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Americans for Immigration Justice v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

1:22-cv-03118 | U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 13, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about access to legal counsel for people in immigration detention facilities.  On October 13, 2022, five legal services providers filed suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The complaint alleged that ICE policies prevented detained people from accessing their attorneys in four immigration detention centers, in violation of the First and Fifth Amendmen…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
West Virginia v. Department of Homeland Security

2:21-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Aug. 19, 2021

Case Ongoing

In this case, the state of West Virginia challenged the Biden administration's attempt to repeal the Migrant Protections Protocol (MPP) policy, which required asylum applicants to return to Mexico while their claims were being processed instead of being held in detention or paroled in the United States. West Virginia sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on August 19, 2021, alleging that its termination of the “Remain in Mex…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ligaya Ronduen v. The Geo Group, Inc.

5:23-cv-00481 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: March 20, 2023

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the alleged improper use of a toxic chemical at Adelanto Immigration Detention Facility. On March 20, 2023, seven individuals currently and formerly detained at Adelanto Detention Center (“Adelanto” or “the Facility”) filed this putative class action in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. The plaintiffs sued The GEO Group (“GEO”, the owner and operator of the facility in which they were detained) under state law. Represented by the Socia…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Bush v. Biden

7:21-cv-00272 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: July 13, 2021

Case Ongoing

The General Land Office of the State of Texas and its then-commissioner, George P. Bush (collectively, “GLO”) sued President Biden, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Secretary of DHS on July 13, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. GLO challenged Proclamation 10142 (“the Proclamation”), which ordered DHS to stop construction of the southern U.S. border wall for which Congress had appropriated money. GLO alleged that the Proclamation and DHS’s obs…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. King County Washington

2:20-cv-00203 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2020

Closed Date: March 20, 2023

On February 10, 2020, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The DOJ sued King County, Washington and its Executive under 28 U.S.C. § 2201 and the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) and sought declaratory and injunctive relief. The case was assigned to Judge Robert J. Bryan.  On April 23, 2019, the King County Executive signed King County Executive Order PFC-7-1-EO ("Airport EO"), prohibiting the transporta…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas

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

Filed Date: Jan. 12, 2021

Closed Date: May 11, 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…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
R.F M. v. Nielsen

1:18-cv-05068 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: June 7, 2018

Closed Date: June 1, 2022

This class action lawsuit challenged a U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) change to qualifications for the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) program during the Trump administration. On June 7, 2018, this lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by three immigrant youths, aged 19 to 20, whose SIJS applications had been denied even though they would have been eligible before the change. Represented by private counsel and the Legal Aid …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Casa De Maryland v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

8:17-cv-02942 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: Oct. 5, 2017

Case Ongoing

This lawsuit, brought on October 5, 2017, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, challenged President Trump's revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The plaintiffs were a group of nonprofit organizations and DACA recipients who sought to enjoin the federal government from ending the program. Not only did the plaintiffs stand to lose benefits and security they had relied upon, but the plaintiffs argued that the rescission was motivated by discr…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Cacho v. Gusman

2:11-cv-00225 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

Filed Date: Feb. 2, 2011

Closed Date: Sept. 29, 2014

On February 2, 2011, two immigrant workers , represented by represented by public interest law firms and private counsel, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana against the sheriff of Orleans Parish. The plaintiffs were held in the Orleans Parish Prison for more than 160 and 90 days, respectively, because of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) hold requests, which were supposed to be limited to 48 hours according the federal agency's rules. O…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
City of Providence v. Sessions

1:18-cv-00437 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: Aug. 9, 2018

Case Ongoing

On August 9, 2018, two Rhode Island cities filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, challenging the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) policy of conditioning federal funding on compliance with immigration-related conditions. The cities argued that the new conditions forced them to make an impossible choice: accept unlawful conditions that undermined their ability to protect their communities or forfeit funding crucial to protecting their communities. Accor…