A Broad Ruling Against Trump's Immigration Policies Illustrates Alternatives to Universal Injunctions
Class actions and Administrative Procedure Act claims can achieve much the same result as the nationwide orders that the Supreme Court rejected.
Class actions and Administrative Procedure Act claims can achieve much the same result as the nationwide orders that the Supreme Court rejected.
Our dreams have fallen from supersonic world travel to jailing migrants who've hurt no one.
Legal experts are concerned that immigration judges with only six weeks of training will not uphold constitutional protections for migrants.
Only eight days after construction began, Florida’s new immigration detention center in the Everglades is set to officially open this week.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is considering whether the president properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.
They face severe persecution if deported to Iran.
More government agencies are using facial recognition for enforcement than ever before.
Dismissing asylum applications for migrants who entered the U.S. unlawfully would boost immigration-related arrests, but have little impact on public safety.
That's inevitable. It should also be deeply troubling to anyone who cares about constitutional government.
The liberal justice faults the majority for leaving deportees to “suffer violence in far-flung locales.”
Marco Rubio’s nebulous invocation of foreign policy interests is bound to have a chilling impact on freedom of speech, which is the whole point.
The ruling includes no analysis. Justice Sotomayor's dissent has a compelling explanation of why it is wrong.
The Florida attorney general stated that the facilities will add 5,000 beds and be operational as early as the first week of July.
From California to Florida, farmers face a shrinking domestic workforce, burdensome labor regulations, and a bureaucratic mess that makes hiring legally very difficult.
Although the appeals court said the president probably complied with the law he invoked to justify his California deployment, it emphasized that such decisions are subject to judicial review.
Florida's attorney general proposed using a 30-square-mile part of the Everglades to house, process, and deport detained migrants.
The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.
On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.
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Deportation means expelling an alien back to their home country for violating immigration law. Many of the Trump administration's actions don't meet that definition.
"I think it just puts a lot of fear in people—especially the hard-working people who are doing nothing wrong."
U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz highlights the chilling impact of Marco Rubio's dubious rationale for deporting students whose views offend him.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the president failed to comply with the statute he cited—and violated the 10th Amendment too.
Even if the president was joking in both cases, he already has used his powers to punish people whose views offend him.
In a federal lawsuit, California's governor argues that the president's assertion of control over "the State's militia" is illegal and unconstitutional.
The Department of Justice brought the deported Salvadoran back to U.S. soil for trial, reversing its long-held contention that he would "never" return.
Those accused of wrongdoing have the right to challenge the evidence against them before the government takes away their liberty.
Without such intervention, he warns, the government "could snatch anyone off the street, turn him over to a foreign country, and then effectively foreclose any corrective course of action."
The president treats legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat.
Father of the Constitution James Madison made a distinction between alien enemies and alien friends.
A federal judge blocks the administration's "Student Criminal Alien Initiative," which targeted foreign students who had no criminal records.
Stephen Miller's trial balloon about abrogating habeas corpus in immigration cases shows how any libertarian with pragmatic intelligence should reject so-called "libertarian" arguments for strict immigration laws.
Stephen Miller's understanding of the Constitution is dubious for several reasons.
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We don't need more of the same. We need evidence of a serious turnaround.
A declassified assessment contradicts the president's assertion that Tren de Aragua is "closely aligned with" the Venezuelan government and acts at its "direction."
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ICE deported Andry Hernandez Romero because his "mom" and "dad" tattoos were allegedly related to a Venezuelan gang.
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Campus protests against Israel have revived debates over the limits of First Amendment protections.
The president's bizarre insistence that Kilmar Abrego Garcia "had MS-13 tattooed" on "his knuckles" makes him seem like a confused old man.
"It is unthinkable that a person in a free society could be snatched from the street, imprisoned, and threatened with deportation for expressing an opinion the government dislikes," says FIRE.
Trade and immigration are areas where Trump operates most like a criminal autocrat.
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The administration's lawyers claim that this was justified by Khalil's likelihood of escape.
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A new ACLU lawsuit argues that the government still is not giving alleged gang members the "notice" required by a Supreme Court order.
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