3 h. ago Judge blocks Trump plan to tie states’ transportation funds to immigration enforcement

States argued US transportation secretary lacks authority to impose conditions on funding appropriated by CongressA federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump’s administration from forcing 20 Democratic-led states to cooperate with immigration enforcement in order to receive billions of dollars in transportation grant funding.Chief US District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, granted the states’ request for an injunction barring the Department of Transportation’s policy, saying the states were likely to succeed on the merits of some or all of their claims. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Florida attorney general in contempt for defying judge’s order in immigration case

James Uthmeier was documented sending public messages about not following a federal judge’s temporary ban on the state’s new anti-illegal immigrant laws

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56 h. ago Florida can't enforce a new immigration law while court challenge continues, judges rule

Authorities can’t enforce a new Florida law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter the state while the law is being challenged in court

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6 d. ago Judge blocks plan to allow immigration agents in New York City jail

A judge has blocked New York City’s mayor from letting federal immigration authorities reopen an office at the city’s main jail

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8 d. ago Immigration officers intensify arrests in courthouse hallways on a fast track to deportation

Large-scale arrests outside immigration courts have unleashed fear among asylum-seekers and immigrants who are accustomed to remaining free while judges grind through a backlog of 3.6 million cases

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8 d. ago Trump tells administrative judges to speed up dismissing arrest cases so they can deport faster

Justice Department memo instructs justices to move quicker but ICE lacks capacity to hold more detainees

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1 week ago Hearing held for judge accused of allowing immigrant to escape ICE custody

A hearing has begun for a Massachusetts judge facing civil charges over allegations that she allowed an immigrant in her court to evade an immigration enforcement agent

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2 w. ago Teen arrested on his way to volleyball practice to face immigration judge

A Massachusetts high school student arrested on his way to volleyball practice is scheduled to appear before an immigration judge

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2 w. ago Judge blocks private prison operator from housing ICE detainees at shuttered Kansas center

A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials

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3 w. ago Judge considers whether Florida's attorney general should be held in contempt over immigration law

A federal judge was considering whether Florida’s attorney general disobeyed her temporary order prohibiting the enforcement of a new state law making it a misdemeanor for people in the U.S. illegally to enter Florida

Society

3 w. ago US judge orders Trump administration to return wrongly deported gay man

Judge says Guatemalan’s removal to Mexico, despite fears of being harmed there, ‘lacked any semblance of due process’A federal judge ordered the Trump administration late Friday night to facilitate the return of a Guatemalan man it deported to Mexico, in spite of his fears of being harmed there, and who has since been returned to Guatemala.The man, who is gay, had applied for asylum in the US last year after he was attacked twice in homophobic acts of violence in Guatemala. He was protected from being returned to his home country under a US immigration judge’s order at the time, but the Trump administration put him on a bus and sent him to Mexico instead. Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago Federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students' legal status

A judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court case challenging previous terminations plays out

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