An Arizona Indigenous nation is asking a D.C. district court to block the Department of Homeland Security from constructing a 62-mile border wall through its reservation, alleging that reports of federal contractors destroying ancestral sites in adjacent areas confirm the tribe's decision to oppose the wall construction.
In a climate where immigration lawyers are coming under the Trump administration’s scrutiny to tamp down on asylum fraud, law students are being ignited to enter the workforce early and rectify the injustices they see.
Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.
A New York federal judge refused to award over $1 million in attorney fees and costs to organizations that challenged "public charge" immigration policies the first Trump administration enacted, ruling that preliminary injunctions did not give them prevailing party status.
Chinese capital deployment through the U.S.'s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, alongside China's recently established outbound investment security framework, creates compliance gaps with the U.S. framework, and unique risks and considerations for practitioners, says Xuan Zhang at Reid & Wise.
Immigration activists whose claims of prosecutorial misconduct led Chicago's top federal prosecutor to drop a criminal conspiracy case against them are now asking their judge to appoint special counsel and conduct an evidentiary sanctions hearing to determine the full extent of the misconduct and "ensuing cover-up."
The Board of Immigration Appeals said Wednesday that an immigration judge erred in determining that an evidentiary hearing was necessary before deciding whether a Cuban national should be deported to Ecuador under that country's asylum cooperative agreement with the U.S.
A Mexico-born woman who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year is suing the government in Connecticut federal court, saying the agents violated agency guidelines and the constitution when they arrested her in front of her young children while they were on the way to school.
A Rhode Island federal prosecutor who knowingly withheld information about a detainee's criminal history at the behest of immigration enforcement, leading to an "unfounded attack" against a federal judge by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the detainee's release, violated his duty of candor but will not face discipline, the district's chief judge determined.
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday agreed to conduct en banc review over the firing of two immigration judges, after the Merit Systems Protection Board ruled that they constituted inferior officers who are subject to at-will removal by the president.