A suit filed by a Colorado nonprofit claims that government-selected au pair organizations are colluding to keep wages at $4.35 an hour for young people who come to the United…
A former employee of two Texas attorneys has been federally indicted for allegedly stealing their identities in a scheme to defraud undocumented immigrants and their families.
San Francisco authorities’ release of a repeat offender who had been deported five times led to public condemnation after the man became a murder suspect.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an American citizen who challenged the denial of a visa to her husband, a citizen of Afghanistan who was a former civil servant…
The Obama administration won’t ask the U.S. Supreme Court to allow him immediately to implement an immigration program that would defer deportation for millions of immigrants living illegally in the…
A California immigration lawyer was arrested Friday and charged with attempted witness tampering after being targeted in a federal sting operation related to a “maternity tourism” case.
A documentary set to air on PBS tracks the legal troubles of a gay couple who obtained a marriage license in Boulder, Colorado, long before Massachusetts became the first…
A municipal judge in Trenton, New Jersey, who resigned after she tried to pay bar dues with bounced checks is now accused of extorting fake fines from immigration clients.
A federal judge who blocked executive action on immigration last month threatened to sanction the Justice Department on Thursday as he questioned whether the government misled him by expanding…
Update: Judge Richard Posner supported a Chicago cab driver’s bid to remain in the United States in a dissent last week that left few in the immigration process unscathed.
Federal prosecutors are seeking a stiff sentence for a Palestinian law graduate in her late sixties who left out information about a 1970 bombing-related conviction in Israel when she applied…
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked executive action by President Obama that would defer deportation for about 4.7 million immigrants living illegally in the United States.
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