High Court Rules in Favor of Immigrant
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that seriously injuring someone while driving drunk does not amount to a "crime of violence" that would be grounds for deporting non-citizens.
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The US Supreme Court rules that the race of a child cannot be used to determine the school he or she goes to.
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A high court on Friday ruled in favor of a Cuban dissident who was recently deported from Bolivia for criticizing President Evo Morales, saying a law prohibiting foreigners from involvement in the Andean country's politics is unconstitutional.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on  Tuesday that it would decide whether the government can take a  person's home or business for a private development project  intended to boost tax revenues and revitalize a local economy.
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The US House of Representatives passes tough legislation against immigration.
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A federal appeals court in Washington ruled yesterday that a U.S. citizen  in U.S. military custody in Iraq has the right to challenge his detention in a federal court.
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The move had been thought to be at odds with Gov. Eliot L. Spitzerâs plan to allow illegal immigrants to apply for driverâs licenses.
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After two years of inaction, U.S. immigration authorities approved a request Thursday for the 3-year-old son of a U.S. citizen to emigrate from Morocco and join his family in Virginia.
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Most court cases brought by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security involved immigration issues not claims of terrorism, according to a report issued Sunday by an independent research group. But a DHS spokesman dismissed the study, saying  that, by clamping down on all forms of immigration, the agency has made it difficult for terrorists to come to the United States.
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New YorkÂs immigration court illustrates the crunch that judges face in big cities where complicated cases like asylum crowd the docket.
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An Afghan woman who lived for  nearly 20 years in Germany should be granted asylum in the  United States because of hostility toward foreigners in  Germany, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
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Facing a rapidly growing backlog of immigration cases, the Bush administration will grant permanent residency to tens of thousands of legal U.S. immigrants without first completing required background checks against the FBI's investigative files.
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The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether voter identification laws unfairly deter the poor and minorities from voting, stepping into a contentious partisan issue in advance of the 2008 elections.
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An appeals court on Wednesday ruled against accused Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, saying a U.S. immigration judge had the authority to order the retired Ohio auto worker deported to his native Ukraine.
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The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that federal taxpayers cannot challenge the constitutionality of White House efforts to help religious groups obtain government funding for their social programs, handing a victory to President Bush's faith-based initiatives program.
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The Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether the government can send immigrants back to countries that haven't agreed to accept them, a question that will determine the fate of thousands of Somalis resisting deportation to their war-torn homeland.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear the appeal of a Mexican national on death row in Texas, stepping into an international debate over the legal rights of foreigners in capital punishment cases.