Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 20, 2025 Brookline, MA – Today, the National Immigration Litigation Alliance announced the launch of the National Immigration Habeas Institute (NIHI). NIHI is a joint venture between NILA and Cardozo School of Law’s Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic. NIHI will address an emerging critical gap in the capacity of immigration […]

June 23, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C.–Today, the United States Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in a nationwide class action. The injunction had provided critical due process protections to noncitizens facing torture in third country removals. In the underlying

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 6, 2025 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS–The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that the men it sought to remove to South Sudan on May 20, in violation of a federal court order, are still being held in a converted shipping container at a U.S. naval base in Djibouti. On Wednesday late afternoon,

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 21, 2025 – Earlier today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) violated the court’s preliminary injunction when it placed six noncitizens who had been ordered removed to other countries on a flight to South Sudan without the notice required by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 18 2025 Boston, MA – Today, a federal judge in Boston certified a nationwide class of individuals with final removal orders who have been removed or face possible removal to a country that was not designated in the removal proceedings (generally the person’s country of citizenship is the designated country of

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 24, 2025 Boston, MA – Yesterday, four individuals with final removal orders filed a national class action in federal district court in Boston, Massachusetts. The lawsuit challenges the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) policy of deporting noncitizens to countries the government never raised as possible countries of removal during their immigration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 28, 2024 Brookline, MA – Following successful litigation brought by VECINA and the National Immigration Litigation Alliance (NILA), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families (HHS-ACF) has committed to proactively disclosing the Unaccompanied Child Manual of Procedures (UC MAP) on its website when any changes

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 29, 2024 Seattle, WA – Today, July 29, 2024, the parties in Garcia Perez v. USCIS, No. 22-cv-806 (W.D. Wa.) filed a proposed settlement agreement in the federal district court in Seattle on behalf of a certified nationwide class and jointly asked the court to preliminarily approve it. If approved, the

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 29, 2024 Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) recently introduced the Strengthening Immigration Procedures Act, legislation intended reform the process for ineffective assistance of counsel claims in immigration court, to Congress. For decades, the Board of Immigration Appeals has required individuals making ineffective assistance of counsel claims to file bar complaints against their

SAN FRANCISCO, Apr. 24, 2024—Today, three immigration attorneys and two individuals filed a prospective class action lawsuit in federal court, challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) nationwide practice of failing to timely respond to requests for immigration records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).