Resource: Immigration--Remedies--Garland v. Aleman Gonzalez

“[T]he court seems to churn along as usual, and I see my friends' rights trampled in the process,” observed an immigrant detained at the Hudson County Correctional Facility.1 Without lawyers,2 those friends belonged to the more than eighty percent of detained immigrants who lack legal representation in deportation proceedings.3 Immigrants and their advocates have long relied on class actions to win systemic reforms of mass detention, on behalf of similarly situated immigrants with and without counsel.4 Last Term, in Garland v. Aleman Gonzalez,5 the Supreme Court held that a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act6 (INA), 8 U.S.C. § 1252(f)(1), forbids lower federal courts from granting classwide injunctive relief.7 The Court's jurisdictional ruling leaves the rights of detained immigrants hanging in the balance.