The 5th Circuit initially found Trump’s new detention policy denying immigrants a right to a bond hearing regardless of the amount of time they have been in custody to be unconstitutional. Within days of that…
USCIS Filing Fee Increase On July 22, 2025, USCIS published a Federal Register notice announcing the implementation of these H.R. 1 immigration-related fees. Beginning in FY 2026, and continuing for each subsequent fiscal year, the Department of…
Federal Judge Strikes Down ICE Courthouse Arrest Policy Federal Court Invalidates ICE Courthouse Arrest Policy October 3, 2026 Joseph Caraccio ICE Federal Court U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New…
H.R.1, known as “The One Big, Beautiful Bill” (“BBB”) is a 2025 federal law that changed eligibility for Medicaid . These changes will have broad impacts on Medicaid. Among those impacted by the new rules…
Rumors have been circling around for a couple of weeks now about a new “secret immigration court” at 26 Federal Plaza in downtown New York, NY. This seems to have been confirmed by AILA according…
Chief U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Beaverstock issued a temporary stay on September 21, 2026, blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ICE from conducting warrantless raids at private construction sites in the Southern District of Alabama. The ruling on September 21,…
On August 21, 2026, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York has vacated a Trump administration policy that suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran and Somalia, whose nationals…
At 8:20am Andrew Arrabaca, a 43-year-old Army veteran from Poughkeepsie, NY, allegedly poured gasoline on the entrance steps to 26 Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan where the New York City Immigration Court (non-detained docket) and…
Happy 4th of July On July 2, 2026, in a 2-1 ruling, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that noncitizens being detained by ICE during their removal proceedings must be afforded a bond hearing…
The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship in a landmark 6-3 ruling, striking down an executive order by President Donald Trump that sought to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented or temporarily present parents. The decision,…
Today’s policy announcement demonstrates this administration’s desire to cause misery and to be cruel for no reason. On May 22, 2026, US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) published a policy memo stating that they would…
In 2022 undocumented immigrants paid a total of $92 BILLION on their federal income taxes according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. That is close to the amount of money the people of…