immigration courts

Across the United States, people are showing up at immigration court hearings to accompany immigrants and deter ICE from detaining them. Among them is Sister Rose Patrice, a Catholic nun whose presence supporters say matters, as faith leaders have been shown to influence outcomes in these cases.

A judge has ordered the Canadian government to release records concerning Nazi war criminals who settled in Canada after the Second World War. The ruling could reveal how such individuals were admitted to the country and how postwar immigration screening was handled, renewing attention on Canada's efforts to address its wartime-era admissions.

A Cuban immigrant has spent a full year in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in El Paso, and his case is now being used to test the limits of a Supreme Court ruling on prolonged immigration detention. The case raises questions about how long authorities can hold people without bond and what protections the high court's decision actually guarantees in practice.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is pressing the DC Circuit to vacate a drone flight restriction that effectively criminalized recording immigration agents from the air. The group argues the rule blocks lawful First Amendment activity, preventing the public and journalists from documenting federal immigration enforcement operations. The case is now before the appeals court, drawing attention from civil liberties advocates.

A federal judge has denied a request to block Tennessee Highway Patrol traffic stops conducted in coordination with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The ruling allows the joint enforcement operations to continue while the legal challenge proceeds. The decision is likely to draw reaction from immigration advocates who oppose the stops and from supporters of tougher immigration enforcement.

A judge has ordered a pause on construction of an ICE detention facility in Gilroy, California, citing environmental concerns. The ruling temporarily stops the project while environmental review issues are addressed, adding another legal setback to federal immigration detention expansion efforts in the Bay Area.

A member of Congress says they were denied access to a new, secretive immigration courtroom operating in Manhattan. The reported refusal has raised questions about transparency in immigration proceedings and why a federal courtroom would be closed to oversight, including to elected officials seeking to observe its operations firsthand.