Immigration
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FBI shifts resources as field offices ramp up immigration enforcement
Effective May 2025, roughly 45% of agents in the largest FBI field offices will prioritize immigration enforcement. Over 6,000 related arrests occurred early in 2025. These changes, combined with a…
Rep. Vasquez Demands Congress Act on Detention Abuses
Rep. Vasquez’s immigration detention oversight bill pushes for regular inspections, minimum care standards, and legal support access. His…
Trump Administration Uses Refugee Resettlement to Aid ICE Arrests
In 2025, ICE gained expanded access to sensitive databases, fueling a sharp rise in arrests but only limited…
Attorney General Brown leads fight to protect birthright citizenship
Attorney General Brown and multiple states challenged Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The judge’s preliminary injunction temporarily…
Trump Targets Birthright Citizenship With Bold Order
Trump’s Executive Order 14160 targets birthright citizenship for certain U.S.-born children. Federal courts blocked it, referencing the Fourteenth…
CAIR Slams Trump Team’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship
CAIR and numerous civil rights groups fiercely oppose the Trump administration’s executive order to end birthright citizenship. Courts…
Board of Immigration Appeals rules email notifications are valid notice
From May 15, 2025, email notifications from the EOIR portal count as official notice, even if unread. Attorneys…
Supreme Court Weighs End to Birthright Citizenship
The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing if birthright citizenship—guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment for over 150 years—can be…
Georgetown University students freed from US Immigration Detention after legal win
Federal courts released international students, including Badar Khan Suri, after detentions linked to protests on US campuses. Judges…
Canada Immigration Minister urged to lower permanent resident targets
Canada is reducing permanent and temporary immigration targets due to housing and service pressures. Emphasis will shift to…