A confidential Department of Homeland Security memo issued after President Trump's return to office provided legal justification for deploying National Guard troops as immigration officers. The revelation comes as New Hampshire faces an ACLU lawsuit over a separate program allowing local police to make immigration arrests.
A US federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's policy suspending immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries was contrary to law and exceeded the State Department's legal authority. The decision, issued on Friday, marks a significant setback to the administration's immigration enforcement efforts.
President Donald Trump overturned a temporary suspension of ICE vehicle stops that had been announced following two fatal shootings by immigration agents in Texas and Maine. Trump called traffic stops one of ICE's "most important and effective" enforcement tools, reversing the policy within a day amid criticism from his political base.
