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-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
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Texas v. DHS (KFT Parole) - Intervention AppealParole10/04/2024-Unpublished Opinion Affirming Denial of Motion to Intervene (PDF)This is an appeal of a district court’s refusal to let potential beneficiaries of the Keeping Families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 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
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 -
Arizona v. DHS (AZ ICE Priorities) - District Court
ICEMandatory DetentionParoleProsecutorial DiscretionIn early 2021, Arizona and Montana sued the Biden Administration regarding immigration enforcement guidance, issued in January and February 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. 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 -
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 -
Brnovich v. Biden (AZ Detention) - District Court
Mandatory DetentionParoleThis was a suit by Arizona against the Biden Administration regarding two different sets of unrelated policies: COVID-19 vaccine mandates as to federal employees and contractors, on the one hand, and the circumstances under which asylum seekers should be detained, on the other. Arizona filed suit in...Read more
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