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.
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Texas v. DHS (KFT Parole) - Intervention AppealParole10/04/2024-Federal Defendants’ Reply In Support of Motion to Vacate (PDF)This is an appeal of a district court’s refusal to let potential beneficiaries of the Keeping Families Together (KFT) parole process intervene in a lawsuit brought by 16 states challenging its legality. The KFT process was created by the Biden Administration in August 2024, and it allows certain...Read more
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Texas v. DHS (KFT Parole) - District CourtParole10/04/2024-Order Reimposing "Stay" (PDF)This case was only recently filed but already has a complicated history. This a challenge by 16 states (led by Texas and Idaho) to the Keeping Families Together (KFT) process created by the Biden Administration in August 2024, through which certain undocumented immigrant spouses and stepchildren of...Read more
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Texas v. DHS (KFT Parole) - Intervention AppealParole10/04/2024-Intervenors’ Reply In Support of Motion to Vacate (PDF)This is an appeal of a district court’s refusal to let potential beneficiaries of the Keeping Families Together (KFT) parole process intervene in a lawsuit brought by 16 states challenging its legality. The KFT process was created by the Biden Administration in August 2024, and it allows certain...Read more
Litigation Tracker
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Alabama v. Mayorkas - District Court
ICEMandatory DetentionProsecutorial DiscretionIn April 2022, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia sued the Biden Administration over immigration enforcement guidance, issued in September 2021, that set out criteria and guidelines for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to consider when prioritizing cases for enforcement and deportation (e.g...Read more -
Arizona v. Biden (AZ ICE Priorities II) - District Court
ICEMandatory DetentionProsecutorial DiscretionIn November 2021, Arizona, Montana, and Ohio sued the Biden Administration regarding immigration enforcement guidance, issued in September 2021, for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to consider when prioritizing cases for enforcement and deportation (e.g., whether an individual is a...Read more -
Arizona v. Biden (AZ ICE Priorities II)- Court of Appeals
Mandatory DetentionProsecutorial DiscretionICEThis is an appeal by the federal government of the March 22, 2022 decision of a trial court preliminarily enjoining (blocking) guidance the Biden Administration issued in September 2021 for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to consider when prioritizing cases for enforcement and deportation...Read more -
Arizona v. CDC (AZ Title 42 Termination) - Court of Appeals
COVIDTitle 42This is an appeal of a district court’s order preliminarily enjoining (blocking) the Biden Administration’s attempt to end the Title 42 expulsion policy, under which most migrants at the southern border seeking asylum have been summarily expelled back to Mexico, ostensibly to prevent the spread of...Read more -
Arizona v. CDC (AZ Title 42 Termination) - District Court
COVIDTitle 42On April 3, 2022, the States of Arizona, Louisiana, and Missouri filed this suit to challenge the Center for Disease Control’s announcement that it would be ending its Title 42 expulsion order as of May 23, 2022. Under that order, most noncitizens seeking humanitarian protection have been summarily...Read more -
Arizona v. DHS (AZ ICE Priorities) - Court of Appeals
ICEMandatory DetentionParoleProsecutorial DiscretionThis was an appeal by the States of Arizona and Montana of a district court order dismissing their claims against immigration enforcement guidance, issued in January and February 2021, for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to consider when prioritizing cases for enforcement and deportation...Read more
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