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Wright v. Anderson

2:20-cv-03704 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: April 6, 2021

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This habeas petition was filed on April 6, 2020 by a group of immigration detainees with underlying medical conditions housed in the Essex County Correctional Facility or the Elizabeth Detention Center, seeking release in light of COVID-19. On April 17, the Court granted a temporary restraining order for five of the petitioners and ordered their release. On April 28, the Court severed all petitioners from the case except the first named petitioner. This habeas petition was fil…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
O.A. v. Trump

1:18-cv-02718 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2018

Case Ongoing

On November 20, 2018, a group of asylum seekers challenged the federal government’s latest asylum policy, which prohibited people who enter the United States along the southern border somewhere other than a designated port of entry from obtaining asylum. Specifically, the plaintiffs challenged an interim final rule promulgated on November 9, 2018, declaring all those subject to a presidential proclamation concerning the southern border ineligible for asylum, as well as the “Presidential Proclam…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Capital Area Immigrants' Rights (CAIR) Coalition v. Trump; I.A. v. Barr

1:19-cv-02117 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 16, 2019

Case Ongoing

This Clearinghouse entry describes two consolidated lawsuits challenging the Trump Administration's new asylum rule, which reversed longstanding asylum laws that allow individuals to seek asylum in the U.S. regardless of how they arrive in the country. The first one was filed in July 2019 by Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (CAIR) and Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), represented by Human Rights First and private counsel; the second was filed in Au…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
U.T. v. Barr

1:20-cv-00116 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 15, 2020

Case Ongoing

On January 15, 2020, six individual plaintiffs, along with the Tahirih Justice Center and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the Trump Administration’s new policy of removing asylum seekers to Guatemala pursuant to an “asylum cooperative agreement” (ACA). The individual plaintiffs are noncitizens who came to the U.S. seeking asylum and were subsequently removed to Guatemala pursuant to the new policy. R…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Damus v. Nielsen

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

Filed Date: March 15, 2018

Case Ongoing

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 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and alleged violations of…