US Department of Homeland Security agents are barred from firing chemical or other munitions at protesters and press at a federal immigration facility in Portland, Ore., unless they pose an imminent threat of physical harm.
Religious groups of various denominations can move forward with their challenge to a Department of Homeland Security policy that leaves immigration enforcement actions around places of worship up to the discretion of individual officers, a federal judge said.
The Department of Homeland Security will immediately pull 700 officers from Minneapolis amid efforts to ease tensions after federal agents killed two US citizens, White House border czar
Top immigration court leaders are telling new judges to refrain from granting migrants asylum in most cases, multiple people familiar with the matter said as the Trump administration carries out its detention and deportation agenda.
A US government attorney expressed unusual frustration in a courtroom proceeding about the difficulty in ensuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement complies with rulings ordering the release of migrants detained in the Trump administration’s Minnesota enforcement operation.
The Trump administration told the Seventh Circuit that the government is entitled to keep certain immigrants behind bars without a chance at bond, in the second of two arguments before appeals courts involving that issue Tuesday.
The moratorium on mass layoffs of federal workers will continue into mid-February after Congress passed a stop-gap measure funding the Department of Homeland Security, the office of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) confirmed.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday juggled options for how to resolve an injunction, since blocked by the US Supreme Court, that required the Trump administration give advance notice before sending noncitizens to so-called third countries.
A Trump administration attorney told the Fifth Circuit that its novel interpretation of immigration detention—a stance that runs counter to three decades of practice—is in fact the only straightforward way to read the statute.
The history of the H-1B visa from its origins in 1952, when Harry S. Truman was president, to the major developments since Trump’s “Buy American and Hire American” executive order.
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