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ICE Memo Narrows Congressional Oversight at Detention Sites

Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a policy limiting how lawmakers can speak with detainees during oversight visits, days after a federal appeals court preserved members’ ability to conduct unannounced inspections at immigrant detention facilities.

IRS-DHS Data Sharing Execution Questioned by Appeals Court

A federal appeals court appeared skeptical Tuesday of the government’s bid to lift a preliminary injunction blocking the IRS from sharing taxpayer data with immigration authorities after mistakenly disclosing thousands of immigrants’ records.

DOJ Defends Migrant Mandatory Detention, Citing Past ‘Inertia’

The Trump administration’s policy of mandatory detention for huge swaths of noncitizens is contrary to decades of practice, a Justice Department attorney acknowledged at a federal appeals court hearing in Denver, but said it was the result of long-running “bureaucratic inertia.”

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Florida State University College of Law

The H-1B Visa: A Brief History From Truman to Trump

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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