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Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino reportedly plans to retire from the federal government at the end of March, ending one of the most divisive immigration enforcement careers in modern history. CBS News Most recently, after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents, Bovino was demoted from his role overseeing the Trump administration’s violent incursion into Minnesota. The Guardian Before that, his tactics generated excessive force and discrimination complaints in Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte and New Orleans. NBC News Related: Congressional Democrats renew their call for a Justice Department investigation into alleged perjury by former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Courthouse News Service

Justices accept TPS case for argument in late April. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to fast-track a ruling on the Trump’s administration’s decision to seek an end to temporary protected status for Syrian and Haitian nationals now living in the U.S. legally as refugees. A decision is expected by late June or early July. Scotusblog Federal officials have targeted 350,000 Haitians and about 6,000 Syrians. Lower court orders now protect those refugees from removal proceedings. Politico Officials in Springfield, Ohio, say they will travel to Washington, D.C., to support the legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy brought by members of the large Haitian community in the city. Columbus Dispatch

Immigration nation. Under oath, ICE agents in Oregon testify that they are required to make eight immigration arrests each day and that they use a specialized app to identify which people they want to target. The Guardian The Trump administration is failing to provide reliable data about the number of deportations. “They aren’t publishing the data,” says an advocate for increased deportations. The Associated Press Immigration attorneys in Oregon scramble to try to save clients caught up in ICE operations. The Oregonian Some of the men deported by federal immigration officials last March to a notorious Salvadoran prison remain in custody there, separated from their families without access to lawyers or a judge. The Washington Post

Slow-walking “Dreamers.” The Trump administration is delaying its reviews of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals renewals so slowly that “Dreamers” are losing their jobs and, in some cases, protection against deportation. Chicago Tribune Immigration lawyers say they’ve seen a rise in undocumented parents drafting wills and guardianship papers in case they are suddenly deported without warning. The Guardian Bowing to the needs of a key constituency, Trump administration officials have quietly made it easier for farm owners and operators to hire migrant labor on visas. The New York Times Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish population in the U.S. Its member of Congress, Andy Ogles, is known for his anti-Muslim rants. The Bulwark

How Medicaid helps people reenter society after years in prison or jail. Twenty-seven states have sought or received approval to offer Medicaid coverage to prisoners nearing their release. The coverage was endorsed with bipartisan support in Congress and is supported by corrections officials who say the care and treatment will improve public health and safety and reduce recidivism rates. But the progress has been halted in Oregon by changes to Medicaid imposed last year by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. The New York Times TMP Context: Trump’s cuts slash care for people leaving prison. The Marshall Project

Leqaa Kordia was released on Monday from the Prairieland Detention Center in Texas in poor health after spending more than one year in immigration detention without being charged with a crime. The New Jersey resident, who is Palestinian, was among the students who protested the war in Gaza at Columbia University in 2024. She was detained by federal agents last March. A judge ordered her released on bond on Friday. The New York Times

Michael Holmes spent five years in prison after being framed by crooked police officers in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2016, a jury awarded him $2.5 million for his wrongful conviction. He has yet to be paid because of a legal dispute between the city and the state over which entity should pay. And Holmes is not alone. There are 70 to 80 similar judgments that have not been paid to people owed money for police or prosecutorial misconduct. St. Louis Public Radio

A jury in Ulster County, New York, recently convicted a former state trooper of second-degree manslaughter for his role in the death of an 11-year-old girl during a high-speed police chase in December 2020. Christopher Baldner rammed a family’s car during a chase. A trial last fall ended in a mistrial. He faces a maximum 15-year sentence. The New York Times

A former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced on Monday to 18 in prison for hiding nearly 200 decaying bodies insteading of burying or cremating the remains. She also gave grieving families fake ashes to cover up the crime. The Associated Press

Motorist Bryan Getchius has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against officials in Greenwood County, South Carolina, who charged him with fentanyl trafficking after finding pills in his vehicle. Those pills turned out to be medicine for irritable bowel syndrome, as Getchius told the officers at the time of the search. Reason TMP Context: A short history of flawed field drug tests. The Marshall Project

Noem is gone. Don’t expect the mass deportation program to end. “Stephen Miller is the architect of Trump’s immigration policies, and there’s little reason to think that Noem’s ouster will change Miller’s approach. It may even serve to embolden it, by giving him fresh cover.” The New Yorker

The FBI director has sabotaged the bureau’s ability to protect Americans from Iranian terror threats. “Kash Patel is consumed by politically motivated revenge and conspiracy theories, distracting the F.B.I., once again, from the danger of terrorism.” The New York Times

Georgia has a reincarceration problem. And the problem is particularly acute in juvenile detention facilities, where youths are prone to abuse and neglect. Inquest

A disgraceful dissent. 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Lawrence VanDyke posted a crass, inappropriate dissent last week in a case involving the rights of transgender women. It’s another sign he’s lobbying the president for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Slate

Another federal judge calls out the Trump administration for weaponizing the rule of law. “The obvious result of a Justice Department co-opted by a corrupt president was always going to be a department that judges cannot trust.” Mother Jones

Jeffrey Epstein confederate Ghislaine Maxwell still wants a pardon, her attorney said last week. She’s continuing to serve a federal sentence for sex trafficking after being transferred to a minimum-security prison. Politico

Why is the Justice Department trying to rescue Alexander Smirnov? The former FBI informant with Russian ties is serving a six-year-sentence for lying to federal agents. The Trump administration just filed a brief in support of Smirnov’s request to withdraw his guilty plea and toss out his sentence. Mother Jones More: The Justice Department’s retaliation campaign against the president’s perceived political enemies is failing in court. The New York Times

Autocracy watch. David Harvilicz, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of election security, co-founded a company with an election denier who spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. Harvilicz says he wants to ban voting machines. ProPublica

A presidential pardon case takes an unusual turn. Federal authorities have arrested and charged a lawyer with trying to extort one of his clients. The client appears to be Joseph Schwartz, whose tax crime convictions were wiped away by President Donald Trump last fall in a high-profile case of apparent pardon influence. The New York Times

Fear stalks a refugee community. Many members of the Arakan Rohingya community have found a home in Buffalo, New York. Some of these refugees, who are in the U.S. legally, say they are fearful following the death of a Rohingya man with disabilities, who died after being left at a closed doughnut shop at night by federal immigration agents. The New York Times