Montana justices hear arguments about immigration detainers

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The ACLU of Montana is asking the state Supreme Court to rule state law does not allow local law enforcement officers to arrest people for alleged civil violations of federal immigration law. The court did not immediately rule after hearing arguments Wednesday. The ACLU filed a lawsuit against Lincoln County in... Read More

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January 9, 2020

Appeals court keeps block of Trump immigration rule in place

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York on Wednesday rejected a motion from the Trump administration that would have allowed it to implement a policy connecting the use of public benefits with whether immigrants could become permanent residents. The ruling from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the administration’s... Read More

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January 3, 2020

US starts sending asylum seekers across Arizona border

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government on Thursday began sending asylum-seekers back to Nogales, Mexico, to await court hearings that will be scheduled roughly 350 miles (563 kilometers) away in Juarez, Mexico. Authorities are expanding a program known as Remain in Mexico that requires tens of thousands of asylum seekers to wait out their immigration... Read More

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Asylum

December 23, 2019

US heads to court to build Trump border wall in Texas

HOUSTON (AP) — Three years into Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall. Trump’s signature campaign promise has consistently faced political, legal, and environmental obstacles in Texas, which has the largest section of the U.S.-Mexico border, most of it without... Read More

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December 19, 2019

Tennessee governor says state will keep resettling refugees

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee won’t stop resettling refugees, Republican Gov. Bill Lee said Wednesday, rejecting the option offered to states by President Donald Trump’s administration. The issue forced Lee, who campaigned on his Christian beliefs, to consider his own experience helping refugees and weigh it against the will of fellow Republicans in the Legislature.... Read More

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Bill Lee

December 16, 2019

Challenge to immigration law is tossed on eve of enactment

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A law that will allow New Yorkers to get driver’s licenses without having to prove they are in the country legally weathered a second court challenge Friday, days before its enactment. A federal district judge ruled against Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola, saying he lacked the legal capacity to bring the... Read More

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Immigration

December 13, 2019

US should recognize American Samoans as citizens, judge says

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — People born in the territory of American Samoa should be recognized as U.S. citizens, a federal judge in Utah decided Thursday in a case filed amid more than a century of legal limbo but whose eventual impact remains to be seen. The cluster of Pacific islands southwest of Hawaii is... Read More

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American Samoa

December 12, 2019

US seeks dismissal of New Mexico’s immigration lawsuit

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. lawyers want a judge to dismiss claims by New Mexico that immigration officials shirked their duties earlier this year by quickly releasing thousands of mostly Central American migrants into communities after they crossed into the United States. New Mexico claimed in a lawsuit filed in June that the practice left... Read More

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Immigration

November 27, 2019

US judge bars Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A U.S. judge in Oregon on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking a Trump administration proclamation that would require immigrants to show proof of health insurance to get a visa. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon said in a written opinion that the proclamation could not take effect while a lawsuit... Read More

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Immigration

November 25, 2019

Asylum-seekers in Arizona are forced to wait in Mexico

PHOENIX (AP) — Asylum-seekers who crossed the border in Arizona were bused to Texas Friday to be sent back to Mexico to wait for their hearings to wind through U.S. immigration courts, extending the practice across the entire border, a U.S. official said. U.S. authorities plan to run one bus a day from Tucson to... Read More

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Asylum

November 21, 2019

Arizona border activist acquitted of harboring immigrants

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An activist was quickly acquitted Wednesday on charges he illegally harbored two Central American immigrants at a southern Arizona camp operated by a humanitarian group. The verdict by a jury in U.S. District Court came after jurors deliberated for about two hours in what was the second trial for Scott Warren.... Read More

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Scott Warren

November 21, 2019

Lawsuit: US border officers questioned journalists at length

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Five American journalists sued the U.S. government Wednesday, alleging border authorities violated their First Amendment rights by inspecting their cameras and notebooks and questioning them extensively about their coverage of last year’s migrant caravan. The lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union recounts the experiences of the freelance photographers and... Read More

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Immigration

November 20, 2019

Border activist says he’d never hide migrants from US agents

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A member of a humanitarian aid group whose criminal case has garnered international attention testified Tuesday that neutrality guides his work near the U.S.-Mexico border, denying that he has ever helped migrants hide or told them how to avoid authorities. That’s what U.S. prosecutors say Scott Warren did when he was... Read More

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Scott Warren

November 20, 2019

Ruling backs asylum seekers at border prior to policy shift

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a partial ban on asylum does not apply to anyone who appeared at an official U.S. border crossing before the policy was announced in July, a decision that may affect thousands of people. The Trump administration announced July 16 that it would deny asylum to... Read More

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Asylum

Montana justices hear arguments about immigration detainers

Appeals court keeps block of Trump immigration rule in place

US starts sending asylum seekers across Arizona border

US heads to court to build Trump border wall in Texas

Tennessee governor says state will keep resettling refugees

Challenge to immigration law is tossed on eve of enactment

US should recognize American Samoans as citizens, judge says

US seeks dismissal of New Mexico’s immigration lawsuit

US judge bars Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants

Asylum-seekers in Arizona are forced to wait in Mexico

Arizona border activist acquitted of harboring immigrants

Lawsuit: US border officers questioned journalists at length

Border activist says he’d never hide migrants from US agents

Ruling backs asylum seekers at border prior to policy shift

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