Foreign Policy and National Security
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A U.S. environmental advocacy organization announced on Wednesday that it has lodged a lawsuit in Mexico seeking to force the country’s natural resources regulator to add three species of hammerhead shark to its list of protected wildlife, saying the suit could be the first of its kind… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services improperly retooled the H-1B guest worker program, a D.C. federal judge said Tuesday in a ruling that impacts dozens of suits lodged by information technology firms that are challenging the new standards for securing specialized worker visas… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to pause a Ninth Circuit order that partially blocked the implementation of the “Remain in Mexico” program, arguing the policy is an “enormously effective and indispensable tool” for dealing with immigration along the southern border… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A report released Thursday by the internal watchdog arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services blamed “interagency communication failures and poor internal management decisions” for HHS’s bungled response to an increase in migrant family separations under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Third Circuit revived a Nicaraguan woman’s asylum petition on Friday, saying an immigration judge had erred in ruling that her claim couldn’t go forward because she hadn’t suffered physical harm during the course of her alleged past persecution… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 