JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) , a federal law that criminalizes the encouragement of illegal immigration, does not violate the First Amendment of the US Constitution. As written by Congress, the law has left people wondering what they can safely say on the subject of immigration. The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. Hansen that 8 U.S.C.

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JURIST

JULY 3, 2023

Public debate regarding UK immigration figures spiked again this past week due to a Court of Appeal ruling on the UK’s Rwanda plan. The court rejected the government’s plan to remove illegal immigrants from the UK to Rwanda as “unlawful.”

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

Texas that Texas and Louisiana do not have constitutional standing to sue the federal government over a 2021 Homeland Security Memorandum that focuses immigration enforcement actions on non-citizens who are suspected of terrorism, committed serious crimes or are caught at the border entering illegally.

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JURIST

APRIL 3, 2023

Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week criticized two immigration enforcement bills before the Texas state legislature that would expand the state’s ability to enforce immigration laws, a matter usually left to the US federal government. Statistics show that 2.4

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A US federal judge Monday approved a settlement for over $1 million in a class action lawsuit that involved a 2018 immigration raid on a Tennessee meat packing plant that lead to the detainment of approximately 100 Latinx workers.

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JURIST

JULY 6, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Tuesday reversed a preliminary injunction against a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo prioritizing the deportation of dangerous immigrants. In September 2021 the DHS issued a memo outlining immigration enforcement policies and priorities.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2021

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed four new bills into law on Monday that in effect end immigration detention by expanding protections for immigrants and refugees. The post Illinois Governor signs bills effectively ending statewide immigration detention appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

JULY 27, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that an immigration judge’s two-sentence decision denying asylum to an Ecuadorean man was insufficient. The case was brought by Jorge Luis Valarezo-Tirado for review of an Immigration Judge’s reinstatement of his prior order of removal.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2023

This is the latest in a series of Italian anti-immigration policies which have drawn international condemnation. The UN previously called upon Italy to reverse course on their increasingly strict immigration policies in November 2018.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2023

Meloni said the new decree would prohibit those who “systematically violate” the law from doing so any longer and referred to the law as an effort to prohibit illegal immigration and human trafficking. Italy has been under fire from the international community for years for its anti-immigration policies.

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JURIST

JUNE 13, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday ruled in two separate cases that undocumented immigrants who are detained for more than six months are not entitled to a bond hearing. The post US Supreme Court rules immigration detainees not guaranteed bond hearings appeared first on JURIST - News. Aleman Gonzalez was a 6-3 decision.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday struck down a portion of a Florida immigration law as unconstitutional and declared that the measures within the bill were racially motivated. Gruter was the senator that sponsored SB 168.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2023

Floridians gathered across the state Thursday to protest a recently enacted law that imposes restrictions on undocumented immigrants. In what protesters dubbed, “a day without immigrants,” thousands walked off the job to voice their disapproval of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s approval of Senate Bill (SB) 1718.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Denmark’s sixth impeachment trial in history began on Thursday over former minister Inger Stojeberg’s aggressive immigration policies. During Stojeberg’s term as Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing from 2015 to 2019, she imposed more than 100 new amendments limiting the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers.

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2022

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments for two immigration cases Tuesday that address the rights of detained noncitizens to have a bond hearing after six months of detention. Arteaga-Martinez’s asylum case was referred to an immigration judge but he remained in detention while it was processed. The second case, Garland v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Danish Court of Impeachment, or Rigsretten, Monday sentenced former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg to 60 days in prison. As immigration minister, Støjberg was responsible for administrating and enforcing Danish immigration law during the 2015 European migration crisis.

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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2023

Canada has now recorded a record intake of immigrants the past two years in a row after the country announced they welcomed 401,000 permanent residents in 2021. In 2022, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada processed 5.2 Immigration represents nearly 100 percent of labor force growth in Canada.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) on Saturday called on immigration authorities to speed up visa processing so that nearly 2000 migrants seeking asylum in the US and Mexico could access documents to regularize their stay in Mexico or let them travel through Mexico without being detained.

