June 29, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that foreign citizens who have been deported but return and seek humanitarian protection in the U.S. must remain in immigration detention while the government reviews their cases.
January 11, 2021
Chief Justice John Roberts challenged the government's contention that migrants seeking protection after they were previously deported must be detained, saying Monday that the government's distinction from other immigrants who get bond hearings "is not a valid one."
January 08, 2021
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear its first oral arguments of 2021 on Monday in a case involving the availability of bond hearings to certain detained migrants, before turning to a dispute over First Amendment rights on college campuses and a showdown over a billion-dollar enforcement tool used by the Federal Trade Commission. Law360 breaks down what to expect.
December 16, 2020
Immigration advocacy organizations told the U.S. Supreme Court that detaining immigrants seeking protection in the country after having been previously deported runs counter to the U.S.' international treaty commitments to protect human rights.
November 12, 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the Trump administration's position that undocumented immigrants who have re-entered the United States can be detained indefinitely, even when their deportation is far from certain.
November 05, 2020
A group of immigrants, who say they will be persecuted if returned to their home countries, slammed the government's efforts to hold them in civil detention while they await hearings, saying the policy "makes a hash" of federal immigration law.
June 15, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether deported foreign citizens who reenter and seek protection in the U.S. must be detained or whether they may be released on bond.