A Department of Homeland Security decision to replace a troubled contractor running a massive immigration detention facility in Texas is drawing scrutiny in an analysis that details deaths, safety violations, and other lapses.
Congress returns this week to tackle a daunting list of priorities, including fiscal 2026 appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security and additional funding for immigration enforcement and defense.
Both parties have turned to a spending procedure that could diminish one of lawmakers’ most fundamental powers — their ability to direct taxpayer money — while leaving massive sums free from annual review.
President
A federal judge denied a request by a Minnesota immigration law firm and legal services provider to halt an alleged Trump administration policy to fast-track deportation proceedings for Somali immigrants.
Tom Homan made clear the Trump administration isn’t waiting for Congress to ramp up immigration enforcement—even as Republicans remain divided over how to fund it.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor moves a bit slower than when she joined the Supreme Court 17 years ago and no longer roams the auditorium like a talk show host, something that made the pioneering Latina justice seem all the more approachable, a shift she says is at the direction of her security detail.
A rare bipartisan immigration bill triggered a Republican feud this week, highlighting a widening divide between GOP hardliners and moderates amid backlash to President Donald Trump’s deportation policies.
After US Justice Department lawyers
A group of immigration legal aid groups and an asylum seeker can proceed with their claims that Biden-era rules allowing for quicker deportations of noncitizens who might pose a threat to national security are arbitrary and capricious.
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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