The Fourth Circuit has ruled that manual searches of a cellphone at the border are legal because they are considered routine and do not require individualized suspicion by a border agent about whether a crime has occurred.
Democratic House members suing the Trump administration over its policy limiting congressional visits to immigration detention facilities are urging a federal judge to compel the administration to produce records on the policy by Aug. 13.
A group of Republican-led states is calling on the D.C. Circuit to stay a lower court decision vacating the Trump administration's changes to a database used to verify voters' citizenship or immigration statuses, saying that a number of state laws cannot be executed if Social Security number searches are not allowed.
A Texas federal judge granted Texas and Missouri's push to block the Biden-era termination of the Remain in Mexico policy, which required asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims were processed, and ruled a nationwide vacatur was appropriate.
The U.S. government told a federal judge that it's actually still considering plans to turn a New Jersey warehouse into an immigrant detention center, a week after it reported it no longer intended to pursue the challenged project.
A Rhode Island jail operator with a contract to hold federal immigration detainees has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Rhode Island bankruptcy court with an agreement on a restructuring plan to end years of litigation and cut nearly two-thirds of its $169 million in debt.
Former Connecticut state Sen. Dennis A. Bradley will lose his law license on an interim basis later this week while a court considers imposing a lengthier suspension over his March 27 wire fraud conviction.
During the week ending June 19, ICE removed several dangerous criminal illegal aliens convicted of sex crimes, drug smuggling and murder.
During the first week of July, ICE continued removing dangerous criminal illegal aliens with convictions including arson, sexual assault of a child and murder.
