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Supreme Court rejects Texas lawsuit over Biden deportation policy — The Texas Tribune Texas and Louisiana sued after the Biden administration told immigration agents to focus on deporting undocumented immigrants who are convicted of felonies or pose a risk to public safety. The Supreme Court said states didn’t have any standing to sue.

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Biden’s New Immigration Policy Cements End of Liberal Asylum Rules — The Wall Street Journal Title 42 made it possible to turn away people at the southern border and expires on Thursday

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Court declares DACA illegal, leaves policy intact for current enrollees — CBS News As of June 30, 594,120 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children were enrolled in DACA, half of whom live in California, Texas and Illinois.

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Supreme Court allows Biden to end Trump-era 'Remain in Mexico' policy — NBC News The policy required people seeking asylum at the southern border to wait in Mexico while their claims were decided.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/11/us-tries-to-speed-up-deportation-proceedings-for-unauthorized-migrants.html

https://www.vox.com/2021/8/24/22640424/supreme-court-remain-in-mexico-trump-biden-samuel-alito-immigration

The Supreme Court’s stunning, radical immigration decision, explained The Court’s decision on Trump’s "Remain in Mexico" policy upends decades of precedent warning that judges shouldn’t mess with foreign affairs.

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A new Supreme Court case could blow up decades of US diplomacy — Vox The Court must decide whether rogue judges have the power to dismantle US foreign policy.

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Biden Administration Ordered to Reinstate Trump’s Remain in Mexico Policy — The Wall Street Journal Trump had stopped enforcing the immigration policy at the start of the pandemic

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Deported migrants struggle to start over in a place that doesn’t feel like home — National Geographic Salvadorans deported from the U.S. face an agonizing dilemma: risk returning to the life they know, or building a new one in their native land.

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Federal judge finds DACA unlawful, blocks new applicants — POLITICO Current recipients are unaffected for now, but the Texas court ruling could spur congressional action.

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Biden unveils push to encourage US citizenship The Biden administration is kicking off an effort to encourage longtime residents to apply for U.S. citizenship, launching a cross-agency campaign to reach some 9 million people eligible to become Americans.

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The Justice Department Overturns Rules That Limited Asylum For Survivors Of Violence — NPR In a victory for survivors of domestic and gang violence, the Department of Justice on Wednesday vacated the controversial Trump-era decisions.

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Supreme Court sides with undocumented immigrant fighting deportation — ABC News An unusual alignment of justices pitted Neil Gorsuch against Brett Kavanaugh.

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Opinion says lawyers can use online payment apps to receive funds Lawyers can accept fees and payments into trust accounts via online payments apps like PayPal, Venmo, ApplePay, LawPay, and LexCharge but must ensure that app privacy settings are set to protect client confidentiality and take reasonable steps to guarantee the transaction is secure. The Professional...

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Backlog of migrant children in Border Patrol custody soars to 4,200 — CBS News Some migrant children in U.S. Border Patrol custody have told lawyers they are being held in overcrowded conditions.

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Biden swore to overhaul immigration. But immigrants remain in limbo. — POLITICO The president inherited a complicated puzzle: a convoluted immigration system designed to do the exact opposite of what he wants it to do.

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Biden administration ditches Trump plan to limit immigration for financially dependent The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court that it was dropping its defense of the Trump-era expansion of the "public charge" rule.

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Supreme Court Makes It Harder For Undocumented Immigrants To Fight Deportation — NPR The court's 5-to-3 ruling came in the case of a man who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years but who had used a fake Social Security card to get a job as a janitor.

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Here Are The Immigration Actions President Biden Plans To Sign President Biden has been working to unwind many of the executive actions taken by former President Donald Trump. But the administration has warned that the changes will take time.

US Department of State's Temporary Final Rule Creates Visa Bond Pilot Program for Certain B-1/B-2 Applicants. The Rule applies to applicants seeking tourists visas who fall under the following criteria:

a) The applicant is from a country with a high rate of B-1/B-2 overstay based on 2019 DHS data, such as applicants from Afghanistan, Angola, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa), Djibouti, Eritrea, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Laos, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, Papua New Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen;
b) The applicant is subject to a ground of inadmissibility; and
C) The applicant possesses an approved 212(d)(3) waiver.