If you've been making anti-American jokes on Twitter, it's time to stop. The Department of Homeland Security may be after you.
British tourists Leigh Van Bryan, 26, and Emily Bunting, 24, were stopped at Los Angeles International Airport last week after going through customs. Agents arrested the pair and interrogated them for 12 hours.
They were then deported over Twitter jokes.
Jakadrien Turner, the Texas teen deported to Colombia, is returning home this weekend after spending months abroad.
The 15-year-old runaway was referred to U.S. immigration officials earlier this year after she gave police a fake name . The name coincidentally was that of an undocumented 20-year-old Colombian woman.
Her grandmother tracked her down on Facebook and was surprised to learn she was in Bogota.
The Obama birthplace lawsuit was dismissed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday. The "birther" lawsuit was filed by several different plaintiffs including taxpayers, political rivals, and military officers. The suit sought to challenge President Obama's citizenship.
They claimed that Obama wasn't born in the United States, which would have larger ramifications. Only a "natural born" citizen can serve as president.
The "birthers" persisted despite the fact that President Obama released his "long-form" birth certificate. They claimed that Obama, who has a Kenyan father, was actually born overseas in Africa. The "birthers" said that Obama's Hawaii birth certificate was nothing more than a forgery.
Nearly half of New York-area immigration lawyers are "inadequate" or "grossly inadequate," with private immigration attorneys faring the worst, a survey of immigration judges finds.
Still, immigrants facing deportation fare far better with lawyers than without, the survey finds.
The survey found immigration lawyers were often poorly prepared, and sometimes failed to show up for hearings at five immigration courts in and around New York City, The New York Times reports.
The Supreme Court has agreed to consider the constitutionality of Arizona's immigration law, adding yet another blockbuster case to its docket. Oral arguments in Arizona v. United States are expected in April, which would place a final decision sometime in June.
The Court's decision will impact the nation's immigration policy on a grand scale. Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah have all passed similar anti-immigration laws. The future of those laws will also be decided in this case, as they are also said to infringe on federal immigration powers.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has agreed to expedite an appeal concerning the controversial Alabama immigration law.
On September 28, a lower court declined to grant the Department of Justice an injunction blocking the law's enforcement. The government had requested that it be put on hold until the court could decide on its constitutionality.
The lower court's denial is at odds with decisions blocking similar immigration laws in Arizona and Georgia.
A New Mexico driver's license verification program implemented by Governor Susana Martinez has come under fire in a lawsuit filed by four Democratic legislators and a resident with legal status.
Believing that New Mexico's licensing program, which allows illegal immigrants who live in-state to obtain a driver's license, is ridden with fraud, the Governor's office sent 10,000 letters to registered foreign citizens to determine whether or not they live within the state.
The plaintiffs want the program to stop, alleging that it is discriminatory.
The state of Washington has revoked the driver's license of Jose Antonio Vargas in response to the undocumented reporter revealing that he has hid his illegal immigrant status from his friends and employers for the last 14 years.
Last month the New York Times published an article by Vargas entitled, My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant, detailing his arrival in the United States and the steps he took to conceal his status so that he could attend college and work his way to a promising career in journalism.
For millions, the green card lottery is their ticket to the American dream. Winners of the green card lottery, open to citizens from countries that have low rates of immigration to the U.S., have the chance to apply for a green card. But now, a green card lawsuit has been dismissed by a federal judge.
The reason for the lawsuit? A glitch in the State Department's computer systems made it so that the "random" selection of the 15 million or so entrants into the lottery was not so random, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The result has been heartbreaking for hopeful-citizens. The State Department did not realize its error until it had already notified 22,316 applicants that they had been selected for the lottery. And, in finding the error, the State Department voided the results, launching a new lottery. A class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of the "winners."
A federal judge partially blocked a controversial Georgia immigration law from coming into effect on Monday, a move that civil rights and pro-immigrant groups are hailing as a success.
The ruling, which is the fourth time in the last year a federal court has halted a state-backed immigration bill, will prevent what are the law's most arguably contentious provisions from going into effect until a full trial can be had at some point in the next year.
