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The US Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Thursday announced that it will extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for people from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan until June 30, 2024. This status was previously set to expire on December 31, 2022. TPS is a protective status for [...]

Justin Lindsay is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He served 10 years as an Officer in the United States Army. Threats to election safety are rising to a crescendo in the United States. The US “midterms” (called that because they occur between presidential [...]

“That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. This is the entire Torah; the rest is commentary…: Rabbi Hillel, Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a Israel’s continuous support for Donald J. Trump represents a grim irony of Jewish history. Even before the latest revelations concerning this former president’s anti-Semitic outbursts (that is, his [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari in nine new cases, including two cases on liability shields for online platforms. In Gonzalez v. Google, the court is asked to consider the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which broadly shields online platforms from liability for content posted by the platforms’ users. Reynaldo [...]

The Biden administration Thursday finalized a rule to undo a rule implemented by the Trump administration that prevented noncitizens from accessing public benefits. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the rule will restore the “historical understanding of a ‘public charge’ that had been in place for decades, until the prior Administration began to consider [...]

Over 160 organizations Monday sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas calling for the end of religious discrimination against Sikh migrants at US border crossing points. The letter was signed by the Sikh Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona (ACLU-AZ) and the American Civil Liberties Union [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday that they will end implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols Program (MPP). There will be no new enrollees in the program, and migrants currently waiting in Mexico will be permitted to enter the US for their next scheduled court dates. According to DHS’s July MPP Cohort [...]

Arian Taherzadeh Monday pled guilty in federal court to conspiracy and other charges. Taherzadeh admitted that he, along with co-defendant Hadier Ali and one other unnamed defendant, created a fake Department of Homeland Security (DHS) group. Under this guise, Taherzadeh illegally obtained money and important documents for more than two years. Taherzadeh was arrested in [...]

The US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack has subpoenaed the US Secret Service (USSS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to obtain erased text messages from January 5-6, 2021. The subpoena, signed by committee chair Representative Bennie G. Thompson on Friday, seeks text messages from the USSS concerning the January 6 [...]

The Biden administration Monday extended temporary protection to Venezuelans living in the US, allowing those who qualify protection for an additional 18 months. The extension will be in effect from September 10, 2022, through March 10, 2024. The extension originates with a designation from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) called a Temporary Protected Status [...]