Press Releases

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Apr 29, 2026

Legal Teams React to SCOTUS Arguments on Cases Challenging Termination of TPS for Haiti and Syria

The Supreme Court's decision could also impact more than 1.3 million TPS holders from all 17 TPS-designated countries, as the administration is asking to make TPS decision-making unreviewable by the court system.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights, Racial Justice
Court Cases: Mullin v. Dahlia Doe
Apr 22, 2026

ACLU Defends Court Order Barring Border Patrol's Unlawful Stop-and-Arrest Practices

Plaintiffs in United Farm Workers v. Noem asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the April 2025 preliminary injunction
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
Court Cases: United Farm Workers, et al. v. Noem, et al.
Apr 22, 2026

SCOTUS Case To Decide Future of TPS for 1.3 Million Immigrants

We're challenging the Trump administration's attempt to make virtually all Temporary Protection Status decisions unreviewable by the court system.
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
Court Cases: Mullin v. Dahlia Doe
Apr 02, 2026

Court Finds Border Patrol Violated Federal Court Order During Sacramento Raids

The court granted a motion to enforce an order barring Border Patrol from making illegal stops in the Eastern District of California
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
Court Cases: United Farm Workers, et al. v. Noem, et al.
Dec 22, 2025

Federal Court Blocks Unlawful ICE Policy of Re-arresting Immigrants Without Legal Justification

The court order provisionally certified the case as a class action
Issue Areas: Immigrants' Rights
Court Cases: Garro Pinchi, et al. v. Noem, et al.