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March 27, 2026
A coalition of states told a federal judge that the Trump administration appears to have ignored an order limiting the types of Medicaid data that can be shared with immigration officials, potentially handing over reams of "off limits" data on citizens and green card holders.
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March 27, 2026
A California appellate panel has vacated an immigrant's jury-trial conviction for assault with attempt to commit rape, finding his lawyers did not tell him about a change in case law that opened the door to an immigration-safe plea that there is a "reasonable possibility" he would have sought instead of trial.
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March 27, 2026
A Manhattan federal jury weighed claims Friday that Cognizant Technology Solutions fired a New York University professor for complaining about hiring bias, after a lawyer for the company called him a troublesome employee who has no contemporaneous evidence of his concerns.
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March 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule that could drive roughly $6.5 billion in additional annual wages to foreign workers by overhauling how prevailing pay is calculated across high-skilled visa programs.
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March 27, 2026
The House voted 213-203 on Friday night on a clean extension of funding for all operations of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, rebuking the Senate, which passed by voice vote in the early hours of Friday morning a bill to fund most of the department except the immigration components.
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March 26, 2026
An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared divided Thursday on whether the Trump administration can treat immigrants who didn't seek authorized entry at the border as perpetually seeking admission and subject them to mandatory detention without bond.
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March 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming review of the Trump administration's efforts to curtail the temporary protected status program loomed over a Massachusetts federal judge's hearing Thursday on the future of the protections for 5,000 Ethiopians living in the U.S.
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March 26, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has tossed immigrant advocacy groups' bid to vacate the United States' deal with El Salvador to imprison deported noncitizens in exchange for money, finding that they lacked standing since vacatur wouldn't stop deportation as the power to remove is grounded under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
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March 26, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has told a New York federal judge that it mistakenly cited a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo providing guidance for civil immigration arrests at non-immigration courts, while fighting a lawsuit challenging arrests at immigration courts.
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March 26, 2026
Haitian nationals accusing meatpacking giant JBS USA Food Co. and a subsidiary of race-based discrimination and numerous labor violations have told a Colorado federal court their lawsuit should survive JBS' dismissal bid, arguing that they've sufficiently established an employer relationship with both.
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March 25, 2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's surging need for detention space — fueled by increased funding and a rapid escalation in enforcement activity — has sparked litigation from local lawmakers and advocacy groups concerned by the agency's full-throttle approach and perceived disregard for surrounding communities.
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March 25, 2026
A Tenth Circuit panel appeared skeptical during oral arguments Wednesday of Oklahoma's arguments that federal law doesn't preempt a state law that attempts to make it a crime for unauthorized immigrants to live in the state.
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March 25, 2026
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed on Wednesday three bills intended to limit state cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, strengthen privacy protections and require law enforcement officers — including federal agents — to identify themselves during public interactions.
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March 25, 2026
A split Eighth Circuit panel on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration's position that it can detain noncitizens who crossed the border without authorization, no matter how long they've been in the U.S., without bond.
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March 25, 2026
New Jersey's judicial disciplinary body questioned a municipal judge on Wednesday about why he believed it was appropriate to berate children and threaten their families with deportation during truancy hearings.
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March 25, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge has agreed to transfer to North Carolina a year-old class action in which foreign workers say a healthcare system and recruiter trapped them in punitive contracts and buried them in grueling labor, after a judge said the action could have been filed in the Tar Heel State in the first place.
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March 25, 2026
A Minnesota law firm and a human rights group have accused the Trump administration of unlawfully fast-tracking removal proceedings for nondetained Somali immigrants, making it "monumentally more difficult," if not nearly impossible, to defend their rights in immigration courts.
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March 25, 2026
An immigration appeals board must reconsider a Guatemalan family's asylum applications after the mother said she feared the Guatemalan government wouldn't protect them from her brother, the Ninth Circuit ruled, finding the board may have failed to assess "key" evidence.
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March 24, 2026
The state of Minnesota and Hennepin County on Tuesday asked a D.C. federal court to block the Trump administration from withholding evidence related to the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and the nonfatal shooting of another Minnesotan at the hands of federal agents, calling its noncooperation "unprecedented."
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March 24, 2026
A youth advocacy attorney nearly came to tears as she told a D.C. federal judge of immigrant children being torn from their parents Tuesday, urging the judge to block a Trump administration policy requiring that previously approved custodians reapply to sponsor "unaccompanied" children while the minors are held in government facilities.
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March 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with when a noncitizen "arrives in" the U.S., but struggled to pin down whether someone's foot, hand or nose must cross a "magic" line that would obligate border officials to process them.
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March 24, 2026
The state of Michigan and the city of Romulus sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal court Tuesday, seeking to block the planned conversion of a warehouse into a 500-bed immigration detention center.
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March 24, 2026
Houston-area developer Colony Ridge told a Texas federal court that allegations underpinning a $68 million settlement with federal and state regulators would have faced "serious headwinds" at trial, pushing back on housing nonprofits' criticism of the deal resolving Biden-era fair lending claims against it.
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March 24, 2026
The Trump administration says a Minnesota federal judge erred by holding a government attorney in contempt after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement flouted a court order, claiming the lawyer was "wrongfully held captive to induce ICE's compliance."
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March 24, 2026
A Washington federal judge signed off on a notice for a class action settlement that would have U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services repeal a program used to review naturalization and green card applications for people deemed to raise national security concerns.