ICE Must Improve Conditions in N.Y.C. Migrant Holding Cells, Judge Rules

The immigration agency must hold fewer detainees and provide them with medical care and regular access to lawyers, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said.

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ICE Is Holding Migrants in Crowded and Unsanitary Cells, Suit Claims

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in New York have been used to detain migrants for days. U.S. officials have denied that the conditions are poor.

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Judges Keep Restrictions on Los Angeles Immigration Arrests

An appellate panel upheld a finding that federal agents appeared to rely exclusively on race and other factors, such as speaking Spanish, in making arrests.

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Trump Order on International Criminal Court Likely Violates First Amendment, Judge Rules

The ruling’s scope is limited to two American activists, but it represents a striking, if tentative, blow to the president’s efforts to penalize and isolate the world’s highest criminal court.

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Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban Faces New Peril: Class Actions

In last month’s decision limiting one judicial tool, universal injunctions, the court seemed to invite lower courts to use class actions as an alternative.

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Immigration Arrests in Los Angeles Spike Amid Aggressive Enforcement

Nearly 3,000 people have been arrested since the beginning of June, more than three times the number in previous months this year.

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L.A. Moves to Join Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Immigration Raids

The legal move came the day after federal agents and National Guard troops converged on a Los Angeles park in an extraordinary show of force.

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New Document Undermines Trump Administration’s Claims About Deported Venezuelans

The document from El Salvador seems to undermine a position that lawyers for the Justice Department and top Trump officials have taken time and again in front of a judge in Washington.

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L.A. Legal Groups Sue to Stop ‘Unconstitutional’ Immigration Actions

A suit filed in Los Angeles highlights Trump administration enforcement tactics and accuses officers of racial profiling, brutality and holding detainees in “dungeonlike” facilities.

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Appeals Court Weighs Trump’s Use of Alien Enemies Act for Deportations

The case is likely to be the first to reach the Supreme Court on the substantive issue of the president’s invocation of a rarely used wartime law.

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