The ruling is not a repudiation of Alien Enemies Act deportations and focuses solely on migrants’ due process rights. For the second time in less than a month, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled against the Trump administration’s dubious use of an 18th century law to deport immigrants including at least one person with...
Why would a judge in Fairfax County, Virginia release a sex offender with a detainer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Perhaps residents in northern Virginia should demand an answer to that question — and soon. ICE first encountered Ander Cortez-Mendez in February 2018, when the Guatemalan crossed illegally into Texas and was ordered to appear...
On Monday evening, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that, at least for now, the Trump administration can continue invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport migrants. The ruling comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order last month asserting his right to use the law. The ruling wasn’t a total win for...
On March 15, as U.S. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation — in secret — reactivating the Alien Enemies Act as a way to to speed up his mass deportation agenda, 70 activists from around the U.S. and Mexico gathered in Ajo, Arizona, in the heart of the Sonoran Desert. We were convened for the...
Even before U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday publicly revealed that he was invoking the Alien Enemies Act, legal groups took action, which led to a federal judge temporarily blocking the administration from using the 1798 law for deportations. Chief Judge James Boasberg of the District Court for the District of Columbia issued “a classwide,...