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A conservative think tank's legal fight to unearth Prince Harry's U.S. visa records following his admission of past drug use has spurred immigration rights advocates to highlight the dearth of attorney representation for most immigrants and urge the prince to join their reform efforts.

A Fifth Circuit judge on Monday seemed concerned about whether border officials flouted an immigration attorney's Fourth Amendment rights by downloading confidential information from his phone at the U.S. border after already seizing and searching it.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday revived appeals from four noncitizens fighting deportation, remanding the cases to their respective circuit courts after ruling earlier this month that appellate courts can issue rulings before administrative options are exhausted.

A California federal judge has partially certified a class of migrant youth challenging U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services over visa processing delays, just days after suggesting that a court victory could backfire as the agency might meet its deadlines by denying their applications.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday fired off another lawsuit aimed at President Joe Biden's immigration policy, this time targeting a new rule limiting asylum at the southern and maritime borders that Texas claims actually encourages illegal immigration.

A coalition of Republican states hoping to revive Title 42 urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to buy into the Biden administration's contention that litigation over the now-terminated Trump-era border policy is moot, saying the argument lacks merit.

A week after the Biden administration ended the Trump-era Title 42 border policy, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Thursday that the administration's act mooted a bid by a coalition of Republican states to keep the embattled policy alive.

A Florida federal judge said Tuesday he won't hold the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in contempt for flouting an order blocking a new policy allowing migrants to be quickly released with instructions to report to immigration officials later.

A Texas federal judge on Friday sidestepped the Lone Star State's effort to halt an already blocked Biden administration policy allowing immigration officials to release noncitizens without placing them in removal proceedings amid the wind-down of the Title 42 border policy.

The American Civil Liberties Union challenged a Biden administration rule it claims resuscitates illegal features of Trump-era policies and will essentially ban asylum, just as the federal government grapples with a spike in migration as the Title 42 border policy ends.