Category: Judicial & Courts
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A Nevada judge has ruled, in a class action suit, that “mandatory detention” for all unauthorized, despite their length of time in the US, is not legal nor practical. This after multiple courts, and appeals courts, have looked at the issue with varying decisions. Read “Detained migrants allege due process violations in class action lawsuit“
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This TRAC report shows the mothly % of asylum cases granted and denied – showing that the current denial rate is 80%. TRAC is the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse which references government data (from Department of Homeland Security) for it’s reports and data summaries.
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This report, from the Migration Policy Institute, discusses a variety of federal immigration policies that are getting varying degrees of push-back from federal courts. Those policies include the following:
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The American Prospect reported that DHS attorney’s erroneously informed ICE agents that they could make arrests at immigration courts. This became apparent during a court case where DHS attorney instructions were revealed.
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This recent zoom, from Immigration Law and Justice Network and Women United in Faith, has two parts: Read more about Noem vs. Al Otro Lado here. Read more about RAICES vs. Noem here
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While the DoJ tried to change immigration case appeals process through the Board of Immigration Appeals, a federal judge decided that most rules needed to remain the same. An explainer by the National Immigration Project can be found here.
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This article , by Politico, describes how the DoJ has violated dozens of federal court orders in New Jersey and throughout the country.
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This article explains that Colorado and 19 other states are required to turn some Medicaid patient data over to federal authorities. The states involved with this suit are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.
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This explainer (by AfghanEvac.org) describes the newly issued interim final rule about the Board of Immigration Appeals for immigration courts which would fundamentally change the way appeals are handled.
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Politico reports in this article that around 98 of the 700 immigration judges have retired, quit or been terminated. Immigration judges report to the Department of Justice and the Attorney General in the Executive branch. The Attorney General can overturn cases decided by immigration judges.
Immigration Insight 