The first trial challenging the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for certain groups of immigrants kicked off Monday, as lawyers for a group of Haitian plaintiffs argued their home country is not safe for their return.
Read moreThe Department of Homeland Security said Friday it will investigate the death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in federal custody last week after crossing the U.S. border into New Mexico.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration’s effort to toss most claims brought by parents of Central American migrant children who said the government unlawfully ended a refugee resettlement program without proper explanation.
Read moreA federal judge refused Friday to let the Trump administration grant political asylum “only to those who cross the southern border under conditions set by the president.”
Read moreLife is likely to get a lot more uncertain and rough for thousands of immigrants and asylum-seekers in Italy after the government this week passed a law that critics say will drive many foreigners underground. But the law also faces an uncertain legal future.
Read moreMany of the 5,800 troops President Donald Trump deployed to the Southwest border to fortify fencing to keep out large groups of Central American immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. are no longer needed and will start going home this week, an Army general said Monday.
Read moreHundreds of Tijuana residents congregated around a monument in an affluent section of the city south of California on Sunday to protest the thousands of Central American migrants who have arrived via caravan in hopes of a new life in the U.S.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that allegedly treats non-citizens in the military as “second-class recruits” and prevents them from starting basic training.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit judge suggested Thursday that the family of a 32-year-old woman shot dead on a San Francisco pier might get a second chance to hold the city liable for not helping immigration police deport her suspected killer.
Read moreA coalition of civil rights groups brought a complaint Thursday demanding information on how immigration authorities use the Boston Police Department’s gang database to target black and Latino residents.
Read moreOver two grueling days on the witness stand, the Census Bureau’s chief scientist testified that the addition of a citizenship question to the once-in-a-decade survey would be expensive, while also compromising data and response rates.
Read moreGreyhound lets U.S. Border Patrol agents conduct immigration raids of its mostly Latino customers aboard its buses after they are trapped inside, a woman claims in a class action lawsuit filed Thursday in Oakland.
Read moreDefending the city’s sanctuary status, an attorney for Philadelphia urged the Third Circuit on Wednesday to affirm that its position should not come at the cost of federal funding.
Read moreA federal judge in San Francisco said Tuesday she might order the Trump administration to reinstate a refugee program for children fleeing violence in Central America until the government complies with legal requirements for ending it.
Read moreThe Pentagon said it’s sending 5,200 troops to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation ordered up just a week before midterm elections in which President Donald Trump has put a sharp focus on Central American migrants moving north in slow-moving caravans that are still hundreds of miles from the U.S.
Read moreYoung immigrants who were abused, neglected or abandoned by their parents won the right to seek special immigrant juvenile status – and a pathway to legal residency – Wednesday, after a federal judge blocked a Trump administration policy making it difficult for people over age 18 to obtain the status.
Read moreJean Chen and her law office defrauded EB-5 immigrant investors of $12 million, the SEC claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreOhio is facing a federal class action claiming it discriminates against Dreamers and other minors by denying them driver’s licenses and identification cards because their parents are not legal U.S. citizens.
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