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ICE Violates the Fourth Amendment When It Detains People Without Probable Cause, Court Rules

by Kate Goettel | Sep 18, 2020 | Detention, Due Process & the Courts, Enforcement | 0

A federal appeals court recently ruled that the Fourth Amendment requires a neutral decisionmaker...

Ninth Circuit Court Allows Trump’s Plan to End Temporary Protected Status to Go Forward

by Royce Murray | Sep 14, 2020 | Federal Courts/Jurisdiction, Humanitarian Protection, Temporary Protected Status | 0

In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Trump administration’s...

Trump’s Latest Asylum Ban Goes Into Effect in Texas and New Mexico

by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Aug 20, 2019 | Asylum, Border Enforcement, Enforcement, Humanitarian Protection, Reform | 0

The Trump administration’s latest asylum ban went into effect in New Mexico and Texas—but not...

Federal Court Allows Controversial ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy to Continue

by Katie Shepherd | May 15, 2019 | Asylum, Border Enforcement, Enforcement, Federal Courts/Jurisdiction | 0

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is resuming its controversial “Remain in Mexico” policy. This policy requires asylum-seeking Central American migrants who arrive at our Southern border to return to Mexico to await their immigration court hearings in the United States. A federal judge in California had previously blocked the policy’s implementation until the court […]

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Expansive Immigration Detention

by Emma Winger | Mar 21, 2019 | Detention, Enforcement, Federal Courts/Jurisdiction, Interior Enforcement | 0

Immigrants with even minor, dated criminal convictions will now be placed in mandatory detention without the possibility of a bond hearing—even if they have already served their time and been previously released. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Nielsen v. Preap this week. A majority of the Court ruled that an immigration law […]

Appeals Court Says Asylum Seekers May Now Challenge Their Deportation in Federal Court

by Emma Winger | Mar 11, 2019 | Asylum, Due Process & the Courts, Federal Courts/Jurisdiction, Humanitarian Protection, Immigration Courts | 0

Many asylum seekers who travel to the United States seeking protection often receive something much less—they are arrested by immigration officials and provided no meaningful way to challenge their deportation in federal court. Last week, in Thuraissigiam v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals became the first federal appeals court […]

Federal Court to Consider Again Whether Children Can Be Deported Without Attorneys

by Kristin Macleod-Ball | Dec 10, 2018 | Due Process & the Courts, Immigration Courts, Right to Counsel | 0

On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in C.J.L.G. v. Whitaker, a case that addresses whether children facing deportation have the right to a court-appointed attorney. Currently, immigration courts order unrepresented children deported despite the potential life-or-death consequences of these cases. C.J. fled Honduras when he was 13-years-old after he was held […]