SANTA ANA — A class action lawsuit was filed against the Orange County sheriff today by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California, the national ACLU Foundation, and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP. The suit seeks to force sheriff Don Barnes and the county to take urge

SAN FRANCISCO — In an emergency order, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order in response to a challenge by immigrants detained at two California immigration detention centers where conditions are rife for the spread of COVID-19. The centers, used by Immigration and Customs Enforcemen

Last week, the legal team in the federal lawsuit Ramos v. Nielsen filed a 28J letter highlighting the high number of TPS beneficiaries carrying out essential functions during the coronavirus pandemic. The letter provides additional weight for the district court’s conclusion that enjoining TPS termin

NEW YORK — Six non-citizen U.S. military service members today filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Defense for denying them a path to citizenship that Congress has long promised to service members under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The lawsuit was filed in federal court

LOS ANGELES — United States District Court in Los Angeles today ordered the number of detainees at the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center be decreased “to such a level that would allow the remaining detainees to maintain a social distance of six feet from each other at al

WHAT: Phone-in press conference to announce a major legal action to combat COVID-19 spread in ICE detention centers located in California. The action will be brought by a coalition of attorneys from the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco

LOS ANGELES — The “police” officers at the door look the part: flak jackets, tactical gear, guns, and the word POLICE emblazoned on their outfits. They even announce they are “the police.” But they are not the police. They are U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents relying on deceptio