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A Salvadoran woman's recent lawsuit alleging immigration authorities locked her up for months despite her protected status highlights how authorized immigrants, and sometimes even U.S. citizens, can wind up being wrongfully detained, and how, with no right to counsel in immigration proceedings, it can prove difficult to free them.

A divided Fifth Circuit blocked a Texas law that would have allowed the state to arrest and deport migrants suspected of having crossed the border unlawfully, ruling in a decision released just after midnight Wednesday that federal immigration authority likely trumps state powers.

The Senate reached an impasse Wednesday on funding for Ukraine shortly after President Joe Biden accused some Republicans of "playing chicken" with U.S. national security interests, but said he is willing to make "significant compromises" on border security to get his supplemental security funding request passed.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee criticized President Joe Biden's approach to immigration policy, including asylum limits, expedited removal procedures and the required use of a mobile application for migrants, saying in a Friday report that the policies may risk violating treaty obligations.

A new proposal from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security unveiled Friday that's intended to overhaul the H-1B visa program aims to crack down on fraudulent lottery registrations by selecting individual beneficiaries rather than employers, earning praise from proponents who said the planned changes will solve long-running problems.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review if Board of Immigration Appeals decisions denying removal cancelation for exceptional hardship are reviewable, and will also hear three consolidated cases on what constitutes sufficient immigration notices.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told employees Wednesday that Patrick Lechleitner will be taking over Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership in an acting capacity, delivering the news just three weeks after current acting director Tae Johnson announced his retirement.

The U.S. Supreme Court's takedown of Texas and Louisiana's lawsuit challenging President Joe Biden's immigration enforcement priorities could threaten the viability of other Republican-led suits that take a broad view of standing and injury to challenge Biden's immigration agenda.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that Texas and Louisiana lack standing to challenge President Joe Biden's attempt to prioritize national security threats and other targets for immigration arrests and deportations.

In the absence of guidance from the U.S. Supreme Court on whether prolonged detention of noncitizens passes constitutional muster, attorneys must not delay negotiating with the government when filing habeas petitions for clients, a panel of practitioners said Wednesday.