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The New York City Council voted Thursday to allow hundreds of thousands of noncitizens to cast ballots in local Big Apple elections, making it the biggest city in the U.S. to approve an extension of voting rights to immigrants… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection will have its first Senate-confirmed leader in more than two years, after lawmakers voted 50 to 47 on Tuesday to greenlight President Joe Biden’s pick to head the agency, Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Oral arguments heard Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court suggested that the justices have reservations about curtailing federal courts’ authority to review the executive branch’s “non-discretionary” determinations of noncitizens’ eligibility for protection from deportation… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is poised to put tighter limits on officers’ use of warrantless arrests and vehicle stops under a class action settlement that has been preliminarily approved by an Illinois federal judge… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A split Fourth Circuit panel has ruled that it should defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ interpretation of a criminal law under the so-called Chevron doctrine, shooting down a Mauritian man’s bid to halt his deportation… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 