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The Trump administration on Friday abruptly revoked its cancellation of more than 1,200 student visas held by international students, announcing a dramatic shift by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a court hearing in Washington. The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System is a web-based database tracking international students’ compliance with their visa status. ICE [...]

US North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong vetoed a state bill on Tuesday that would have restricted books with “explicit sexual material” displayed or made available to minors in the state, including in public and school libraries. In a two-page rebuke of the proposed legislation, Armstrong wrote that Senate Bill 2307 would represent “a misguided attempt [...]

Lawyers representing Venezuelan immigrants threatened with deportation filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court on Monday to block the removals. The Trump administration was prepared to deport dozens of Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador last Friday before the Supreme Court blocked the action. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called for the [...]

A US federal judge on Friday ordered Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk to be returned to Vermont, where she will remain in custody, pending a bail hearing. Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University, was detained by Department of Homeland (DHS) agents near the university’s Massachusetts campus last month after her F-1 student visa was revoked. [...]

US District Judge Julia Kobick in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction on Friday against President Donald Trump’s administration, finding that the administration’s passport policy is likely discriminatory against transgender and nonbinary individuals. Judge Kobick stated: The Executive Order and the Passport Policy on their face classify passport applicants on the basis of sex and thus [...]

The US Supreme Court early Saturday morning temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s latest attempt to deport Venezuelan nationals under a 1798 law known as the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). The Trump administration claims that the detainees are members of the gang “Tren de Aragua,” which it has listed as a terrorist organization. Lawyers for the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected a bid by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to strip deportation safeguards from roughly 350,000 Venezuelans who live and work in the US under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), according to the plaintiffs. The three-judge panel in San Francisco denied DHS’s request to [...]

US District Court for the District of Columbia judge James Boasberg on Friday denied an emergency motion to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) halting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). Boasberg denied the ACLU’s request for an immediate ruling mandating that the government give 30 days’ notice before removing individuals under the AEA, [...]

Streets were silenced, businesses shuttered, and daily life reduced to hurried, masked visits to the grocery store. Such scenes seemed unthinkable, yet they became a reality as governments worldwide scrambled to contain the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. While Western democratic leaders at first placed faith in isolating known infections, many ultimately followed in the [...]

New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte signed House Bill 592 on Tuesday “to end the failed reform social experiment in New Hampshire.” The bill rolls back some of the reforms made to the bail setting process over the years and increases the length of time police can detain a suspect without bail. Specifically, the bill permits [...]