Immigration Law

ABA urges congressional action to address plight of young people affected by end of DACA

ABA President Hilarie Bass is urging congressional leaders to take action to address the plight of young people who will be affected by the administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Nov 1, 2017 11:50 AM CDT

Student interest in immigration law rises with recent political developments

The legal and political furor set off by the travel ban and related orders has had a profound impact on U.S. law schools. Interest in immigration law is surging, and schools are ramping up programs and staffing to meet soaring demand from students and immigrants.

Nov 1, 2017 1:35 AM CDT

Sessions blasts judges issuing nationwide injunctions, calls them ‘super-legislators’

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday criticized judges who have issued nationwide injunctions that blocked Trump administration policies, calling the judges “super-legislators for the entire United States.”

Oct 26, 2017 3:22 PM CDT

Supreme Court dismisses second of two cases challenging Trump’s second travel ban

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed as moot the second pending case challenging President Donald Trump’s travel ban. The court dismissed (PDF) a case filed by the state of Hawaii that had challenged the second version of the travel ban, which has since expired and been partly replaced with…

Oct 25, 2017 11:38 AM CDT

Full DC Circuit reinstates order requiring government to allow teen immigrant to get an abortion

An en banc federal appeals court has reinstated an order requiring the U.S. government to allow an abortion for a 17-year-old immigrant who is being held in a federally funded Texas shelter because she is in the country illegally.

Oct 24, 2017 2:47 PM CDT

DC Circuit grants time to find sponsor for immigrant teen so abortion can be performed

Updated: A federal appeals court has found a way to allow an abortion for a pregnant teen immigrant who is in the country illegally without ordering the government to take her from federal custody to an abortion provider.

Oct 20, 2017 5:47 PM CDT

Federal judge’s order to allow abortion for immigrant teen in the country illegally is stayed

Updated: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the U.S. government to allow an abortion for a 17-year-old immigrant who is being held in a Texas shelter because she is in the country illegally. The order was stayed on Thursday by a federal appeals court as it considers a government appeal.

Oct 19, 2017 11:17 AM CDT

Sessions says Mueller hasn’t interviewed him, declines to testify on his conversations with Trump

Attorney General Jeff Sessions declined to discuss his conversations with President Donald Trump about the May firing of FBI director James Comey or the investigation of Russian influence during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday,

Oct 18, 2017 1:22 PM CDT

Second federal judge partly blocks Trump’s third travel ban

A federal judge in Maryland has become the second federal judge to grant a nationwide injunction blocking part of President Donald Trump’s third travel ban.

Oct 18, 2017 8:50 AM CDT

Hawaii federal judge issues nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s third travel ban

A federal judge in Hawaii on Tuesday mostly blocked the third version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, which was set to take effect Wednesday.

Oct 17, 2017 2:15 PM CDT

Sessions criticizes ‘fake’ asylum claims, reportedly seeks numeric goals for immigration judges

Updated: Immigration judges are raising concerns about a reported proposal by the U.S. Justice Department to evaluate their performance based on numeric standards.

Oct 16, 2017 8:00 AM CDT

Will ‘sore-loser litigiousness’ against Trump produce bad precedent?

President Donald Trump is disrupting political norms, but courts should not respond in kind by disrupting judicial norms, according to South Texas law professor Josh Blackman. In an essay published at the National Review, Blackman argues that “sore-loser litigiousness” against Trump’s policies will set “lasting and dangerous precedents.” Judges who…

Oct 12, 2017 9:33 AM CDT

Inmate mistakenly released from prison in 2008 wins deportation case

A former inmate who built a life for himself after he was mistakenly released from prison in 2008 has won another reprieve, this time from an immigration court. Rene Lima-Marin won dismissal of the immigration case that had sought to deport him to Cuba, report the Denver Post, the Associated…

Oct 11, 2017 12:12 PM CDT

Supreme Court dismisses a pending challenge to Trump’s second travel ban

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday evening dismissed as moot a pending challenge to the second version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

Oct 11, 2017 8:48 AM CDT

Justice Department tells Supreme Court to drop travel ban case because it is moot

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday told the U.S. Supreme Court it should drop a pending challenge to the second version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban because it has been replaced with a third and substantially different one. The Justice Department said the case is moot, report the New…

Oct 6, 2017 8:49 AM CDT