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Weekly Immigration News – April 17, 2026

The SAVE America Act looks set to die in Congress, but 23 mostly Republican-led U.S. states have recently changed their voting procedures to mirror key aspects of President Donald Trump’s sweeping package of voting restrictions in time for November’s midterm elections. Reuters.

 In a victory for Donald Trump, a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday blocked ​a judge from conducting an investigation into whether the Republican president’s administration willfully violated a judicial order directing them to stop deportation ‌flights of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador. Reuters.

A new Florida law that will require driver’s licenses and state-issued identification cards to display whether a person is a U.S. citizen is generating mixed reactions across South Florida. CBS News.

Partisan legislation to fund Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement activities through the end of his presidency in January 2029 could ‌begin moving through the U.S. Senate by the end of this month, according to Republican senators and aides. Reuters.

Senate Republicans intend to vote “next week” on approving a fiscal blueprint that will allow them to later pass a party-line immigration enforcement bill, Majority Whip John Barrasso said on Tuesday. Politico.

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