President Donald Trump has issued an executive order requiring that all funding opportunity announcements and grant awards be reviewed by his political appointees and allowing for grants to be terminated that fall outside the administration's priorities.
The Third Circuit ruled that noncitizens in reasonable fear hearings — screenings to decide if they face persecution or torture if deported — have a right to counsel, vacating Alex Pino Porras’ deportation after the judge proceeded without his lawyer and cited an unsupported gang claim.
A split D.C. Circuit put an end Friday to potential criminal contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over the possibility that it violated a court order barring the removal of a group of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act.
Noncitizens whose asylum status was terminated after criminal convictions are no longer eligible to seek green cards, a split Second Circuit panel said in a ruling issued for cases brought by immigrants from Egypt and Guatemala.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering formally scaling back the reach of its nonbank oversight, floating a series of early stage proposals that contemplate sharply reducing the number of firms it would supervise in four key financial services markets.
The Trump administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to pause a California federal court's order temporarily blocking the government from conducting immigration arrests in the Los Angeles area without probable cause, arguing that it threatens officials' ability to enforce immigration laws.
Asylees seeking green cards must maintain their current asylum status when doing so, a split Second Circuit ruled in a published opinion Thursday, saying two individuals from Egypt and Guatemala couldn't seek lawful permanent residency because their asylum statuses had terminated.
A Fifth Circuit panel vacated a condition of a Guatemalan citizen's supervised release that requires him to report to a probation office every time he enters the United States, citing a conflict between the court's oral and written sentencing.
A coalition of 23 Republican-led states urged the Fifth Circuit to rethink its decision upholding the block of a Texas law allowing state officials to arrest people suspected of crossing the border unlawfully, writing that the decision "diminished every state's sovereignty."
As legislators, prosecutors and plaintiffs attorneys increasingly focus on labor and sex trafficking throughout the U.S., companies must tailor their due diligence strategies to protect against forced labor trafficking risks in their supply chains, say attorneys at Steptoe.