US Immigration
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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.
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A Guatemalan man and his 7-year-old daughter were spared deportation to Mexico under a policy that sends asylum-seekers south of the border while the government processes their cases, with the Third Circuit saying the migrants’ claims had to be decided “now or never”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge has ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reopen a hotline for detained immigrants to report abuse while a lawsuit plays out over whether the government wrongfully cut off the hotline after it appeared in the Netflix show “Orange Is the New Black”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 