/immigration?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Immigration Copyright 2025 ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ. en-US Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:30:14 +0000 /immigration/articles/2354744?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2354744 It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:23:26 +0000 /immigration/articles/2358260?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2358260 The U.S. Supreme Court clarified Thursday that its recent order allowing the Trump administration to send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to with little notice or chance to object extends to a group of men the government plans to send to South Sudan. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:12:44 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360694?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360694 The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:50:15 +0000 /immigration/articles/2361007?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2361007 The House voted 218-214, almost along party lines, on Thursday on the reconciliation budget package, which includes a range of policy provisions on nationwide injunctions, spectrum and immigration and now goes to President Donald Trump's desk ahead of the decided Fourth of July deadline. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:06:51 +0000 /immigration/articles/2361116?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2361116 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to revive a policy proposal from the first Trump administration to implement facial recognition technology as part of a comprehensive biometric system to track the entry and exit of noncitizens. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:02:36 +0000 /immigration/articles/2332681?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2332681 Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:52:08 +0000 /immigration/articles/2361066?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2361066 A Massachusetts federal judge will begin hearing testimony Monday in a challenge by academic organizations to the Trump administration's visa revocations and removals of noncitizen faculty and students who have expressed pro-Palestinian views, in one of the first trials over the president's second-term policies. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:25:40 +0000 /immigration/articles/2361093?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2361093 The federal government is distancing itself from the new migrant detention center in the Everglades, saying in a court filing Thursday that it has not "implemented, authorized, directed or funded" the "Alligator Alcatraz" camp. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:34:12 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360667 Massachusetts courts should be busy through the second half of 2025, with litigation against the Trump administration playing a starring role at both the state and federal level. Here are some of the key cases and issues that attorneys are monitoring. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:16:29 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360386?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360386 The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:09:59 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360220?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360220 The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:46:44 +0000 /immigration/articles/2361036?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2361036 A New York federal judge on Thursday agreed to halt the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit against the city of Rochester over its sanctuary city policies until the court rules on a request by religious groups to intervene in the case.  Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:30:17 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360728?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360728 Immigration rights groups and individuals who were arrested or stopped during recent federal immigration operations in Los Angeles filed a putative class action on Wednesday, accusing the federal government of targeting brown-skinned people and day laborers without warrants and keeping detainees in "dungeon-like" facilities. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:13:38 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360691?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360691 A collective of 20 states said Wednesday that only Congress can change the terms of federal grants, telling a Rhode Island federal judge that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's softening of its stance on withholding funds to states that don't cooperate with immigration enforcement cannot moot their suit against the government. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:07:47 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360663?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360663 A D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump lacks the authority to sharply curtail entry at the southern border under on the basis of a purported migrant invasion, saying the president can't override the federal statutory immigration scheme. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 20:04:57 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360580?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360580 A coalition of labor unions has told the First Circuit that the abrupt termination of Biden-era humanitarian parole programs is generating "chaos in American workplaces," as workers lose their work authorization and employers are left in the lurch. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:07:42 +0000 /immigration/articles/2359493?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2359493 Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:46:48 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360406?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360406 A Canadian national who gained permanent-resident status in the United States can be deported for costing the Department of Veterans Affairs $3 million by making false claims to get his scuba school into a GI Bill-funded program, the Third Circuit held in a precedential ruling Tuesday. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:44:12 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360462?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360462 A Texas federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Immigration and Nationality Act prevents the court from reviewing a petition filed by the family of an Egyptian man accused of attacking pro-Israel demonstrators that seeks their release from immigration detention. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:40:54 +0000 /immigration/articles/2360583?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /immigration/articles/2360583 Two Republican U.S. House members have asked the First Circuit to investigate a Rhode Island federal judge who blocked a Trump administration spending freeze, claiming the judge's link to a funding recipient constitutes a conflict of interest, one of those congressmen's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.