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JURIST

JANUARY 21, 2021

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday blocked implementation of most of a rule that would have dramatically increased the fees for immigration proceedings in which individuals face deportation. These fees had not been raised since 1986, and ranged from $100 to $110.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2021

The US House of Representatives passed two separate bills Thursday aimed at immigration reform, marking the first time Congress has voted to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. “Immigrants greatly contribute to our economy, our community, and our culture.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The post Australia High Court rejects constitutional challenge to closed immigration appeal appeared first on JURIST - News. The appellant then appealed the Tribunal’s affirmation of the visa cancellation and challenged the constitutionality of section 46(2) of the AATA.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

ACLU filed a lawsuit Monday requesting access to COVID-19 booster shots for seven individuals (“the plaintiffs”) detained by immigration authorities. The lawsuit is aimed at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2022

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Monday called on Canada to end its practice of incarcerating immigration detainees in provincial jails. is inconsistent with international human rights standards, and jail conditions potentially breach federal-provincial immigration detention contracts,” HRW said.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2021

Oregon starts issuing standard driver licenses to undocumented immigrants Friday owing to a law passed by the state’s legislature in the summer of 2019. The Act’s proponents have praised the law, saying that it will benefit communities including and beyond undocumented immigrants.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

citizens are more likely to commit a crime than immigrants, refuting rightwing rhetoric that blames rising immigration for the uptick in crime, according to a study published in Crime & Delinquency. citizens, on average, had more previous arrests than immigrants. The higher rate of offending among U.S. the authors found.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The UK Special Immigration Appeals Commission Wednesday rejected 23-year-old Shamima Begum’s appeal against the government’s 2019 revocation of her British citizenship. ” However, the court found that “Begum’s appeal under section 2B of the [Special Immigration Appeals Act 1997] must be dismissed.”

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 29, 2022

“Gorsuch Immigration Dissent Echoes Views on Covid Curbs”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has this report. The post “Gorsuch Immigration Dissent Echoes Views on Covid Curbs” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

APRIL 23, 2023

A Mexican judge Saturday ordered the immigration director of Mexico’s northern border state Chihuahua to stand trial for his failure to manage a deadly fire at an immigration detention centre which caused the death of 40 refugees.

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JURIST

AUGUST 10, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday upheld a New Jersey state law enforcement directive limiting local police interactions with, and/or barring its cooperation with federal immigration authorities. A second county filed suit the following month launching similar challenges to the Directive.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2022

Australia’s new interim Home Affairs minister Friday announced that a Sri Lankan family detained by immigration authorities since 2018 will be granted new visas and be permitted to return to their home in the Australian town of Biloela.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

A federal district court in Washington state ruled against a Tacoma for-profit immigration detention center in a minimum wage suit Tuesday, ordering its owners to pay $5.9 The Northwest ICE Processing Center is the fourth-largest immigration detention center in the US and can hold 1,575 detainees.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Garland (“the immigration case”) asking whether a federal court can review a decision by an agency within the Department of Justice ruling that a person is ineligible for permanent residency and in Hughes v. Th immigration case involves Pankajkumar Patel, a citizen of India who has been living in the US for almost 30 years.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2023

Adams called on the US government to help larger cities manage unprecedented levels of immigration and claimed that the influx of migrants could cost NYC up to $2 billion. The post New York mayor declares ‘no room’ for migrants amid high immigration appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 27, 2023

What it's really like to be an immigration attorney. The post How Personal Experience Impacts This Immigration Lawyer’s Work appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

JANUARY 27, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Thursday issued an opinion holding that the US Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) must consider whether non-US citizens who are perceived in their home countries to be LGBT and persecuted for being considered part of that group can be granted asylum in the US.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

“Supreme Court might have easy outs on elections, immigration”: Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press have this report. The post “Supreme Court might have easy outs on elections, immigration” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard oral arguments regarding Texas and Louisiana’s challenge to the Biden administration’s immigration policy. The post US Supreme Court hears oral arguments over Biden administration immigration policy appeared first on JURIST - News. Justices Jackson and Kagan agreed with Prelogar’s argument.

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