Tracking Extremist Challenges to Immigrant Inclusive Policies
Since President Biden took office, extremist attorneys general have been co-opting the legal system in efforts to continue anti-immigrant policies.
This site follows these cases through the court system and houses important filings, news coverage, and advocacy tools to advance a more humane, moral and dignified immigration system.
Latest Updates
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Florida v. USA (FL Detention I) - Court of AppealsMandatory Detention, Parole05/06/2024- Biden Administration’s Supplemental Brief (PDF)This is an appeal of a March 2023 decision by a district court judge in Florida to vacate (nullify) a DHS policy authorizing, in certain circumstances, the release from detention of some asylum seekers and instead monitoring them via less expensive and arguably more humane alternatives to detention...Read more
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Florida v. USA (FL Detention I) - Court of AppealsMandatory Detention, Parole05/06/2024-Florida’s Supplemental Brief (PDF)This is an appeal of a March 2023 decision by a district court judge in Florida to vacate (nullify) a DHS policy authorizing, in certain circumstances, the release from detention of some asylum seekers and instead monitoring them via less expensive and arguably more humane alternatives to detention...Read more
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Texas v. DHS (TX Razorwire) - Court of AppealsBorder Wall04/29/2024-Texas’s Supplemental Brief (PDF)This is an appeal of a district court’s November 29, 2023 decision denying Texas’s request for a preliminary injunction blocking the alleged policy and practice of Customs and Border Protection agents of cutting concertina wire (aka “razor wire”) that Texas has been installing as a border barrier...Read more
Litigation Tracker
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Arizona v. Garland (AZ Asylum Rule) - District Court
Asylum RegulationsThis suit is a challenge by 19 states (initially led by Arizona, which later bowed out of the case but is still listed as the “lead” plaintiff in the caption) to an asylum-related regulation issued by the Department of Homeland Security in March 2022. Prior to issuing that regulation, DHS provided...Read more -
Indiana v. Mayorkas (IN Asylum Ban) - District Court
Asylum RegulationsIndiana and 17 other states filed this lawsuit in May 2023 to challenge a regulation issued a few weeks earlier by the Biden Administration. The convoluted rule makes non-Mexican asylum seekers at the southern border presumptively ineligible for asylum in the United States, subject to narrow...Read more -
Texas v. Mayorkas (TX Asylum Ban) - District Court
Asylum RegulationsTexas filed this lawsuit in May 2023 to challenge a regulation issued a few weeks earlier by the Biden Administration. The convoluted rule makes non-Mexican asylum seekers at the southern border presumptively ineligible for asylum in the United States, subject to narrow, tightly restricted...Read more -
Texas v. Mayorkas (TX Asylum Rule) - District Court
Asylum RegulationsOn April 28, 2022, Texas filed this suit to challenge an asylum-related regulation issued by the Department of Homeland Security a month prior. Notice of that proposed regulation had been issued in August 2021, after which the public was invited to comment. Texas claims that the regulation is...Read more
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