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March 19, 2026
The state of California on Thursday threw its support behind a group of immigrants held at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement camp in the Mojave Desert who accuse the Trump administration of subjecting them to "dangerous conditions and pervasive abuses."
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March 19, 2026
New Jersey wage and hour protections require employers to pay employees regardless of their immigration status, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, finding that state law doesn't clash with federal immigration law prohibiting the employment of immigrants living in the country without legal permission.
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March 19, 2026
An Ecuadoran woman can't reopen U.S. immigration proceedings through an ineffective-counsel claim when the person she hired to help her is not an attorney and did not hold himself out as one, the Board of Immigration Appeals has decided.
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March 19, 2026
Sen. Markwayne Mullin's nomination to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was sent to the full Senate on Thursday.
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March 18, 2026
A D.C. federal judge largely allowed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's practice of fast-tracking deportations and arresting immigrants at immigration courthouses to proceed, tossing only individual immigrants' claims objecting to alleged government policies allowing oral motions to dismiss removal proceedings.
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March 18, 2026
A D.C. federal judge raised doubts Wednesday about the Trump administration's reliance on a form to dismiss an Afghan citizen's challenge to Biden-era asylum restrictions, saying another form showing the policy reason for his removal might present a factual conflict.
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March 18, 2026
The Georgia Supreme Court has reinstated a murder defendant's bid for a new trial on grounds that a juror in his first trial was not a U.S. citizen and was ineligible to serve, holding that he was not required to object at trial to the juror's citizenship in order to preserve the claim for appeal.
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March 18, 2026
The Trump administration has asked a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss New York and New Jersey's attempt to force the federal government to continue funneling payments for the ongoing $16 billion rehabilitation of aging commuter train tunnels under the Hudson River.
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March 18, 2026
Democratic lawmakers urged a U.S. Department of Homeland Security watchdog on Wednesday to investigate outgoing secretary Kristi Noem's "shadow chief of staff," whom they accuse of wielding undue influence over DHS contracting decisions.
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March 18, 2026
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., the nominee to replace Kristi Noem as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, faced a scathing rebuke on Wednesday from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who was chairing the confirmation hearing.
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March 18, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement can't duck a lawsuit that New Jersey detainees at a Pennsylvania detention center had filed over their lack of virtual access to state court proceedings, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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March 18, 2026
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has brought on seven lawyers at its Colorado Springs office from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner to enhance its sports law, intellectual property, employment and litigation practices.
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March 17, 2026
The D.C. Circuit was pressed to revive a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of neglecting to consider the environmental effect of reversing the first Trump administration's border policies, even though President Donald Trump has reinstated many of those policies.
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March 17, 2026
The First Circuit has granted the Trump administration a stay pending appeal of a Massachusetts federal court ruling that a class of noncitizens facing removal to countries to which they have no ties must receive meaningful notice and an opportunity to raise fears about being deported to those countries.
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March 17, 2026
A Fourth Circuit panel wrestled Tuesday with whether a federal court had authority to hear a Georgetown scholar's claim that he was detained for protected speech, with one judge insisting that federal immigration law forces challenges to immigration detention through the petition-for-review process.
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March 17, 2026
Medical organizations and a bipartisan group of lawmakers are backing federal legislation introduced Tuesday that would exempt physicians and other healthcare workers from the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on H-1B visas.
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March 17, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's request to the U.S. Supreme Court to mull whether the department can fine a New Jersey farm for what it alleged were H-2A program violations is based on a misconception, the farm told the justices, urging them to deny the petition.
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March 17, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled a California federal judge properly enhanced a man's sentence for a second illegal reentry conviction based on a prior conviction for making false statements to officers who arrested him for entering the U.S. without authorization.
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March 16, 2026
The First Circuit on Monday mostly upheld a lower court's order blocking the Trump administration from enacting a "sweeping and unprecedented categorical 'freeze' of federal financial assistance," ruling that the states involved in the suit will likely successfully show that the federal government acted arbitrarily and capriciously.
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March 16, 2026
A D.C. circuit judge didn't appear to be buying the Trump administration's argument as to why advocacy groups should not be allowed to challenge three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement policies related to the deportation and expedited removal of noncitizens.
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March 16, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge has certified a class of EB-5 immigrant investors who claim TD Bank improperly released nearly $50 million of their funds from escrow, which allegedly caused the money to go missing and scuttled their efforts to seek visas.
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March 16, 2026
Just three noncitizens were being detained at Guantánamo Bay facilities earlier this month, the Trump administration told a federal judge, but the American Civil Liberties Union disputed its assertions about how long people have been held there and their ability to correspond with attorneys.
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March 16, 2026
The Trump administration on Monday asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a pair of lawsuits challenging a change to eligibility requirements for student loan forgiveness, calling the potential repercussions from the new rule "speculative."
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March 16, 2026
A Massachusetts federal court issued an order Monday shielding the names of three Venezuelan asylum seekers in a proposed class action alleging Florida officials lured them onto flights to Martha's Vineyard, finding good cause exists to protect them from public scrutiny.
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March 16, 2026
A special master ordered an Iraqi citizen released from immigration detention after his early March deportation to Iraq was canceled because of the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran, saying the man can't be held indefinitely under the terms of a class settlement that immigration authorities have repeatedly crossed.