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May 04, 2026
A Rhode Island federal judge, whom the U.S. Department of Homeland Security criticized for releasing a noncitizen with an alleged overseas warrant for homicide, was dissatisfied with an assistant U.S. attorney's apology for not disclosing the warrant to the court beforehand.
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May 04, 2026
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer sentenced to over 1.5 years in prison for depriving a man of his rights at a New Mexico port of entry and falsifying a report about the incident cannot have his conviction overturned, a Tenth Circuit panel said on Monday.
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May 04, 2026
Massachusetts' top court on Monday appeared concerned that a state district court judge in 2018 offered to detain a defendant sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, as the justices considered a public reprimand.
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May 04, 2026
President Donald Trump has expanded his sanctions regime against Cuba, issuing an executive order targeting Cuban government officials while also implementing second-order sanctions against financial institutions that carry out transactions with sanctioned individuals.
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May 04, 2026
Two noncitizens filed a proposed class action Monday in federal court seeking to block parts of Texas' migrant arrest law from taking effect, less than two weeks after the full Fifth Circuit ruled that immigrant-rights groups and a Texas county lacked standing to challenge the law.
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May 04, 2026
A Minnesota federal judge won't stop a military attorney from being appointed to prosecute a civilian accused of assaulting federal immigration officers, despite finding that the appointment violates binding U.S. Department of Defense regulations.
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May 04, 2026
The First Circuit on Monday weighed a challenge to the Trump administration's policy of detaining unauthorized immigrants without bond during removal proceedings, even as one judge noted that the issue has already divided appellate panels and will likely need to be sorted out by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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May 01, 2026
A New York federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary deportation protections for roughly 3,000 Yemeni nationals in the U.S. escaping dangerous conditions in their native country, saying the government ignored statutorily required termination procedures.
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May 01, 2026
Operation Midway Blitz was not a Chicago-focused immigration enforcement bid but essentially a mass deportation effort through which officials weaponized federal law enforcement, caused "chaos" around the city and "flagrantly" disregarded federal courts serving as a check on its rollout, an Illinois commission has found.
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May 01, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office is expanding its probe into potential H-1B visa fraud by demanding personnel, operational and financial records from nearly 30 businesses in north Texas.
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May 01, 2026
A California federal judge Friday ordered one of 10 foreign nationals accused of manipulating the cryptocurrency markets through "wash trading" to self-deport back to India after finding the 26-year-old man played a "relatively minor role" in the scheme, sentencing him to time already served.
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May 01, 2026
The Board of Immigration Appeals said an immigration judge in San Francisco should have ordered two minors removed in absentia after they and their mother failed to appear at several removal proceedings, rather than administratively close their proceedings.
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May 01, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has accused New Jersey of unlawfully providing unauthorized immigrants in-state college tuition and financial support while denying those same benefits to out-of-state U.S. citizens, the latest of such enforcement efforts against states.
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May 01, 2026
A half-dozen detained noncitizens asked a D.C. federal judge to overturn a U.S. Department of Homeland Security policy that allegedly blocks their ability to supply biometric information needed for some immigration benefit applications filed with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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April 30, 2026
A Washington, D.C., federal judge Thursday refused to block a Trump administration policy requiring that previously approved custodians reapply to sponsor "unaccompanied" children while the minors are held in government facilities, finding that the plaintiffs have not established the government is likely acting contrary to law.
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April 30, 2026
Maryland federal judges urged the Fourth Circuit to decisively affirm a decision scrapping the Trump administration's challenge of a standing order that briefly blocks the removal of noncitizens who file habeas petitions, saying the unprecedented lawsuit deserves a precedential rebuke.
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April 30, 2026
The Trump administration agreed at a hearing Thursday to temporarily halt the use of 22 states' Medicaid data for immigration enforcement purposes until a San Francisco federal judge clarifies the boundaries of an injunction that the largely Democratic-controlled states had accused the government of flouting.
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April 30, 2026
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday making fixed-price contracts the default for federal contracting, as a part of an effort to tackle "unpredictable costs, bloated overhead, and weak performance incentives," which the president attributed to cost-reimbursement contracts.
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April 30, 2026
A Jamaican man who pled guilty to robbery should have been afforded youthful-offender consideration, a New York state appeals panel has ruled, reinstating his robbery conviction despite his not receiving an immigration warning, but sending his case back for resentencing.
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April 30, 2026
A D.C. federal judge denied a Minnesota human rights organization's request to block immigration judges from restricting public and press access to proceedings, ruling that it failed to show an immediate threat of future harm from unlawful hearing closures.
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April 30, 2026
The Fifth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a man's claims that an India-based information technology and professional services firm violated the False Claims Act via fraudulent visa applications and improper tax withholding, finding no specific payment obligations under the FCA itself.
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April 29, 2026
A Texas federal judge formally closed a Biden-era lawsuit alleging reverse redlining in a Houston-area development after the U.S. Department of Justice reached a $68 million deal that he says is untethered to the complaint and risks harm to the people claimed to be affected.
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April 29, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel pressed counsel for multiple detained immigrants to explain why people who crossed the border unlawfully should get access to a bond hearing, saying Wednesday that the law clearly states that an allegedly unauthorized immigrant "shall be detained pending removal proceedings."
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April 29, 2026
The Michigan Supreme Court Wednesday adopted a rule prohibiting civil arrests of those attending court proceedings or those who have legal business at the courthouse, which drew strong rebuke in a dissent describing the amendment as "a political statement as a solution in search of a problem."
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April 29, 2026
The Trump administration said a suit challenging the gold card visa program's legality must be thrown out because the immigrants and academic professionals union that filed it can't show the program hurts their chances at getting visas.