Foreign Policy and National Security
-
A New Jersey federal judge gave preliminary approval to a deal between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and prospective students who enrolled in a fake New Jersey university created by the agency as part of an immigration sting… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
-
Several U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned the government’s bid Tuesday to undo circuit court findings that noncitizens detained for more than six months are entitled to bond hearings, citing the pervasiveness of bond rights in other contexts… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
-
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has allowed fraud to go unchecked and backlogs to balloon in the U-visa program, which offers visas to noncitizen crime victims who help law enforcement, according to an internal government watchdog report released Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
-
A federal judge in Seattle on Monday tossed a Canadian berry farm executive’s lawsuit claiming U.S. Customs and Border Protection wrongly denied him entry to the U.S. based on suspected drug trafficking ties after CBP reversed its decision… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
-
The Atlanta public defender’s office and a handful of Georgia-based immigrant advocacy groups urged the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on whether probation counts as confinement when determining whether an immigrant committed an aggravated felony… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 