A federal appeals court rebuffed the Trump administration’s attempt to reinstate a policy preventing members of Congress from conducting surprise oversight visits at immigration detention facilities.
An entry‑level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid $162,000 a year to qualify for an H‑1B visa under a Trump administration proposal — almost 30% more than today. In Dallas, the minimum would jump by a similar rate to $113,000 and in New York to $132,000.
US charges that three M&A lawyers exploited client secrets for financial gain raise questions as to how they got hired at seven different Big Law firms over the course of their alleged crime spree.
A veteran Washington federal judge condemned verbal attacks on the judiciary by members of Congress and executive branch leaders, warning the rhetoric undermines the courts’ independence.
A nonprofit suing on behalf of immigrant detainees failed to convince a district court on Thursday to issue an injunction at a California US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center after the court found it lacked organizational standing to challenge the facility’s conditions.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) confirmed reports Thursday that the potential closure of the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility has been discussed, but he says federal officials “haven’t said they want to wind it down.”
The Trump administration violated a court order barring federal immigration agents from making arrests in the nation’s capital without warrants, a Washington federal judge held.
A judge granted the Justice Department’s request to dismiss felony conspiracy charges against four people charged in connection with a Chicago-area ICE protest, as defense attorneys renewed calls for a judge to examine unredacted grand jury transcripts in the case.
Two Minnesota school districts and an education workers’ union aren’t entitled to a preliminary injunction against a federal policy allowing federal agents to conduct immigration enforcement on school grounds, a federal district court said.
One or more states have teamed up to sue the federal government nearly 100 times since January 2025. That pace, if it continues, is likely to smash the record set during Trump’s first term, according to one political scientist tracking the cases.
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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