Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hit the Trump administration with a federal complaint Wednesday over a rule that says foreign students must take classes in person to stay in the country.
Read moreThe University of California, Irvine sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal court for information on its $90 million Palantir surveillance, data mining and analysis systems.
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International students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall, under new guidelines issued Monday by federal immigration authorities.
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The Trump administration violated federal law by shipping off teenage immigrants to ICE prisons on their 18th birthday without going through the mandatory channels to find safer alternatives, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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After a federal judge ruled last week that the Trump administration must release some immigrant children from detention centers because of coronavirus risks, House Democrats are now urging the administration to swiftly release all detained children and their parents together.
Read moreIn response to worsening health conditions inside ICE facilities resulting from Covid-19, a California judge has ordered the agency to release immigrant children who have been held for more than 20 days.
Read moreA federal court in Washington granted a preliminary injunction to the Southern Poverty Law Center, ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities to provide detainees telephone access so they can communicate with legal representatives, who are not able to visit in person because of Covid-19. The facilities must also ensure attorney-client confidentiality is maintained.
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Sowing chaos and intimidation throughout New York’s judicial system, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s policy of arresting people in state courthouses is illegal, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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A federal judge said Thursday that he would not order any more releases from two California immigration detention centers, but is considering disallowing Immigration & Customs Enforcement from admitting new detainees until he’s assured there is proper screening for coronavirus and isolation of the infected.
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A Mexican woman sued prison contractor CoreCivic on Wednesday, claiming a man in street clothes beat and raped her in its Houston detention center and she gave birth to his daughter after she was deported.
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A group of medically vulnerable immigrants who are being held in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility with the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the nation cannot be released despite their claims about the risks of contracting the virus, a federal judge in California ruled Tuesday.
Read moreMeasures taken to significantly reduce U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detainee population at a privately run immigration facility with the most severe Covid-19 outbreak in the country aren’t enough to guarantee future immigrants don’t get sick, the American Civil Liberties Union argued Friday.
Read moreJurors’ alleged misconduct during the trial of a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney was not so serious that it affected the verdict, the Ninth Circuit ruled. The attorney, Constantine Peter Kallas, was convicted of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from immigrants who were promised they would be allowed to remain in the United States.
Read moreAt least 12 people jailed in the GEO Group’s immigration prison in Conroe, Texas have Covid-19, and two prisoners sued the private prison company, the Department of Homeland Security, et al., in a federal habeas complaint
Read moreMost women detained at ICE’s Mesa Verde detention center in California were released Thursday amid concerns the government agency could not adequately protect them from Covid-19 in the facility.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday the first known coronavirus-related death at an ICE detention facility has occurred at a facility near San Diego run by for-profit contractor CoreCivic.
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A federal judge on Tuesday skewered Immigration and Customs Enforcement for failing to take simple actions to ensure the safety of detainees at two California detention centers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The city of San Antonio claims in a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security that government officials helped the Texas attorney general build his case against the city over a sanctuary ban but stonewalled requests for evidence and testimony.
Read moreA federal judge in Los Angeles ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thursday to reduce the amount of detainees held in its Adelanto processing facility in order to reduce exposure to the coronavirus.
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