Andrew Kreighbaum

Court Saves Protections for Central American, Nepalese Migrants A federal judge in San Francisco granted a request to postpone the Trump administration’s cancellation of temporary protections for 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal.

A San Francisco judge blocked the Trump administration from terminating TPS protections for 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal.

#immigration #TPS #DHS #Honduras

Trump Owes Answers on Denaturalization Efforts, Democrats Say House Democrats are demanding answers as the Justice Department ramps up denaturalization work and President Donald Trump threatens to strip citizenship from political foes.

Scoop by @bgov.com's Ellen Gilmer:

House Democrats are demanding answers on denaturalization efforts by the Trump administration.

A June DOJ memo named denaturalization cases as one of five priorities at the agency's Civil Division.

#immigration #citizenship #denaturalization

Court Blocks Removal of Temporary Protections for Haitians (2) A federal judge in New York has blocked the Department of Homeland Security from terminating Temporary Protected Status for several hundred thousand Haitian immigrants in the US.

It follows a decision by a New York judge earlier this month that keeps TPS for Haiti in place until at least February 2026.

Trump’s Rollback of Haitian Immigrant Relief Draws Fresh Lawsuit A group of Haitian immigrants has filed suit to preserve temporary protections for 350,000 people from the country living in the US.

The Trump administration is facing a new challenge to its cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitians.

A lawsuit filed in DC alleges procedural and equal protection violations in by the Department of Homeland Security.

Woman who died of heart disease in ICE custody reportedly told son she wasn't allowed to see doctor for chest pains Questions about the death of Marie Blaise at a South Florida ICE detention center have lingered since she collapsed in April.

Latest: I got the medical examiner report on Marie Blaise, who died of a heart attack in ICE custody

Blaise's son told an investigator that he spoke with her on the phone the day of her death, and she complained of chest pains and said staff wouldn't let her see a doctor reason.com/2025/07/30/w...

DHS Appeals Order to Process Migrants’ Asylum, Visa Requests (1) The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge’s order directing it to lift a processing freeze on asylum claims, visas, and other benefits sought by immigrants admitted to the US under humanit...

That work processing parolees' pending benefits continues even though DHS said Monday it would appeal an order lifting the freeze, the government said.

The latest today on immigrant parolee litigation: District Judge Indira Talwani declined plaintiffs' requests to require weekly reports from USCIS on processing of benefit requests.

A DOJ attorney said the government is complying with her order lifting a freeze on visas and other benefits.

DHS is urging DACA recipients to self-deport "DACA does not confer any form of legal status in this country," said DHS assistant press secretary Tricia McLaughlin, who then encouraged "every person here illegally" to self-deport.

In the past few months the Trump administration moved to strip DACA recipients of healthcare & launched investigations into colleges providing financial aid for them

Now DHS is urging participants to “self deport” marking weakening protections. My latest: www.npr.org/2025/07/29/n...

Third Circuit Deals Blow to Labor Judges in Farmworker Case A New Jersey farm’s challenge to the Labor Department’s administrative law judge system found success at a federal appeals court in Philadelphia.

A federal appeals court dealt the latest blow against the enforcement powers of internal judge systems at federal regulatory agencies Tuesday.

Civil penalties against a New Jersey farm should have gone before a district court and not a DOL administrative law judge, the Third Circuit found.

You can read the document here: aboutblaw.com/bi03

USCIS Issues Plan to Fulfill Trump Birthright Citizenship Order The agency that administers immigration benefits is making plans to carry out President Donald Trump‘s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, even though its currently blocked by the cour...

The order denies automatic citizenship to children if at least one parent isn't a citizen or lawful permanent resident. Immigrants affected include those on employment-based visas, parolees, TPS holders, and deferred action recipients. Asylees and refugees wouldn't be affected in the plan.

USCIS Issues Plan to Fulfill Trump Birthright Citizenship Order The agency that administers immigration benefits is making plans to carry out President Donald Trump‘s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, even though its currently blocked by the cour...

Trump's executive order upending birthright citizenship is blocked by multiple courts, but USCIS is making plans to carry it out if allowed to go into effect.

It's released an implementation plan defining which groups of immigrant children would lose automatic birthright citizenship.

Trump Agenda Stuck in Legal Wrangling Despite Supreme Court Wins President Donald Trump has cast successes at the US Supreme Court as broad endorsements of his authority to fire agency heads, shrink the government workforce and halt billions of dollars in federal s...

The Trump admin has claimed a series of wins on the Supreme Court "shadow docket," including one allowing them to revoke CHNV parole grants while litigation is ongoing, bolsters its position in a number of cases. But plaintiff attorneys say those decisions don't offer any analysis or set precedent.

Half of Immigrant Parolees Told to Leave US Sought Legal Status Nearly 70,000 immigrants admitted to the US through a Biden-era parole program targeted by the Department of Homeland Security had pending asylum claims before the agency froze new benefits.

Although the Department of Homeland Security has already told the parolees to leave the US, a majority of them have pending applications for asylum, TPS, or another form of immigration relief, as I reported last month.

Trump Termination of Migrant Protections Gets First Appeals Test The Trump administration’s abrupt termination of temporary deportation protections for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan migrants will get its first appellate test as the government fights an...

