In a reversal, Europe’s human rights court on Thursday found Spain did not violate the rights of two African asylum-seekers when it sent them back to Morocco after they climbed a border fence around a Spanish enclave in North Africa.
Read moreThe Council on American Islamic Relations sued the Department Of Homeland Security in Seattle Federal Court, for information on “a directive issued to CBP (Customs and Border Protection) officers to detain and interrogate Iranian-Americans” at the Canadian border.
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Standing in front of the San Diego Bay on Friday and touting the importance of being able to surf with dolphins, elected leaders called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to immediately allocate $300 million secured by a trade agreement signed this week to address a cross-border wastewater pollution crisis.
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Finding that a decades-running dispute over Slovenia and Croatia’s borders falls under international rather than EU law, the bloc’s highest court announced Friday that it lacks jurisdiction to hear the case.
Read moreA Christian pastor who ministers to immigrants and refugees failed to obtain a court order that would have prevented the government from continuing to monitor her activities along the U.S.-Mexico border and in New York.
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Facing criticism over multiple cases of immigrant children dying while in government custody, U.S. border officials on Tuesday defended their agencies’ approach to caring for families and children who arrive at the southern border.
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Handing the federal government its first “win” since it was sued for separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border, a federal judge Monday found continued separations are discretionary and do not violate a court and executive order abandoning the “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
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Civil rights groups and lawmakers demanded information from federal officials Monday after reports that dozens of Iranian-Americans were held up and questioned at the border as they returned to the United States from Canada over the weekend.
Read moreU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested fewer people during the 2019 budget year than last year, in part because resources were shifted to help handle the massive surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, the agency said Wednesday.
Read moreIt’s not for the European Court of Justice to wade into an international territorial dispute between the Balkan nations of Slovenia and Croatia, the court’s advocate general said Wednesday.
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A federal judge on Tuesday issued a nationwide injunction blocking the Trump administration’s plan to use $3.6 billion in military construction money to build the president’s long-promised border wall.
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Poland’s agriculture minister says 21 wild boars have died as a result of an outbreak of African swine fever close to the German border.
Read moreHumanitarian aid worker Scott Warren emerged from the federal courthouse to cheers after a jury acquitted him on charges that he illegally shielded two undocumented immigrants from Border Patrol agents at a rural desert aid station.
Read moreA federal judge in Boston ruled Tuesday that the government’s suspicionless searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at border ports of entry and airports violate the Fourth Amendment.
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A federal judge asked for clarification Friday about how exactly the federal government’s “Migrant Protection Protocols” are being employed by immigration agents at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego as he considers whether asylum seekers have a right to counsel when being interviewed about their fear of being returned to Mexico.
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A string of violence south of Arizona’s border with Mexico has sparked warnings by U.S. authorities and is forcing people who say they won’t stop crossing into Mexico to consider how to travel safely.
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Bernie Sanders is adding his support to a call by some of his fellow presidential hopefuls for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, a proposal that’s exposing deep ideological divides in the Democratic primary and may prove politically treacherous in the general election.
Read moreA federal judge heard debate Tuesday on whether new restrictions on asylum can apply to those who appeared at ports of entry before being required to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated in the United States.
Read moreU.S. military forces patrolled part of Syria’s border with Turkey on Thursday in the first such move since Washington withdrew troops from the area this month.
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The Trump administration’s incessant rollout of immigration-stifling policies this year seem to have had their desired effect: Arrests and entry denials by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the southwest border fell from 144,000 in May to 52,000 last month. But the agency’s director said Tuesday the “crisis” is not over.
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