One 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.
Read moreA decorated former U.S. Army paratrooper whose work on behalf of deported veterans drew widespread attention to his cause became a U.S. citizen Friday, giving immigration advocates a rare reason to celebrate.
Read moreA political watchdog says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement failed to respond to a records request on its relationship with GEO Group, a private prison company that donated $225,000 to a Donald Trump super PAC.
Read moreRecasting a Guatemalan woman’s habeas case as a federal class action, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts accused immigration officials Wednesday of targeting the spouses of U.S. citizens.
Read moreA prominent law enforcement lobbying group which represents all of California’s elected county sheriffs is putting its weight behind the Trump administration’s assault on the state’s sanctuary laws.
Read moreImmigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested 97 immigrants late Thursday at a factory in a rural Tennessee county in what is said to be the largest workplace raid in a decade.
Read morePushing a federal judge to step in, attorneys in Massachusetts say their client has never been convicted of a crime but could be deported because immigration officials refuse to let him attend his own court hearings.
Read moreA three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Texas law banning sanctuary cities can go into effect while the legal fight over the constitutionality of the measure continues in federal court.
Read moreImmigration agents arrested a native-born Latina citizen of the United States though she showed ID proving her citizenship and she was not suspected of committing a crime, then drove her 55 miles across a state line and after jailing her for hours put her on the street at night with no money and no way to get home, she claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement filed an appeal with the Sixth Circuit challenging a federal judge’s order releasing more than 100 Iraqi nationals who had been languishing in immigration-detention facilities for months.
Read moreA top immigration official said Wednesday that about 800 people living illegally in Northern California were able to avoid arrest because of a weekend warning that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf put on Twitter.
Read moreThe ACLU is accusing a Colorado sheriff of breaking state law by wrongfully detaining released persons for ICE.
Read moreEchoing a similar case brought in California last year, a class action filed in Texas accuses private prison company CoreCivic of making immigration detainees work in forced labor camps under the threat of isolation and retaliation.
Read moreThe former chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing immigrants’ identities and using them to open fraudulent credit card and bank accounts.
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