The filthy and overcrowded detention cells in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, ordering all pretrial detainees held at processing centers for more than two days be given food, blankets and showers.
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.
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.
Read moreFormer Customs and Border Protection Watch Commander Wei Xu, 58, of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., was sentenced Monday to 31 months in federal prison for four felonies, including running an illegal gun-dealing business, possessing machineguns and failing to disclose financial interests in China, federal prosecutors said.
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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.
Read moreA government watchdog recounted failures with the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy on Wednesday, saying the Department of Homeland Security did not have technology it would need to track the families it separated.
Read moreA Latino man’s claims relating to his detention by Customs and Border Protection officers at a bus station may continue, a federal court in Washington ruled. The government may be liable under the state’s anti-discrimination law because the acts of the officers caused the man to be “treated as not welcome, accepted, desired, or solicited” based on his race.
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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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.
Read moreJailed, beaten and tortured for political activity during the Sri Lankan civil war, Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam’s case for U.S. asylum was taken up Friday by the Supreme Court.
Read moreNew statistics reported Tuesday by Customs and Border Protection show that roughly 1 million migrants have been arrested at the southern border in the last year, the most in over a decade.
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The Trump administration is blocking shipments from a Chinese company making baby pajamas sold at Costco warehouses after the foreign manufacturer was accused of forcing ethnic minorities locked in an internment camp to sew clothes against their will.
Read moreThe Trump administration on Tuesday announced it is holding imports of clothing, gold, diamonds and other items believed to have been produced with forced labor by companies based in Brazil, China and Malaysia as well as some gold mined in eastern Congo and diamonds from a region in Zimbabwe.
Read moreTwenty-five years after “Operation Gatekeeper” changed the way immigration officials policed the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, immigrant advocates called for new policies Tuesday to curb the loss of life along the border.
Read moreA 40-foot-wide dirt road stretches off into the distance through Sunburst, Montana, a tiny farming town in north-central Montana on the U.S.-Canada border.
Read moreA Honduran family claims in a federal complaint that U.S. Customs and Border Protection separated the parents from their 3-year-old child and sent the father to jail in Starr County, Texas, where he died.
Read moreU.S. Customs and Border Protection says a new 2,500-person holding facility will open Friday in a remote corner of West Texas as the agency attempts to deal with what it calls an unprecedented influx of immigrants at the southern border.
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