Recently unveiled assault complaints against federal immigration agents in Minnesota and Colorado set the stage for relatively clean tests of a limited immunity that can shield federal officers from state criminal charges, experts said.
Federal officials are urging a New Jersey federal judge to reject a bid from the state and one of its municipalities to block work on a planned immigration detention center, arguing the plaintiffs lacked standing and relied on "highly speculative and unrealistic" environmental and infrastructure harms.
The U.S. Department of Labor has urged a Kentucky federal judge to toss a tobacco farm’s constitutional challenge to its H-2A enforcement system, arguing that hiring foreign workers is a government-granted privilege rather than a private right.
A former Sacramento City Council member has reached a plea deal regarding charges that he directed unauthorized immigrants employed at his grocery stores to lie to U.S. Department of Labor investigators, agreeing to pay over $1.4 million in restitution.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the Department of the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Multifamily Housing, is issuing public notice of its intent to modify system of records for the Tenant Rental Assistance Certification System (TRACS). TRACS supports HUD's multifamily housing rental assistance programs by managing information about rental assistance contracts, tenants and property owners. The system is used to process housing subsidy payments, track contract funding amounts, and ensure that rental assistance payments are calculated and issued accurately. The modification makes clarifying changes to the System Manager and Routine Uses. The updates are explained in the "Supplementary Section" of this notice. This notice supersedes the previously published SORN.
A Colorado federal judge declined Thursday to rule on meatpacking giant JBS USA Food Co.'s bids to dismiss a suit and strike class allegations that Haitian workers suffered race-based discrimination and labor violations while working at the facility.
Unions challenging the Trump administration's alleged surveillance of noncitizens' viewpoints to find targets for immigration enforcement urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to reject the government's dismissal bid, saying First Amendment injuries to their members give them standing.
A contractor that lost out on building temporary housing for U.S. Customs and Border Protection trainees voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, after the court found the government was likely justified in overriding an automatic pause on the contract.
Sig Sauer told a Pennsylvania federal court it cannot be sued by a government agent accidentally shot in the leg after one of its P320 pistols allegedly spontaneously discharged, saying it has immunity as a government contractor.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ fraud detection efforts resulted in the guilty pleas of Sampath Rajidi, 51, and Sreedhar Mada, 51, to conspiracy to commit visa fraud, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant announced last week.