June 27th, 20261WASHINGTON, D.C. — A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling is drawing widespread attention among immigrant communities after expanding the federal government's authority to scrutinize some lawful permanent residents returning to the United States from international travel when they have pending criminal charges or legal issues that could...
August 30th, 20240The Arab American Civil Rights League filed a federal complaint against Customs and Border Protection after an officer questioned Taiba Elgattani, who wears a hijab and uses a wheelchair, for three hours in the Metro Detroit Airport before sending her back to where she lives in the U.K. without alerting her family.
Elgattani flew from...
April 6th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump, unable to get Congress or Mexico to fully fund his border wall, will post National Guard troops along the Mexican frontier, officials said on Wednesday, in a move that was likely to escalate tensions with a key U.S. ally.
The Trump administration was working with the governors of the four...
February 23rd, 20180NEW YORK — On Tuesday, A New York civil rights group sued Trump administration officials over what it called prolonged detention of immigrant children, blaming recent shifts in U.S. government policy for keeping children locked up without cause.
The New York Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court,...
February 9th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security called on authorities in a draft report from late January to continuously vet Sunni Muslims coming into the U.S. who fit an "at-risk" demographic profile.
The report, obtained by Foreign Policy Magazine, reviews 25 terrorist attacks in the United States between October 2001 and...
