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The Biden administration proposed a new temporary rule Tuesday that would limit asylum eligibility for migrants who arrive without proper documentation and have not first sought protections in other countries through which they may have traveled on their way to the U.S.

A recent increase in the number of judges in the Southern District of Texas' Victoria division could dampen the state government's apparent strategy of getting a sympathetic judge to preside over its challenges to federal immigration policy.

Attorneys for a California man the Ninth Circuit partly cleared of encouraging unlawful immigration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to reject the Biden administration's bid to revive the law the Ninth Circuit struck down to clear him.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday canceled upcoming oral arguments in a dispute over red states' bid to join a Title 42 fight, after the Biden administration indicated this month the case will be moot once the COVID-19 public health emergency ends in May.

The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday paused the Biden administration's appeal of a district court injunction barring the end of the Title 42 border policy after the administration argued the case would become moot when the COVID-19 public emergency ends in May.

The Ninth Circuit's decision to vacate an order that could have led to 300,000 foreigners losing temporary protected status gives President Joe Biden an opening to decide whether to continue defending his predecessor's attempt to revoke immigration protections.

The White House's planned termination of coronavirus-related national and public health emergencies could moot current litigation of Title 42, which has been used to swiftly expel migrants without proper travel documentation, but it could also usher in new lawsuits over the policy.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged a New York federal judge Monday to vacate a decision allowing testimony from a federal official about why a Honduran father was separated from his toddler, saying it was premised on a misunderstanding.

A group of asylum seekers whose personal information U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said was unintentionally exposed want the federal government to presume the breach endangers them in weighing their asylum claims, according to a new class action suit.

A coalition of Republican states told the U.S. Supreme Court that the D.C. Circuit flouted all timeliness benchmarks in keeping the states out of a suit to defend the use of Title 42 allowing the swift expulsion of migrants.