The government’s recent assertion that the plaintiffs in American Association Of University Professors v. Department of Homeland Security lack standing to challenge the Trump administration’s pay-to-play immigration program does not address whether an agency can deem a million-dollar gift evidence of eligibility for immigration benefits carefully defined by Congress, says Jun Li at Reid & Wise.
The First Circuit on Monday weighed a challenge to the Trump administration's policy of detaining unauthorized immigrants without bond during removal proceedings, even as one judge noted that the issue has already divided appellate panels and will likely need to be sorted out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A New York federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary deportation protections for roughly 3,000 Yemeni nationals in the U.S. escaping dangerous conditions in their native country, saying the government ignored statutorily required termination procedures.
Operation Midway Blitz was not a Chicago-focused immigration enforcement bid but essentially a mass deportation effort through which officials weaponized federal law enforcement, caused "chaos" around the city and "flagrantly" disregarded federal courts serving as a check on its rollout, an Illinois commission has found.
A California federal judge Friday ordered one of 10 foreign nationals accused of manipulating the cryptocurrency markets through "wash trading" to self-deport back to India after finding the 26-year-old man played a "relatively minor role" in the scheme, sentencing him to time already served.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office is expanding its probe into potential H-1B visa fraud by demanding personnel, operational and financial records from nearly 30 businesses in north Texas.
The Board of Immigration Appeals said an immigration judge in San Francisco should have ordered two minors removed in absentia after they and their mother failed to appear at several removal proceedings, rather than administratively close their proceedings.
The U.S. Department of Justice has accused New Jersey of unlawfully providing unauthorized immigrants in-state college tuition and financial support while denying those same benefits to out-of-state U.S. citizens, the latest of such enforcement efforts against states.
A half-dozen detained noncitizens asked a D.C. federal judge to overturn a U.S. Department of Homeland Security policy that allegedly blocks their ability to supply biometric information needed for some immigration benefit applications filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
A Washington, D.C., federal judge Thursday refused to block a Trump administration policy requiring that previously approved custodians reapply to sponsor "unaccompanied" children while the minors are held in government facilities, finding that the plaintiffs have not established the government is likely acting contrary to law.