The Biden administration on Friday advised the U.S. Supreme Court against adopting two noncitizens' interpretations of obstruction of justice offenses that merit deportation, saying they offered lax definitions that would exclude threatening and retaliating against witnesses.
A Texas-led coalition of states rebuffed claims that unwinding Obama-era protections shielding young immigrants from deportation would harm the communities they live in, telling a Texas federal judge he could phase the program down over two years to blunt the impact.
The Ninth Circuit refused to upend a permanent resident's deportation order over his participation in a credit card theft scheme, ruling that he must be held accountable for the conspiracy's total costs, instead of the harm he personally dealt.
A U.S. Department of Labor appeals board refused to certify a Georgia landscaper for the H-2B seasonal worker visa program, saying the company hadn't explained why it needed additional migrant workers to deal with an expected rise in work.
A judge upended a U.S. Department of Labor decision booting a Florida company from the H-2A seasonal agricultural worker program over laid-off U.S. workers, saying the company appropriately let the laborers go after they refused to work.