https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/immigration-court-system-explained
Most immigrants facing deportation are entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge, but their legal rights differ from those in criminal cases.
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https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5500533/northern-massachusetts-immigration-court-among-the-most-understaffed-in-the-country
Aug 14, 2025 - An immigration court in northern Massachusetts is among the most understaffed in the country after some judges quit or were fired. That leaves immigrants with...
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https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-immigration-court-observers-whipple-federal-building/?intcid=CNR-02-0623
Outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, protests continue. Advocates say what's happening inside the courtrooms is also alarming.
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https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/government-cannot-rely-on-immigration-list-of-skilled-occupations-supreme-court-rules
The Government has pledged to "act quickly" following a decision by the Supreme Court that its list of skilled occupations for the purposes of the points-based...
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https://www.keranews.org/2020-02-25/supreme-court-hears-two-immigration-related-cases
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that asked whether a law that criminalizes the act of encouraging or inducing illegal immigration for commercial...
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/25/top-french-court-rejects-large-parts-of-controversial-immigration-bill
The court rejected measures that toughen access to social benefits, family reunification, and immigration quotas.
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https://thegrio.com/2026/01/16/court-documents-allegedly-reveal-ice-agent-keith-porter-jr/
The ICE agent at the center of the shooting death of a Los Angeles man on New Year's Eve may have had his identity revealed via a custody battle.
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-omaha-immigration-court-opened-10-27-08
EOIR announced that the Omaha, Nebraska immigration court opened, as scheduled on October 27, 2008.
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/02/opinion-analysis-court-tees-issue-constitutionality-indefinite-immigration-detention-9th-circuit/
Today the Supreme Court decided Jennings v. Rodriguez, a class-action challenge to provisions of the immigration laws allowing for immigrant detention. After...
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/02/16/immigration-officials-reportedly-detain-alleged-domestic-violence-victim-in-court
Immigration officials reportedly detained an alleged domestic violence victim while she was in court last week. According to the El Paso Times, the...
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https://apple.news/ASDRw9mamQaOj37DYWAKYSw
Government records obtained by the ACLU show immigration authorities used a point system that families and attorneys say unfairly targeted Venezuelan deportees.
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https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/supreme_court_overturns_most_of_arizona_immigration_law_upholds_papers_chec/
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-relocates-denver-immigration-court
EOIR announcement that the Denver Immigration Court will recommence hearings at its new location on 09/22/10. The court's phone number will remain the same....
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https://kvia.com/cnn-national/2022/04/05/5-things-to-know-for-april-5-ukraine-supreme-court-covid-immigration-hate-crimes-5/
Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells CNN's Dana Bash that the US has been "following the science" on repealing a Trump-era pandemic restriction at the...
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https://www.aila.org/library/advocates-call-on-congress-establish-independent
On 2/18/20, 54 immigration, civil rights, faith-based, government accountability, and labor organizations, including AILA, call on Congress to establish an...
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https://www.kristv.com/politics/immigration/supreme-court-will-prevent-florida-from-enforcing-immigration-law-aimed-at-people-in-the-us-illegally
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow Florida to enforce an immigration law making it a crime for people who are living in the U.S. illegally to...
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https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/border-security/supreme-court-immigration-case-reignites-congressional-debate-813/
A Supreme Court case that could impact millions of people in the United States and set boundaries for presidential authority has rekindled debate on...
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https://immigrantjustice.org/for-immigrants/services/immigration-court-helpdesk/
Jul 23, 2025 - NIJC's Immigration Court Helpdesk (ICH) Hotline provides FREE legal information to unrepresented individuals at the Chicago Immigration Court.
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https://www.ksl.com/article/746581
Yesterday, demonstrators rallied against and in support for those arrested in a recent raid in Hyrum. Today, those indicted will appear before a judge.
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https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2025-12-22/npr-analysis-shows-skyrocketing-number-of-no-shows-in-immigration-court
More immigrants are not showing up for their mandatory immigration court hearings compared to prior years, an NPR analysis shows, allowing the government to...
