Immigration

Attorney General Jeff Sessions just bared judges from pausing low-priority cases while immigrants await visa applications and criminal conviction appeals.

But several civil rights organizations—and Senators—say the measure would do nothing to address sentencing reform that Black and Latinx people desperately need.

“The government certainly has been relentless in their attempts to find ways to force their anti-abortion beliefs on this population, and I feel like this is just another iteration of what they’ve done in the past.”

Led by Texas, the lawsuit asks district court to determine whether program that protects young immigrants from deportation is lawful.

In response to bipartisan pressure, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lifts the freeze on a program that assisted 53,000 immigrants in more than a dozen states in 2017.

The ruling forces the federal government to accept new applications for deportation protection unless the Department of Homeland Security can produce sound reasoning for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program within 90 days.

Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch sides with liberal justices as SCOTUS strikes down federal provision that facilitated deportation of convicted immigrants.

The move comes as details emerge on the role troops deployed by President Donald Trump will play on the United States-Mexico border.

The temporary injunction also prevents the government from barring access to medical appointments.