Federal appeals courts must defer to immigration judges’ findings on whether asylum-seekers show harms serious enough to qualify for protection, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously.

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, ...

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously held that federal appellate courts must be highly deferential to administrative adjudications when determining whether undisputed facts amount to ...

A federal appeals court grilled the Justice Department on Tuesday as the DOJ asked the panel to reverse a lower court’s ...

A surge of immigration‑related lawsuits and prosecutions tied to President Donald ​Trump’s mass deportation agenda contributed to a 6% increase in new federal criminal and civil ‌cases in fiscal 2025, ...

Immediate access to court records is essential to the public’s understanding of how the U.S. government is treating ...

People wait in a line before being led into a downtown Chicago building where an immigration court presides on Nov. 12, 2024, in Chicago. Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Dozens of asylum cases filed ...

Part of the surge are waves of ICE arrests in Maine and Massachusetts that land detainees at Wyatt in Central Falls.

On Jan. 30, as immigration attorney Matthew Mockenhaupt was representing a client in a hearing, his email inbox flooded with ...