Two states challenging the Biden administration’s decision last year to focus its deportation efforts on individuals deemed to be a threat to public safety urged the Supreme Court during oral arguments on Nov. 29 not to restore the policy. The states take the position that the federal government is illegally refusing to enforce the nation’s…

The Supreme Court gave the Biden administration a green light this morning to end the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy that requires non-Mexican asylum-seekers arriving at the southern border to wait in Mexico for processing. The decision to nix the program did not violate a 1996 migrant detention law, the court held, adding that the…

In a pair of rulings on June 13, the Supreme Court made it harder for those held in immigration detention to bring legal challenges. In Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez, court file 19-896, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote (pdf) for a unanimous court that the federal government is not required to conduct a bond hearing for noncitizens detained…