A federal judge refused to dismiss a Muslim U.S. citizen’s claim that Customs and Border Protection officers in Michigan subjected him to torture by placing him “in isolation in a small, freezing-cold holding cell with excessively bright lights for at least four hours” and denied him medical care even after he became unconscious.
Read moreThe owner of a South Texas butterfly conservation center asked a federal judge to stop the government from building a border wall it says will cut off and “render useless” 70 percent of its 100-acre refuge on the Rio Grande.
Read moreCustoms officials at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport say they found 70 live finches hidden inside hair rollers.
Read moreAttorneys representing a small group of migrants travelling on foot toward the United States in search of asylum sued President Donald Trump Thursday night, claiming his promise to stop the caravan with military force is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
Read moreSupervisory U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Harvey Booker, 70, of San Diego was criminally charged with strangling a traveler at a point of entry; he faces 10 years in prison if convicted of Deprivation of Rights Under Color of law, federal prosecutors said.
Read moreWarrantless cellphone searches by Customs and Border Patrol agents at the northern and southern borders of the United States have exploded a long-brewing constitutional crisis, a panel of legal experts told a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee Wednesday.
Read moreThe top U.S. border official said Monday that immigrant families crossing the border would not be referred for prosecution until the Justice Department comes up with a way to do so without separating children from their parents – just hours after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions insisted the prosecutions would continue unabated.
Read moreAsylum-seeking kids fleeing violence in their home countries of Central and South America faced beatings, sexual abuse, and death threats when apprehended by U.S. border agents, the ACLU concluded after reviewing thousands of pages of complaints filed on the children’s behalf.
Read moreA federal judge refused Thursday to throw out a Massachusetts lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s policy of searching electronic devices at the border without a warrant.
Read moreA Texas nurse traveling to Nigeria claims in a class action that U.S. customs agents wrongly seized over $41,000 in cash from her that was meant to start a clinic for women and children in the West African nation, and have refused to return it unless she signs a waiver.
Read moreBolstering its ranks to handle what it called a “border crisis,” the U.S. Department of Justice Wednesday announced it has hired additional prosecutors to handle immigration cases along the southwest border.
Read moreFederal authorities on Tuesday charged nearly a dozen suspected asylum-seeking members of a caravan from Central America with illegal entry, as a handful of mothers and children from the group were allowed to begin the asylum process.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked intercity bus operator Greyhound to stop allowing federal immigration agents to indiscriminately board its buses to illegally interrogate passengers unless they have warrants.
Read moreA case touching on the freedom of the press to report at southern border ports crossed into the Ninth Circuit on Friday, as civil rights advocates argued border officials have placed unconstitutional burdens on photographers and videographers.
Read moreThe death of 27-year-old who expired after spending 19 days in solitary confinement at a Georgia immigration detention facility has human rights organizations urging Congress to investigate the centers, which the groups say are violating inmate’s human and civil rights.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s nominee to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection began the confirmation process Tuesday by telling Senators that stemming the rising tide of opioids entering the country will be among his top priorities and biggest challenges should he get the job.
Read moreA deported Dreamer who claimed he was wrongfully removed by Border Patrol agents in the middle of the night voluntarily dismissed his lawsuit against the government Thursday, though questions remain as to what exactly happened to the 23-year-old immigrant.
Read moreDelta passengers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union sued the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, claiming they were forced to show IDs to be allowed off a flight from San Francisco to New York City.
Read moreAccusing the Department of Homeland Security of fumbling its own rules, a hospital that sits just across Lake Ontario from Canada claims in a federal complaint that U.S. border agents improperly held one of its doctors to visa requirements from which he is exempt.
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Federal authorities charged a California teen Thursday with smuggling a Bengal tiger cub he claimed was a cat into the United States from Mexico.
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