In April 2022, NIJC and Sidley Austin LLP sued Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and multiple county officials from Clay County, Indiana, on behalf of people detained by ICE at the Clay County Jail. Lead plaintiffs, Cristhian Herrera Cardenas, Maribel Xirum, Javier Jaimes Jaimes, and…
- The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois approved a proposed settlement on February 8, 2022, in the class action lawsuit, Castañon Nava et al. v. Dep’t of Homeland Security et al., No. 18-cv-3757-RRP (N.D. Ill.). More information about the settlement agreement is available at…
- Case Summary 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…
- In the fall of 2019, the State of California enacted A.B. 32, which prohibits the operation of any private prison or detention facility in the state subject to a few limited exceptions. Both the GEO Group, Inc. and the United States sued California, claiming that A.B. 32 is unlawful as to…
- Updated June 9, 2020 As the COVID-19 pandemic paralyzes the nation, the administration persists in widespread civil immigration enforcement and detention despite clear warnings to the contrary from public health experts. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (…
- A rally calling on ICE to end Secure Communities outside the courthouse during trial in May 2019. Gonzalez v. ICE challenges various U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer practices, including the agency’s reliance on error-ridden databases to generate requests, known as detainers,…
- Case Summary 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…
- Jimenez Moreno et al v. Napolitano et al, 11-cv-05452 (N.D. Ill) is a federal class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for unlawfully detaining immigrants and U.S. citizens identified through local law enforcement agencies. What are immigration detainers?…