King County, Washington, is illegally prohibiting immigration deportation flights at county-owned Boeing Field, a suit filed Monday by the U.S. Justice Department claims.
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Immigration advocates expressed cautious optimism Monday after a judge in Maryland blocked federal agents from detaining immigrant spouses for deportation at green card marriage interviews.
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The American Civil Liberties Union sued federal immigration officials Wednesday, demanding the search warrants for a raid last year at a Dallas-area electronics repair company that netted over 280 arrests.
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The number of border arrests has dropped for the eighth straight month, after crackdowns by the Trump administration that include forcing asylum-seekers into Mexico or Central America to wait out their claims, a Homeland Security official said Monday.
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Attorneys for a billion-dollar private prison company that houses immigrant detainees in Georgia asked an 11th Circuit panel Thursday to rule that a federal law prohibiting forced labor does not apply to the detainees.
Read moreThe City of Laguna Beach agreed to pay an $18,750 settlement to Torres Gutierrez, a man with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status who was detained by the police and held for 15 hours at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read moreA federal class action claims the District of Columbia Court Clerk Michael Hughes illegally refuses to release people who have been ordered released by a superior court judge if he suspects them of violating civil immigration laws.
Read moreThe Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles agreed as part of a settlement Wednesday to stop sharing registration information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read moreNBCUniversal Media sued the Department of Homeland Security in federal court for refusing to release information on at least 13 detainees who died in ICE custody between June 6, 2017 and July 31, 2018.
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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 moreA new California law banning private prisons in the state interferes with federal supremacy by blocking the U.S. government from detaining undocumented immigrants in privately run facilities within the state’s borders, a private prison firm claims in a lawsuit filed Monday.
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The Trump administration awarded billions of dollars in contracts for private companies to operate immigration detention centers in California – less than two weeks before a new state law takes effect to prohibit them.
Read moreA federal judge skewered the Trump administration Thursday in advancing a lawsuit over the 1,700% increase in civil arrests that New York courthouses have seen as the government flouts a centuries-old tradtition of common-law privilege.
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 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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After being forcibly separated at the border by government officials, sexually abused in U.S. foster care and deported, a once bright and beaming 3-year-old girl arrived back in Honduras withdrawn, anxious and angry, convinced her father abandoned her.
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Clergy and immigration activists in Minnesota are trying to remove the name of a revered bishop from a federal building where hundreds of deportation orders are issued every year, calling the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown an affront to his memory.
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U.S. immigration authorities are testing a program to speed up reviews of asylum claims at a Texas Border Patrol station, offering a glimpse of how the Trump administration may enforce its de facto ban on political asylum.
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