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Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative v. U.S. Department of Justice

1:25-cv-02279 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: July 16, 2025

This case challenges a coordinated set of federal immigration enforcement policies—referred to as a “campaign” of courthouse arrests—that authorize arrests in immigration courts, the abrupt dismissal of removal proceedings, and the placement of noncitizens into expedited removal. These policies are allegedly intended to deprive noncitizens of their rights by subjecting them to immediate arrest and removal while attending or appearing in court. On July 16, 2025, Immigrant Advocates Response Coll…

Case Is Ongoing

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Make the Road New York v. Huffman

1:25-cv-00190 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: Jan. 22, 2025

On January 22, 2025, Make the Road New York (MRNY), a progressive grassroots immigrant-led organization, filed this suit to challenge the Trump Administration’s expansion of the "expedited removal" process.  On January 20, the Administration had issued Executive Order 14159, “Protecting the American People Against Invasion," directing such expansion. One day later, on January 21, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a rule that authorized the application of expedited removal -…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Ms. L. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

3:18-cv-00428 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Filed Date: Feb. 26, 2018

On February 26, 2018, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Ms. L.) filed this lawsuit and a writ for habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. 2018 WL 1310160. The plaintiff sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and several other government entities and officials, all under the federal asylum statute and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). Repre…

Settled: Implementation Ongoing

SPEECH AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Mahmoud Khalil v. Joyce

2:25-cv-01963 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

Filed Date: March 9, 2025

This case is one of numerous lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s abrupt termination of immigration visas—mostly student or work visas—with no notice to the visa-holders and with dubious or no legal basis. You can see all of the cases here. This case challenges the detention and attempted deportation of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the campus protests against the war in Gaza at Columbia University throughout the spring of 2024. Khalil was a lawful permanent resident o…

Preliminary Injunction Denied

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
M.A.P.S. v. Garite

3:25-cv-00171 | U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Filed Date: May 10, 2025

Closed Date: June 9, 2025

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. This case was also certified related to Sanchez Puentes, et al., v. Garite, et al..  Both cases revolved around the use of the AEA to remove noncitizens in Texas and the resolution of the motions pending in either case could impact the other. This petition arises out of the president's peacetime in…

Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
G.M.G. v. Trump

1:25-cv-00195 | U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

Filed Date: May 5, 2025

This case is one of several lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport noncitizens without due process. You can see all of the cases here. On May 5, 2025, a Venezuelan man in immigration custody at risk of imminent removal under President Trump's Proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act filed this petition for writ of habeas corpus in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. He named President Donald Trump, the U.S. Atto…

Motion for Emergency or Preliminary Relief Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Idaho Organization of Resource Councils v. Labrador

1:25-cv-00178 | U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho

Filed Date: March 27, 2025

This lawsuit is about a class action challenge to Idaho House Bill 83 (“H.B. 83”), which attempted to regulate illegal immigration. On March 27, 2025, the Idaho Organization of Resource Councils, the Alliance of Idaho, and five named private plaintiffs brought suit in U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho against the Attorney General of the State of Idaho, and Prosecuting Attorneys for several Idaho counties. Plaintiffs alleged that H.B. 83, which created two new state law offenses enti…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Saravia v. Sessions

3:17-cv-03615 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: June 22, 2017

This case, filed on June 22, 2017, was brought by a parent on behalf of her minor child for wrongful incarceration by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The complaint alleged that the child, A.H., was released into the plaintiff's custody but that a few years later, ICE arrested and detained him without cause. Represented by the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, and the private law firm Cooley LLP, the plaintiff argued that the government violated th…

Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

June 22, 2017

First Amended Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and Class Action Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief

Saravia v. Sessions

Aug. 11, 2017

Order Granting the Motion for Preliminary Injunction, the Motion for Provisional Class Certification; Granting in Part and Denying in Part the Federal Defendants' Motion to Dismiss; Granting in Full the Non-Federal Defendants' Motions to Dismiss

Saravia v. Sessions

Nov. 20, 2017

Order Granting The Motion For Preliminary Injunction; Granting The Motion For Provisional Class Certification; Granting In Part And Denying In Part The Federal Defendants' Motion To Dismiss; Granting In Full The Non–Federal Defendants' Motions To Dismiss

Nov. 20, 2017

Order Granting in Part Plaintiffs' Emergency Application for Relief

Saravia v. Sessions

Nov. 27, 2017

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IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support v. Trump

1:25-cv-00038 | U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Filed Date: Jan. 20, 2025

This case is one of several challenging President Trump's effort to narrow birthright citizenship--the Fourteenth Amendment right to U.S. citizenship to individuals born on U.S. soil and "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." You can see all these cases here.  President Trump was sworn in to his second term as President on January 20, 2025 and immediately issued a number of Executive Orders--including Executive Order 14160, which proclaimed that birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amend…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

Appeal Pending

IMMIGRATION AND/OR THE BORDER
Florida Immigrant Coalition v. Uthmeier

1:25-cv-21524 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Filed Date: April 2, 2025

This case challenged a Florida law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants’ presence in the state. On April 2, 2025, the Florida Immigrant Coalition (FLIC) and the Farmworker Association of Florida (FWAF), along with two anonymous individual plaintiffs, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, Americans for Immigrant Justice, and the Community Justice Project, sued the Florida Attorn…

Preliminary Injunction Granted

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