President Donald Trump's executive order threatening to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" that limit cooperation with immigration authorities is unconstitutional, a U.S. appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The federal government was under a Thursday deadline to reunify more than 2,500 children who were separated at the border from their parents.
As activists have worked toward reunifying thousands of immigrant children and their parents, attention has turned to the contractors that carry out the work on behalf of the federal government.
Three bases in Texas and one in Arkansas have been considered as part of the proposal.
Federal officials said Tuesday that since May, they have separated 2,342 children from their families, rendering them unaccompanied minors in the government's care.
Leaders in both the House and Senate are struggling to shield the party's lawmakers from the public outcry over images of children taken from migrant parents and held in cages at the border.
The president, angry about a rise in illegal immigration, berated Kirstjen Nielsen in a meeting on Wednesday. She has drafted a resignation letter but has not submitted it, officials say.
Cohen’s declaration cited an “ongoing criminal investigation by the FBI and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.”
The judge said that the government’s decision to end the program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was predicated on the “virtually unexplained” grounds that the program is “unlawful.”
The Justice Department cannot force local police departments to cooperate with immigration agents as a condition for receiving federal funding for a law enforcement program, a judge in LA has ruled.
The order specifies that National Guard troops will assist the Department of Homeland Security along the border but not perform law enforcement missions and will be armed only when necessary for self-defense.
The president has told Speaker Paul Ryan that the military should finance it after Congress provided only $1.6 billion.
Arguing that local police have no right to arrest someone for living in the U.S. illegally, the ACLU of Alaska has sued the Palmer Police Department over the arrest of a man beaten in a bar fight last summer.
The move would raise the specter of a months-long court battle over whether the president must answer questions under oath.
The move would raise the specter of a months-long court battle over whether the president must answer questions under oath.
President Trump again seemed to undercut his administration’s message, saying that he would be open to allowing the young illegal immigrants to “morph into” citizens over a period of time.
A judge had stayed the effort to rescind DACA permits.
A judge had stayed the effort to rescind DACA permits.
Canadian officials are warning that even liberal Canada has its limits amid concerns that illegal migration is stretching the immigration system to a breaking point.
Canadian officials are warning that even liberal Canada has its limits amid concerns that illegal migration is stretching the immigration system to a breaking point.
