DOJ directive released on Friday states it will limit enforcement of federal law to cases involving death, injury or serious property damage.
The Immigration Court Helpdesk in Detroit helped about 4,000 immigrants last year. But Trump's order has stopped its operations.
Joseph 'Exotic' Maldonado, star of Netflix's true crime docuseries 'Tiger King,' says that he looks up to Donald Trump, who has proven you can become President of the United States 'as a felon.'
U.S. President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right for everyone born in the United States.
Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, according to an analysis by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.
Donald Trump is huddling with House Republicans at a GOP retreat on Monday. Keep up with live updates from the USA TODAY Network.
Donald Trump's administration has reassigned about 20 senior career Justice Department attorneys, two sources familiar with the moves told Reuters, as the new president moves swiftly to shake up an arm of government that has long drawn his ire.
Trump has previously promised to reinstate the 8,000 personnel who were discharged, with full backpay expected to be given. This move would follow his revoking of a mandate that federal workers must be vaccinated against Covid introduced by Joe Biden, one of a number of reversals of his predecessors policies.
More than a dozen Justice Department officials who worked on the federal criminal investigations into President Donald Trump were fired by the acting attorney general on Monday.Keeping good on his promise to seek retribution on those who investigated and prosecuted him,
Justice Department career officials were reassigned to advance Donald Trump's immigration agenda, an official familiar with the matter told USA TODAY.
Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned work to the attorney general.