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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
J.O.P. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

8:19-cv-01944 | U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Filed Date: July 1, 2019

This case challenges the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) 2019 policy memorandum that instructed asylum officers to reassess whether applicants previously determined to be unaccompanied alien children (UACs) still met that definition at the time of application and, if not, to decline jurisdiction. On July 1, 2019, four unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the United States filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The plaintiffs sued the De…

Injunction Granted

Appellate Stay of Trial Court Relief Denied

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

Note: We've tagged this case as one challenging President Trump's immigration executive orders because those executive orders and their implementing memoranda, included as "resources," below, touch on many of the matters subject to longstanding court oversight in this case. On July 11, 1985, attorneys from the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, the National Center for Youth Law, and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California represented four minors who filed this class action complaint aga…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Castanon Nava v. Department of Homeland Security

1:18-cv-03757 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Filed Date: May 29, 2018

This is a case about pretextual vehicle stops used to apprehend undocumented noncitizens in the Chicago area. On May 29, 2018, five noncitizens and two nongovernmental organizations filed this putative class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Secretary, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Acting Director, and the Field Office Director of the ICE Chicago Field Office in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ill…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
State of Texas v. Mayorkas

2:22-cv-00094 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Filed Date: April 28, 2022

This case concerns Texas' challenge of a 2022 Department of Homeland Security Interim Final Rule (IFR) allowing asylum officers to accept or reject migrants' claims for humanitarian protections soon after they cross the border. According to Texas, the IFR transferred significant adjudicatory authority from immigration judges to asylum officers. 87 Fed. Reg. 18,078. On April 28, 2022, the State of Texas filed suit against (1) the United States, (2) President Biden, and (3) various federal agenci…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Padres Unidos de Tulsa v. Drummond

5:24-cv-00526 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 23, 2024

This case challenges Oklahoma House Bill 4156 (H.B. 4156), enacted in April 2024, which established the crime of “impermissible occupation” and authorized Oklahoma law enforcement to arrest individuals for being present in the United States without legal authorization. Notably, the bill did not provide a defense for people currently seeking asylum, other humanitarian protection, or any other relief available under federal law. On May 23, 2024, Padres Unidos de Tulsa, an advocacy organization co…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security

1:24-cv-01702 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: June 12, 2024

This case concerns President Biden's June 3, 2024 executive action and ensuing June 4, 2024 interim final rule and September 30, 2024 final rule invoking Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. After the Trump Administration ceased use of CBP One--an app that was the only way an individual who arrived in the U.S. at the southern border could seek asylum--the plaintiffs tried but failed to get emergency relief. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of immigration-related legal ch…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. Oklahoma

5:24-cv-00511 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma

Filed Date: May 21, 2024

This case challenged a state law in Oklahoma criminalizing noncitizen entry and presence in the state. On May 21, 2024, the United States filed suit against the State of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, and both the Governor and Attorney General of Oklahoma (in their official capacities). The case was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and assigned to District Judge Bernard M. Jones II.  The complaint explained the Oklahoma law at i…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. State of Iowa

4:24-cv-00162 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa

Filed Date: May 9, 2024

Closed Date: June 23, 2025

This case challenged an Iowa state law that criminalized entering Iowa after being deported or denied entry into the United States.   On April 10, 2024, the Governor of Iowa signed into law SF 2340, to become effective on July 1, 2024. SF 2340, or "the law," created a new state crime and imposed state penalties on noncitizens in Iowa who had unlawfully reentered the United States.  It also required Iowa state courts to order the removal of certain noncitizens from the United States. On May 9, 2…

Case Dismissed (Voluntary)

Affirmed

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
United States v. State of Texas

1:24-cv-00008 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: Jan. 3, 2024

This is a case about state and federal authority to control immigration. On January 3, 2024, during the Biden Administration, the United States brought this suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas against the State of Texas, the governor of Texas in his official capacity, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the head of DPS in his official capacity. The United States claimed that Texas’s Senate Bill 4 (SB4) violated the Supremacy Clause and the Foreign Comm…

Case Is Ongoing

Appeal Pending