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May 22, 2026
The Trump administration announced Friday that noncitizens in the U.S. on nonimmigrant visas who want to become lawful permanent residents must apply from abroad, marking a sharp shift in how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has handled such requests.
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May 21, 2026
A divided Ninth Circuit panel has revived a Guatemalan father and daughter's bids for protection from removal from the United States, finding on Thursday that the father faced extreme persecution in the Central American country when a family member repeatedly shot at their home in a drunken rage in an attempt to force them out.
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May 21, 2026
Seventh Circuit judges sounded unwilling Thursday to disturb an arbitrator's finding that a Chicago hotel failed to employ union-represented workers during its use as a migrant shelter, suggesting the hotel took issue with interpretations of key words the arbitrator appropriately drew from the underlying collective bargaining agreement.
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May 21, 2026
A Colorado federal judge ordered Thursday that jurors be permitted to view the inside of an immigration detention facility near Denver, agreeing with detainees that visiting the GEO Group Inc.-operated facility will help them better understand key issues in the detainees' human trafficking class action.
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May 21, 2026
The Trump administration told the Fourth Circuit that a district court wrongly deemed its suit challenging a standing order temporarily barring the immediate removal or transfer of detained noncitizens out of the District of Maryland a "branch-on-branch" dispute.
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May 21, 2026
A Missouri woman accused a white nationalist group in Arkansas federal court of violating the Fair Housing Act and other civil rights laws by refusing to let her buy land in the group's community in Arkansas because she is a Jewish woman with a Black husband and three biracial children.
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May 21, 2026
A D.C. federal judge ordered the Trump administration to inform a certified class of Afghan nationals seeking special immigrant visas for aiding the U.S. government overseas about a proclamation that suspended visas for people from Afghanistan and dozens of other countries.
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May 21, 2026
Current and former immigration judges spoke on a web panel Thursday about threats to the independence of immigration judges and the strains on the immigration system, such as a massive backlog of cases at a time when many judges have been pushed out or fired.
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May 21, 2026
A Bolivian attorney can't revive his application to the Florida Bar for certification as a foreign legal consultant after the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday denied his petition to force the bar to reconsider because its rules put asylees in an impossible position.
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May 21, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board panel partly granted a Texas immigration advocacy organization's request to review a decision that allowed some attorneys and legal assistants to remain in a voluntarily recognized bargaining unit, to reconsider whether they are supervisors.
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May 21, 2026
The Executive Office for Immigration Review swore in 77 permanent and five temporary immigration judges to help reduce its 3.53 million pending cases, which the agency said was currently its highest priority.
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May 20, 2026
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement improperly awarded a $26.6 million maintenance contract at a Georgia facility, finding it failed to follow its own solicitation criteria when evaluating the technical aspects of proposals.
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May 20, 2026
Migrants suing over an alleged scheme to lure them onto flights to Martha's Vineyard asked a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday to order a private contractor to turn over documents they say will illuminate the broader contours of a plan for migrant relocation trips.
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May 20, 2026
The GEO Group Inc. said Washington state conveniently ignored the fact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied health inspectors access to a detention center when the state asked a federal judge to require the company to let them in.
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May 20, 2026
The Board of Immigration Appeals shifted a case involving Brazilian nationals back to Boston after finding the immigration judge granted a change of venue without proper consideration and should have limited off-the-record discussions.
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May 20, 2026
An attorney and onetime Connecticut lawmaker should be temporarily suspended after a criminal conviction for receiving campaign funds during a law firm party and further disciplined for charging an immigration client a $30,000 flat fee, some of which he called his firm's "pocket money," state ethics authorities have said.
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May 19, 2026
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a pair of executive orders aimed at preventing undocumented immigrant workers from using the U.S. financial system and expanding financial technology firms' access to Federal Reserve payment accounts and services.
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May 19, 2026
Federal prosecutors urged the Ninth Circuit Tuesday to revive lawsuits against California and Oregon claiming states are required to hand over voter registration lists that include driver's license and Social Security numbers, saying the data would be used to look for noncitizens and others not eligible to vote.
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May 19, 2026
Four former employees of Lindsey Wilson University sued the school and several of its officials in Kentucky federal court, alleging they were fired in retaliation for raising concerns about the school's lack of compliance with immigration law in its handling of international students.
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May 19, 2026
The District of Columbia said neither federal law nor the D.C. Code authorizes the president's deployment of the D.C. National Guard for law-enforcement activities in the district, urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold an injunction barring the deployment.
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May 19, 2026
A California federal judge on Monday rejected the U.S. government's contention that a prior order limiting its ability to hold migrant minors in hotels applied only to expulsions tied to a public health order put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 19, 2026
Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
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May 19, 2026
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention invoked an emergency public health law Monday to impose entry restrictions for non-U.S. passport holders who have been in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, or South Sudan in the prior three weeks due to an Ebola outbreak.
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May 19, 2026
A fee imposed on noncitizens who fail to appear before an immigration judge and are ordered removed in absentia and later arrested would jump from $5,130 to $18,000 under a new U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement proposal.
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May 18, 2026
A New York federal judge Monday largely barred U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from conducting arrests at three Manhattan immigration courthouses, finding there was no good reason why "unfettered discretion" by ICE officers was better than a policy with arrest limitations.