Garcia Ramirez et al. v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement et al., is a nationwide class-action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for transferring unaccompanied minors who reach their 18th birthdays to ICE adult detention facilities without considering less restrictive placements.
D.D.C. Case 1:25-cv-02279 This class action lawsuit seeks to end collusion between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department
(D.D.C. 1:25-cv-00791) E.Q. v. DHS challenges the Trump Administration’s new Mandatory Bars Rule, which imposes additional barriers to protection for
(DDC 1:25-cv-00306) Raices v. Mullin challenges the Trump administration’s January 2025 proclamation aimed at completely shutting down asylum at the
This lawsuit challenges the Biden administration’s June 5, 2024, asylum ban and related changes to the “expedited removal” process that will wrongfully return many people back to persecution and severe violence. The ban and changes immediately followed a presidential proclamation purporting to declare an “emergency” at the U.S.-Mexico border.
This lawsuit challenges the Biden administration’s sweeping May 2023 asylum ban and several new expedited removal policies that dramatically alter the screening interview process for asylum seekers and wrongfully return many back to persecution and grave danger.
O.A. v. Trump, which NIJC is currently litigating in collaboration with Human Rights First (HRF) and Williams & Connolly LLP in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, challenges the Trump administration’s November 2018 ban on access to asylum for anyone who enters the United States without being inspected at a port of entry.
