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A top U.S. Department of Homeland Security official said Friday the Biden administration has concerns about how litigation blocking its migrant release policy will impact its ability to manage the southern border now that the Trump-era Title 42 policy is gone.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a transgender woman fighting deportation can challenge her removal order at the Fifth Circuit, rejecting the Biden administration's argument that she must first exhaust all administrative remedies at the Board of Immigration Appeals.

The U.S. will establish regional processing centers in Colombia and Guatemala to prescreen refugees for admission, with Canada and Spain agreeing to accept some referrals from the centers, three senior Biden administration officials announced Thursday.

A California federal judge on Friday signed off on an agreement for the federal government to pay $577,000 in attorney fees to advocates to resolve their claims that the Biden administration was holding migrant minors at the southern border in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch seemed unpersuaded Monday that a 70-year-old law that criminalizes "encouraging or inducing" unauthorized immigration flouts the First Amendment, since it has never been used so broadly to prosecute protected speech.

A Florida federal judge’s decision striking down alternatives to detaining migrants may not withstand scrutiny on appeal because of factual errors that ultimately blamed the Biden administration solely for increased migration and the possible misapplication of U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

A Florida state senator released the text of an immigration bill Tuesday that would impose a possible jail term for transporting or harboring undocumented immigrants, while prohibiting local governments from issuing them IDs and requiring employers to use E-verify to confirm employment eligibility.

The Eleventh Circuit chief judge bristled Thursday at the notion that pro-immigrant organizations have standing to challenge a Florida state law banning sanctuary cities just because they spent money educating members about the new law, suggesting more is needed.

A group of noncitizen women subjected to unnecessary gynecological procedures at a Georgia immigration detention center want a federal judge to keep their suit alive, saying they are being threatened with deportation for speaking out about their experiences.

President Joe Biden avoided the administrative missteps that killed his predecessor's policy barring asylum for those who didn't seek it in other countries they traversed, but his similar proposal could still be found to violate U.S. asylum law.