An immigration lawsuit ruling has allowed six Mexican nationals who had been deported to return to the U.S. The six people were among the first plaintiffs in a class-action immigration lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU filed the suit against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the U.S. Border […]
A district court of appeals dismissed an immigration lawsuit filed by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio against the Obama Administration. The three-judge panel ruled that the Arizona sheriff did not have the legal standing to file the immigration lawsuit. The judges also ruled that the sheriff could not prove that his office suffered financial hardships […]
The steakhouse restaurant chain Fogo de Chao filed an immigration lawsuit against the federal government for denying the visas for two of its Brazilian chefs. The immigration lawsuit claims that the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices are illegally blocking the approval process for special work visas. The work […]
An immigration raid on a Houston tortilla factory led to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detaining eleven undocumented workers. Federal agents detained nine women and two men working at the La Espiga de Oro (The Golden Spike) tortilleria in Houston’s Historic Heights neighborhood. The immigration raid followed close on the heels of other raids […]
A dozen undocumented immigrants will share in a $310,000 immigration lawsuit settlement against federal agents and the City of Nashville. The immigration lawsuit settlement stems from a raid conducted by immigration officials in Nashville in 2010. The suit claimed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted a raid on a Nashville apartment building […]
Officials with the Texas Department of State Health Services have asked a federal judge to dismiss an immigration lawsuit regarding the agency’s refusal to issue birth certificates to children of undocumented immigrants. Attorneys representing 19 immigrant parents and 23 of their children filed the immigration lawsuit after state officials refused to grant birth certificates to […]
Four women have filed an immigration lawsuit against the State of Texas for refusing to grant birth certificates to the children of undocumented immigrants. The immigration lawsuit alleges that the Texas Department of State Health Services is in violation of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment grants citizenship to any infant born […]
A federal judge in Denver has refused to dismiss an immigration lawsuit alleging that private prison contractors force detainees to carry out routine maintenance tasks for little to no pay. The immigration lawsuit accuses The GEO Group of violating state minimum wage laws, as well as federal laws against human trafficking. U.S. District Judge John […]
The Department of Homeland Security announced changes to its illegal immigrant detention policies regarding female immigrants with minor children. The changes will allow women and their children held in illegal immigrant detention facilities to pursue their claims for protective asylum in immigration courts. The women and their children would be allowed to stay with relatives […]
A study from Syracuse University has found that more than 77,000 Texas immigration cases were still working their way through the legal system. The number of Texas immigration cases has increased by nearly 60 percent in just under two years. The only state with a higher immigration case backlog is California, with over 89,000 cases […]