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A State Department notice to Congress says the fiscal 2027 refugee slots will go 'primarily' to Afrikaners, at a projected cost of $500 million, while the program stays shut to most other refugees.
Austin's mayor said he was 'angry but not surprised.' A council member said the officer rammed the man's car and fired at least five times. ICE's own investigative arm will lead the inquiry, with the FBI assisting, and the Travis County district attorney has asked for the evidence.
Judge Seth Aframe wrote that the government's reading of the law 'would deny access to that protection to a substantial swath of noncitizens.' DHS general counsel James Percival said the policy stays in force because the ruling has not taken effect, and the case is expected to go back to the Supreme Court.
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV's 48-page order preserves the 'duration of status' system that has governed F-1 and J-1 visas for nearly 50 years. Eight higher-education groups and unions sued; the rule drew 22,000 public comments, most of them opposed.
Starting Friday, immigration officers can weigh food stamps, housing aid, WIC and college financial aid against green-card applicants. Mamdani says 3.1 million New Yorkers are foreign-born and the rule is 'intentionally vague.'
The proposed rule, published Friday with a 60-day comment window, would also strip the cushion from L-1, O-1, TN and E-visa holders and their families. About 730,000 H-1B workers and 550,000 dependents live in the U.S.
Hundreds of anti-migrant demonstrators in balaclavas shut down access to one of the world's busiest passenger ports on Saturday. Kent Police called the gathering spontaneous; the network that organized it posted a message congratulating supporters for sticking to the plan.
Six Cuban and Afghan nationals landed in Georgetown on Friday under a one-year arrangement run through a U.N. migration agency. Guyana pays nothing for their housing, and none of them are being resettled.
Homeland Security says the agency has now topped its own arrest record three consecutive months. An independent data project puts July's number several hundred lower than the government does.
A new Office of Legal Counsel opinion discards a 1998 reading of the welfare law and stretches the reporting duty far beyond the agencies that hand out the benefits.
Judge Deborah Boardman enjoined the August executive order that targeted 'alien enemies,' foreign government employees and birth tourism. The White House called her an activist.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Evans was pushed out after pursuing a constitutional-rights case against ICE officer Christian Castro. Castro was instead charged this week with making false statements.
Draft guidance would make a mother's I-94 or green card part of her newborn's passport file — the first concrete machinery behind Trump's Aug. 6 birthright citizenship order.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin closed out 'Operation Rotten Apple' with a New York City news conference aimed squarely at Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Judge Noel Wise ruled for The Stanford Daily, whose international staff said they were afraid to report on the war. It is the second federal court in a year to find the deportation policy unconstitutional.
The British commentator, a longtime advocate of aggressive deportation, was picked up near New Orleans. DHS says he entered legally in 2019 and overstayed.
WatchCall-in letters began arriving in Springfield on July 27, days after a federal court lifted the last hold on ending Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitians. Advocates say the GPS bracelets are being issued to people who entered the country legally.
A June Supreme Court decision stripped federal courts of the power to second-guess DHS on Temporary Protected Status. Judges in Boston and Chicago said, in effect, that there was nothing left for them to review.
WatchAn Associated Press investigation counted 52 cases in which immigration officers took the immediate family of a service member into custody — at green-card appointments, at check-ins, and once outside a Walmart in front of a 6-year-old.
CoreCivic's revenue jumped 27% and GEO Group's 15% as the number of people in U.S. immigration detention climbed toward 66,000 — with the administration targeting 100,000 beds.
An internal memo reported Thursday extends the administration's public-account screening requirement to foreign media representatives. The department declined to confirm it, citing a policy on 'purported internal documents.'
WatchOne order targets commercial "birth tourism." The other expands the list of babies the administration says the 14th Amendment never covered. The ACLU says both will die the same way the last one did.
Burke Law Group lists immigration among two dozen practice areas but has no staff specializing in it. The contract starts Aug. 15, two weeks after the previous provider's deal expired unrenewed.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo is the second person to die after being held at the Newark ICE facility and the 22nd to die in ICE custody this year. His family says he was never sent to a hospital in time.
WatchThe July total beat June's record of roughly 43,000, with about 1,500 people entering custody every day. Roughly 68,000 people are currently being held across the detention network.
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano was coughing up blood inside Georgia's Stewart Detention Center in early July. He was diagnosed on July 13, released from custody on July 16 and died on July 22.
The government contract that pays for legal representation of unaccompanied minors expired Friday. Providers say HHS is withholding $65 million and will only pay if they hand over confidential information about the children they represent.
Rep. Robert Garcia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal want to know how David Brouillette was hired and trained before the July 13 shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford.
