FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TYLER, TEXAS – Justice Action Center and Make The Road New York announced a motion to intervene in Texas v. DHS, the federal lawsuit filed last week by Texas and other states aiming to block the new Keeping Families Together (KFT) process. Justice Action Center and Make The Road New York have […]
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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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Biden-Harris administration has officially opened the Keeping Families Together process, also known as “parole in place.” Below is a statement from Karen Tumlin, Founder and Director of Justice Action Center: “Starting today, longtime undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens can apply for the Keeping Families Together (KFT) parole in process, offering
As we enter the dog days of summer, we are greeted by new extremist challenges to immigrant-inclusive policies—and a new trend: the addition of private plaintiffs to State/local government-led lawsuits challenging federal immigration policy (presumably to compensate for their own lack of standing post-USA v. Texas). See below and our microsite for recent developments. District
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Below is an analysis of the potential immigration law consequences of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision issued June 28th overruling Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council: Decided unanimously in 1984, Chevron held that where a statute is ambiguous, courts generally defer to the interpretation of the Executive branch agency tasked with administering that law, so
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C.— Since 2020, lawyers from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Justice Action Center (JAC), and Innovation Law Lab, with pro bono support from Mayer Brown LLP, fought to help a class of diversity visa lottery winners who had been locked out during the Trump Administration in Gomez v. Biden (first
