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 ...

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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is seeking comments on a new standing order providing added time for review of a motion to freeze action in an immigration removal or deportation case. The standing order provides for entry of ...

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The Supreme Court is trying to sort out whether states can prosecute immigrants who use fake Social Security numbers to get a job. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in Kansas’ appeal of a state court ruling that threw out three ...

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  A North Carolina family that was denied U.S. citizenship because neither their attorney nor representatives from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told them they had to fill out a certain form and pay a fee to apply for their ...

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North Carolina legislators are pressing ahead with a controversial bill that would require sheriffs in the state’s 100 counties to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when their officers arrest people whom ICE believes have emigrated to the ...

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 The arrest of hundreds of undocumented immigrants in North Carolina last week has prompted two Latino advocacy groups to establish a legal fund. The News & Observer reports Durham’s El Hispano Centro and Siler City’s The Hispanic Liaison announced Monday that they’ve ...

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  More than 200 undocumented immigrants have been quietly relocated across the country to a jail in North Charleston, South Carolina, a move that some local immigration attorneys are contending was done in an attempt to limit their right to ...

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An asylum applicant from the west African nation of Benin who received death threats after neighbors and family in his home country discovered he was bisexual is in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, despite a ruling by the ...

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A Mecklenburg County Superior Court didn’t have jurisdiction to grant the habeas corpus petitions of two men who were arrested by the local sheriff’s office and detained pursuant to a written agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the North ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A North Carolina man who federal authorities say sexually abused his stepdaughter has been stripped of his United States citizenship and will be deported to Ghana. The News & Observer cites a U.S. Justice Department statement that says Prempeh Ernest ...

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