A public records lawsuit filed Thursday seeks to pry loose files on the government’s alleged mass surveillance and retention of people’s social media activities, a practice civil liberties watchdogs warn could chill free speech.
Read moreThe Trump administration is prohibited from executing planned immigration raids this month targeting up to 100 Cambodian refugees, many of whom have deportation orders but are protected from being re-detained without due process, a federal judge ordered Thursday.
Read moreCivil rights attorneys applauded a federal judge Friday for refusing to dismiss a lawsuit accusing the U.S. government of subjecting passengers on a domestic Delta Airlines to an illegal search.
Read moreImmigration officials say an autopsy will be performed to determine the cause of death of a 7-year-old migrant girl who suffered seizures in custody and later died.
Read moreIn a concise history of U.S. immigration-detention policies, the ACLU claims in a federal complaint that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining thousands of asylum-seekers in violation of its own directives
Read moreA group of former state and federal judges called on federal immigration authorities to stop making arrests at courthouses in a public letter sent Wednesday.
Read moreSear Un, who fled the Cambodian genocide as an infant, has lived in the United States for 34 years, and is the father of two U.S. citizens, expecting a third, claims in a federal complaint that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is trying to deport him based on a 20-year-old burglary conviction
Read moreA coalition of civil rights groups brought a complaint Thursday demanding information on how immigration authorities use the Boston Police Department’s gang database to target black and Latino residents.
Read moreImmigrant advocates charged the U.S. government in court Wednesday with illegal surveillance and harassment done in retaliation for their work organizing farmworkers.
Read moreTexas asked the Fifth Circuit on Monday to revive its lawsuit over the constitutionality of its law banning sanctuary cities, even though the appellate court has already allowed the legislation to go on the books.
Read moreClaudia Sarahi Rueda Vidal, “the paradigmatic ‘Dreamer,’” who arrived in the United States when she was 6, claims in a federal complaint that she faced retaliatory arrest for her speech, and was denied entrance into the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also in retaliation.
Read moreA judge on Massachusetts’ highest court denied a bid to block federal immigration agents from making arrests at state courthouses, though she expressed concern that the practice may be scaring off some witnesses and others needed in court.
Read moreThe official overseeing the federal response to Hurricane Florence is also reportedly the target of an ongoing investigation by the Department of Homeland Security inspector general over his alleged misuse of government vehicles for private use.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit heard oral arguments Friday in Indiana’s appeal seeking to vacate a settlement between the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the American Civil Liberties Union that prohibits cooperation with federal immigration authorities without a warrant.
Read moreA new state lawsuit filed this week claims a local freeholder board violated New Jersey’s Sunshine Law when it suddenly voted to renew a controversial contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which allows them to detain unauthorized immigrants at a nearby jail.
Read moreNearly a month after the court-ordered deadline for the federal government to reunited children separated from their parents after illegally entering the United States, two immigrants rights groups claim federal agents coerced parents to agree to deportation before getting their children back.
Read moreImmigration authorities coerced dozens of parents separated from their children at the border to sign documents they didn’t understand, according to a complaint expected to be filed Thursday.
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