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The California Legislature spent the final hours of its session doing something no state has tried before: writing a law that would make a federal immigration officer permanently unemployable by any public body in California. The measure is Assembly Bill 1896, and its authors gave it a name that leaves no doubt about what they…
President Donald Trump is taking one of the defining fights of his second term to the highest court in the country. This week his administration asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the sweeping asylum bar he imposed on his first day back in office, a policy that all but shut the door on migrants trying…
The Trump administration is trying again to put a six-figure price on hiring foreign workers, and this time it is writing the number into federal regulation. The Department of Homeland Security has proposed a new fee of $103,265 on every H-1B petition subject to the annual cap, a charge that would land on top of…
A federal judge in Manhattan erased the Trump administration’s ban on immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries on Friday, ruling that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had no power to issue it and that the policy violated a nondiscrimination statute Congress wrote in 1965. The countries covered nearly 40 percent of the world. The…
A federal immigration officer has been sitting in the Cameron County jail in south Texas since May 29, and the state of Minnesota wants him back badly enough to sue the governor of Texas to get him. Greg Abbott has had the paperwork on his desk since June 3 and has not signed it, has…
A federal judge has refused to freeze President Donald Trump’s plan for 62 more miles of border wall along Arizona’s border with Mexico. The Tohono O’odham Nation asked the court to stop the project before construction could disturb land the tribe regards as sacred. The answer, for now, is no. The ruling is a concrete…
Minnesota Republicans just handed President Donald Trump one of the sharpest rebukes of his second-term endorsement run. On Tuesday, state House Speaker Lisa Demuth won the Republican primary for governor, beating MyPillow founder and steadfast Trump ally Mike Lindell even though the president had personally thrown his weight behind Lindell. The result sets up a…
The Justice Department opened a new front in President Trump’s immigration fight on Monday, hauling three Democratic-led states into federal court over a benefit that conservatives have spent years calling an outrage: the in-state college tuition rates and financial aid that New York, Connecticut, and Vermont extend to immigrants living in the country illegally. The…
Andy Ogles had the president’s endorsement, a seat on two committees, and a Freedom Caucus membership that made him one of the loudest conservatives in the House. He lost anyway, to a retired state agriculture commissioner running on the slogan “Hire a Farmer.” Between those two facts sits a super PAC that was ten months…
Governor Gavin Newsom is leading California into a new court fight against the Trump administration’s election-security conditions on homeland-security grants. The lawsuit does not claim that Trump’s policy has already been struck down. It asks a federal court to stop the conditions before states must surrender 20% of their Homeland Security Grant Program awards to…
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