Texas and 20 states filed Texas v. DHS to challenge a process the Biden Administration established to permit nationals of specific countries to apply for and receive a two-year period of “parole”—a statutorily authorized form of temporary permission for a non-citizen to live in the United States. The Biden Administration created the first such process […]
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The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Justice Action Center (JAC), and Innovation Law Lab, with pro bono support from Mayer Brown LLP, filed this lawsuit in the summer of 2020 on behalf of family-based immigrant visa petitioners, diversity visa 2020 lottery winners, and non-immigrant employment-based visa sponsors, challenging President Trump’s April and June 2020 proclamations,
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Justice Action Center, Innovation Law Lab, and Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) filed this federal class action lawsuit on behalf of 11 individual plaintiffs and organizational plaintiff HBA to seek justice and accountability for the U.S. government’s abuse, unlawful detention, and summary expulsion of thousands of Haitians seeking safety in Del Rio, Texas, in September 2021.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 22, 2023 WASHINGTON, D.C.—Haitian asylum seekers continue to suffer under the U.S. government’s Haitian Deterrence Policy, plaintiffs in Haitian Bridge Alliance v. Biden allege in a supplemental complaint filed last week. The complaint details the ongoing harms plaintiffs experience nearly two years since they were abused in the CBP encampment in Del Rio, Texas, as
