Law

  • The federal courts handed down several important immigration rulings this year on issues ranging from state laws restricting private immigration detention to the details that deportation notices must contain about immigration court hearings… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The backlog of cases pending in the U.S. Department of Justice’s immigration court system continues to break records, topping 1.5 million cases for the first time ever last month, a Syracuse University research organization reported Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • President Joe Biden’s first year of immigration policymaking consisted largely of efforts to roll back the Trump administration’s restrictive policies with regard to asylum and other legal forms of immigration, as well as bolstering protections for unauthorized immigrants… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The U.S. will offer 20,000 additional H-2B visas for temporary nonagricultural workers in the first half of fiscal year 2022, the agency announced Monday, months after it hit a previously set limit… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A group of Democratic federal lawmakers on Monday criticized the Biden administration for expanding a Trump-era policy known as the Migrant Protection Protocols, which forces migrants to wait in Mexico during their immigration court cases… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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