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Defending DACA

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.

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Global Nurse Force v. Trump (H-1B Visas/Talent Ban)

On October 3, 2025, a coalition of labor unions, health care providers, schools, and religious organizations filed a lawsuit to stop one of President Trump’s anti-immigration power grabs: 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

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Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto (CLSEPA) v. HHS (Unaccompanied Children)

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

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CHIRLA v. Mullin (Expedited Removal)

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

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Haitian Bridge Alliance v. Mullin (Abuse of Haitian Migrants in Del Rio, TX)

NOTE: This case was previously titled “Haitian Bridge Alliance v. Biden but has been updated to reflect the change in administration. 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

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