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Texas Seeks to Intervene in Lawsuit Over DHS Data-Centralization

Texas wants to intervene in a League of Women Voters lawsuit that aims to block the Department of Homeland Security from creating a web of linked data systems from across the government to improve immigration enforcement and carry out other Trump administration priorities.

How Will America Get the Workers It Needs?: Jonathan Levin

In theory, robots may run the US economy one day, but humans still do most of the heavy-lifting in 2025 and for the foreseeable future. Stem the flow of workers into the economy, as Donald Trump has in the first nine months of his presidency, and eventually you’ll gum up the system.

Tear Gas ‘Shattered’ Kids’ Security, Judge Tells Bovino

Gregory Bovino, a top US Border Patrol official and the face of an aggressive Chicago-area immigration crackdown, must report in person daily to a federal judge, who on Tuesday lectured Bovino at length over agents’ use of tear gas not far from a planned children’s Halloween parade in a Northwest Side neighborhood.

Trump Marshals an Army of Local Cops for Deportation Dragnet

The federal government is supercharging its use of local cops to hunt down immigrants suspected of being in the US illegally as part of an unprecedented effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to deport millions of people.

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Association of American Law Schools

The H-1B Visa: A Brief History From Truman to Trump

The history of the H-1B visa from its origins in 1952, when Harry S. Truman was president, to the major developments since Trump’s “Buy American and Hire American” executive order.

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