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, the Trump administration abruptly and arbitrarily opened sensitive locations to immigration enforcement at the unfettered discretion of immigration agents, […]
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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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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 of their due process rights. The administration is using the deeply flawed deportation process called “expedited removal” —to summarily
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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
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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
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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.
Haitian Bridge Alliance v. Biden (Abuse of Haitian Migrants in Del Rio, TX) Read More »
