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Across the United States, people are showing up at immigration court hearings to accompany immigrants and deter ICE from detaining them. Among them is Sister Rose Patrice, a Catholic nun whose presence supporters say matters, as faith leaders have been shown to influence outcomes in these cases.

A federal judge, Trump appointee Stephanie Gallagher, has held the Trump administration in contempt for deporting a man to El Salvador in violation of three court orders. The judge is ordering the government to return him. The ruling, reported by Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney, is drawing attention as part of the broader legal fight over the administration's immigration enforcement and compliance with court rulings.

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for states to use the federal SAVE database to verify the citizenship status of registered voters. The decision permits election officials to cross-check voter rolls against immigration records, a move backers say protects election integrity and critics warn could lead to eligible voters being wrongfully purged. The ruling is drawing sharp reactions from voting rights groups and election officials across the country.

The US Supreme Court has ruled that Trump administration officials may use a federal immigration database to cross-check voter registration records. The decision allows states and federal officials to verify voter eligibility using immigration status data, a move supporters call a safeguard against noncitizen voting and critics warn could wrongly purge eligible voters. The ruling is expected to intensify ongoing legal and political battles over election integrity and voting access ahead of upcoming elections.

A judge has ordered the Canadian government to release records concerning Nazi war criminals who settled in Canada after the Second World War. The ruling could reveal how such individuals were admitted to the country and how postwar immigration screening was handled, renewing attention on Canada's efforts to address its wartime-era admissions.

A Cuban man has spent a year in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in Texas, and his case is being used to test the reach of a recent Supreme Court ruling on immigration detention. Reported by El Paso Matters, the story highlights how the high court's decision is being applied in practice to people held for prolonged periods, raising questions about how long immigrants can be kept in custody and under what legal limits.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Department of Homeland Security to proceed with an overhaul of its immigration database ahead of the midterm elections, over the dissents of the Court's liberal justices. The decision lifts a block on the DHS plan, which critics warn could affect immigration records used in voter-related checks, while supporters argue it is a routine modernization effort.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is pressing the DC Circuit to vacate a drone flight restriction that effectively criminalized recording immigration agents from the air. The group argues the rule blocks lawful First Amendment activity, preventing the public and journalists from documenting federal immigration enforcement operations. The case is now before the appeals court, drawing attention from civil liberties advocates.

A federal judge has denied a request to block Tennessee Highway Patrol traffic stops conducted in coordination with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The ruling allows the joint enforcement operations to continue while the legal challenge proceeds. The decision is likely to draw reaction from immigration advocates who oppose the stops and from supporters of tougher immigration enforcement.

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has apologized to Justice Brett Kavanaugh after publicly criticizing his opinion in an immigration case. The episode is notable for the court, whose justices traditionally avoid openly disputing each other's reasoning in public, and comes amid heightened political attention to the judiciary's handling of immigration rulings.

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction barring ICE from detaining immigrants at 26 Federal Plaza in New York, finding the practice unconstitutional. The ruling ends a contested detention operation at the Manhattan federal building and marks a significant legal setback for the agency's expanded immigration enforcement in the city.

A judge has ordered a pause on construction of an ICE detention facility in Gilroy, California, citing environmental concerns. The ruling temporarily stops the project while environmental review issues are addressed, adding another legal setback to federal immigration detention expansion efforts in the Bay Area.

A member of Congress says they were denied access to a new, secretive immigration courtroom operating in Manhattan. The reported refusal has raised questions about transparency in immigration proceedings and why a federal courtroom would be closed to oversight, including to elected officials seeking to observe its operations firsthand.