A Trump plan to shake up the annual H-1B visa lottery would undermine the administration’s goal of favoring the most economically valuable foreign workers to the US, industry groups caution.

President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests against his immigration crackdown was permanently blocked by a US judge, handing him a major loss in his bid to send troops to Democratic-led cities.

A Chicago federal magistrate judge will visit a suburban Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility accused of cultivating a filthy, inhumane environment for detainees.

GEO Group Inc., one of the largest private prison operators, said President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown eventually will fill up detention facilities and force the government to use more electronic systems to track non-citizens it wants to deport.

Cornell University said it reached an agreement with the White House to restore about $250 million in federal funding, becoming the latest elite school to negotiate relief in response to the Trump administration’s campaign to remake higher education.

A major transit union sued the Department of Labor Thursday asking a federal court to ban the Trump administration from providing grants to California transit agencies, arguing that state pension-reform law has illegally reduced public-transit workers’ bargaining rights.