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Jacqueline Flores (left) with daughter Nicky at their home in Virginia last month. They are part of the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, a group calling for an end to Title 42 so their family members can seek asylum.

Title 42 Foes Go Back To Court To Try To End COVID Measure Blocking Asylum-Seekers

10:50pm August 02, 2021

by Franco Ordoñez

Immigration advocates had put their lawsuit on hold to give the Biden administration time to phase out the Trump-era Title 42 measure. But they say they're tired of waiting.

The Adelanto U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif., is operated by GEO Group, Inc., a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections. The facility is one of 39 recommended by the ACLU for closure.

ACLU Calls On DHS To Close ICE Detention Centers, Citing High Cost Of Empty Beds

9:07pm April 28, 2021

by Joel Rose

The ACLU wants the Biden administration to close dozens of immigration detention facilities, citing the historically low number of immigrants in detention and the high cost of paying for empty beds.

A holding center for migrant children in Carrizo Springs, Texas. A 16-year-old Honduran boy who entered the U.S. alone was scheduled to be deported Wednesday, but a federal judge has blocked his removal.

Judge Blocks Deportation Of Honduran Teenager Due To Pandemic

3:18am June 10, 2020

The 16-year-old boy was to be deported Wednesday under a new administration policy that applies federal health statutes, intended to mitigate the spread of disease, to immigration cases.

The U.S. Department of Justice building.

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FBI: New iPhone Evidence Shows Pensacola Shooter Had Ties To Al-Qaida

9:37pm May 18, 2020

by Hannah Allam

Justice Department officials say Apple hampered their investigation by refusing to unlock the gunman's iPhones. The case is part of a longstanding debate over national security interests and privacy.

ACLU Calls For Release Of Pregnant Inmates During the Coronavirus Pandemic

8:28pm May 01, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

The group is asking federal and state governments to release pregnant inmates who are close to completing their prison sentences.

The Supreme Court will examine Trump administration regulations that allow employers to claim exemptions to the contraceptive insurance coverage mandate in the Affordable Care Act.

Supreme Court Takes Up Birth-Control Conscience Case

5:42pm January 17, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

The high court will consider a case involving a challenge to a Trump administration rule that allows employers to opt out of providing contraceptive coverage for religious or moral reasons.

President Trump and U.S. Attorney General William Barr announce the Trump administration's decision to back down from its push for a citizenship question in the White House Rose Garden in July.

Email Trail On Citizenship Question Is Longer Than Trump Officials Said

10:44am November 27, 2019

by Hansi Lo Wang

The Justice Department told a court it has realized there are more internal documents that it inadvertently failed to disclose before lawsuits over the now-blocked census citizenship question ended.

Meme, a New Hampshire woman using a family nickname, ended up spending 20 days locked inside a wing of the emergency department at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua, N.H.

Woman Detained In Hospital For Weeks Joins Lawsuit Against New Hampshire

5:00am October 22, 2019

by Jason Moon

She was detained because she couldn't get a court hearing. She couldn't get a hearing because they are available only to people in psychiatric beds and the state's psychiatric facilities are full.

Pedestrians on the Puerta Mexico bridge, which crosses the Rio Grande, wait to enter Brownsville, Texas, at a legal port of entry in Matamoros, Mexico, in August.

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ACLU Calls On Homeland Security To Stop Turning Away Pregnant Asylum-Seekers

7:01am October 05, 2019

by Reynaldo Leaños Jr.

Attorneys for the organization say vulnerable populations are supposed to be excluded from the groups of asylum-seekers being sent back to Mexico to wait for their U.S. immigration court hearings.

In this March 3, 2015, photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers escort an arrestee in an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York during a series of early morning raids.

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Move To Fast-Track Deportations

4:38pm September 28, 2019

by Kat Lonsdorf

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said that the move appeared to have violated federal law. She stated that the administration did not follow the correct decision-making procedures.