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LIVE: US Immigration judge to rule on Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation case The view outside a Louisiana court where an immigration judge will rule whether the government can deport Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a month after he was arrested at his Columbia University apartment building and transferred to a Louisiana jail.   #MahmoudKhalil #ColumbiaUniversity #Deportation #Immigration #TrumpAdministration #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/

A federal judge refused to limit the Trump administration's immigration enforcement activities in places of worship, ruling against a group of 27 religious organizations that had sued the administration over its decision to drop a previous policy against enforcement in sensitive locations. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington, who was appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term in office, found that the organizations likely did not have standing to bring the case because their claims that they faced harm were speculative. The groups sued the Department of Homeland Security and other immigration enforcement agencies in February, arguing that the administration's policy change violated their right to religious freedom under federal law and the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. Brendan Pierson has more: https://reut.rs/42bQDnn

A U.S. immigration judge ruled that President Donald Trump's administration can proceed with its deportation case against Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was arrested in New York City last month. Judge Jamee Comans of the LaSalle Immigration Court in Louisiana said she lacked the authority to overrule a decision concerning Khalil that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made last month under a 1952 law called the Immigration and Nationality Act. Rubio determined that Khalil should be removed because his presence in the United States has ‘potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences.’ The judge's decision is not the final say over whether Khalil will be deported. Read the full story to find out more ➡️ https://reut.rs/3G0g4j8 

The U.S. Air Force Academy will no longer consider race as a factor in admissions as the military school had long done to boost enrollment of Black, Hispanic and other minorities, U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on April 11. The change was detailed in a filing by the U.S. Department of Justice in federal court in Denver asking a judge to put on hold a lawsuit that was filed in December by the group that successfully persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to ban race-conscious admissions at civilian universities. That group, Students for Fair Admissions, was founded by affirmative action opponent Edward Blum and has been seeking to build on its 2023 victory at the Supreme Court, when the 6-3 conservative majority invalidated race-conscious admissions policies used by Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The ruling did not apply to military academies, which Chief Justice John Roberts wrote had potentially distinct interests.’ That prompted SFFA to launch new lawsuits aimed at barring similar admissions practices at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado; the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland; and the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York. Read the full story here ➡️ https://reut.rs/3XV65la 

BREAKING: A U.S. immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Trump's administration can proceed with its deportation case against Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was arrested in New York City last month https://reut.rs/3YooUNO

Five more law firms have reached agreements with the Trump administration to provide hundreds of millions of dollars in pro bono legal work on certain causes they and the administration support. Kirkland & Ellis; A&O Shearman; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP; and Latham & Watkins are set to provide $125 million in pro bono work each, while Cadwalader would provide at least $100 million, President Trump said in posts on his Truth Social account.   The agreements mostly mirror deals struck with four firms in recent weeks, requiring them to shun diversity-based employment practices the administration deems illegal and work on pro bono projects approved by the president. Paul Weiss, which had been targeted in an executive order, last month agreed to donate the equivalent of $40 million in free legal services. Skadden Arps; Milbank; and Willkie Farr & Gallagher reached deals without being targeted by an order, with each firm providing $100 million in pro bono legal work.   Three firms — Perkins Coie; WilmerHale and Jenner & Block — have sued to challenge executive orders against them. Judges overseeing the lawsuits have temporarily blocked key provisions of the orders, finding that Trump's directives likely violated constitutional protections for speech and due process.   Subscribe to The Afternoon Docket for more: https://reut.rs/4iQvdSd

Luigi Mangione's lawyers asked a judge to prevent the U.S. government from seeking the death penalty for Mangione, who is accused of shooting and killing the CEO of UnitedHealth Group's insurance division, in New York last year https://reut.rs/4jOgPdN 

A federal judge on April 10 expressed concern with what he called a 'troublesome' new Trump administration policy that appears to allow authorities to rapidly deport hundreds of migrants to countries they had no notice they could be sent to before they can even raise a claim that they might be killed upon arrival. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy during a hearing in Boston pressed a lawyer for the administration on how migrants subject to final deportation orders could be assured due process under guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. That guidance was issued after Murphy on March 28 issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump's administration from deporting migrants to countries not raised in earlier immigration proceedings without giving them a chance to show they feared being persecuted or tortured there. Nate Raymond has more: https://reut.rs/4ly6KTV

U.S. judge requires Trump administration to provide daily status update on wrongly deported Maryland resident, saying it was 'extremely troubling' that it failed to comply with her court order https://reut.rs/3YqkvK8

A U.S. federal judge said it was 'extremely troubling' that the Trump administration failed to comply with a court order to provide details on the status of a Maryland resident it illegally deported to El Salvador. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis demanded at a hearing that the administration identify the whereabouts of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to El Salvador on March 15. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who was living in Maryland and has had a work permit since 2019, was stopped and detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on March 12 and questioned about alleged gang affiliation. He was deported on March 15 on one of three high-profile deportation flights to El Salvador that also included alleged Venezuelan gang members. Read Blake Brittain and Tom Hals' report: https://reut.rs/3RIIq3J