Oregon officials urged a federal judge to block the Trump administration from sending Oregon National Guard members to Portland, accusing the administration of trampling the law to pick a political fight with another Democrat-led community.
If the government shuts down, the federal courts will operate as usual through Friday — after which judicial activities could be limited, depending on the availability of funds.
The Board of Immigration Appeals issued a new decision reaffirming earlier limits on perceived social groups, ruling that such asylum claims can only succeed when the underlying group is legally recognized on its own.
A North Carolina federal judge on Monday threw out a two-year-old lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor's wage rule for certain temporary farmworkers after a judge in Louisiana permanently blocked the new wage calculations from taking effect.
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the legality of his executive order denying citizenship to American-born babies of unauthorized immigrants, after lower courts ruled the order is likely unconstitutional and barred it across the country.
The Board of Immigration Appeals has released two more decisions designated as precedential, adding to the Trump administration's growing tally of opinions that are binding upon the board.
Kathryn Brady with the Muslim Legal Fund of America called it a "miracle." With no warning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released her client — Egyptian imam and chaplain Ayman Soliman — on Sept. 19 and reinstated his asylum protections after keeping him locked up for 73 days and threatening to deport him to a country where he said he would face certain death.
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday said Trump administration officials may be "wordsmithing," as she asked a government lawyer to explain why some migrants trying to adjust their status from humanitarian parole to legal residency are still being told their applications are on hold despite a court order to resume processing them.
A Florida federal judge ruled Thursday that immigration officials can't transfer a noncitizen out of the Middle District of Florida until the court rules on his habeas petition, and that the individual has a right to a bond hearing — rather than being subject to mandatory detention — because of his current residency in the U.S.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can hold onto $4 billion in frozen foreign aid funding while Congress considers a proposal to cut it, pausing a lower court order that required the federal government to spend the money before the end of the month.