Judicial Nominee Emil Bove Can't Recall Whether He Said the DOJ Might Say 'Fuck You' To Court Orders
The alleged incident goes to the heart of the objections raised by critics who worry about Bove's respect for the rule of law.
The alleged incident goes to the heart of the objections raised by critics who worry about Bove's respect for the rule of law.
"We have no criticism of the U.S. government—on the contrary, we are truly thankful. However, we are deeply afraid of the possibility of being returned to Afghanistan."
My Cato Institute colleague David Bier presented it in testimony before a congressional committee.
Florida’s elected officials should learn from the original facility that inspired the state’s newest immigrant detention center's name, and change course before it’s too late.
Racial profiling is a longstanding problem, exacerbated by Trump Administration deportation policies.
A DHS video lionizing Customs and Border Protection quotes the Bible and includes a song promising that "God's gonna cut you down."
The government’s lawyers also say that supposedly nonexistent policy is perfectly consistent with the First Amendment.
The president is torn between the economic concerns of his supporters and the demands of immigration hardliners.
“There's no such thing as a free stadium,” says J.C. Bradbury. “You can't just pull revenue out of thin air.”
Class actions and Administrative Procedure Act claims can achieve much the same result as the nationwide orders that the Supreme Court rejected.
Our dreams have fallen from supersonic world travel to jailing migrants who've hurt no one.
Legal experts are concerned that immigration judges with only six weeks of training will not uphold constitutional protections for migrants.
Only eight days after construction began, Florida’s new immigration detention center in the Everglades is set to officially open this week.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is considering whether the president properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.
They face severe persecution if deported to Iran.
More government agencies are using facial recognition for enforcement than ever before.
Dismissing asylum applications for migrants who entered the U.S. unlawfully would boost immigration-related arrests, but have little impact on public safety.
That's inevitable. It should also be deeply troubling to anyone who cares about constitutional government.
The liberal justice faults the majority for leaving deportees to “suffer violence in far-flung locales.”
Marco Rubio’s nebulous invocation of foreign policy interests is bound to have a chilling impact on freedom of speech, which is the whole point.
The ruling includes no analysis. Justice Sotomayor's dissent has a compelling explanation of why it is wrong.
The Florida attorney general stated that the facilities will add 5,000 beds and be operational as early as the first week of July.
From California to Florida, farmers face a shrinking domestic workforce, burdensome labor regulations, and a bureaucratic mess that makes hiring legally very difficult.
Although the appeals court said the president probably complied with the law he invoked to justify his California deployment, it emphasized that such decisions are subject to judicial review.
Florida's attorney general proposed using a 30-square-mile part of the Everglades to house, process, and deport detained migrants.
The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.
On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.
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Deportation means expelling an alien back to their home country for violating immigration law. Many of the Trump administration's actions don't meet that definition.
"I think it just puts a lot of fear in people—especially the hard-working people who are doing nothing wrong."
U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz highlights the chilling impact of Marco Rubio's dubious rationale for deporting students whose views offend him.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the president failed to comply with the statute he cited—and violated the 10th Amendment too.
Even if the president was joking in both cases, he already has used his powers to punish people whose views offend him.
In a federal lawsuit, California's governor argues that the president's assertion of control over "the State's militia" is illegal and unconstitutional.
The Department of Justice brought the deported Salvadoran back to U.S. soil for trial, reversing its long-held contention that he would "never" return.
Those accused of wrongdoing have the right to challenge the evidence against them before the government takes away their liberty.
Without such intervention, he warns, the government "could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action."
The president treats legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat.
Father of the Constitution James Madison made a distinction between alien enemies and alien friends.
A federal judge blocks the administration's "Student Criminal Alien Initiative," which targeted foreign students who had no criminal records.
Stephen Miller's trial balloon about abrogating habeas corpus in immigration cases shows how any libertarian with pragmatic intelligence should reject so-called "libertarian" arguments for strict immigration laws.
Stephen Miller's understanding of the Constitution is dubious for several reasons.
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We don't need more of the same. We need evidence of a serious turnaround.
A declassified assessment contradicts the president's assertion that Tren de Aragua is "closely aligned with" the Venezuelan government and acts at its "direction."
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ICE deported Andry Hernandez Romero because his "mom" and "dad" tattoos were allegedly related to a Venezuelan gang.
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