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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Texas v. DHS (KFT Parole) - Intervention AppealParole09/12/2024-Texas’s Answering Brief (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) - Intervention AppealParole09/11/2024-Order Staying District Court Proceedings & Exetending “Administrative Stay” of KFT Process (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 CourtParole09/11/2024-Notice of Stay of Proceedings (PDF)This case is 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 U.S. citizens can apply for “parole-in-place.” Parole is a...Read more
Litigation Tracker
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Arizona v. Mayorkas (AZ Border Wall) - Court of Appeals
Border WallCOVIDICEMandatory DetentionMPP/RMX (Remain in Mexico)ParoleProsecutorial DiscretionTitle 42This was an appeal in a case where Arizona challenges at least five different immigration-related policies of the Biden administration, principally on the ground that they allegedly violate an environmental law. Arizona’s main contention is that since the various policies could result in an increase...Read more -
Arizona v. Mayorkas (AZ Border Wall) - District Court
Border WallCOVIDICEMandatory DetentionMPP/RMX (Remain in Mexico)ParoleProsecutorial DiscretionTitle 42In this case, Arizona challenged at least five different immigration-related policies of the Biden Administration, principally based on an environmental law statute. Arizona’s main contention was that since the various policies could result in an increase in the U.S. population, and because that...Read more -
Bush v. Biden (TX Border Wall) - District Court
Border WallThis case challenged the Biden Administration’s cessation of border wall construction. It originally began as two separate cases and has had a long and complicated procedural history. In July 2021, George P. Bush filed suit on behalf of the General Land Office of the State of Texas and himself, as...Read more -
Ducey v. Moore - District Court
Border WallIn October 2022, a politically-connected private company hired by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey began using stacked shipping containers to build a “border wall” between gaps in the current fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona (where the federal government was already working to fill those...Read more -
Missouri v. Biden (MO Border Wall) - Final Judgment Appeal
Border WallThis is an appeal of a district court order dismissing Texas and Missouri’s challenge to the Biden Administration’s cessation of border wall construction. The states allege that it violates the Constitution and budgetary statutes and did not go through required procedures. In August 2022, the...Read more -
Missouri v. Biden (MO Border Wall) - Intervention Appeal
Border WallThis is an appeal of a district court order denying intervention of non-parties to join the case and the district court’s final judgment order and permanent injunction. In the original case, the States of Missouri and Texas challenged the Biden Administration’s cessation of border wall construction...Read more
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