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  1. August 08, 2022

    Judge Blasts High Court For Feds' Immigration 'Carte Blanche'

    A California federal judge rebuked a high court decision barring lower courts from controlling immigration policy, saying the justices gave the U.S. Department of Homeland Security "carte blanche" to enact potentially illegal policies, including an unwritten "turnback" policy of turning away asylum-seekers.

  2. November 30, 2021

    Feds Fight 'Irrelevant' Discovery In Asylum Turnback Suit

    The federal government opposed a class of asylum-seekers' request for information they say will help clarify whether the government is complying with orders directing authorities to process some asylum claims, telling a California district court the requests are overbroad and irrelevant.

  3. September 23, 2021

    Migrants Double Down On Asylum Turnback Suit Monitoring

    A class of asylum-seekers has asked a California federal judge to oversee the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's compliance with two orders directing authorities to process some asylum claims, saying the federal government's foot-dragging has proven the need for court oversight.

  4. September 16, 2021

    Feds Fight Compliance Monitoring In Asylum Turnback Suit

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is fending off calls from a class of asylum-seekers for court oversight, denying accusations that it has failed to comply with two orders directing authorities to process certain asylum claims.

  5. September 13, 2021

    ​​​​​​​Feds' 2-Day Delay In 'Turnback' Suit Is Too Long, Migrants Say

    Migrant advocates and asylum seekers railed against the government's bid to slow down briefing in their suit over the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's unwritten "turnback policy," urging a California federal judge not to grant even a two-day extension.

  6. September 02, 2021

    'Turnback' Asylum Policy Defies 5th Amendment, Judge Says

    An unwritten U.S. Department of Homeland Security "turnback policy" turning away asylum-seekers at the southern U.S. border violates the Fifth Amendment's due process clause, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, though the judge also held that the policy doesn't clash with the Immigration and Nationality Act.

  7. August 31, 2021

    Judge Doubts DHS Asylum Stats Disprove 'Turnback' Policy

    A California federal judge let counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security know she was unpersuaded by their statistics on asylum claims at the southern border during a Tuesday hearing, calling the government's evidence "abstract."

  8. August 26, 2021

    DHS Says Border Turnback Policy Doesn't Exist

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has told a California federal judge that it could not produce an administrative record related to its practice of turning back asylum-seekers at the southern border because no such policy existed.

  9. July 07, 2021

    Feds Buck Asylum-Seekers' Requests For Waitlists

    The Biden administration bucked asylum-seekers' request that it retrieve waitlists of migrants who weren't immediately allowed to enter the U.S., telling a California federal court that the request goes beyond their claims against the policy of "metering."

  10. March 30, 2021

    DHS Sanctioned Over Border Officers' Note-Shredding

    A California federal court sanctioned the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, adopting a magistrate judge's report calling out "negligent destruction" of evidence amid litigation that asylum-seekers were turned away at the Southern border.

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