The US Supreme Court signaled it’s poised to give the president control over potentially dozens of traditionally independent federal agencies as the court’s dominant conservative wing cast doubt on a 90-year-old precedent.
New York Mayor-elect
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. employees showed that the information technology company’s reliance on employees with H-1B visas had a disparate impact that unlawfully harmed non-Indian and non-South Indian employees, a California federal district court said.
Two Oregon human rights activists have sued the Trump administration, claiming federal agents violated their First Amendment rights when arresting them for protesting outside a federal building that houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices.
Facing a criminal contempt of court probe, Homeland Security Secretary
The Trump administration has started charging a $5,000 fee to people who entered the US illegally.
Federal appeals court judges clashed Friday in oral arguments over how to interpret presidential executive orders rescinding funds from immigrant sanctuary jurisdictions that were successfully blocked in a lawsuit brought by San Francisco.
A legal services nonprofit ended Friday its lawsuit seeking to avoid being prosecuted by Louisiana’s attorney general for offering legal rights training to immigrant communities amid the Trump administration’s New Orleans-centered immigrant crackdown.
The US Supreme Court stayed an appeals court decision questioning the authority of a federal civil service board.
Information technology company Cognizant Technology Corp. and a whistleblower demonstrated that a US appeals court should consider whether a False Claims Act suit alleging H-1B visa fraud can proceed, a Thursday district court order said.
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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