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American Immigration Council v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection

1:19-cv-02965 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Oct. 2, 2019

Closed Date: Oct. 24, 2023

This case is about the transfer of credible fear interviews in the asylum process being transferred from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. On October 2, 2019, two immigration related organizations filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The plaintiffs brought this lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Pacito v. Trump

2:25-cv-00255 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Filed Date: Feb. 10, 2025

Case Ongoing

On February 10, 2025, three refugee resettlement agencies and nine individuals filed this putative class action against President Donald J. Trump, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The Plaintiffs challenged Executive Order 14163, titled "Realigning the United States Refugee Admission Program," which barred entry into the United States for all refugee…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
New York Immigration Coalition v. Trump

1:25-cv-01309 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Feb. 13, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s effort to narrow birthright citizenship. You can see all of the cases here. President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025, and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment does not apply to children born in the United States when: (1) their mother was unlawfully present in t…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Gomez v. Trump

1:20-cv-01419 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: May 28, 2020

Closed Date: Sept. 27, 2024

This case involves a dispute about visa processing. Following a March 20, 2020 decision by the State Department to cease most visa services, President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 10014 on April 20, suspending the entry of all immigrants into the U.S. for two months, unless they qualified for an exception. Two months later, the entry suspension was extended to December 31, 2020 and expanded to include temporary nonimmigrant visas in Proclamation 10052. As a result, the State Departmen…
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops v. United States Department of State

1:25-cv-00465 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 18, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case involved a challenge to the U.S. Department of State’s (DOS) suspension of federal funding awards to and termination of cooperative agreements with non-governmental organizations that partnered with the government to provide refugee resettlement assistance through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). DOS purported these actions were consistent with President Trump’s January 20, 2025 Executive Order 14169 “Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid” (EO 14169).  On F…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services v. Noem

1:25-cv-00306 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Feb. 3, 2025

Case Ongoing

This case challenged the Trump Administration's decision to prohibit non-citizens from invoking the asylum provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, thereby causing noncitizens seeking asylum to be deported without adjudication of their claims for protection.  It was filed February 3, 2025, by Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and Florence Immigrant & Refugees Rights Project in the U.S. District Court for the District …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Doe 1 v. McAleenan

5:18-cv-02349 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: April 18, 2018

Closed Date: Feb. 10, 2023

On April 18, 2018, a group of five unnamed plaintiffs filed this class action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sought to represent a class of Iranian refugees and their U.S.-based family members who applied for refugee resettlement through the Vienna, Austria-based Lautenberg-Specter program and were denied. The plaintiffs alleged that they had applied for refugee resettlement through the…
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
Texas v. Biden

3:22-cv-00780 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 28, 2022

Case Ongoing

This is a case about the Central American Minors program and the Biden administration’s policy of allowing certain undocumented individuals from El Salvador, Guatemala, or Honduras with pending asylum applications to petition to bring their minor children into the United States. On January 28, 2022, the states of Texas, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, and Oklahoma filed this lawsuit in the Northern District of Texas. The states sued the United States government under the …
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Flores v. Reno

2:85-cv-04544 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: July 11, 1985

Case Ongoing

COVID-19 Summary: This is a very longstanding class action addressing appropriate treatment of noncitizen children in federal immigration custody. On March 26, 2020, plaintiffs filed an emergency motion seeking prompt release due to COVID-19 risks. On March 27, 2020, the court issued an order to the federal agencies detaining immigrant children to “make continuous efforts” to release the children from custody because of the risk posed to them by COVID-19 and to provide an accounting of their ef…