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On June 4, 2024, the Biden Administration issued a Presidential Proclamation with immediate implementation on the border, putting historically restrictive measures in place that will bar access to asylum for most people who enter the United States between ports of entry at the southern border.

Oklahoma recently passed an anti-immigrant law. Federal government filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma seeking to “preserve its exclusive authority under federal law to regulate the entry, reentry, and presence of noncitizens,” arguing that Oklahoma’s House Bill 4156, like Texas’s preliminarily enjoined Senate Bill 4 and Iowa’s recently enacted Senate File 2340, impermissibly creates a state-specific immigration system that seeks to regulate noncitizens’ entry, reentry, and presence in the United States.

Manuel Guerra Vasquez has been deported to Mexico before, but each time he returned to Texas.

Biden administration sues states over immigration laws The U.S. Department of Justice has sued two more states this month to prevent them from implementing new

Dreamers face severe delays in the renewal of their work permits, and many have lost their jobs.

The administration hopes to unveil a series of executive actions that President Biden can sign but will likely have to wait for the outcome of Mexico’s June 2 presidential election.

Eagle Pass shares three international border crossings with Piedras Negras, Mexico. About 95% of its population is Hispanic of Mexican descent. Border communities like this one now await the fate of a state law that allows police to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally.

A U.S. judge temporarily blocked part of a Florida law on Wednesday that imposes criminal penalties for willfully transporting people who lack legal immigration status into the state. The law, which took effect in 2023, amended the crime of human smuggling to classify such cases as felonies. Altman, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump, blocked the law pending the outcome of a lawsuit by the Farmworker Association of Florida and seven people who say they have been impacted.

Oklahoma’s new anti-immigration law faces two potential lawsuits. The U.S. Department of Justice addressed a May 15 letter to Gov. Kevin Stitt and Attorney General Gentner Drummond saying the federal government intends to file a lawsuit to stop the enforcement unless Oklahoma agrees in advance not to take such action.

A federal judge this week ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop using so-called knock-and-talk tactics, a method for immigration arrests in which field officers enter a property without a judicial warrant or consent, then arrest undocumented immigrants when they come to the door.