Lying to immigration officials doesn’t necessarily justify revoking citizenship, Supreme Court rules

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the government can’t revoke citizenship for lying to immigration authorities unless the actual facts would have led to a denial of citizenship. The court ruled on behalf of Divna Maslenjak, a Serbian immigrant who lied to immigration officials about her husband’s service…

Jun 22, 2017 11:18 AM CDT

Trump keeps Obama’s ‘Dreamer’ program intact, but their parents face deportation

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has extended the Obama administration’s protections for “Dreamer” immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children. The department announced on Thursday that immigrants enrolled in the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA, would be eligible to seek extensions allowing…

Jun 16, 2017 10:50 AM CDT

Protection of Children Act would harm immigrant children, ABA tells House Judiciary Committee

The recently proposed Protection of Children Act of 2017 would place some children in harm’s way, the ABA argued Wednesday in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill, H.R. 495, is sponsored by U.S. Rep. John Carter, a Texas Republican. It pertains to unaccompanied immigrant minors, and would…

Jun 14, 2017 12:14 PM CDT

9th Circuit rules against Trump’s revised travel ban, avoids establishment clause claim

Updated:The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld an injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban.

Jun 12, 2017 12:29 PM CDT

SCOTUS strikes down citizenship law because of different treatment based on parent’s gender

Corrected: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law that makes it easier, in some cases, for children born overseas to an unwed U.S. citizen mother to acquire citizenship at birth than children born to an unwed U.S. citizen father.

Jun 12, 2017 9:35 AM CDT

Trump tweets say DOJ shouldn’t have submitted ‘watered down’ version of travel ban to Supreme Court

Updated: In a series of tweets on Monday morning, President Donald Trump criticized the Justice Department for submitting a “watered down” version of his travel ban to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jun 5, 2017 8:43 AM CDT

Justice Department asks Supreme Court to reinstate travel ban

The U.S. Justice Department late on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate President Donald Trump's temporary ban on travel to the United States by people from six Muslim-majority countries.

Jun 2, 2017 9:24 AM CDT

Letters: Bob Dylan’s words of reason

Jun 1, 2017 4:50 AM CDT

Judges are victims too in ‘inhumane’ deportations, 9th Circuit concurrence says

Immigrants aren’t the only ones who are victims when the government moves to deport them in cases that are neither fair nor just, according to a concurrence by a liberal appeals judge. Judges are victims too, according to the concurrence by Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S.…

May 31, 2017 9:43 AM CDT

Trump’s travel ban ‘drips with religious intolerance,’ says en banc appeals court; injunction sticks

Updated: An en banc federal appeals court on Thursday affirmed a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban from taking effect. The Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 10-3 decision (PDF).

May 25, 2017 1:39 PM CDT

Sessions interprets Trump order on sanctuary cities narrowly; DOJ asks court to reconsider ruling

Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a narrow interpretation on Monday to President Donald Trump’s order withholding federal funds to sanctuary cities. Sessions expressed his views in a memo. The same day, the U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal judge to reconsider an injunction that had blocked Trump’s order, report…

May 23, 2017 11:40 AM CDT

Immigrant rights group wins temporary restraining order against DOJ in dispute over ethics rule

The Department of Justice has lost, at least temporarily, a bid to shut down legal services for immigrants that fall short of full representation, the Seattle Times reported Wednesday. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, a Seattle-based immigration legal services organization. It sued…

May 19, 2017 5:00 PM CDT

Mistakenly released inmate who won reprieve from judge is arrested by federal immigration agents

The future appeared bright for an inmate mistakenly released from prison in 2008 when a Colorado judge ruled Tuesday that he won’t have to serve the final 90 years of his sentence for participating in the two video store robberies. But things took a turn for the worse for Rene…

May 18, 2017 8:38 AM CDT

Immigration arrests rise 38 percent during Trump’s first 100 days

Immigration arrests have jumped nearly 38 percent during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, compared to the same time period last year. The largest jump in arrests is among immigrants with no criminal record, report USA Today and the Washington Post. Between Jan. 22 and April 29, federal…

May 17, 2017 11:57 AM CDT

Lawyer challenging revised travel ban before 9th Circuit notes change on Trump website

A lawyer who is representing the state of Hawaii in a challenge to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban pointed to the president’s campaign website in arguments Monday before the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a hearing before a three-judge panel in Seattle, lawyer Neal Katyal…

May 15, 2017 4:12 PM CDT