Immigrant Justice Through Litigation
and Storytelling
JAC uses co-equal litigation and storytelling strategies to address unmet needs and build new frameworks to tangibly improve immigrants’ lives.
PCUN v. Noem (Sensitive Locations)
Federal lawsuit led by Innovation Law Lab and Justice Action Center challenging the Trump administration's rollback of decades-old protections against ICE entering sacred spaces such as schools, hospitals, and places of worship.
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto v. HHS (Unaccompanied Children)
Federal lawsuit led by Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, and Justice Action Center challenging the Trump administration's termination of critical legal representation programs for unaccompanied immigrant children.
CHIRLA v. Noem (Expedited Removal)
Federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's harmful expedited removal directives for immigrants who've been paroled into the U.S. through CBP one, Operation Allies Welcome and Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela humanitarian parole. The UndocuBlack Network, CHIRLA and CASA, with legal representation from Justice Action Center, filed this suit on behalf of their members and to protect due process.
Svitlana Doe v. Noem (Humanitarian Parole Termination)
Federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's termination of successful and popular "categorical" humanitarian parole processes. Eleven beneficiaries, seven sponsors, and organizational plaintiff Haitian Bridge Alliance are suing the Trump Administration to protect the 70-year-old parole authority and the #FreedomToWelcome.
Texas v. DHS (Keeping Families Together Parole)
Federal lawsuit by Texas and 15 other states challenging Keeping Families Together parole process. Eleven directly impacted individuals in mixed status families, and organizational defendant CHIRLA, filed a motion to intervene, arguing that they should be parties to the case so that their perspectives are considered by the court.
ImmDef v. DHS (Unaccompanied Children)
Federal lawsuit challenging the Trump and now Biden administration's practice of denying unaccompanied children previously subjected to Remain in Mexico their congressionally mandated protections.
Texas v. DHS (CHNV Parole)
Federal lawsuit by Texas and others states challenging the humanitarian parole programs for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Gomez v. Biden (2020 Diversity Visas)
Federal lawsuit on behalf of family-based immigrant visa petitioners, diversity visa 2020 lottery winners, and non-immigrant employment-based visa sponsors challenging President Trump’s 2020 immigration bans, and subsequent appeal by the Biden Administration's judge's order to process 9,095 2020 diversity visas.
Haitian Bridge Alliance v. Biden (Abuse of Haitian Migrants in Del Rio, TX)
Federal class action lawsuit brought on behalf of 11 Haitians and HBA against the Biden administration for their abuse of thousands of asylum seekers who sought safety in Del Rio, TX in September 2021.
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