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Former Denmark immigration minister sentenced to prison for illegal family separation

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The Danish Court of Impeachment, or Rigsretten, Monday sentenced former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg to 60 days in prison. As immigration minister, Støjberg was responsible for administrating and enforcing Danish immigration law during the 2015 European migration crisis.

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States sue Biden administration over immigration policies

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The Attorneys General of Arizona and Montana filed an amended a joint lawsuit Monday alleging that the Biden administration has violated immigration and administrative law. The allegations arise from changes to policies governing the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants.

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Justice Breyer as administrative law pragmatist

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He is coauthor of a casebook on administrative law and has written many articles on that subject. There has never been any mystery about the jurisprudential premises of Justice Stephen Breyer’s approach to issues of public law. Similarly, in Lucia v. Breyer has always displayed ambivalence toward this doctrine.

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February argument calendar includes immigration, voting-rights cases

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Innovation Law Lab , a challenge to the Trump administration’s “remain in Mexico” policy, which allows the Department of Homeland Security to return immigrants seeking asylum to Mexico while they wait for an asylum hearing in U.S. immigration courts. Democratic National Committee and Arizona Republican Party v.

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Justices delve into a trio of thorny issues in states’ challenge to federal immigration policy

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Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. District Judge Drew Tipton agreed with the states that the policy violates federal law and vacated it nationwide.

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In U.S. v. Texas, broad questions over immigration enforcement and states’ ability to challenge federal policies

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Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Tuesday in a dispute over the Biden administration’s authority to set immigration policy. Texas and Louisiana are challenging a federal policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation, arguing that it violates federal law.

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Justices probe states’ effort to defend Trump immigration rule after Biden stopped defending it in court

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Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday in a case involving whether a group of states can defend a contentious Trump-era immigration policy known as the “public charge” rule after the Biden administration refused to do so. alleging that the repeal of the law violated federal administrative law.