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  1. March 30, 2020

    Feds Get Sanctions Reprieve In Immigrant Removal Suit

    A California federal judge has relieved some federal agencies of $500-per-day sanctions for violating a preliminary injunction by failing to warn five immigrants that officials were removing them from the country, ruling the feds have demonstrated efforts to return them even though all are not back on U.S. soil.

  2. February 18, 2020

    DHS, USCIS Sanctioned For Wrongly Removing Immigrants

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have been sanctioned for violating a preliminary injunction in California federal court after they failed to warn a class of young immigrants that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was removing five of its members from the country.

  3. October 29, 2019

    Suit Over Young Immigrants Rule Nearing Settlement

    A challenge over the Trump administration's policy restricting vulnerable young immigrants' eligibility for certain special protections appeared set for settlement after a California federal judge on Monday canceled pretrial hearings.

  4. March 18, 2019

    USCIS Can't Dodge Suit Over Special Immigrant Juvenile Rule

    A class of young immigrants can move forward with their claims that a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy restricting their eligibility for certain special protections is illegal, a California federal judge has held.

  5. February 04, 2019

    Immigrants Win Class Cert. In Special Juvenile Status Fight

    A California federal judge has certified a class of young immigrants challenging the Trump administration's policy of clamping down on requests for special immigrant protections for noncitizens ages 18 to 20 who allege they are victims of abuse or neglect by their parents.

  6. January 29, 2019

    Immigrants Try To Save Challenge To New USCIS Policy

    A proposed class of young immigrants has urged a California federal judge not to toss their suit challenging the Trump administration's new policy of clamping down on requests for special immigrant protections for noncitizens from ages 18 to 21 who were abused or neglected, saying the policy change was "not mere clarification of existing law."

  7. January 08, 2019

    Special Immigrant Denials Not A Policy Change, USCIS Says

    The Trump administration told a California federal court that the recent increase in denials of special immigrant protections for noncitizens who are ages 18 to 21 and were abused or neglected does not represent a policy change, but rather a "centralization" to make the adjudication process more consistent.

  8. October 24, 2018

    Calif. Judge Halts Federal Special Immigrant Juvenile Policy

    A California federal judge on Wednesday imposed a preliminary injunction preventing the federal government from enacting a new policy limiting applications for special immigrant juvenile status that a group of young immigrants contend unlawfully denies them humanitarian relief.