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April 20, 2026
A man who pled guilty to threatening the wife of a Georgia-based U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has been sentenced to two years of probation and fined $2,500.
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April 20, 2026
A panel of the First Circuit has ruled the Board of Immigration Appeals ignored its own regulations, and that the board engaged in impermissible and faulty fact-finding, when it determined a Venezuelan man used a false ID to avoid criminal prosecution and ordered his removal.
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April 20, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed by the state and the city of Chicago challenging the deployment of National Guard troops to Illinois, agreeing with the Trump administration that the case is now moot because the troops have been demobilized or withdrawn and the orders authorizing their presence "are no longer alive."
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April 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether the Fifth Circuit applied the wrong standard of review in determining that a child brought to the U.S. without her father's permission should be returned home to Venezuela.
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April 17, 2026
A Rhode Island federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from imposing new conditions related to diversity, equity and inclusion activities and immigration status on domestic violence assistance grants, finding a nonprofit coalition likely to succeed in a legal challenge.
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April 17, 2026
Historical preservationists have joined with conservation advocates in suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Texas federal court, accusing the Trump administration of unconstitutionally repealing dozens of laws as it builds a massive wall along the Mexican border.
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April 17, 2026
A California federal judge ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to unfreeze its processing of work permit applications for several dozen Iranians and a Sudanese national, finding the agency likely violated federal administrative law by indefinitely delaying decisions.
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April 17, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's final argument session of this term kicks off Monday, when the justices will consider the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to seek disgorgement orders against alleged wrongdoers without proving investors were harmed. Here, Law360 breaks down the week's oral arguments.
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April 17, 2026
New lawsuits and a tricky compliance landscape have besieged a trucking industry navigating the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement of restrictions on immigrant commercial truck drivers, as motor carriers, freight brokers and other ground-based shippers worry about escalating rates, driver turnover and service disruptions.
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April 17, 2026
Following the House's rebuke Thursday of the Trump administration in its vote to extend temporary protected status for Haitian nationals in the United States, Republican senators insist the bill won't pass their chamber.
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April 17, 2026
Tufts University graduate Rümeysa Öztürk has returned to her native Turkey after completing her doctorate and reaching a settlement with the federal government to end her immigration proceedings, her attorneys said Friday.
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April 17, 2026
A Salvadoran man who escaped immigration custody by tying bedsheets into a rope to scale a fence cannot be convicted for obstructing a pending proceeding because his removal order was final when he ran to nearby woods, the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday, reversing a Virginia federal court's decision.
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April 17, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked a Texas state court to block a Houston ordinance that allegedly violates a state law prohibiting local governments from limiting cooperation with federal immigration agents.
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April 16, 2026
Acting Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons is set to leave the agency, new U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin confirmed Thursday.
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April 16, 2026
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing felony assault charges in Minnesota after local prosecutors say he tried to illegally bypass a highway traffic jam and then pointed his duty weapon at two people in another vehicle, the Hennepin County Attorney's Office announced Thursday.
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April 16, 2026
A D.C. federal judge appeared unconvinced Thursday by a human rights group's claim that the public is getting less access to immigration court hearings in Minnesota during the second Trump administration.
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April 16, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge denied a bid by a long-term care provider and a foreign nursing recruiter to dismiss a proposed class action brought by Filipino nurses who alleged they were forced to sign abusive contracts that amount to "indentured servitude."
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April 16, 2026
The head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Congress Thursday that the agency is feeling the effects of the ongoing partial government shutdown, even though the agency received billions of dollars for much of its current operations.
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April 16, 2026
Two New Jersey men have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a scheme to aid North Korea in getting around U.S. and United Nations sanctions by using stolen identities to place workers in information technology jobs.
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April 16, 2026
Nineteen foreign truckers sued the federal trucking regulator and Florida's motor vehicle agency over a federal rule barring roughly 200,000 noncitizen truckers from getting commercial driver's licenses, saying those with valid federal work permits are being left in the lurch.
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April 16, 2026
Farmworkers who accused agricultural companies of wage violations asked a Colorado federal judge to award nearly $24,000 in attorney fees and costs after one defendant and its lawyer stopped participating in discovery and ignored court orders.
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April 16, 2026
A Maryland federal court blocked the Trump administration from continuing construction work to convert an existing warehouse into an immigrant detention center while a challenge brought by the state under federal environmental regulations plays out.
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April 15, 2026
The Board of Immigration Appeals has affirmed an administrative law judge's order finding that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be removed because of alleged misrepresentations he made on his green card application and "potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences," according to an opinion made public Wednesday.
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April 15, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson this week slammed her conservative colleagues' use of the court's emergency docket, which has repeatedly benefited the Trump administration, saying that such "scratch-paper" orders don't acknowledge the harms that can follow such decisions, making the orders "seem oblivious and thus ring hollow."
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April 15, 2026
The city of Denver asked a Colorado federal judge to award it attorney fees after the court tossed the Trump administration's challenge of sanctuary laws in Colorado and Denver in March.