A coalition of cities and counties led by Fresno, California, have asked a California federal court to expand an injunction stopping the Trump administration from imposing "impermissibly vague" conditions requiring compliance with immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion policies in order to receive federal transportation and other grants.
The Ninth Circuit’s recent ruling in Vilchis-Gomez v. Bondi illustrates how a series of immigration decisions are transforming the extreme hardship defense to removal into a de facto medical necessity requirement, but practitioners can push back by continuing to assert long-standing precedents and building comprehensive records, says Abdoul Konare at Konare Law.
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday vacated what it deemed a "constitutionally suspect" injunction that media and peaceful protesters won against federal immigration officials as the Trump administration's immigration enforcement crackdown unfolded last year in Chicago, criticizing how the lower court handled the plaintiffs' bid to dismiss their own case.
The ex-comptroller of New York City, Brad Lander, is urging a federal judge to require the federal government to disclose how it is using immigration holding rooms at 26 Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan as he fights a ticket he received for allegedly obstructing federal immigration officials.
The Trump administration told the First Circuit it should be able to keep deporting people to countries they do not have ties to while it appeals a ruling that its policy for doing so is unlawful.
A group of Syrian nationals urged the U.S. Supreme Court to not disturb lower court decisions postponing the Trump administration's move to terminate their Temporary Protected Status, arguing it's the over 6,000 Syrian TPS holders who'd suffer irreparable harm.
Democrats have again introduced a bill that would shift the immigration courts from the executive branch to an independent judiciary, following concerns that the Trump administration has "weaponized" the system.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Friday demanded a comprehensive accounting of federal immigration arrests in the state, saying the available data undermines the government's claim that the sweeps were aimed at violent criminal offenders.
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday ruled that President Donald Trump likely has the authority to suspend admissions of people seeking refugee status in the U.S., but said the government's defunding of services to refugees already admitted is likely unlawful.
The Ninth Circuit said Thursday that courts can't second-guess the federal government's decision to reject an inadmissibility waiver request from an immigrant seeking to apply for a type of visa that's usually reserved for victims of certain crimes who aid law enforcement, rejecting an appeal from a Mexican citizen.