The Board of Immigration Appeals glossed over evidence and failed to justify its decision to overturn an immigration judge who granted an El Salvador man protection from removal under the Convention Against Torture, a Second Circuit panel said.
Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.
An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday that she will temporarily restrain federal agents from using allegedly violent silencing tactics against press and peaceful protesters, and she won't limit her order to the detention facility the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates in the Chicago suburb of Broadview.
The Board of Immigration Appeals has backed an immigration judge's decision to reject an agreement between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a Honduran transgender woman seeking to avoid deportation, holding that judges are free to accept or reject such agreements.
Michigan's chief justice said Wednesday she was "struggling" with an immigration legal assistance group's contention that a one-year notice deadline for claims against the state doesn't apply to suits against the governor.
A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that the use of informal administrative warrants by agents from ICE's Chicago field office in recent immigration enforcement actions violates a 2022 settlement with unauthorized immigrants that requires the agency to use warrants signed by a judge when making most arrests.
The Trump administration’s recent refusal to defend an immigration regulation implemented by the Biden administration highlights a questionable process that both parties have used to bypass the Administrative Procedure Act’s rulemaking process, and points toward the next step in the fight over universal injunctions, says Mark Stevens at Clark Hill.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday moved to dismiss assault charges against a married couple who were recently arrested while protesting in front of a Chicago-area ICE detention center, following a grand jury's refusal to prosecute them, according to the protesters' attorneys and court filings.
Civil rights lawyers urged the Massachusetts trial court system to better protect migrants' due process rights amid increasing arrests by federal immigration officers inside and outside courthouses, saying Tuesday the court is "well within its right" to do so.
A Tenth Circuit panel said Tuesday that four Colombian family members failed to show that death threats made by allies of a narcotics trafficking group's leader amounted to persecution or stemmed from protected political activities, and refused to revisit rulings denying their bid for asylum.