70 articles in the Immigration category.
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. refused Wednesday to order Texas to extradite Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro to Minnesota, and declined to keep him in jail past the state’s 90-day extradition hold. Castro was released Thursday morning...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded a $16.7 million no-bid contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver an electric shock when activated, according to a federal procurement notice posted Thursday. The six-month deal with Compliant Technologies LLC of...
By Tommy Flynn
Fifteen New York county sheriffs filed a federal lawsuit this week seeking to block the state’s ban on cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arguing Albany is stripping independently elected officers of authority Congress gave them and forcing criminal illegal...
By Tommy Flynn
The State Department has postponed immigrant visa interviews at U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide while consular officers complete training on how to decide whether an applicant is likely to become a public charge. Applicants who had reached the interview stage received...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 49,571 people in July, the highest single-month total of President Trump’s second term, according to agency data provided to the University of California, Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the Associated Press....
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,328 illegal immigrants across Virginia and Maryland in a two-week operation that federal officials described as one of the agency’s most successful to date, working largely out of public view in jurisdictions that limit...
By Tommy Flynn
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday lifted a preliminary injunction that had barred U.S. Border Patrol officers from detaining people without reasonable suspicion they had violated immigration law in California’s Central Valley. The unanimous...
By Tommy Flynn
The State Department, working with the Department of Homeland Security, is preparing to revoke B-1 business and B-2 tourist visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders later filed for asylum, a step officials say could affect as many as 200,000 people and would constitute...
By Tommy Flynn
A federal judge in Manhattan vacated a State Department policy that had suspended immigrant-visa processing for applicants from 75 countries the Trump administration identified as high-risk for becoming public charges. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, a Biden appointee,...
By Tommy Flynn
Hastings Charter Township Clerk David Olson has called on the U.S. Department of Justice to assist in identifying and removing non-citizens from his local voter rolls, citing whistleblower allegations that Michigan’s Secretary of State system automatically registers them. Olson,...
By Tommy Flynn
White House Border Czar Tom Homan told Newsmax’s “Greg Kelly Reports” that Immigration and Customs Enforcement and partner agencies are operating at a record pace of deportations, pushing back against claims that the Trump administration has scaled back interior enforcement...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has warned Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart that failure to facilitate compliance with immigration subpoenas for jail inmates could constitute federal witness tampering, escalating a long-running dispute over sanctuary policies in the Chicago...