Immigration
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Latest News in Immigration
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February 15, 2019
Trump Steps Into Legal Minefield With Wall Declaration
When President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in order to build a wall on the Mexican border Friday he thrust his White House into legal and political fights over the limits of presidential power, experts said, setting up clashes with Congress, advocacy groups and landowners.
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February 15, 2019
Butterfly Center's Border Wall Suit Doesn't Fly, Judge Says
The Trump administration beat a border wall lawsuit on Thursday when a federal judge tossed claims that work done by the government near the Rio Grande violated the constitutional rights of a nonprofit that runs a butterfly sanctuary along the river.
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February 15, 2019
Exec Used EB-5 Cash For BMW, Loans, Wash. Court Holds
The head of a development company was “‘consciously’ reckless” when he diverted money raised from investors through the EB-5 visa program so he could make payments on his BMW and issue loans to relatives, misappropriating at least $6.5 million, a Washington federal judge held on Friday.
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February 15, 2019
ACLU Sues For Info On Border Wall Contract Cited In Tweet
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts on Friday sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for records about a purported contract to build part of President Donald Trump's desired border wall in Texas, saying the agency has so far refused to turn over information the president alluded to in a tweet.
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February 15, 2019
Dad's Naturalization Doesn't Make Son A Citizen: 3rd Circ.
A French native did not obtain a derivative naturalization after his father became a naturalized U.S. citizen during the late 1990s, as his parents were separated at the time but had never legally married, the Third Circuit held Thursday in a published opinion.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- U.S. Department of Justice, Board of Immigration Appeals
- U.S. Department of Labor, Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals
- U.S. Department of State
- State immigration regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act
- Immigration and Nationality Act
- Immigration Reform and Control Act
- Civil Rights Act
- Asylum and refugee regulations
- Executive actions on immigration
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Employment-related immigration rules
- State immigration legislation and regulation
- Immigration lobbying
- ENFORCEMENT
- Immigration probes and enforcement actions
- Detainment and deportation orders
- Human trafficking investigations
- LITIGATION
- Challenges to immigration policy and enforcement actions
- National origin and citizenship discrimination complaints
- Worker visa disputes
- Citizenship litigation
- Civil rights and detainment suits
- Employment suits involving immigrant workers, including wage-and-hour, discrimination and harassment, and worker safety actions
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of immigration practices
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- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
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