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Santillan v. Mukasey

3:04-cv-02686 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: July 6, 2004

Closed Date: July 21, 2010

On July 6, 2004, individuals who had been granted the status of lawful permanent resident by the Department of Justice's Executive Office of Immigration Review filed this class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the United States Attorney General, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services and its Director, and the San Francisco District Director under 5 U.S.C. § 551…
IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Angco v. Haig

2:79-cv-04636 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Filed Date: Dec. 20, 1979

Closed Date: 1981

In 1979, a group of Philippine permanent visa applicants who were working as registered nurses in the U.S. under temporary visas filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to challenge the way visas were being distributed under Section 202(e) of the 1976 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C.A. § 1152 (e). That section changed the manner in which citizens of a foreign country were admitted to the U.S. as permanent residents. Under the a…
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Aparcio v. Blakeway

5:00-cv-00434 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: April 14, 2000

Closed Date: 2002

On April 14, 2000, three Mexican nationals who had applied for naturalization filed a class-action lawsuit against the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, alleging that the INS improperly used and relied upon confidential information taken from their prior applications made in the Special Agricultural Worker (SAW) program, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1160 et seq. Under the SAW program, seasonal agricultural workers could apply for "tempora…
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Zambrano v. INS

2:88-cv-00455 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: April 12, 1988

Closed Date: 2002

On April 12, 1988, six undocumented aliens filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, challenging regulations issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS"), which implemented the legalization provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). This case was one of three "late amnesty cases" filed in the federal courts in California against the INS. The other two cases were Catholic Social Services v. Meese, 2…
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Ayuda, Inc. v. Reno

1:88-cv-00625 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 8, 1988

Closed Date: Sept. 6, 1996

Plaintiffs, who were nonimmigrant aliens and organizations whose primary function was to provide immigration counseling, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the legalization or "amnesty" provisions of Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"). Specifically, plaintiffs complain that government did not take any other evidence into account, such as Social Security Administration records, Internal Revenue Service records to satisfy "unlawfu…
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Becker v. Marks

1:72-cv-03436 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Filed Date: Aug. 11, 1972

Closed Date: May 14, 1973

In 1973, attorney James Becket, the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, challenging the INS practice of maintaining a check list ("lookout book") of names of individuals to be stopped by immigration officials if they attempt to gain entry into the United States. Becket claimed that he was stopped twice by immigration officials when attempting to return to the U.S. from Europe beca…
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Bustos v. Mitchell

1:69-cv-03386 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: 1969

Closed Date: 1975

In the early 1970s, several farmworkers and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, a collective-bargaining agent, brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the Immigration and Naturalization Service's practice of permitting Mexican aliens to commute either daily or seasonally from their homes in Mexico to farm jobs in the U.S. under the "special immigrant"' classification of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Plaintiffs' complaint sough…
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Catholic Social Services v. Ashcroft

2:86-cv-01343 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: Nov. 12, 1986

Closed Date: Aug. 29, 2014

On Nov. 12, 1986, Catholic Social Services filed this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, challenging the Immigration and Naturalization Service's ("INS") interpretation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ("IRCA"). This case was one of three "late amnesty cases" filed in the federal courts in California against the INS. The other two case were Zambrano v. INS, S-88-455 EJG (E.D.Cal.) and LULAC v. INS; 2:87-cv-04757-WDK-CW (C.D.C…
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Contreras De Avila v. Bell

1:78-01166 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: March 29, 1978

In 1978, a group of Mexican visa applicants filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeking recapture of visas allegedly incorrectly charged to the yearly quota for Mexico in fiscal year 1977. On May 18, 1979 the District Court (Judge Marshall) ruled that the State Department had incorrectly interpreted the 1976 amendments to the Immigration and Nationality Act and that 9,565 additional visas should be awarded to Mexican immigrants. Follow…
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Escutia v. Ashcroft

8:00-cv-00841 | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 25, 2000

Closed Date: 2004

On August 25, 2000 plaintiffs brought this class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, challenging the pace of the INS' processing of applications for benefits under the Family Unity Program, § 301 of the Immigration Act of 1990. The Family Unity program allowed the spouses and children of permanent residents who legalized through the 1986 amnesty program to remain and work in the U.S.Plaintiffs alleged that the INS' California Service Center was no…