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Aug 25, 2020

Rescission of Furlough Threats Is an Important First Step in Holding USCIS Accountable

AILA Director of Government Relations Sharvari Dalal-Dheini and AILA President Jennifer Minear respond to USCIS's announcement that it will cancel its planned furlough of over 13,000 employees.

Aug 21, 2020

AILA and Sidley Austin, LLP Challenge Trump Administration’s Unlawful USCIS Fee Rule on Behalf of Immigrants’ Rights Organizations

On August 20, 2020, AILA and Sidley Austin, LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of a coalition of the nation's leading immigrants' rights organizations challenging the Trump administration's unlawful USCIS Fee Rule. The law suit seeks to prevent the rule from g...

Aug 04, 2020

New FOIA Request Filed to Force Agency to Release Immigration Court Operations Information on COVID-19 Pandemic

AILA, the Council, and NIPNLG filed a FOIA request to obtain documents related to EOIR's response to COVID-19, noting that EOIR has repeatedly ignored requests for information and seeking expedited release of documents that are integral to understanding E...

Aug 03, 2020

Civil Rights Coalition Files Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Halt Immigration Ban

AILA, Justice Action Center, and Innovation Law Lab, with pro bono support from Mayer Brown LLP, filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for a preliminary injunction to halt implementation of the Trump Administration's immig...

Jul 28, 2020

AILA: Trump’s Wind-Down of DACA Once Again Throws Dreamers’ Lives into Turmoil

AILA President Jennifer Minear and AILA Executive Director Benjamin Johnson respond to the Trump administration announcement that it will begin to wind down legal protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients while it conducts a...

Jul 17, 2020

Individuals, Employers, and Organizations Join to File First Lawsuit Challenging Entirety of Trump’s Immigration Ban

AILA, Justice Action Center, and Innovation Law Lab, with pro bono support from Mayer Brown LLP, sued the Trump Administration on behalf of 23 individual and organizational plaintiffs to prevent the devastating effects of President's Trump's unlawful and ...

Jul 13, 2020

LPR Applicants, Their Sponsors, and Immigrant and Civil Rights Groups Sue Over Law Violations in Implementation of Trump Administration’s Public Charg

Today, AILA and our partners filed a complaint on behalf of a group of applicants for lawful permanent residence, their sponsors, and nonprofit immigration legal service providers, suing the Trump administration for violating the law in its implementation...

Jul 08, 2020

Administration Plans Unnecessary and Unconscionable Ban on Asylum Seekers Masked Behind False Public Health Premise

AILA and the Council expressed deep concern about the administration's soon-to-be-published proposed rule that would allow DHS to ban people from seeking asylum or withholding of removal in the United States solely because they traveled from or through a ...

Jul 06, 2020

Trump Administration Makes Immigration Courts an Enforcement Tool by Appointing Prosecutors to Lead

AILA condemns the Trump administration's recent ramp-up of efforts to turn the immigration court system into an enforcement tool rather than an independent arbiter for justice.

Jun 24, 2020

Children of Permanent Residents and U.S. Citizens Exempt from New Immigration Ban

Representatives from AILA, Justice Action Center, and Innovation Law Lab react to the carve-out exemption in President Trump's immigration ban expansion for children or child relatives who could be separated from their families if they age out while the b...

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