Immigration Law

Showrunners: Couple’s friendly fundraising competition launches marathon event

Lawyers Crystal and Michael Freed organized marathons and other events to raise money for legal aid and awareness of human trafficking.

Sep 1, 2018 1:30 AM CDT

ABA president travels to South Texas, working to fulfill ABA’s promise to reunite families

Two months ago, then-ABA president Hilarie Bass went to South Texas to see the effects of the Trump administration’s family separation policy. There, she promised that the ABA would not stop working until every family was reunited and every detainee was given the due process they’re legally entitled to.

Aug 30, 2018 11:14 AM CDT

Citing possible fraud, US denies passports to hundreds of Hispanics and demands proof of citizenship

Some people with U.S. birth certificates are being detained and entered into deportation proceedings, while others have had their passports revoked as they tried to re-enter the United States from Mexico.

Aug 30, 2018 8:00 AM CDT

US says it will appeal injunction barring separation of immigrant families

The Department of Justice plans to appeal a federal judge’s injunction that bars separation of immigrant families.

The administration filed notice of appeal with the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.

Aug 27, 2018 9:52 AM CDT

Lawsuit alleges family separation policy wrongfully deprived parents of fair asylum interviews

Immigrant parents separated from their children according to Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy sued the government on Friday, alleging that the separations hurt their asylum claims.

Vox has a story and plaintiff's firm Muslim Advocates, a civil rights group, has a press release.

Aug 22, 2018 11:12 AM CDT

DHS has increased requests to open closed immigration court cases

The number of annual requests this fiscal year to reopen closed immigration cases has nearly doubled under President Donald Trump compared with the Obama administration, according to federal data reported by BuzzFeed News.

Aug 21, 2018 4:30 PM CDT

Federal judge orders return of deportation flight carrying 2 plaintiffs in asylum-policy challenge

A federal judge on Thursday threatened to begin contempt proceedings against Attorney General Jeff Sessions if the government did not turn around a plane carrying two deported plaintiffs to El Salvador in a lawsuit challenging new asylum policies.

Aug 10, 2018 10:12 AM CDT

Union for immigration judges files grievance over removal of cases from Philly judge

The union that represents federal immigration judges has filed a grievance over the removal of dozens of cases from an immigration judge in Philadelphia who had delayed the deportation of a Guatemalan man.

Aug 9, 2018 6:05 AM CDT

With political will, global community could solve refugee problem, says former UN official

There are more displaced people internationally now than at any point since World War II, says Alex Aleinikoff, a former Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees at the United Nations. But the problem is manageable, he says—if there's the political will to deal with the problem.

Aug 7, 2018 3:39 PM CDT

ABA resolution urges federal government to immediately cease separating immigrant families

The ABA House of Delegates overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling on Congress and the executive branch to end the separation of immigrant families and protect their legal claims.

Aug 7, 2018 2:04 PM CDT

ABA House overwhelmingly adopts new standards for care of unaccompanied immigrant minors

The ABA’s House of Delegates agreed Tuesday to adopt standards for how the federal government should treat unaccompanied immigrant minors.

Aug 7, 2018 11:58 AM CDT

Judge rules Trump administration must restore DACA

Updated: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ruled the government must restore the program protecting immigrants brought to the country illegally as minors. U.S. District Judge John Bates rejected the government’s latest explanation for its decision to wind down the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA),…

Aug 6, 2018 9:15 AM CDT

Zero-tolerance immigration policy created ‘manufactured crisis’ that lawyers are needed to address

Attorneys who've spent their careers concentrating on immigration law and child welfare have been scrambling for months to deal with the fallout of what they call a “manufactured crisis” initiated by the government without adequate preparation or notice to key stakeholders.

Aug 4, 2018 8:07 PM CDT

9th Circuit rejects government’s argument that Trump’s sanctuary cities order was mere bluster

A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s order to withhold federal grants from sanctuary cities and jurisdictions violates separation of powers principles that gave spending power to Congress. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on Wednesday that the city and county of…

Aug 1, 2018 3:30 PM CDT

ABA works to meet immigrants’ increased need for legal assistance and oppose family separation

It’s not just the crying that concerned ABA President Hilarie Bass when she met with mothers detained at South Texas’ Port Isabel Detention Center. But there was crying.

Aug 1, 2018 1:40 AM CDT