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...
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...
Amica Center for Immigrants’ Rights (formerly CAIR Coalition), the National Immigration Project, and the ACLU of Virginia sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), for arbitrarily detaining people in Virginia after they won immigration cases...
On December 21, 2020, NIPNLG and its partners filed litigation on behalf of fourteen women who suffered medical abuse at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. More than 40 women filed sworn testimony in court revealing a relentless pattern of...
The Trump Administration’s new criminal bars to asylum will dramatically reduce the availability of asylum to people fleeing persecution and further their criminalization. The unprecedented expansion of these categorical bars rely on racially biased...
CREW, the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG) and Project South are suing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for failing to turn over records of non-consensual medical procedures performed on individuals in ICE custody, including...
The Trump Administration’s Remain in Mexico policy has trapped asylum seekers in dangerous border towns in Mexico, where they are forced to navigate a complex asylum process without access to counsel or other safeguards guaranteed by our immigration...
In the summer of 2020, ICA-Farmville became the site of the largest COVID-19 outbreak in any immigration detention center in the country at the time. The outbreak was caused by ICE's transfer of 74 people, 51 of whom had COVID-19, from detention...