In 2025, ICE blocked certain detained immigrants from accessing opportunities for release from detention, based on a new and radical interpretation of federal immigration law. While hundreds of federal judges across the country have found this new...
J.O.P. v. DHS, No. 19-1944, is a certified nationwide class action venued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenging a Trump administration policy that limited the ability to seek asylum for certain children who arrived in...
We Are CASA and four Maryland residents filed a putative class action lawsuit in federal court in Maryland challenging ICE's practice of arresting people without a warrant. They are asking the court to declare the agency's "arrest first, ask...
The National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) was established in 2023 as a centralized hub that tracked federal law enforcement officer misconduct. It was created to strengthen hiring practices, enabling federal, state, and local law...
The Laken Riley Act, passed in January 2025, dramatically expanded the government’s ability to detain noncitizens without the chance to argue for release on bond while their immigration cases are pending. The National Immigration Project filed a...
Six detained immigrants—including survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence, an abused child, a spouse of a U.S. citizen, and a Cuban national fleeing persecution—are challenging a Trump-Vance administration policy that blocks detained...
On September 25, 2025, four Washington, D.C. community members and the national immigration organization CASA sued the Trump administration to end its policy and practice of making immigration arrests in D.C. without a warrant and without probable...
A.C.R. et al. v. Noem et al., No. 1:25-cv-3962, is a proposed nationwide class action filed by nine immigrant youth and two legal services providers in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging the federal government’s...
Three immigration law professors—Sarah Sherman-Stokes of Boston University School of Law and Laila Hlass and Mary Yanik of Tulane Law School—are suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain records on how the agency runs its...
This case seeks to hold the federal government accountable for the abuse, retaliation, and inhumane conditions Angel Argueta Anariba endured during more than seven years in immigration detention.