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https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/supreme_court_to_hear_challenge_to_a_2007_arizona_immigration_law/
The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall...
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https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/ice-arrests-immigration-court-protests-response-san-antonio/273-615f61ce-5e89-4527-8710-a8197fb53fb1
"The majority of those currently being targeted at the court are those who lawfully entered the United States," Flores-Dixit said.
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-to-relocate-bloomington-immigration-court
EOIR announcement that the Bloomington Immigration Court will close on 7/2/14 to prepare for relocation. The Bloomington Immigration Court will recommence...
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https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/partisan-ruling-by-appeals-court-blocks-obama-immigration-program/
NEW ORLEANS - On Tuesday May 26, in what appears to be a highly-partisan, 2 to 3 decision, a panel of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New...
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https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/local/20100910_Federal_appeals_court_strikes_down_Hazleton_s_immigration_ordinances.html
In a high-profile Pennsylvania case that helped spark the ongoing national debate over immigration policy, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the City...
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https://www.fox10phoenix.com/video/281901
PHOENIX (AP) ? Police arrested four people who blocked a major Phoenix road in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court deadlock on an immigration plan, while others...
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https://www.lex18.com/politics/immigration/brad-lander-nyc-comptroller-and-mayoral-candidate-is-arrested-outside-immigration-court
New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested at a federal building in Manhattan as he was trying to accompany a person...
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https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/06/23/the-supreme-court-sides-the-biden-administration-in-fight-over-immigration
The case concerned the administration's effort to set guidelines for whom immigration authorities can target for arrest and deportation. Texas and Louisiana...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-fact-sheet-observing-immigration-ct-hearings
EOIR 09/09/10 fact sheet on observing immigration court hearings. Topics include when hearings may be closed to the public, instructions to follow before going...
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https://www.mic.com/articles/7457/sb-1070-defeated-supreme-court-rejects-major-provisions-of-controversial-arizona-immigration-law
LIVE UPDATES of the S.B. 1070 Supreme Court Hearings and the wider ramifications. 6/25: On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the federal government...
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https://www.cbsnews.com/video/supreme-court-hearing-biden-administration-immigration-case/
The nation's highest court is being asked to decide how much leeway a president has on policy that hasn't been specifically spelled out by Congress. CBS News'...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-imm-court-and-eoir-office-closings-april-2013
EOIR public statement announcing that the Bloomington, Minnesota Immigration Court will open at 10:30am instead of 8:30am on Thursday, April 11, 2013 due to...
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https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/ice-agents-powers-curbed-by-us-court-amid-trumps-immigration-crackdown-in-minneapolis-what-changes-11768624836198.html
Jan 17, 2026 - The Minnesota court ruling comes nearly two weeks after the Trump administration announced the deployment of 2,000 immigration agents to the Minneapolis area....
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-announces-relocation-of-tucson-immigration-ct
EOIR press release announcing that it will close the Tucson Immigration Court on 6/1/11 in order to prepare for relocation to the Federal Building in Tucson,...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-updates-to-immigration-court-practice-manual
The Office of the Chief Immigration Judge alert on updates to the Table of Contents, Glossary, and Indexes of the Immigration Court Practice Manual. Updates...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-relocates-las-vegas-immigration-court
EOIR will temporarily close its Las Vegas Immigration Court on 5/10/17 to prepare for relocation. The Immigration Court will recommence hearings at the new...
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https://www.iamgujarat.com/world/many-illegal-aliens-are-now-getting-bond-after-arrested-by-federal-authority/articleshow/126286646.cms
Jan 1, 2026 - જેમનો ક્રિમિનલ રેકોર્ડ નથી, અમેરિકામાં ટેક્સ પે કર્યો છે...
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https://www.wosu.org/npr-news/2021-09-20/the-biden-administration-is-fighting-in-court-to-keep-a-trump-era-immigration-policy
A rarely used U.S. code pertaining to public health was invoked during the pandemic by the Trump White House to expel asylum-seekers. The Biden White House...
