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The FBI arrested a Milwaukee state judge on Friday for allegedly blocking federal immigration officials from apprehending an unauthorized migrant by purportedly sneaking him through a jury door earlier this month to avoid U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, according to court documents.

If a law firm enters into a pro bono deal with the Trump administration in exchange for avoiding or removing an executive order, it has an ethical obligation to create a written settlement agreement with specific terms, which would mitigate some potential conflict of interest problems, says Andrew Altschul at Buchanan Angeli.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to temporarily restore student visa status for four more international students in Washington state, on the same day the Trump administration said it would restore thousands of foreign students' visa records that had been abruptly terminated.

A group of Chinese investors have filed a proposed class action accusing a Washington-based migration agency and a real estate investment group manager of fraudulently raising $100 million from overseas investors pursuing permanent U.S. residence via the EB-5 program with property that has now been auctioned off.

A California federal judge deciding whether to issue a nationwide injunction in multiple cases challenging the government's termination of foreign students' F-1 visa records expressed frustration with the Trump administration's abrupt policy changes Friday, saying "it's a new world order every day — it's like whack-a-mole."

Stories of foreign travelers getting stuck in prolonged immigration detention while trying to enter the U.S. has other potential visitors spooked, leading to a predicted downturn for the hospitality industry and an economic hit for local businesses that rely on tourists.

The Trump administration has hit the city of Rochester, New York, with a lawsuit seeking to prohibit its "sanctuary city" policies, saying the policies interfere with the federal government's enforcement of immigration law in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announces the availability of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the proposed resumption of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) Program along the southern border of the United States (U.S.) as directed by the Executive Order entitled, Securing Our Borders (the Proposed Action). The Draft PEA programmatically evaluates reasonably foreseeable environmental impacts that may occur because of the Proposed Action and identifies standard best management practices (BMPs) by which DHS can reduce such impacts.

This notice publishes the Presidential Memorandum titled "Preventing Illegal Aliens from Obtaining Social Security Act Benefits."