In April, authorities raided what they say was a Tren de Aragua gathering. Attendees say it was a birthday party. Among those detained included a homeless barber/DoorDash driver, and three people who fled Venezuela years ago *because of* that gang 🧵 www.texasobserver.org/officials-tr...

Hi! We made a show for you about what’s been happening at immigration court: www.thisamericanlife.org/868/the-hand...

After a White House proclamation Friday night left H-1B workers scrambling to make it back to the US before Sunday, the Trump administration says a new $100,000 entry fee doesn’t apply to current visa holders. #H1B #tech #immigration

An H-1B travel ban? The White House issued a proclamation Friday using the same legal authority behind the Trump travel ban to impose a new $100,000 entry fee for H-1B workers. But attorneys say the measure flouts the Immigration and Nationality Act and invites immediate legal challenges.

President Trump plans to sign a proclamation as soon as Friday requiring a $100,000 fee for H-1B applications, @bloomberg.com reports. The proclamation will assert that the H-1B visa has displaced US workers and restrict entry under the program without the payment.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers are renewing efforts to protect children of immigrant workers who may age out of legal status while their parents are stuck in green card backlogs.

Marco Rubio’s promise to revoke visas over statements about the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk is the latest instance of the Trump administration using visa policy in furtherance of its political agenda.

The Ninth Circuit denied an emergency request from DHS to pause restoration of temporary protections for half a million Venezuelans in the US. A three-judge panel found the Trump administration had pointed to no evidence of irreparable harm from staying termination of Temporary Protected Status.

The number of local law enforcement agencies in Pennsylvania that have signed agreements to help ICE enforce immigration laws has nearly quadrupled, from 10 in mid-May to 39 early this month (w/ @jeffgammage.bsky.social): www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

The Trump administration notched a win in the legal battle over termination of parole for half a million immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Read the First Circuit opinion here: aboutblaw.com/bjvT #CHNV #parole #DHS

Ukrainians who fled to the US from the war in their home country are seeing their lawful status and work authorization lapse—a problem that supporters say will affect thousands in the coming months.

The federal raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia has put a new spotlight on short-term B-1 business visitor visas as well as the Visa Waiver Program. Both programs allow for a limited range of business activities although not employment for a US company. #ICE #Hyundai #immigration

The State Department is ending third-country processing for nonimmigrant visa applicants, a move that could pose huge challenges for athletes and touring artists as well as H-1B workers from India. #statedepartment #visas #H1Bvisa

Judge Edward Chen's order restored protections for some 350,000 Venezuelans. DHS began drafting plans to terminate TPS within days of Trump's inauguration, supporting arguments the decision was predetermined, he found.

DHS terminations of Temporary Protected Status for several hundred thousand immigrants from Venezuela and Haiti were unlawful, a San Francisco court ruled Friday Read the opinion here: aboutblaw.com/bjq4 #TPS #Venezuela #Haiti #immigration

More than a quarter million Venezuelan TPS holders will lose their lawful status in November, according to a Federal Register notice DHS released Friday.

DOL has sent a new H-2A wage rule to the White House for clearance a week after a Louisiana judge vacated Biden-era regulations on the seasonal farmworker visa program.

USCIS, the agency that issues green cards and other work permits, plans to hire armed law enforcement officers to investigate fraud and other violations. It's the biggest move yet by the benefits agency to embrace a new role as an enforcement arm of the Trump administration immigration crackdown.

DHS says it’s cancelling Temporary Protected Status for another quarter million Venezuelans just a week after the Ninth Circuit said the termination of a Biden extension was unlawful.

JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

A Ninth Circuit panel found the Trump administration's early termination of Temporary Protected Status for several hundred thousand Venezuelans immigrants was likely unlawful. Read their opinion here: aboutblaw.com/bjnr #immigration #DHS #TPS

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The Trump administration is looking to limit student and exchange visa holders to a fixed period of stay in the US with a proposal released Wednesday You can read the 160-page proposal here: aboutblaw.com/bjkY lnkd.in/eVauzh7S

Another infuriating aspect of ICE roaming around D.C. that I hadn't thought about. I just talked to a D.C. woman whose husband is undocumented and whose employer is refusing to pay him for work he's already done -- and threatening to call ICE if he keeps asking for the money he's owed.

Recently @prismreports.org has published many dispatches from Gaza, written by Palestinians surviving the genocide. All of them are heartbreaking, necessary reads. This one, written by Logain Hamdan about kids eating "ice cream" flavored with antibiotics, will stick with me for the rest of my life.