The legal battle over half a million immigrant parolees from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela will go before the First Circuit in Boston this week. It's the latest appellate test in Trump's attack on temporary humanitarian relief for immigrants.

The US Supreme Court is supposed to be the final word in disputes over the law. But the short emergency orders the justices are handing down in fights over Trump's policies -- sometimes with no explanation for decisions -- are creating even more legal churn in the lower courts buff.ly/cPMHgX4

Falsifying a Tax Return Can Cost Your Citizenship Under Trump The extraordinary step of stripping naturalized Americans of their citizenship used to be reserved for individuals who turned out to be war criminals, genocide perpetrators, threats to national securi...

@farooqumar.bsky.social and Ellen Gilmer report how denaturalization—a top enforcement priority at the Justice Department under Trump—could be a consequence for something as mundane as a falsified tax return.

#immigration #DOJ #denaturalization #citizenship

BREAKING: 9th Circuit panel, 2-1, upholds injunction for states against Trump's anti-birthright citizenship executive order. Majority: Gould (Clinton)/ Hawkins (Clinton). Dissent: Bumatay (Trump). Doc: cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...

Agency Behind Green Cards, Work Permits Expands Enforcement Role The federal agency charged with administering green cards and work permits dramatically scaled up its role steering immigrants into deportation proceedings long before its incoming director declared t...

Facilitating ICE arrests at field offices. Putting a skyrocketing number of immigrants in deportation proceedings.

Under Trump, USCIS—an immigration benefits agency—has embraced a new enforcement role.

4th Cir. Lets Afghans’ Temporary Immigrant Protections Expire Temporary removal protections for nearly 12,000 Afghans can be revoked while litigation continues over their termination by the Trump administration, a federal appellate court said.

A federal appeals court is allowing Temporary Protected Status for nearly 12,000 Afghans to expire one week after granting them a temporary reprieve from losing the deportation relief.

4th Cir. Lets Afghans’ Temporary Immigrant Protections Expire Temporary removal protections for nearly 12,000 Afghans can be revoked while litigation continues over their termination by the Trump administration, a federal appellate court said.

CASA Inc is suing DHS to preserve TPS for those Afghans as well as another 5,000 Cameroonians who will lose protections next month.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals urged a district court "to move expeditiously to minimize the uncertainty that will likely result from protracted litigation."

4th Cir. Lets Afghans’ Temporary Immigrant Protections Expire Temporary removal protections for nearly 12,000 Afghans can be revoked while litigation continues over their termination by the Trump administration, a federal appellate court said.

A federal appeals court is allowing Temporary Protected Status for nearly 12,000 Afghans to expire one week after granting them a temporary reprieve from losing the deportation relief.

Amazing AP image from Ariana Cubillos of Arturo Suárez, a Venezuelan musician sent to CECOT, walking off the plane. (Identified to me by a relative.)

“We spent four months without any contact with the outside world,” Suárez told teleSUR today. “We were kidnapped.”

Final Rule for H-1B Lottery Aims to Raise Wages for Visa Workers The Department of Homeland Security released a final rule changing next year’s lottery for H-1B specialty occupation visas from the current random selection process to one based on an individual’s wag...

A regulatory posting doesn't include details on the proposed rule, but we can look at proposals from President Trump's first term for clues.

A rule finalized in 2021, later shelved by the Biden administration, would have prioritized petitions based on wage levels.

DHS Crafting Rule for Weighted Selection of H-1B Petitions (1) A new Department of Homeland Security rule would add weighted selection of petitions for H-1B specialty occupation workers.

The Trump administration is developing a rule for weighted selection of H-1B petitions.

#immigration #visas #H1B #tech

For decades, immigration authorities have been required by policy to avoid making arrests near churches, hospitals, courthouses and schools, except in urgent situations involving threats such as terrorism or pursuit of a dangerous felon.

That policy was rescinded this year.

Trump USCIS Nominee Joseph Edlow Gets Full Senate Confirmation The Senate voted to confirm Joseph Edlow as the next director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency charged with administering green cards and other immigration benefits.

USCIS has a new director as Joseph Edlow, President Trump's pick to lead the agency, received Senate confirmation Tuesday.

#immigration #USCIS

Bid to Pause Axing of Temporary Protections for Afghans Granted A federal appeals court granted an immigrant group’s bid to block termination of deportation protections for almost 12,000 Afghans while a case over their status is appealed.

Almost 12,000 Afghans in the US will get a weeklong reprieve from termination of Temporary Protected Status.

A federal appeals court granted an emergency request to stay Trump administration plans to terminate the protections set to expire Monday.

#Afghanistan #immigration #TPS

Bipartisan Immigration Plan Sets Political Test as Border Calms Reps. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) on Tuesday plan to introduce a modified version of a bill they’ve pushed for years to provide a pathway to legal status for immigrant...

House lawmakers are re-introducing the Dignity Act, testing whether plummeting border crossings could offer an opening for bipartisan dealmaking on immigration, @bgov.com's Ellen Gilmer reports.

The bill combines legal pathways for undocumented immigrants with steeper penalties for unlawful entry.

Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.

People who entered the US legally and have no criminal charges are being held in the Everglades camp, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald. Maybe that’s why the government won’t release the names of those being detained. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...