U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told a California federal judge that immigrants at a detention facility in the Mojave Desert are looking to rewrite the agency's contract with GEO Group Inc. by requesting an injunction to rectify the facility's "intolerable conditions."
Republican leadership in the House and Senate are on board with President Donald Trump's request Wednesday to send him a bill by June 1 to fund the entire U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
The Ninth Circuit has stayed a California federal judge's ruling vacating a Board of Immigration Appeals decision stripping immigration judges of authority to grant release on bond, finding the district court likely exceeded its authority in doing so.
Michigan and one of its cities asked a federal court Wednesday to temporarily block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from converting a warehouse into a detention center, arguing the federal government didn't notify local officials about the project and didn't conduct required environmental reviews.
A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Harvard Medical School researcher and Russian national charged with smuggling frog embryo specimens can see emails and other documents regarding the government's decision to prosecute her, citing evidence the case was "vindictive."
A federal judge has tossed the Trump administration's challenge of sanctuary laws in Colorado and Denver, holding that any ruling in the administration's favor would violate the Constitution by allowing the federal government to compel states and cities to help enforce its immigration priorities.
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed dubious Wednesday of President Donald Trump's attempt to limit birthright citizenship, with the majority of justices struggling to see how the administration's argument was supported by the constitutional text.
Before taking inactive status late last year, U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup presided over historic litigation in California's Northern District for 26 years, arriving at his San Francisco chambers every weekday before dawn to prepare for the day's work.
Two new Washington laws aim to protect immigrants in the workplace, including by requiring employers to notify workers of upcoming immigration enforcement activity and by allowing state government workers to donate their leave time to coworkers facing immigration actions or hate crimes.
The Third Circuit said Tuesday that further review was needed in the case of a Dominican national facing deportation to hash out whether his removal could be canceled based on federal law protecting immigrants from abuse from lawful permanent residents or citizens.