The Republican-controlled House of Reprensentatives on Wednesday approved a resolution expressing support for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a day after shelving a Democratic proposal to abolish the agency.
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 moreA federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to streamline its process of reuniting parents and children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, the same day federal officials said they would comply with a court order to release families – albeit with GPS ankle monitors.
Read moreA federal judge in California on Friday ordered the federal government to give the American Civil Liberties Union a list of the 101 children under the age of five in immigration custody as part of his order last week requiring reunification of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read moreAn immigration protester who scaled the base of the Statue of Liberty on Independence Day pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that could carry federal prison time.
Read moreA federal judge in Washington, D.C. on Monday ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to end a policy of open-ended detention for asylum seekers as they cases make their way through the U.S. legal system.
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Stephanie Teatro recalls the April day when federal helicopters circled over a meatpacking plant in Grainger County, Tennessee and Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted its biggest workplace raid in years.
Read moreSpecial agents in charge of most field offices run by Homeland Security Investigations now support eliminating Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday sentenced the former chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing the identities of immigrants and using the information for his personal gain.
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 moreA federal judge found late Wednesday the government’s practice of separating immigrant parents and their minor children who come to the U.S. seeking asylum potentially violates the families’ due process rights.
Read moreThe ACLU brought a federal complaint to obtain records on government contracts with private companies for license plate reader databases for immigration enforcement.
Read moreOne day after President Donald Trump railed against California’s immigration policies and called some of its undocumented residents “animals,” Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a measure meant to keep immigration agents out of California’s courtrooms.
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 moreSACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – Approving a measure meant to keep federal immigration agents out of California’s courtrooms, the Legislature on
Read moreA federal judge Friday heard arguments for what he called a “very significant and interesting issue”: whether the government should be barred from separating asylum-seeking families in immigrant detention facilities.
Read moreU.S. immigration officials on Wednesday returned nearly 4,000 looted antiquities to Iraq after they were purchased by arts and craft giant Hobby Lobby in an attempt to collect biblical artifacts.
Read moreMore than half of California voters support the state’s sanctuary law that limits local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration agents, but the issue is highly divisive across the state, according to a study released Friday.
Read moreThe federal government argued Wednesday before the Sixth Circuit for the enforcement of deportation orders for over 100 Iraqi nationals who were released from detention facilities earlier this year.
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