In February 2019, President Trump declared a national emergency in order to secure funding for the border wall after Congress awarded only $1.4 billion of the requested $6 billion needed to complete it. Subsequently, the U.S. Department of Defens…
9th Circuit court of appeals
The Supreme Court recently handed down a decision in United States v. Sineneng-Smith, reversing a Ninth Circuit decision that purported to invalidate the federal statute that makes it a crime to encourage illegal immigration. Court commentators were qu…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed a lower-court judge’s decision requiring a California Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) detention facility to release at least 250 detainees due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The facility in ques…