Two American citizens who claim they were wrongfully detained for speaking Spanish in public settled their lawsuit against the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and individual agents, the ACLU announced Tuesday.
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U.S. customs officials in Miami on Tuesday said they seized ancient carved stones from Cameroon known as Ikom monoliths that had been exported to the United States using fake documents.
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With President Donald Trump eager to fulfill his campaign promise to build 450 miles of border wall by the end of 2020, his administration has filed 63 eminent domain lawsuits against South Texas landowners this year. One problem: Such cases can take years to resolve.
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A federal judge Thursday paved the way for thousands of asylum seekers to challenge the Trump administration’s block to the immigration process at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border by certifying a class action.
Read moreA 16-year-old girl sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the agents she says strip searched her without cause on her way home from Mexico with her adult sisters, in federal court.
Read moreThe Santa Fe Dreamers Project sued U.S. Customs and Border Protection in a federal FOIA complaint seeking information on the agency’s “targeting of human rights defenders [including attorneys] by border enforcement agencies.”
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The filthy and overcrowded detention cells in the U.S. Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector are unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, ordering all pretrial detainees held at processing centers for more than two days be given food, blankets and showers.
Read moreThe Council on American Islamic Relations sued the Department Of Homeland Security in Seattle Federal Court, for information on “a directive issued to CBP (Customs and Border Protection) officers to detain and interrogate Iranian-Americans” at the Canadian border.
Read moreA Christian pastor who ministers to immigrants and refugees failed to obtain a court order that would have prevented the government from continuing to monitor her activities along the U.S.-Mexico border and in New York.
Read moreFormer Customs and Border Protection Watch Commander Wei Xu, 58, of Santa Fe Springs, Calif., was sentenced Monday to 31 months in federal prison for four felonies, including running an illegal gun-dealing business, possessing machineguns and failing to disclose financial interests in China, federal prosecutors said.
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Handing the federal government its first “win” since it was sued for separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border, a federal judge Monday found continued separations are discretionary and do not violate a court and executive order abandoning the “zero tolerance” immigration policy.
Read moreA government watchdog recounted failures with the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy on Wednesday, saying the Department of Homeland Security did not have technology it would need to track the families it separated.
Read moreA Latino man’s claims relating to his detention by Customs and Border Protection officers at a bus station may continue, a federal court in Washington ruled. The government may be liable under the state’s anti-discrimination law because the acts of the officers caused the man to be “treated as not welcome, accepted, desired, or solicited” based on his race.
Read moreA federal judge in Boston ruled Tuesday that the government’s suspicionless searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at border ports of entry and airports violate the Fourth Amendment.
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A federal judge asked for clarification Friday about how exactly the federal government’s “Migrant Protection Protocols” are being employed by immigration agents at the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego as he considers whether asylum seekers have a right to counsel when being interviewed about their fear of being returned to Mexico.
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The Trump administration’s incessant rollout of immigration-stifling policies this year seem to have had their desired effect: Arrests and entry denials by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the southwest border fell from 144,000 in May to 52,000 last month. But the agency’s director said Tuesday the “crisis” is not over.
Read moreJailed, beaten and tortured for political activity during the Sri Lankan civil war, Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam’s case for U.S. asylum was taken up Friday by the Supreme Court.
Read moreNew statistics reported Tuesday by Customs and Border Protection show that roughly 1 million migrants have been arrested at the southern border in the last year, the most in over a decade.
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