The Justice Department has hired 33 new immigration judges, including 27 temporary ones, after firing or pushing out more than 100 others as the Trump administration seeks out new recruits to serve as what it dubs "deportation judges.

U.S. District Judge Jerry Blackwell admonished the Trump administration for what he said was a failure to comply with judicial orders, warning it is "not above the law."

Springfield, Ohio, is a the center of the nationwide immigration debate once again after the town's thousands of Haitian migrants were hotly debated during the 2024 election.

An El Paso federal judge says immigration appeals rulings that curtailed bond hearings have driven a record surge of habeas corpus cases as detained migrants seek release in federal court.

The ruling comes just days after federal agents launched tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators, including young children, that local officials described as peaceful.

A federal judge on Monday indefinitely postponed the termination of protected status for thousands of Haitians in the United States.

Judge Fred Biery's immigration order prompts Senator Mike Lee to call for impeachment after the Clinton appointee criticized Trump administration deportation practices.

As President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has whisked through major US cities, trial-level judges attempting to restrain the frenzied actions of federal agents have been repeatedly slapped down by higher courts – sometimes with the help of judges the president put on the bench in his first term.