The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency are fighting back against a suit filed by Michigan and one of its cities in Michigan federal court over a planned ICE detention center, arguing that the plaintiffs lack standing and that the Immigration and Nationality Act allows the federal government to convert a local warehouse into an immigrant detention center.
The Trump administration and the state of Nebraska have asked a Nebraska federal court to sign off on a consent decree they reached seeking to permanently block state laws that provide in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants, agreeing that federal law preempts them.
A Massachusetts federal judge has said she will give the government more time to notify detained immigrants of their right to a bond hearing and appeal, but also added a restriction barring transfers of detainees to other jurisdictions for at least 24 hours after they have been served.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday announced its proposed rule for clarifying when multiple employers are jointly liable for wage and hour violations.
Disapproval of criminal gangs or opposition to them is not enough to establish a protected political opinion for asylum purposes, the Board of Immigration Appeals ruled on Tuesday, affirming an immigration judge's denial of an El Salvadoran woman's application.
A Colorado state judge narrowly expanded a June order that enjoined Colorado's governor from directing the state's Labor Department employees to respond to federal immigration enforcement subpoenas, ruling Tuesday that the order includes a March 13 subpoena by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Immigration officials said a California federal court should toss a proposed class action from inmates alleging intolerable living conditions in a Mojave Desert processing center because the plaintiffs have sued the wrong defendants.
A Texas federal magistrate judge has recommended that the wife and children of an Egyptian man accused of attacking pro-Israel demonstrators be released from immigration detention, finding that their more than 10-month detention has violated the family's due process rights.
Voting rights advocates sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday over its bid to acquire states' unredacted voter information to cross-check voter rolls against immigration databases, warning that the effort could enable purges of naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote.
Several recent federal court decisions have perpetuated a split over what constitutes “control” of electronically stored information – with judges divided on whether the standard should turn on a party's legal right or practical ability to obtain the information, say attorneys at Sidley.