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.
Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy.
The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday announced its newly created "Enforcement & Affirmative Litigation Branch," part of which will be dedicated to going after states, municipalities and private entities that impede federal immigration enforcement or profit from "false and misleading claims" about gender transition.
The Trump administration has moved for a win in The Stanford Daily's lawsuit that seeks to bar the government from deporting noncitizen students who express pro-Palestinian views, telling a California federal court that the student-run newspaper and two students lack standing.
Colorado and Denver may not have to help enforce immigration laws, but they can't actively obstruct them, the Trump administration said, urging a federal judge to allow its lawsuit challenging their sanctuary policies to proceed.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that a Nevada federal court has ordered a real estate developer and one of her companies to pay over $1.2 million to settle the agency's claims that they used $10 million raised from overseas investors hoping to immigrate to the U.S. to instead pay down an unrelated project loan.