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. Mayorkas (TX Asylum Rule) - District CourtAsylum Regulations07/09/2024-Federal Government’s Answer to the Complaint (PDF)On 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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Missouri v. Biden (MO Border Wall) - Intervention AppealBorder Wall06/28/2024- Appeal docketedThis 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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Texas v. DHS (TX CHNV Parole) - Court of AppealsParole06/26/2024-Texas’s Opening Brief on Appeal (PDF)This is an appeal of a March 8, 2024 district court decision in which Judge Tipton dismissed the case based on his finding that Texas failed to demonstrate it is harmed due to the CHNV parole programs, and therefore does not have standing to maintain the case. Just a few days later, Texas and the 20...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 -
Biden v. Texas (TX RMX) - Supreme Court
Mandatory DetentionMPP/RMX (Remain in Mexico)ParoleOn February 18, 2022, the Supreme Court granted the Biden Administration's request to review the decision of the Fifth Circuit holding that the federal government must restart and maintain the "Remain in Mexico" (“RMX”) program (also referred to as the "Migrant Protection Protocols," or MPP), a...Read more -
Texas v. Biden (TX RMX) - Court of Appeals I
Mandatory DetentionMPP/RMX (Remain in Mexico)ParoleThis is an appeal of a district court’s order that the Biden Administration restart the "Remain in Mexico" program (also referred to as the "Migrant Protection Protocols," or MPP), a Trump-era policy requiring certain asylum seekers to be returned to Mexico and forced to wait there for the months or...Read more -
Texas v. Biden (TX RMX) - Court of Appeals II
Mandatory DetentionMPP/RMX (Remain in Mexico)ParoleThis is an appeal of a district court’s order that stayed (paused) the Biden Administration’s second attempt to end the "Remain in Mexico" program (also referred to as the "Migrant Protection Protocols," or MPP), a Trump-era policy requiring certain asylum seekers to be returned to Mexico and forced...Read more -
Texas v. Biden (TX RMX) - District Court
Mandatory DetentionMPP/RMX (Remain in Mexico)ParoleIn April 2021, Texas and Missouri sued the Biden Administration for ending a policy, created in late 2018 by the Trump Administration, under which certain asylum seekers are returned to Mexico and forced to wait there for the months or years required for the U.S. government to process their...Read more
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