Since November 2025, DACA recipients have faced months-long delays renewing their status — even when they filed on time. Work permits lapse. Health coverage ends. Deportation protections disappear. For 14 years, DACA recipients have kept their end of the bargain. Now JAC is demanding the government keep its.
On October 3, 2025, a coalition of labor unions, health care providers, schools, and religious organizations filed a lawsuit to stop President Trump’s latest anti-immigration power grab: a sweeping executive action that slaps an unlawful new $100,000 price tag on every new H-1B application. The proclamation – issued on September 19, 2025, and made effective
Global Nurse Force v. Trump (H-1B Visas/Talent Ban) Read More »
NOTE: This case was previously titled “PCUN v. Noem,” but has been updated to reflect the administration’s staffing changes. Sacred spaces should remain sacred. All of us, regardless of what we look like or where we were born, should feel safe at school, the doctor’s office, or in houses of worship. On January 20, 2025,
PCUN v. Mullin (Sensitive Locations) Read More »
On March 26th, 2025, the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, Immigrant Defenders Law Center, and Justice Action Center filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and other federal departments after they eliminated legal representation for unaccompanied children, who often flee their home countries alone due to persecution, trafficking, and
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto (CLSEPA) v. HHS (Unaccompanied Children) Read More »
NOTE: This case was previously titled “CHIRLA v. Noem,” but has been updated to reflect the administration’s staffing changes. On March 24, 2025, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), UndocuBlack Network (UBN), and CASA, with legal representation from Justice Action Center, filed a lawsuit to halt the Trump administration’s attempt to strip certain immigrants
CHIRLA v. Mullin (Expedited Removal) Read More »
Federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to end crucial humanitarian parole processes. Eight beneficiaries, three sponsors, and organizational plaintiff Haitian Bridge Alliance are suing the Trump Administration to defend Americans’ #FreedomToWelcome.
Svitlana Doe v. Noem (Humanitarian Parole Termination) Read More »
In June 2024, the Biden Administration announced its plan to roll out a transformative process called Keeping Families Together (KFT) parole. After the program went live and started receiving applications on August 19th, that same week, Texas and 15 additional states filed a lawsuit and, in addition, a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) asking the court
Texas v. DHS (Keeping Families Together Parole) Read More »
Black-led immigrant justice organizations Haitian Bridge Alliance, UndocuBlack Network, and African Communities Together filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) complaint in the Southern District of New York seeking records from the U.S. government on the abuse of Haitian asylum seekers in Del Rio, TX in September 2021. At the time of filing the lawsuit,
FOIA Case: Abuse of Haitian Asylum Seekers in Del Rio, TX Read More »
Initially filed against the Trump administration, and now the Biden administration for denying unaccompanied children previously subjected to the Migrant Protection Protocols program (MPP, also known as Remain in Mexico) their congressionally mandated protections under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). The federal government seeks to continue this dangerous and harmful practice in violation
ImmDef v. DHS (Unaccompanied Children) Read More »
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
Texas v. DHS (CHNV Parole) Read More »
