The Department of Homeland Security shut down early Saturday amid a congressional funding impasse that shows no sign of ending soon, touched off by backlash over the Trump administration’s widespread and aggressive immigration enforcement raids.
A federal judge pressed a US Department of Justice lawyer to explain how or whether the Trump administration would continue its widespread mandatory detention of noncitizens if she formally vacates the Board of Immigration Appeals decision that she has already declared “no longer good law.”
The Trump administration spent more than $35 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries they had no connection to, doling out millions of dollars in lump-sum transfers to foreign governments without a system to track how the money was used, according to a report released Friday.
The Trump administration is moving ahead with a $38.3 billion plan to remake the US
The Homeland Security Department and the IRS must provide an exact accounting of which taxpayers’ information was recently disclosed and whether it led to improper detentions or deportations, a letter from Senate Democrats said.
The initial generation of “regional centers” that allow foreign investors to receive permanent resident status by investing capital into businesses must pay fees to monitor and report fraud, the DC Circuit said.
A federal judge Friday ordered new restrictions on immigration enforcement efforts around some churches that sued the Trump administration for rescinding prior guidance for raids around sensitive areas like churches and schools.
A new Republican-backed Ohio law aimed at preventing rare instances of illegal noncitizen voting violates federal law because eligible voters will “inevitably” suffer, two groups said Friday in a lawsuit.
The Trump administration has two weeks to return from Honduras a Babson College freshman who it admitted to have mistakenly deported in violation of a court order, a Boston federal judge said Friday.
A federal judge in Boston is postponing the termination of deportation protections for about 300 immigrants from South Sudan.
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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