The Service Employees International Union and four Boston airport workers sued the federal government Friday, claiming the Trump administration has upended immigrant workers' livelihoods by unlawfully revoking security credentials that allowed them to work inside international airport terminals.
Minnesota's U.S. attorney has claimed a federal judge should not be presiding over habeas corpus matters related to the government's "Operation Metro Surge" immigration enforcement operation, saying he failed to disclose he is married to the state's Solicitor General, who is steering separate litigation over the crackdown.
The Board of Immigration Appeals should've examined whether a Sri Lankan national was otherwise eligible to avoid removal after finding he'd materially supported a terrorist organization, the Second Circuit ruled, saying the BIA's approach "renders the statutory exemption process a mirage."
The Washington State Legislature has passed a bill requiring employers to provide notice to their employees if the federal government requests records relating to their work eligibility.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security must halt the construction of a planned immigration detention facility in Maryland, a federal judge has ordered, saying that the department likely failed to take a "hard look" at the construction's potential environmental impact.
A panel of the First Circuit has paused a district court order holding that a class of noncitizens facing removal to countries to which they have no ties must receive meaningful notice and an opportunity to raise fears about being deported to those countries.
The full Ninth Circuit declined to rehear a unanimous January panel ruling that ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked authority to vacate a temporary protected status extension for Venezuela, with judges sparring across a 51-page order in dueling concurrences and dissents.
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims said Thursday that most of the Gateway Development Commission's claims against the Trump administration are now moot since the federal government recently released millions in previously withheld funds for New York and New Jersey's Hudson Tunnel Project.
An immigrant advocacy group says several Massachusetts sheriffs' departments are improperly relying on a federal regulation to withhold records documenting their relationships with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents.
The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago are pushing back on the Trump administration's bid to dismiss their lawsuit challenging National Guard deployment to the state because all the troops have since been demobilized or withdrawn, with no plans to return, telling an Illinois federal judge that the president's social media posts and public statements tell a different story.