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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Quintero Chacón v. Dickerson

4:25-cv-00050 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

The petitioner in this case, a Venezuelan non-citizen, initially filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on February 10, 2025 pro se in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. In his initial petition, he requested that he be released from detention in Georgia, where he soon would have been held beyond the statutory limit.  The petitioner ceased challenging deportation but could not be deported as the parties agreed that Venezuela was not taking deportations. This…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:25-cv-00943 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 31, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case was filed on March 31, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging an interim final rule (IFR) issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The IFR established a new, mandatory registration regime for noncitizens aged 14 and older who had been in the U.S. for at least 30 days but were not yet registered under the current system. The rule required them to submit personal information, fingerprints, and biometric data through a new online system. Th…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. v. Executive Office for Immigration Review

1:20-cv-03812 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Dec. 23, 2020

Case Ongoing

This case challenged a Department of Justice (DOJ) rule, issued under the first Trump administration, that set a new fee schedule for removal proceedings. 85 Fed. Reg. 82,750. On December 23, 2020, the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), along with several other immigration service organizations, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under Judge Amit P. Mehta. The Plaintiffs sued the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) - a sub-agency o…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Make the Road New York v. Wolf

1:19-cv-02369 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Aug. 6, 2019

Closed Date: June 3, 2022

This case concerns the Trump Administration’s decision to expand “expedited removal,” under which low-level Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) immigration officers were allowed to summarily deport individuals from the United States without a court hearing or opportunity for meaningful review. The plaintiffs were a number of nonprofits, including Make the Road New York, La Union del Pueblo Entero, WeCount, the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, and a number of private plaintiffs. The…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
C.M. v. United States

2:19-cv-05217 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Sept. 19, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 22, 2024

On September 19, 2019, five asylum-seeking parents, on their own behalf and on behalf of their minor children, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. The plaintiffs sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act ("FTCA"). The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the American Immigration Council, sought monetary relief and attorneys fees. The plaintiffs alleged both negligence on part of the United St…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Al Otro Lado v. Kelly

3:17-cv-02366 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: July 12, 2017

Case Ongoing

This case concerns the legality of the government’s treatment of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. On July 12, 2017, a group of Honduran and Mexican asylum seekers and Al Otro Lado, a legal service organization which supports indigent deportees, refugees, and migrants, filed this class action suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The pseudonymous plaintiffs fled gang-related and/or severe domestic violence and presented themselves at a Port of Entry (PO…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Nightingale v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

3:19-cv-03512 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

On June 16, 2019, plaintiffs – three immigration attorneys and two noncitizens who filed FOIA (FOIA) requests for individual immigration case files (known as A-Files) – filed this class-action suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), alleging that the defendants had a nationwide pattern or p…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
The Farmworker Association of Florida v. DeSantis

1:23-cv-22655 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: July 17, 2023

Case Ongoing

​​This is a case about the constitutionality of a Florida immigration law. On July 17, 2023, the Farmworker Association of Florida and individual defendants sued the Governor of Florida, the Florida Attorney General, the Florida Statewide Prosecutor, and Florida's State Attorneys in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of Section 10 of Senate Bill 1718, which made it a crime to transport a person into Florida if that perso…
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Mendez Rojas v. Johnson

2:16-cv-01024 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: June 30, 2016

Case Ongoing

On June 30, 2016, asylum seekers in this case, represented by the American Immigration Council and partners, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against the Attorney General of the United States as well as the directors of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Immigration Services, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, and the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The plaintiffs arg…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe v. Johnson [later Kelly, Nielsen]

4:15-cv-00250 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: June 8, 2015

Case Ongoing

This is a class action about conditions of confinement in the "hold rooms" used by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for short-term detention of noncitizens apprehended near the border. The case deals with all the hold rooms in the Tucson Sector, which consists of nine "stations" covering most of Arizona and accounted for 18% of all border patrol apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border in 2014. Most recently, the District Court entered a comprehensive opinion finding conditions un…