U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton in Boston froze three USCIS policies that tied work authorization to a new asylum fee and retroactively hit TPS holders from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine.
The interim final rule took effect immediately, ending the guarantee of a non-adversarial interview with an asylum officer. Immigration judges can now dismiss applications on the paperwork alone.
Federal officials never named immigration enforcement as a goal when the Memphis Safe Task Force launched. Ten months in, immigration arrests are up sixfold and most of those taken in had no criminal convictions.
Temporary Protected Status expires Monday after a federal appeals court bought Haitians three extra days. Immigration agents plan to move quickly, and deportation flights can only land in one Haitian city.
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris put the termination of South Sudan's Temporary Protected Status on hold weeks after the Supreme Court told lower courts to stay out of TPS decisions.
For the first time in its three-decade existence, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court has received a case — a sealed, classified petition seeking to deport an unnamed individual.
Prosecutors say Andrew Arrabaca, 43, poured gasoline outside 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan and told investigators he did not care if he killed people.
An analysis of ad data shows the GOP has poured $53 million into border-security messaging across 88 races, betting that immigration is a winning issue in November.
Written notice reached FBI managers that the bureau will no longer scrutinize whether immigration agents were assaulted before opening fire; the Justice Department and DHS deny any policy change.
Under a rule set to publish July 20 and take effect in September, officers can again weigh an applicant's use of Medicaid, food stamps and housing aid — a shift analysts say could push nearly a million people to forgo help they are entitled to.
WatchThe president dismissed an internal pause on vehicle stops days after ICE officers killed two immigrant men who officials concede were not their targets. DHS will now put a body camera on every arrest team.
WatchFederal authorities acknowledge the man shot dead in the coastal town of Biddeford was not the person immigration agents had come to arrest, in what has become ICE's second fatal shooting in a week.
The Department of Homeland Security paused non-urgent traffic stops following deadly encounters in Texas and Maine, though agents may still stop people with violent criminal histories.
WatchForeign Minister Roberto Velasco says Mexico will ask U.S. prosecutors and the Justice Department to charge those responsible for the deaths of 17 of its citizens, days after an ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
WatchDays after the justices ruled 6-3 that his order defied the 14th Amendment, the president said his lawyers will 'immediately' petition for a rehearing, a maneuver the court has not granted in a decided case in six decades.
The Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act, introduced by House Agriculture Chairman Glenn Thompson, would strip the program's seasonal limit and offer some unauthorized farmworkers a path in, dividing labor advocates and immigration hawks alike.
In a 71-page opinion, U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts vacated three Trump-era policies as unlawfully adopted, restoring the agency's longstanding 12-hour limit on short-term holding.
The federal lawsuit targets Maryland's new Community Trust Act, arguing that limits on cooperation with ICE are unconstitutional. It is the latest in a string of suits against Democratic-led states.
WatchLorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was driving to a job site when an ICE agent shot him during a traffic stop. Federal investigators have now opened two probes as his family demands answers.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion striking down Trump's executive order, joined by two conservatives and the court's three liberals.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant on his way to a construction job, was shot dead during a Houston traffic stop. The FBI is investigating the second ICE-involved shooting in a week.
The justices affirmed that children born on U.S. soil are citizens regardless of their parents' status — a decision researchers say protects a group projected to add trillions to the economy.
The suit says U.S. agencies shared confidential records — including claims of religious conversion and LGBTQ persecution — with Tehran through the Pakistani embassy.
Accepting the Liberty Medal virtually from the Vatican, the first American pope invoked the Declaration of Independence before visiting the Mediterranean island at the heart of Europe's migration crisis.
WatchChief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in Trump v. Barbara, affirming that nearly every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen and striking down the president's day-one executive order.
The president's nominee would become the first Senate-confirmed director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement since 2017 as the administration accelerates mass deportations.
In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, the court held that border officers need not have 'clear and convincing evidence' of a crime to bar lawful permanent residents — one of two immigration wins handed to the Trump administration in a single morning.
WatchThe conservative majority revived the contested "metering" policy, letting agents block migrants who have not yet set foot on U.S. soil, in one of two major immigration wins for the administration.
WatchThe justices ruled the president has near-unfettered power to end Temporary Protected Status, stripping deportation shields from more than 350,000 people with ripples for over a million more.
U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz said there was 'no doubt' the grand-jury subpoenas were issued to damage the Minnesota governor and other Democrats over immigration enforcement.
Previously unknown White House documents show administration debated limiting constitutional protections, frustrated by court challenges to immigration policies.
Demonstrators clashed with anti-racism protesters in Brighton, Liverpool, Sheffield and Glasgow after a Belfast knife attack ignited violence that burned families out of their homes.
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