April 22, 2025
Lawyers representing a class of young asylum-seekers told a Baltimore federal judge Tuesday that the federal government wrongly deported a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum applicant to an El Salvador prison, arguing the Trump administration should be ordered to facilitate his return, just as it was in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's high-profile case.
December 21, 2020
A Maryland federal judge on Monday ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to stop rejecting asylum requests from young migrants under an invalidated policy and to retract improper denials, after advocates accused the government of using "back doors" to preserve the policy.
November 14, 2019
The U.S. government told a Maryland federal court that it will not implement a new policy allowing U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to decide if immigrant minors must go to immigration court to apply for asylum.
August 02, 2019
A Maryland federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Trump administration policy changing asylum rules for unaccompanied immigrant children, finding the new rule is likely to irreparably harm children applying for asylum.