DC Circuit Questions If Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Fee Is a Tax
A federal appellate panel focused Monday on whether a $100,000 Trump fee on H-1B worker petitions should be considered a tax, or a use of presidential authority to restrict entry to the US.
A federal appellate panel focused Monday on whether a $100,000 Trump fee on H-1B worker petitions should be considered a tax, or a use of presidential authority to restrict entry to the US.
An academic group is suing the State Department over a policy to revoke and deny visas based on noncitizens’ work involving social media platforms.
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California dropped its lawsuit that alleged the Trump administration slashed $33 million in federal funding after accusing the state of failing to crack down on drivers who didn’t demonstrate English proficiency.
A Massachusetts federal court dismissed a Babson College freshman’s challenge to the government’s deportation of her, because she didn’t return to the US from Honduras.
A federal judge barred the Trump administration from implementing most of a new regulation that would overhaul how deportation appeals are reviewed, siding with immigration advocacy groups that argued the rule violates federal law.
Efforts in Congress to regulate or tax litigation funders have stalled amid opposition from an unlikely alliance of MAGA figures such as Laura Loomer, progressive Democrats and trial lawyers.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement must let attorneys representing noncitizens detained in Manhattan’s immigration courthouse take photos of the facilities and talk to detainees, a judge ordered Friday.
The Ninth Circuit on Friday paused a federal judge’s order that voided a Board of Immigration Appeals decision used by the Trump administration’s immigration judges to deny bond hearings to detained noncitizens and uphold its policy of mandatory detention.
Kristi Noem’s 13-month tenure leading the Department of Homeland Security was marked by controversy. But it wasn’t the two American citizens’ deaths at the hands of federal immigration agents that ultimately cost her the job.



The history of the H-1B visa from its origins in 1952, when Harry S. Truman was president, to the major developments since Trump’s “Buy American and Hire American” executive order.
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