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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.
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May 18, 2026
The Trump administration told a D.C. federal judge that a technology research coalition's lack of injury should doom a suit challenging its new visa restriction policy targeting noncitizens who help foreign governments censor protected expression by American citizens and tech companies.
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May 18, 2026
Minnesota prosecutors Monday lodged assault charges against a federal immigration agent, accusing him of shooting a Venezuelan man who was fleeing and later lying that the man he shot had attacked him, marking at least the third federal agent charged by state officials with using excessive force during recent immigration crackdowns.
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May 18, 2026
The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit that a recent precedential Board of Immigration Appeals ruling interpreting the meaning of "arrival" and "arrived" should have no bearing on its policies seeking to increase the number of expedited removals.
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May 18, 2026
In the decade since the Jay Peak Ski Resort visa fraud scandal surfaced, Jeffrey Schneider, managing partner of Levine Kellogg Lehman Schneider & Grossman LLP, has been serving as counsel to a court-appointed receiver to help secure compensation for hundreds of victims through litigation and settlements with banks, law firms and the state of Vermont.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court asked for the U.S. solicitor general's input Monday in a case that questions whether the GEO Group is covered by intergovernmental immunity and therefore able to pay immigrant detainees $1 a day for their work.
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May 15, 2026
Mahmoud Khalil has asked the Board of Immigration Appeals to terminate his removal proceedings, arguing that new evidence shows the Trump administration interfered to sway the outcome of his case and make an example of him for his pro-Palestinian activism.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday sued Connecticut in federal court over a recently enacted state law that subjects in-custody deaths to state oversight, requires federal agents to wear identifying badges, and bans law enforcement officers from wearing facemasks, calling the act "blatantly unconstitutional."
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor said new guidance clarifies that employers must include an English proficiency standard in job orders and labor certification applications for positions that would have foreign workers operate commercial motor vehicles.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Rhode Island federal judge that a stay blocking grant conditions tied to immigration status and diversity efforts should apply only to several programs and that a nonprofit coalition is improperly trying to expand its reach.
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May 15, 2026
A Texas federal judge blocked key provisions of a state law criminalizing unauthorized entry or reentry of noncitizens into the state Thursday, ruling for the second time in less than three years that the legislation likely intrudes on an area of law controlled by the federal government.
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May 15, 2026
A fintech executive from Turkey copped to a count of securities fraud Friday, telling a Manhattan federal judge that she lied to seed-round investors who backed her Kalder Inc. startup and agreeing to forfeit about $7 million.
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May 14, 2026
A California federal judge declined Thursday to block a U.S. Department of Labor regulation reducing wages for H-2A seasonal farmworkers, ruling that United Farm Workers failed to show there is an immediate injury that warrants court intervention now.
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May 14, 2026
A former immigration judge in Massachusetts said in a lawsuit brought Thursday that he was fired in a purge of those with "political ideologies contrary to those held" by the Trump administration in violation of his First Amendment rights.
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May 14, 2026
Social Circle, a Georgia city of about 5,000, has asked a federal judge to block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from rapidly converting an empty warehouse into a 10,000-bed detention center, arguing the agency shirked its duty to consider the impacts.
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May 14, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened legal action against Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown over her refusal to enter into a cooperative agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorizing local officers to enforce federal immigration law.
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May 14, 2026
A D.C. federal judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a 55-year-old Colombian woman the government deported to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in April, ruling that her removal likely violated federal immigration law.
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May 13, 2026
The First Circuit on Wednesday questioned the sufficiency of a country's diplomatic assurances that a noncitizen won't be persecuted or tortured if the Trump administration deports them there, and whether such assurances eliminate obligations to provide notice to the deportee.
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May 13, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge appeared poised Wednesday to throw out a Trump administration lawsuit against the city of Boston over its "sanctuary city" policy limiting cooperation with federal immigration agents.
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May 13, 2026
A bipartisan bill aims to improve how immigration officials interact with Native Americans following reports that members of Indigenous communities are getting swept up in immigration raids and of officers not accepting their Tribal IDs despite them being U.S. citizens.