Los Angeles – The U.S. Supreme Court today granted the Trump administration’s extraordinary request to consider, on an expedited timeline, the question of whether federal courts have authority to review the Secretary of Homeland Security’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrians and Haitians. In an atypical action, the Court accepted the government’s request that the case be heard before any final decision by the lower courts and set it for full briefing and oral argument within six weeks.

San Francisco – A federal court of appeals has rejected a request to reconsider its decision that the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for individuals from Venezuela and Haiti was unlawful.

Los Angeles – Today, UCLA’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) and the Seminar Migration, Inequality and Public Policies (MIGDEP) of El Colegio de México (COLMEX) jointly released “Moving Beyond Externalization in the U.S.-Mexico Relationship” a paper that proposes ways to reimagine the U.S.-Mexico relationship with respect to migration.

San Diego, CA – Attorneys representing immigrants who were unlawfully re-detained at check-in appointments by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in San Diego are asking a federal court to temporarily block ICE from continuing to re-detain other immigrants who were previously released, while a lawsuit moves forward.

LOS ANGELES – A federal court of appeals today stayed a lower court’s final ruling in National TPS Alliance v. Noem (NTPSA II) that held the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 60,000 individuals from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua was unlawful.

LOS ANGELES – A federal court of appeals on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration’s 2025 decision to abruptly strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from 600,000 Venezuelans was unlawful.