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July 27, 2026
Lawmakers have urged the D.C. Circuit to affirm a pause on a policy requiring seven days' notice for congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities, saying a lower court correctly held they could challenge the policy and would likely succeed.
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July 27, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge on Monday dismissed allegations that New York City's protest over Roadrunner Charter Inc.'s role in transporting migrants from Texas to the Empire State constituted contractual interference, finding that no breach of a third-party agreement occurred.
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July 27, 2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security have been collecting personal data on people legally documenting immigration enforcement activities and using it to retaliate against them in violation of federal privacy and First Amendment protection laws, according to a suit filed in California federal court.
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July 27, 2026
A D.C. federal judge on Monday stayed a lawsuit brought by House Democrats challenging a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy limiting their oversight access to immigration facilities while the Trump administration appeals an injunction limiting the visit restrictions.
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July 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security unveiled a new regulation Monday allowing asylum officers to skip interviews if they determine someone is barred from, ineligible for or does not merit asylum and send those cases straight to immigration court.
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July 27, 2026
Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka is pushing back on a bid from the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss a lawsuit over his allegedly unlawful arrest last year outside an ICE facility, telling a New Jersey federal court that the government's theories of immunity don't fit the facts and case law.
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July 27, 2026
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step in after the First Circuit declined on Saturday to lift a lower court's order prohibiting the administration from enforcing restrictions on mail-in balloting in 23 states and the District of Columbia in this year's general election.
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July 24, 2026
A federal judge Friday permanently barred Illinois from providing benefits such as in-state tuition and education scholarships to unauthorized immigrants, agreeing with the Trump administration's argument that the offerings run afoul of federal law by discriminating against U.S. citizens.
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July 24, 2026
The First Circuit on Friday refused to stay a Massachusetts federal court's order throwing out President Donald Trump's $100,000 fee for certain skilled-worker visas while the administration appeals the ruling.
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July 24, 2026
The Fourth Circuit affirmed Friday that the parents of immigrant children who receive visas through a special classification for kids who have been abused, neglected or abandoned cannot seek a path to legal residency through their children.
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July 24, 2026
The Trump administration's new fixed-admission framework for foreign students has U.S. employers and universities thinking through new compliance obligations, with some companies contemplating tracking students' visa expiration dates and taking on their extension paperwork, attorneys tell Law360.
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July 24, 2026
A former immigration judge has sued the U.S. Department of Justice in California federal court claiming she was pushed off the bench because she is Black and female, and previously advocated for immigrant clients as an attorney — and saying dozens of similarly situated judges were also fired or denied permanent positions.
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July 24, 2026
Police officers in New York's Nassau County arrested a Honduran and turned him over to federal immigration officers this year after claiming a yellow pill found in his car was crack cocaine, an assertion that a federal judge found ludicrous. Here, Law360 examines how Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP seized on that yellow pill to show the man’s arrest was pretextual and secured his release from immigration detention.
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July 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court has considered dozens of emergency petitions involving executive policies since President Donald Trump's return to office. While justices often defend their emergency rulings as stop-gap measures, people at the center of those cases — who've lost their legal status, jobs, or federal funding — say that even interim decisions have had lasting effects on their lives.
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July 24, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has refused to review an immigration court's finding that a Mexican national living in Oregon was not unfairly charged by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as being removable after his arrest for abusing his wife in front of his children.
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July 24, 2026
The state of Colorado and its education departments are breaking federal law by providing in-state tuition, scholarships and other postsecondary educational benefits to students without legal residency but do not offer the same benefits to out-of-state U.S. citizen students, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Colorado federal court.
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July 24, 2026
A Mexican man who admitted to voting in a federal election lost a bid to undo his removal after the Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that the fact he did not know he was ineligible to vote did not matter.
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July 23, 2026
A group of mostly Democratic-led states asked a Rhode Island federal court Thursday to stop the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from withholding disaster-relief funds unless they comply with the Trump administration's election administration and immigration enforcement demands.
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July 23, 2026
The Trump administration urged the full D.C. Circuit to either order U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to terminate his criminal contempt inquiry into the administration's Alien Enemies Act removals last year, or order him to forgo live testimony in the probe.
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July 23, 2026
A nonprofit and a resident of Hudson, Colorado, claimed in Colorado state court Wednesday that the town is ignoring its own land use codes by allowing a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center to be built and operated within the city, and is using federal preemption as an excuse to not act.
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July 23, 2026
Florida and 22 other GOP-leaning states have urged the D.C. Circuit to uphold the U.S. Department of Transportation's new restrictions on commercial drivers' licenses for foreign truckers, saying motorists and highways must be protected from threats posed by large commercial vehicles driven by unqualified truckers.
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July 23, 2026
A D.C. federal judge on Thursday transferred to Texas a Brazilian ultra-distance open-water swimmer's lawsuit challenging the denial of her visa petition for athletes of extraordinary ability, and criticized her attorney for citing nonexistent cases and misstating the law in others.
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July 23, 2026
Advocacy groups sued the Trump administration in California federal court Wednesday over a fee waiver ban following the enactment of the 2025 budget reconciliation bill that imposes a $250 fee for indigent youth seeking special immigrant juvenile status, even though they have no legal means of earning income.
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July 22, 2026
A D.C. federal judge Wednesday refused to toss a lawsuit from a certified class of immigrants challenging immigration arrests by U.S. marshals in D.C. Superior Court, declaring that the marshals lack authority and necessary training for the arrests.
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July 22, 2026
A D.C. federal judge appeared reluctant Wednesday to hand the Tohono O'odham Nation a preliminary injunction blocking the construction of 62 miles of border wall within what the tribe claims are its lands, saying that what the tribe was asking him to do was unprecedented.