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The Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of S.B. 4's reentry crime, state removal-order machinery, refusal-to-comply crime, and no-abatement rule for the named plaintiffs and provisional class. The ruling puts the case at the center of the current challenges over state immigration-enforcement authority.
The First Circuit heard expedited argument on May 13 in D.V.D., the lead third-country-removal case, after previously staying the district court's February merits ruling. The stay remains in place while the court considers DHS third-country removals, diplomatic assurances, and notice obligations.
A divided published Sixth Circuit panel held that section 1226(a), not section 1225(b)(2)(A), governs the petitioners' detention and affirmed habeas relief. The holding rejects no-bond mandatory detention for long-time interior arrestees and gives habeas counsel a circuit-level ruling to cite in bond-eligibility challenges.
DHS issued an interim final rule amending the signature rules for immigration benefit requests. If USCIS accepts a request and later determines it lacks a valid signature, the agency may reject or deny it, so signature defects remain consequential after initial intake acceptance. The rule is scheduled to take effect July 10, 2026.
DHS published a May 15 Federal Register determination under IIRIRA section 102 waiving certain laws, regulations, and legal requirements for expedited construction of barriers and roads near the Texas international land border. The action is a border-enforcement infrastructure notice rather than a benefits-processing rule, so its immediate relevance is federal border-policy authority and related challenges.
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