immigration courts

A group of immigrants is asking the US Supreme Court to leave in place a lower-court ruling that prevents the Trump administration from deporting them to third-party countries. The filing asks the justices not to disturb protections that currently keep them from being removed to nations other than their home countries while the case continues.

Across the United States, people have been showing up in immigration courtrooms to accompany immigrants and deter ICE from detaining people at hearings. Among them is Sister Rose Patrice, a Catholic nun, whose presence supporters say can influence outcomes, since faith leaders standing beside defendants has been shown to affect how cases proceed. The practice has spread as a form of peaceful accompaniment.

A judge has ordered the Canadian government to release sealed records concerning Nazi war criminals who settled in Canada after the Second World War. The documents are expected to shed light on how suspected war criminals entered the country and what authorities knew about their backgrounds, reviving long-running calls in Canada for full disclosure of its wartime immigration files.

A federal judge has blocked a Trump-era immigration rule that restricted eligibility for federally funded programs. The ruling stops the rule from being enforced while legal challenges proceed. Critics of the rule had argued it unfairly limited access to services for immigrant families, while supporters said it protected public resources. The decision is part of a broader wave of litigation over immigration policies introduced during the Trump administration.

A federal judge, Trump appointee Stephanie Gallagher, has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. The judge is ordering the government to return him. The ruling, reported by Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney, is drawing attention as part of the broader legal fight over the administration's immigration enforcement and compliance with court rulings.

Donald Trump reacted with frustration after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship, saying 'too bad' about the decision, and is now pushing legislation in Congress to end the practice. The comments renew a long-running fight over the 14th Amendment, which critics say guarantees citizenship to anyone born on US soil, and set up a fresh legislative battle over immigration policy.

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for states to use the federal SAVE database to verify the citizenship status of registered voters. The decision permits election officials to cross-check voter rolls against immigration records, a move backers say protects election integrity and critics warn could lead to eligible voters being wrongfully purged. The ruling is drawing sharp reactions from voting rights groups and election officials across the country.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling on the DC Circuit to vacate a federal drone flight restriction that effectively criminalized aerial recording of immigration enforcement agents. The group argues the restriction blocks First Amendment-protected documentation of federal operations. The case is drawing attention amid heightened public scrutiny of immigration enforcement tactics across the United States.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Trump administration officials may use a federal immigration database to cross-check voter registration records. The decision allows states and federal officials to verify voter eligibility using immigration status data, a move supporters call a safeguard against noncitizen voting and critics warn could wrongly purge eligible voters. The ruling is expected to intensify ongoing legal and political battles over election integrity and voting access ahead of upcoming elections.

A Cuban man has spent a year in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Texas, and his case is now being used to test the reach of a Supreme Court ruling on detention authority. The report examines how federal immigration authorities have held him long-term despite legal questions about the limits of that power. His situation highlights the ongoing tension between immigration enforcement practices and constitutional limits on prolonged detention.

Immigrants' rights advocates, including the Asian Law Caucus, have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new executive order from President Trump on birthright citizenship. The suit argues the order is unlawful and targets efforts to end automatic citizenship for children born in the United States. Legal battles over the order are expected to move quickly through the courts.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Department of Homeland Security to proceed with an overhaul of its immigration database ahead of the midterm elections, over the dissents of the Court's liberal justices. The decision lifts a block on the DHS plan, which critics warn could affect immigration records used in voter-related checks, while supporters argue it is a routine modernization effort.

The Supreme Court has reinstated a federal immigration database, a decision arriving just ahead of the November election. Attention is now turning to whether Arizona officials will deploy the database, a state long at the center of immigration enforcement battles. Observers are weighing how the ruling could affect state-level checks and enforcement practices, and what role immigration policy will play in campaign debates heading into the vote.

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has apologized to Justice Brett Kavanaugh after publicly criticizing his opinion in an immigration case. The episode is notable for the court, whose justices traditionally avoid openly disputing each other's reasoning in public, and comes amid heightened political attention to the judiciary's handling of immigration rulings.

A judge has ruled that immigrants in Wisconsin can continue accessing community clinics, Head Start programs and adult education services. Multiple Wisconsin news outlets are reporting the decision, which blocks efforts to bar immigrants from these publicly funded services. The ruling affects families relying on early childhood education and health clinics across the state.

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction barring ICE from detaining immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza in New York, finding the practice unconstitutional. The ruling ends a contested detention operation at the Manhattan federal building and marks a significant legal setback for the agency's expanded immigration enforcement in the city.

A member of Congress was denied access to a new, secretive immigration courtroom in Manhattan, according to a report from TheDailyNewsOnline.com. The refusal to allow congressional oversight of an immigration facility is expected to fuel criticism about transparency in immigration court proceedings and how migrants' cases are being handled in New York City. Details about who blocked the visit and why have not yet been made public.

The US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland, without giving them a chance to raise human rights concerns first. The court said it will hear full arguments in the case later this year. The decision is drawing criticism from rights advocates who say it exposes migrants to danger, while the administration sees it as a win for its immigration enforcement agenda.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to proceed with its 'third country' deportation policy, which sends removed immigrants to countries other than their own. The decision hands the administration a major victory on immigration enforcement, though deportees may face unsafe conditions in the countries receiving them. The ruling is expected to prompt further legal challenges and renewed debate over the limits of presidential authority on removals.

The US Supreme Court is considering a case over the government's power to remove migrants to third countries — nations that are not their country of origin. The dispute centres on whether people facing removal to a third country must first be given a chance to raise claims of torture or persecution there. Lower courts had imposed due-process protections before removals, and the government has sought to lift those limits. Commentators are debating how the ruling could reshape deportation policy.

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting migrants to third countries — nations that are not their country of origin. The decision, reported by NBC News, represents a significant win for the administration's hardline immigration agenda. Critics say the policy could send people to countries where they face danger, and the ruling is expected to draw further legal challenges.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration may continue deporting migrants to third countries while the justices weigh the legality of the policy. The decision lifts, at least temporarily, lower-court restrictions on rapid removals to nations that are not the migrants' home countries. Supporters call it a win for executive authority on immigration; critics warn people are being sent to places where they face danger.

The US Supreme Court is hearing arguments over the Trump administration's policy of deporting immigrants to countries other than their own, so-called third-party countries. The case tests how far the government can go in removing people to nations where they have no ties, and its outcome could reshape US deportation practices for non-citizens with pending claims.

The US supreme court has allowed the Trump administration to resume deportating migrants to third countries, with the conservative majority temporarily lifting a lower-court decision that had blocked the practice. The liberal justices dissented from the ruling. The decision reopens a contentious element of the administration's immigration enforcement agenda while legal challenges continue.