Asylum/Refugees
Asylum is a form of protection granted to individuals who can demonstrate that they are unable or unwilling to return to their country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality,, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. The right to seek asylum was incorporated into international law following the atrocities of World War II. Congress adopted key provisions of the Refugee Convention (including the international definition of a refugee) into U.S. immigration law when it passed the Refugee Act of 1980.
Cases
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Immigrant Defenders Law Center v. Noem (Remain in Mexico/MPP) - District Court
MPP/RMX (Remain in Mexico)Asylum/Refugees[ARCHIVED - September 2025] This class action lawsuit was filed in October 2020, with an updated complaint in December 2021, to challenge the Trump administration’s original implementation of the “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP) or “Remain in Mexico” policy, under which thousands of people...Read more -
Immigrant Defenders Law Center v. Noem (Remain in Mexico/MPP) - Court of Appeals
MPP/RMX (Remain in Mexico)Asylum/Refugees[ARCHIVED - September 2025] This is an appeal of a nationwide stay of the Trump Administration’s reimplementation of the “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP) or “Remain in Mexico” policy. MPP was first implemented under the first Trump administration, in 2021, and under the policy thousands of...Read more -
Al Otro Lado v. Trump (Asylum Access at Border)
Asylum/Refugees[ARCHIVED - September 2025] Plaintiffs—two organizations serving asylum seekers (Al Otro Lado and Haitian Bridge Alliance) and eleven individual asylum seekers—brought this class action lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration’s series of actions to shut down access to asylum at the border...Read more -
Pacito v. Trump (Suspension of Refugee Resettlement Program) - Court of Appeals
Asylum/Refugees[ARCHIVED - September 2025] Two consolidated appeals are at issue here, both concerning preliminary injunctions issued by the district court to prohibit the Trump Administration from dismantling the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) by cutting funding to it and prohibiting most refugees from...Read more -
Las Americas v. DHS - District Court
Asylum/Refugees[ARCHIVED - September 2025] This case, originating under the Biden administration, was brought by immigrants’ rights groups (the ACLU, National Immigrant Justice Center, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Jenner & Block LLP, ACLU of the District of Columbia, and Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP))...Read more
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