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge refused to block the Army's decision to have construction proceed at an immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, Texas, while a company protests the task order at the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
As the Trump administration follows through on campaign promises to arrest and deport millions, immigrants are increasingly finding that hiring an immigration lawyer is impossible. And without lawyers, they usually lose, no matter how strong their case is.
The Ninth Circuit has ruled the government cannot merely "throw up its hands and do nothing" when it learns a removal hearing notice has been returned unclaimed, vacating a lower court's denial of a Mexican immigrant's dismissal bid in a case accusing him of reentering the United States illegally.
The Trump administration took its fight to end temporary protected status for Venezuela back to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, urging the justices to stay a district court decision that found the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's attempt to unwind those protections unlawful.