US Immigration
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A split Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday upheld an Illinois federal judge’s order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from enforcing its public charge immigration rule in the Prairie State, though a U.S. Supreme Court ruling means the rule is still in effect nationwide… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday called for a probe into the recent revelation that the Trump administration turned over information submitted by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals applicants to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement despite promises to keep the information private… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A split Ninth Circuit panel sent an immigration detainee’s coronavirus-based emergency release bid to a California district court on Thursday, though the dissenting judge said the appeals panel should have tossed the case by the man with no COVID-19 symptoms, asking “If he’s entitled to relief, who isn’t?”… Read this piece in its entirety at…
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President Donald Trump won an exit on Thursday from advocacy groups’ legal challenge to the White House’s diversion of federal funding for the southern border wall, with a D.C. federal judge also trimming claims against other elements of the administration… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A gay man who fled Ghana after he was outed and violently attacked will get a new chance to seek asylum in the United States, with the Third Circuit ruling that immigration judges bungled their analysis of whether the man faced persecution that qualifies for protection… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 