Federal appeals courts must defer to immigration judges’ findings on whether asylum-seekers show harms serious enough to qualify for protection, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously.

The Supreme Court unanimously sided with the federal government on Wednesday in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, holding in an ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously held that federal appellate courts must be highly deferential to administrative adjudications when determining whether undisputed facts amount to ...

The Department of Justice plans to appeal an order from U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan refusing to recuse himself from an ...

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

Immediate access to court records is essential to the public’s understanding of how the U.S. government is treating ...

A surge of immigration‑related lawsuits and prosecutions tied to President Donald ​Trump’s mass deportation agenda contributed to a 6% increase in new federal criminal and civil ‌cases in fiscal 2025, ...

Part of the surge are waves of ICE arrests in Maine and Massachusetts that land detainees at Wyatt in Central Falls.

People wait in a line before being led into a downtown Chicago building where an immigration court presides on Nov. 12, 2024, in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Dozens of asylum cases filed ...

Protesters and immigrants form a line outside of 630 Sansome St. immigration court in San Francisco. Photo by Sage Rios Mace. Outside the San Francisco immigration court building at 630 ...

A federal appeals court grilled the Justice Department on Tuesday as the DOJ asked the panel to reverse a lower court’s release of a foreign researcher, who the DOJ claims espoused praise for Hamas, ...