The justices heard arguments on whether immigrants with “temporary protected status” who entered the country illegally may apply for lawful permanent residency. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed ready on Monday to rule that immigrants allowed to stay in the…
WASHINGTON – Jose Sanchez and Sonia Gonzalez have lived in the United States legally for two decades under a program that lets immigrants from nations enduring natural disasters and armed conflict temporarily avoid returning to their native countries. But when…
Among the unreleased documents is the agenda from a May 2018 meeting that included a show of hands vote by Trump officials on whether to separate families. WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has refused to disclose key documents from the…
The sweeping proposal includes automatic voter registration, which could unintentionally include immigrants, some advocates warn. WASHINGTON — Some immigration lawyers and progressives warn that a provision in Democrats’ sweeping voting-rights legislation risks inadvertently harming immigrants if it becomes law. Their…
The Republican attorneys general of Texas and Louisiana are suing the Biden administration over a policy change in which federal immigration officials no longer seek custody and deportation of a majority of foreign nationals who are finishing jail sentences for…
The lawyers believe that the parents of 302 children who have not yet been reached were deported to Central America. WASHINGTON — Lawyers tasked with reuniting migrant families separated during the Trump administration said in a federal court filing late…
U.S. immigration courts, already swamped with a backlog of 1.3 million cases, are ill-prepared to handle a crush of new asylum claims filed by a rising number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, especially children traveling alone, current and former…
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge did not immediately rule Tuesday on a closely watched case over the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which confers limited protections on hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the…
The Florida attorney general recently filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration. Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, arguing that interim guidance on immigration enforcement prevents the arrest and deportation of criminals illegally in…
The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court that it was dropping its defense of the Trump-era expansion of the “public charge” rule. The Biden administration notified the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it will no longer defend a government…