The State Department can't use President Trump's travel ban to refuse to make visa decisions for winners of the Diversity Visa lottery, a DC district court judge said Thursday. Lottery winners from countries covered by the travel ban sued to get applications processed by a Sept. 30 deadline.

In-person interview requirements, appointment backlogs, social media scrutiny and—still yet to come—steep new fees for temporary visas. Workers, tourists and other visitors are facing more delays and higher costs for travel to the U.S. under the Trump administration.

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

The Trump administration can go ahead with axing Temporary Protected Status for 60,000 immigrants from Central America and Nepal, a federal appeals panel said in a two-page order Wednesday.

USCIS will scrutinize support for "anti-American" ideologies and activities by applicants for benefits like citizenship. The agency previously announced that "good moral character" would be evaluated before approving naturalization requests.

Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...

Mass departures from the US Justice Department and a rising flood of lawsuits are squeezing government lawyers defending administration policies, with signs of strain spilling into court.

Latest: CBP has been targeting cruise ship crews for deportation and revoking their work visas based on allegations of viewing or posting child pornography. But detainees aren't shown the evidence against them or given any due process before they're summarily deported reason.com/2025/08/13/c...

The Ninth Circuit denied GEO Group a rehearing in its challenge to a $23.2 million verdict over wages paid to immigrant detainees in Washington state. A split Ninth Circuit panel ruled in January that a Washington minimum wage law applied to all employers, including federal contractors.

Two DHS agencies, FEMA and USCIS, severed contracts with employee unions, expanding President Trump’s blitz against federal workers, @bgov.com's Ellen Gilmer and I report. They're among a swathe of agencies named in a March executive order targeting collective bargaining agreements.

A proposal to replace the randomized lottery for the H-1B visa program with a weighted selection process cleared White House review, signaling its public release is coming soon. #H1B #immigration #tech

DHS is reversing a Biden-era policy change adopted to protect children of H-1B workers from aging out legal status while they're stuck in green card backlogs. The agency says the policy resulted in inconsistent treatment of green card applications filed in the US versus outside the country.

A proposal to limit foreign students to a fixed period of status in the US looks to be coming soon. DHS regulations have cleared White House review this week.

A new lawsuit asks a DC court to set aside the Trump administration's mass revocation of F-1 student visas. It's the latest suit to argue courts can scrutinize the State Department's role because the agency took its cues from DHS, rather than make individual reviews of students' cases.

The University of California can't use threats of federal enforcement to justify a hiring policy that discriminates against undocumented immigrant students in violation of state law, a California appellate court found.

How have immigration officers tracked down unaccompanied minors for those "welfare checks" widely reported across the U.S.? Sometimes, by getting their addresses from school resource officers @rachelspacek.bsky.social breaks down how this happened in Idaho www.investigatewest.org/investigatew...

Just two countries, Malawi and Zambia, will be subject to new visa bonds for business travelers and tourists. Travelers from those countries could be required to pay bonds as high as $15,000 for visas beginning Aug. 20.

The State Department is reintroducing a passport requirement from the first Trump administration for green card lottery applicants. That rule was followed by a drop in registrations but was later struck down by a federal judge because it didn’t go through a public comment process.

USCIS plans to block transgender women athletes from temporary visa and green card categories for applicants with extraordinary ability. The policy aims to carry out a Trump executive order targeting participation of transgender athletes at all levels of women’s sports.

It’s getting more expensive for some business and tourist travelers to enter the US. The State Department is imposing visa bonds as high as $15,000 for visitors from certain countries as part of a new pilot program, focusing on those with high overstay rates and deficient vetting.

Tens of thousands of vulnerable immigrant kids and young adults stuck in green card backlogs could become new targets of the Trump deportation agenda. DHS earlier this year quietly scrapped a Biden-era deferred action policy for immigrant youth approved for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.

A San Francisco judge blocked the Trump administration from terminating TPS protections for 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal. #immigration #TPS #DHS #Honduras

Scoop by @bgov.com's Ellen Gilmer: House Democrats are demanding answers on denaturalization efforts by the Trump administration. A June DOJ memo named denaturalization cases as one of five priorities at the agency's Civil Division. #immigration #citizenship #denaturalization

The Trump administration is facing a new challenge to its cancellation of Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitians. A lawsuit filed in DC alleges procedural and equal protection violations in by the Department of Homeland Security.

Latest: I got the medical examiner report on Marie Blaise, who died of a heart attack in ICE custody Blaise's son told an investigator that he spoke with her on the phone the day of her death, and she complained of chest pains and said staff wouldn't let her see a doctor reason.com/2025/07/30/w...