The D.C. Circuit threw out an injunction against the government’s fast-track deportation policy Tuesday, but the ACLU says the merits fight on the Trump administration’s creation of a “papers, please,” regime is just beginning.
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A majority of Americans who voted for President Donald Trump want to protect immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, according to a poll released Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (CN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether immigrants fighting deportation orders are eligible to seek temporary
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Two years after it scorched U.S. immigration authorities for initiating deportations with barebones notices, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether a follow-up letter is enough to correct a defective notice.
Read moreA native-born U.S. citizen with learning disabilities sued the United States in San Antonio Federal Court, claiming Border Patrol officers arrested him without cause, despite having Texas ID on his person, deported him without seeing a judge, to Mexico, where he was kidnapped by a cartel and held for ransom, until the FBI retrieved him.
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal immigration laws barring judicial review of deportation orders do not prevent undocumented immigrants from challenging factual findings about fear of torture in their home countries.
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A Mexican woman sued prison contractor CoreCivic on Wednesday, claiming a man in street clothes beat and raped her in its Houston detention center and she gave birth to his daughter after she was deported.
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Emigrants returning from the United States were once considered heroes in Guatemala, where the money they send back to their hometowns is a mainstay of the economy.
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Backing the deportation of a green card holder in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Jamaican man’s criminal convictions stopped the clock on his U.S. residency.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union and others accuse U.S. Border Patrol of mistreating a pregnant asylum seeker from Guatemala, who – while waiting to be processed for deportation – gave birth while standing against a garbage can at the border patrol station.
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The Supreme Court on Monday held a federal appeals court may hear the claims of two men seeking to have their removal proceedings reopened decades after they were deported for committing drug crimes.
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As the Trump administration defends a fast-track deportation policy that has been likened to a nationwide “show-me-your-papers” regime, the D.C. Circuit shredded arguments from both sides Friday.
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A Lebanese immigrant who broke his back while fleeing Hezbollah soldiers pushed the Supreme Court on Monday to block his deportation under the Convention Against Torture.
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Two weeks after temporarily halting his deportation to Guatemala, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that a 5-year-old boy can see a pediatric neurologist to determine whether he needs an emergency medical procedure.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Bulgaria to halt its deportation of a group of Uighur refugees, on the grounds that they could be tortured or killed by Chinese authorities.
Read moreGoing further than he ever has in expressing regret over Obama administration immigration policy, presidential candidate Joe Biden called it a “big mistake” to have deported hundreds of thousands of people without criminal records.
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Australia’s highest court ruled Tuesday that the government can’t deport Aboriginal people as part of its policy of ridding the country of foreign criminals.
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King County, Washington, is illegally prohibiting immigration deportation flights at county-owned Boeing Field, a suit filed Monday by the U.S. Justice Department claims.
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Immigration advocates expressed cautious optimism Monday after a judge in Maryland blocked federal agents from detaining immigrant spouses for deportation at green card marriage interviews.
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Advocates with a global human rights organization say at least 138 Salvadorans who were deported from the U.S. since 2013 were killed after returning to their home country, while more than 70 faced sexual violence, beatings, torture or other harm at the hands of gangs and even police.
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