A judge on Massachusetts’ highest court denied a bid to block federal immigration agents from making arrests at state courthouses, though she expressed concern that the practice may be scaring off some witnesses and others needed in court.
Read moreThe official overseeing the federal response to Hurricane Florence is also reportedly the target of an ongoing investigation by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general over his alleged misuse of government vehicles for private use.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Friday in Indiana’s appeal seeking to vacate a settlement between the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the American Civil Liberties Union that prohibits cooperation with federal immigration authorities without a warrant.
Read moreA new state lawsuit filed this week claims a local freeholder board violated New Jersey’s Sunshine Law when it suddenly voted to renew a controversial contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which allows them to detain unauthorized immigrants at a nearby jail.
Read moreNearly a month after the court-ordered deadline for the federal government to reunited children separated from their parents after illegally entering the United States, two immigrants rights groups claim federal agents coerced parents to agree to deportation before getting their children back.
Read moreImmigration authorities coerced dozens of parents separated from their children at the border to sign documents they didn’t understand, according to a complaint expected to be filed Thursday.
Read moreTestifying as part of a three-day hearing on claims that Immigration and Customs Enforcement targets the spouses of U.S. citizens for deportation, the newly tapped director of ICE’s Boston field office faced grueling questions Tuesday from a federal judge.
Read moreStanding across the street from the Homeland Security field office where he was arrested, immigration activist Ravi Ragbir rallied roughly 100 supporters Tuesday after a Second Circuit hearing in his case.
Read moreAttorneys for the federal government revealed for the first time Thursday how it plans to reunite parents deported without their kids under President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, but its plan appears vague and puts the onus on the American Civil Liberties Union to reunite families.
Read moreAttorneys for young immigrants separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border claim in a new federal class action that the government is deporting the now-reunified families without fully processing the children’s asylum claims.
Read moreU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement shouldn’t have used employment records obtained in illegal raids as evidence in an investigation, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday.
Read moreThe Pew Research Center reported Tuesday that Americans are sharply divided along party lines when it comes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with Republicans supporting the agency just as strongly as Democrats oppose it.
Read moreA federal judge in Manhattan pressed a prosecutor Tuesday to explain why a New York pizza deliveryman from Ecuador married to a U.S. citizen is being detained and facing deportation.
Read moreThe 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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