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Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-02279 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 16, 2025

This case challenges a coordinated set of federal immigration enforcement policies—referred to as a “campaign” of courthouse arrests—that authorize arrests in immigration courts, the abrupt dismissal of removal proceedings, and the placement of noncitizens into expedited removal. These policies are allegedly intended to deprive noncitizens of their rights by subjecting them to immediate arrest and removal while attending or appearing in court. On July 16, 2025, Immigrant Advocates Response Coll…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Make the Road New York v. Huffman

1:25-cv-00190 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 2025

On January 22, 2025, Make the Road New York (MRNY), a progressive grassroots immigrant-led organization, filed this suit to challenge the Trump Administration’s expansion of the "expedited removal" process.  On January 20, the Administration had issued Executive Order 14159, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion," directing such expansion. One day later, on January 21, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a rule that authorized the application of expedited removal -…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
M.A.P.S. v. Garite

3:25-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 10, 2025

Closed Date: June 9, 2025

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. This case was also certified related to Sanchez Puentes, et al., v. Garite, et al..  Both cases revolved around the use of the AEA to remove noncitizens in Texas and the resolution of the motions pending in either case could impact the other. This petition arises out of the president's peacetime in…

Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
G.M.G. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00195 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: May 5, 2025

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. On May 5, 2025, a Venezuelan man in immigration custody at risk of imminent removal under President Trump's Proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. He named President Donald Trump, the U.S. Atto…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Idaho Organization of Resource Councils v. Labrador

1:25-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: March 27, 2025

This lawsuit is about a class action challenge to Idaho House Bill 83 (“H.B. 83”), which attempted to regulate illegal immigration. On March 27, 2025, the Idaho Organization of Resource Councils, the Alliance of Idaho, and five named private plaintiffs brought suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho against the Attorney General of the State of Idaho, and Prosecuting Attorneys for several Idaho counties. Plaintiffs alleged that H.B. 83, which created two new state law offenses enti…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saravia v. Sessions

3:17-cv-03615 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 22, 2017

This case, filed on June 22, 2017, was brought by a parent on behalf of her minor child for wrongful incarceration by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The complaint alleged that the child, A.H., was released into the plaintiff's custody but that a few years later, ICE arrested and detained him without cause. Represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and the private law firm Cooley LLP, the plaintiff argued that the government violated th…

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

June 22, 2017

First Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Class Action Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief

Saravia v. Sessions

Aug. 11, 2017

Order Granting the Motion for Preliminary Injunction, the Motion for Provisional Class Certification; Granting in Part and Denying in Part the Federal Defendants' Motion to Dismiss; Granting in Full the Non-Federal Defendants' Motions to Dismiss

Saravia v. Sessions

Nov. 20, 2017

Order Granting The Motion For Preliminary Injunction; Granting The Motion For Provisional Class Certification; Granting In Part And Denying In Part The Federal Defendants' Motion To Dismiss; Granting In Full The Non–Federal Defendants' Motions To Dismiss

Nov. 20, 2017

Order Granting in Part Plaintiffs' Emergency Application for Relief

Saravia v. Sessions

Nov. 27, 2017

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Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas

1:21-cv-00100 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2021

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2023

This is a case about immigration policy that restricted refugee and asylum entry into the United States on account of health concerns around the coronavirus pandemic. On January 12, 2021, families of asylum- and refugee-seekers, who were detained by the Department of Homeland Security, sued the U.S. federal government for humanitarian protection in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. With the spread of coronavirus, on March 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

Supreme Court Stay of Trial Court Relief Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant v. Barr

4:19-cv-04073 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

This case is about the ability of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue new guidelines on asylum application procedures and whether DHS is allowed to issue a rule that asylum seekers must first apply for asylum in another country before applying in the U.S. On July 16, 2019, four advocacy organizations — the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, Al Otro Lado, Innovation Law Lab, and the Central American Resource Center — challenged a new asylum policy of the Trump administration narrow…

Administrative Stay Granted

Appeal Dismissed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security

1:24-cv-01702 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 12, 2024

This case concerns President Biden's June 3, 2024 executive action and ensuing June 4, 2024 interim final rule and September 30, 2024 final rule invoking Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. After the Trump Administration ceased use of CBP One--an app that was the only way an individual who arrived in the U.S. at the southern border could seek asylum--the plaintiffs tried but failed to get emergency relief. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of immigration-related legal ch…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Damus v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-00578 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 15, 2018

This class action suit, filed on March 15, 2018, sought to enjoin the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from detaining asylum seekers in order to deter other potential migrants from seeking refuge in the United States. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU and private counsel, were asylum seekers who had been detained without individualized determinations that they posed a flight risk or danger to the community. The plaintiffs sued DHS and alleged violations of the Immigration and Na…