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  1. December 21, 2020

    Top Immigration Cases Of 2020: Year In Review

    The federal courts considered a mountain of immigration litigation this past year, from the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling on protections for young unauthorized immigrants to a flurry of cases challenging immigration detention and visa restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  2. December 11, 2020

    DC Judge Won't Nix Migrants' COVID-19 Due Process Claims

    A D.C. federal judge on Thursday trimmed a suit brought by a group of immigrant detainees seeking to be released over COVID-19 health risks, while greenlighting certain claims by detained minors as well as allegations that the facilities' conditions violate due process rights.

  3. July 29, 2020

    DC Judge Calls For Talks With ICE To Free Detained Families

    A D.C. federal judge sent the government and lawyers for detained migrant families to the negotiating table on Wednesday to discuss whether certain vulnerable families who fear contracting COVID-19 in immigration detention should be released on a case-by-case basis.

  4. July 22, 2020

    DC Judge Refuses To Empty Family Detention Centers

    A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday refused to empty family detention centers during the pandemic, a decision that may force detained parents to choose between breaking up their families by releasing their children to a sponsor or keeping the family whole in detention.

  5. July 13, 2020

    DC Judge Hints At Only Releasing High-Risk Family Detainees

    Although a D.C. federal judge appeared wary on Monday of ordering the nation's three family detention centers emptied, he seemed to be seriously considering releasing detainees with health conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  6. May 20, 2020

    Judge Doubts Due Process Risk For Detainees Amid Virus

    Despite some "good lawyering," a D.C. federal judge said Wednesday he has seen no proof that the supposedly tinderbox-like conditions under which some immigrant families are being detained amid the coronavirus outbreak amount to a violation of their Fifth Amendment rights.

  7. April 27, 2020

    Flores Ruling Extends To Adults In COVID-19 Detention Fight

    A D.C. federal judge ordered the government Monday to apply certain standards laid out in a landmark consent decree that established bedrock standards of care for migrant children in custody to adults held in three residential detention centers in Pennsylvania and Texas amid the coronavirus outbreak.

  8. April 13, 2020

    Judge Cites Progress On Protecting Migrants From Virus

    A D.C. federal judge Monday declined, at least for now, to grant immediate release of dozens of migrant families at three detention centers in Pennsylvania and Texas amid the coronavirus outbreak, saying the government is "continuing to make substantial progress" to ensure detainees are not infected.

  9. March 31, 2020

    Detainees Turn To Federal Courts For Help Amid Pandemic

    As the coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 180,000 people in the U.S., federal judges have fielded requests from individuals in immigration detention centers, which feature close quarters and allegedly shoddy medical services, to be temporarily released from custody.

  10. March 23, 2020

    Migrant Families Seek Release From COVID-19 'Tinderboxes'

    A federal judge must immediately release migrant families from residential centers that are "tinderboxes" for a devastating COVID-19 outbreak that will threaten the lives of parents and children, according to an emergency lawsuit filed in D.C. federal court.

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