Federal agents, including those from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, conducted unannounced visits to nonprofits that provide legal aid to immigrant children who come to the U.S. alone, unlawfully seeking documents concerning the children, the organizations said Friday.
A Chinese national was sentenced in California federal court Friday to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to unlawfully export to China computer chips used in artificial intelligence applications, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
The U.S. Department of Transportation moved Friday to dismiss a lawsuit from 19 foreign truck and bus drivers who challenged a Florida agency's decision to stop issuing commercial driver's licenses to some noncitizens, arguing the matter belongs in a federal appeals court.
The estate of one of three people killed in the August Florida Turnpike collision that became a flash point for the Trump administration's crackdown on foreign commercial truckers has sued the driver, the trucking company that employed him and the freight broker that arranged the shipment.
A skeptical Second Circuit judge on Friday told a Connecticut attorney to stop saying his client was "affirmatively misled" while pleading guilty to tax evasion charges, hinting a written plea agreement and verbal warnings from a federal judge were probably sufficient to advise the client he could be deported.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Pennsylvania federal court on Friday, saying they failed to respond to a records request seeking copies of subpoenas for the identities of anonymous social media users who criticized the agencies.
Minneapolis-area residents and the American Civil Liberties Union dropped their proposed class action accusing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of racial profiling, choosing to file administrative claims instead.
A property management company has been hit with another lawsuit in New Jersey federal court accusing it of discriminating against prospective tenants based on immigration status, this time from two Egyptian immigrants who said they have valid work authorization.
A Rhode Island federal judge has clarified the immediate effect of his order vacating policies underlying the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' freeze on immigration adjudications for nationals of the 39 countries subject to President Donald Trump's travel ban.
A graduate student who led pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University is appealing a Board of Immigration Appeals decision that led an immigration judge to order him deported to Jordan, his lawyers said.