Recent Updates
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Supreme Court agrees to hear immigration law detention case
Immigration Law 03/18/2018The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal immigration law gives the government the power to indefinitely detain any noncitizen it is considering deporting if the person previously committed certain crimes.The Supreme Court agreed Monday ...
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Supreme Court declines to take up 'Dreamers' case for now
Immigration Law 02/26/2018The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's highly unusual bid to bypass a federals appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation....
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Myanmar court extends detention for 2 Reuters reporters
Immigration Law 12/26/2017A court in Myanmar extended the detention of two Reuters journalists on Wednesday and set their trial for Jan. 10 on charges of violating state secrets.Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested Dec. 12 for acquiring "important secret papers" from two pol...
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Travel ban is headed back to a federal appeals court in Virginia
Immigration Law 12/14/2017Thirteen judges on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will be asked to decide if the ban violates the constitution by discriminating against Muslims, as opponents say, or is necessary to protect national security, as the Trump administration says....
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Court gives government a win in young immigrants' cases
Immigration Law 10/26/2017A federal appeals court handed the U.S. government a victory Tuesday in its fight against lawsuits opposing a decision to end a program protecting some young immigrants from deportation.The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan directed Broo...
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Court: Detained immigrant children entitled to court hearing
Immigration Law 07/13/2017Immigrant children who cross the border without their parents have the right to a court hearing to challenge any decision to detain them instead of turning them over to family in the U.S., a federal appeals court said Wednesday.The 9th U.S. Circuit C...
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High court could soon signal view on Trump immigration plans
Immigration Law 05/23/2017Supreme Court decisions in a half-dozen cases dealing with immigration over the next two months could reveal how the justices might evaluate Trump administration actions on immigration, especially stepped-up deportations. Some of those cases could be...
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Volunteers accompany US immigrants to court to allay fears
Immigration Law 04/23/2017When Salvadoran immigrant Joselin Marroquin-Torres became flustered in front of a federal immigration judge in New York and forgot to give her asylum application, a woman she had just met stood up to provide it. "Thank you," the judge said. "What is ...
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Immigration courts: record number of cases, many problems
Immigration Law 03/23/2017Everyone was in place for the hearing in Atlanta immigration court: the Guinean man hoping to stay in the U.S., his attorney, a prosecutor, a translator and the judge. But because of some missing paperwork, it was all for nothing. When the government...
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Court: Sheriff exempt from releasing immigration records
Immigration Law 02/23/2017Milwaukee's sheriff does not have to release information on people at his jail suspected of being in the country illegally because the federal government prohibits it, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday. The 4-2 decision from the court's conser...
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Immigration courts to focus on detainees, not kids' cases
Immigration Law 02/13/2017U.S. immigration courts are making a change to focus on deportation hearings for immigrants jailed by the federal government, giving less urgency to cases of children and families who were stopped on the U.S.-Mexico border and released. Chief Immigra...
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Brother of San Bernardino shooter guilty in immigration case
Immigration Law 02/09/2017The brother of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack pleaded guilty Tuesday in an immigration fraud case stemming from the probe into the killings. Syed Raheel Farook entered the plea in federal court in Riverside to one count of co...