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Weekly Immigration News – March 13, 2026

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to intervene in its effort to strip humanitarian deportation protections from more than 350,000 Haitians living in the United States despite persistent violence in ​Haiti that has displaced more than a million people. Reuters.

For the fourth time in so many weeks, senators voted down a bill Thursday to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, then left town for the weekend — ensuring the agency remains shuttered past the one-month mark come Friday. Politico.

A federal judge has blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing a fast-track process to dispose of the vast majority of appeals by people seeking review of adverse decisions by immigration judges. Reuters.

Global Entry is open again. The service reopened on March 11 at 5 a.m. ET, according to a Department of Homeland Security statement. USA Today.

Lines at security checkpoints continued to stretch for hours at airports across the country Monday morning, as the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues. CNN.

The chief judge of the largest U.S. federal appeals court said it will reexamine how it manages the court’s “enormous” immigration docket after several judges on the court appointed by President Donald Trump “disrupted” its policymaking process ​with a ruling declaring its practice of pausing deportations unlawful. Reuters.

The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to gain access to a trove of federal information that is intended to support the collection of child support payments but could potentially be used for immigration enforcement purposes. CNN.

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