Published on: 2025-07-08 00:00:00
Since the end of January, Ryan Helgeson, a Chicago-based immigration attorney, has noticed an unusual trend: He’s been getting significantly more pushback from US Citizenship and Immigration Services as he files employment visa petitions on behalf of his foreign-born clients. Helgeson’s firm, McEntee Law Group, represents tech workers who hope to emigrate or remain in the US by way of visas granted for specialty occupations or extraordinary abilities. On average, Helgeson’s firm files 50 to 75
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An attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who’s overseeing a high-profile deportation case in Louisiana says she was stripped of her electronics moments before a pivotal hearing, preventing her from accessing evidence and court records that remained available to the three US government attorneys in the room, each of whom were allowed use of a laptop by the court. Louisiana immigration judge Jamee Comans ruled late last month that Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil was eli
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Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has started rolling out digital infrastructure for a new golden visa immigration program, according to sources familiar with the matter, public records, and tests conducted by WIRED. The White House has yet to formally announce the initiative, but some US permanent residents and foreign visitors are already being asked if they have applied for a “Trump Card Visa.” President Donald Trump first floated the idea of creating a $5 mill
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▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration MILWAUKEE (AP) — The FBI on Friday arrested a Milwaukee judge accused of helping a man evade immigration authorities, escalating a clash between the Trump administration and local authorities over the Republican president’s sweeping immigration crackdown. Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of escorting the man and his lawyer out of her courtroom through the jury door last week after learning that i
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When Donald Trump first ran for president in 2016, he promised his voters that he would run the government like a business: draining the swamp of corrupt bureaucrats, leveraging tax loopholes to keep money flowing, and keeping operations "under budget and ahead of schedule." That's a bad enough idea for the federal government as a whole — as we saw when the US lost 3 million jobs over Trump's first term — but an especially horrifying thought when applied to a law enforcement agency. Yet that's
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is a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested a former Columbia University student over his involvement in the pro-Palestine protests that swept the campus over the past year, even though he has a green card and was never charged with a crime. Columbia, the site of a monthslong pro-Palestine encampment, became a particular obsession for right-wing
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is a policy reporter. Her past work has focused on immigration politics, border surveillance technologies, and the rise of the New Right. The Trump administration may soon demand the social media accounts of people applying for green cards, US citizenship, and asylum or refugee status. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) — the federal agency that oversees legal migration, proposed the new policy in the Federal Register this week — calling this information “necessary for a rigorous v
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