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April 13, 2026
The state of Washington and a class of immigration detainees urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject GEO Group's bid to overturn a Ninth Circuit ruling requiring the prison operator to pay Washington's minimum wage to detainee workers, filing separate briefs arguing the decision does not merit further review.
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April 13, 2026
An immigration judge erred by terminating removal proceedings without prejudice after neither the noncitizen nor the U.S. Department of Homeland Security appeared, the Board of Immigration Appeals ruled, finding that in absentia proceedings should've been held instead.
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April 10, 2026
An Ecuadorian facing felony criminal charges for reentering the United States after being deported following a conviction for reckless assault cannot challenge his original deportation order because he didn't originally appeal it, the Second Circuit said Thursday.
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April 10, 2026
Employers are staring down bigger fines for I-9 violations after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly redefined substantive violations to include common administrative errors that were previously correctable without penalty.
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April 10, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday said it will move forward with a $68 million settlement reached with land developer Colony Ridge Development LLC without seeking court oversight after a Texas federal judge raised concerns about the deal.
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April 10, 2026
Legal services groups challenging changes that would speed up deportation order appeals have agreed with the Trump administration to stay upcoming deadlines in the litigation and allow for a revised rulemaking process after a D.C. federal judge vacated the changes last month.
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April 10, 2026
The Department of Justice has sued Michigan's Washtenaw County in federal court, alleging that county officials are obstructing federal immigration enforcement in violation of the U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause.
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April 10, 2026
A Chinese postdoctoral research associate at Indiana University was sentenced to time served on Wednesday by an Indiana federal judge, spending more than four months in custody on smuggling charges for shipping an E. coli sample from China into the U.S. and lying about it when questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
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April 10, 2026
A D.C. federal judge declined to halt what Minnesota immigrant advocates have called a "rocket docket" for deportations of Somalis there, ruling Friday that the plaintiffs — an immigration attorney and human rights group — likely lacked standing to bring the challenge because their proposed remedy may not be available.
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April 10, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday said she was "concerned" by a published report suggesting that immigration judges are being instructed to deny all bond requests regardless of merit, after she and other judges ordered that detainees be given hearings.
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April 10, 2026
A recent Fifth Circuit ruling has led a number of district court judges in that circuit to lean on a different rationale for rejecting the Trump administration's detention of unauthorized immigrants without bond: their "liberty interest."
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April 10, 2026
Individuals who send funds to people abroad via a remittance transfer provider using cash, money orders, cashier's checks, traveler's checks and similar financial instruments would trigger a new 1% excise tax on the total amount remitted under proposed regulations the IRS unveiled Friday.
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April 10, 2026
The past week in London has seen the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action over polluted rivers.
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April 10, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge denied the Trump administration a stay as it appeals her decision postponing its revocation of deportation protections for South Sudanese nationals, saying a database it now invokes doesn't alter her conclusion of a likely pretextual revocation.
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April 09, 2026
A Phoenix-area money services business has sued the Treasury Department over an order targeting such businesses along the Southern border for heightened anti-money laundering reporting requirements, saying the measure imposes "business-crushing burdens" that may force it to close.
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April 09, 2026
The American Civil Liberties Union has urged a D.C. federal judge to block the Trump administration's attempt to expand the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system to include voter registration data, warning it will create a centralized surveillance platform.
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April 09, 2026
A Colorado law that prohibits counties from entering into immigration detention agreements with the federal government does not violate the state's constitution, the Colorado Court of Appeals held Thursday in rejecting Douglas County's challenge to the law.
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April 09, 2026
The Third Circuit granted three separate motions from civil rights groups, immigration experts and habeas scholars Thursday to file amicus briefs supporting Mahmoud Khalil's request for en banc review of a precedential decision that cleared the way for the government to continue detaining the Columbia University activist.
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April 09, 2026
Tucked into the Trump administration's budget request for fiscal 2027, the U.S. Department of Justice is trying once again to take an ax to a program that provides legal assistance to noncitizens.
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April 09, 2026
A Tenth Circuit panel said a federal judge was right to toss a suit challenging a green card denial after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reopened the application and denied it again when the applicant failed to provide requested information.
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April 09, 2026
Latino New Yorkers accused the Trump administration of executing an unconstitutional policy of racial profiling and warrantless arrests amid its crackdown on illegal immigrants, telling a New York federal court that underlying the policy is an arrest quota from the top.
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April 08, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday postponed the Trump administration's termination of deportation relief for roughly 5,000 Ethiopians in the U.S. escaping humanitarian crises, expressing skepticism over the administration's reasons for ending the Ethiopian nationals' temporary protected status.
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April 08, 2026
A former Bucks County, Pennsylvania, sheriff asked the Third Circuit on Wednesday to undo a $35,000 attorney fee award granted to groups that remanded their case over his cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arguing the case belonged in district court because he'd effectively become a federal officer.
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April 08, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Massachusetts federal judge that part of her order requiring the government to provide immigrants in detention with timely, written notice of their rights to a bond hearing and appeal is too burdensome.
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April 08, 2026
A D.C. federal judge denied the government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit from an Afghan asylum-seeker and legal services providers over a Biden-era asylum rule, saying on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice "jumped the gun" in trying to get the suit tossed.