A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that the use of informal administrative warrants by agents from ICE's Chicago field office in recent immigration enforcement actions violates a 2022 settlement with unauthorized immigrants that requires the agency to use warrants signed by a judge when making most arrests.
The Trump administration’s recent refusal to defend an immigration regulation implemented by the Biden administration highlights a questionable process that both parties have used to bypass the Administrative Procedure Act’s rulemaking process, and points toward the next step in the fight over universal injunctions, says Mark Stevens at Clark Hill.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday moved to dismiss assault charges against a married couple who were recently arrested while protesting in front of a Chicago-area ICE detention center, following a grand jury's refusal to prosecute them, according to the protesters' attorneys and court filings.
Civil rights lawyers urged the Massachusetts trial court system to better protect migrants' due process rights amid increasing arrests by federal immigration officers inside and outside courthouses, saying Tuesday the court is "well within its right" to do so.
A Tenth Circuit panel said Tuesday that four Colombian family members failed to show that death threats made by allies of a narcotics trafficking group's leader amounted to persecution or stemmed from protected political activities, and refused to revisit rulings denying their bid for asylum.
A federal prosecutor told a Massachusetts judge on Tuesday that the government has returned a phone it seized from an immigration lawyer but does not intend to delete data it pulled from the device, prompting the court to raise concerns that the information could be used to identify and arrest immigrants.
Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi deflected when questioned on the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and other controversies involving the U.S. Department of Justice.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security must face a lawsuit lodged by advocacy groups alleging detained immigrants are being denied proper access to counsel, a D.C. federal judge ruled, finding that the legal services organizations adequately alleged "a close relation" to the third parties in the lawsuit.
A new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interim final rule restricting states' issuance of commercial drivers licenses to foreign-domiciled drivers does not alter motor carriers' obligations to verify drivers' qualifications, but may create disruptions by reducing the number of eligible drivers, say attorneys at Benesch.
A new regulation revamping wage calculations for workers on temporary H-2A visas is being welcomed by agricultural employers, but the possibility of depressed wages could tie up the policy in litigation at a time when the Trump administration is predicting farm labor shortages.