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https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2025/09/07/several-of-trumps-immigration-policies-have-faced-lawsuits-court-rulings/
President Donald Trump has promised to remove millions of people from the U.S. in the largest deportation program in American history.
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https://www.ctpublic.org/2017-02-06/legal-fight-continues-in-court-over-trumps-immigration-actions
A legal showdown is looming over President Trump's suspension of the nation's refugee program and ban on immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries. Legal...
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https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/04/opinion-analysis-divided-court-upholds-restrictive-reading-of-immigration-statute-limiting-relief-to-noncitizens-facing-removal/
Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in Barton v. Barr, upholding a restrictive reading of a provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act...
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https://www.jurist.org/news/2007/01/supreme-court-rules-in-immigration/
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] handed down decisions in three cases Tuesday, including US v. Resendiz-Ponce [Duke Law...
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https://elpasomatters.org/2024/03/04/sb-4-immigration-law-appeals-court-reversed-ruling-el-paso-county-lawsuit/
Mar 4, 2024 - If the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t intervene in the coming days, the law making illegal entry a state crime could go into effect this weekend.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/129574
The Government has proposed a massive increase in the fees that immigrants and asylum seekers pay to have their immigration/asylum cases heard in court. This...
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https://www.aila.org/library/immigration-court-improvement-act-of-2019
On 3/6/19, Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), along with Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), announced the Immigration Court...
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https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/student-journalists-ousted-from-immigration-court-in-maryland/
Student journalists Lillian Glaros and Ruby Siefken were ordered out of an immigration court in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Oct. 28, …
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https://www.amny.com/news/ice-raids-newlyweds-immigration-hearing-07012025/
Love continued to find a way Tuesday for two newlyweds who faced down masked ICE agents in immigration court.
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https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/second-judicial-review-hearing-to-challenge-immigration-exemption-in-data-protection-act/
Campaigners have a second judicial review hearing in the High Court on Tuesday 21 March 2023 to challenge the Government over the immigration exemption in the...
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https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-immigration-court-observers-whipple-federal-building/?intcid=CNR-01-0623
Outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, protests continue. Advocates say what's happening inside the courtrooms is also alarming.
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https://www.kpax.com/politics/immigration/supreme-court-will-prevent-florida-from-enforcing-immigration-law-aimed-at-people-in-the-us-illegally
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow Florida to enforce an immigration law making it a crime for people who are living in the U.S. illegally to...
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https://www.wcpo.com/politics/immigration/brad-lander-nyc-comptroller-and-mayoral-candidate-is-arrested-outside-immigration-court
New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested at a federal building in Manhattan as he was trying to accompany a person...
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https://www.wnyc.org/story/outcry-after-immigration-agents-come-trafficking-victim-queens-courthouse/
New York State's Chief Judge Janet DiFiore said she's greatly concerned that federal immigration agents were in a human trafficking court in Queens.
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https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/02/13/princeton-joins-court-challenge-federal-immigration-executive-order?next=1&path=/main/news/archive/S48/69/99M52/index.xml§ion=topstories
Princeton University and 16 other universities filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday supporting a legal challenge to the Trump administration's Jan. 27...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-san-pedro-immigration-court-suspends-hearings
The San Pedro Immigration Court in California area has suspended hearings due to the closure of the DHS San Pedro Detention facility. Beginning on Tuesday,...
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https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/la-immigration-sweeps-supreme-court/
Sep 8, 2025 - The Supreme Court lifted limits on immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, overturning a ruling that forbade agents from stopping people based on their appearance.
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https://www.hematology.org/newsroom/press-releases/2018/ash-president-issues-statement-on-supreme-court-immigration-decision
ASH President Alexis Thompson, MD, called yesterday's Supreme Court decision upholding the president's authority to ban immigration from seven countries...
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-city-threatens-supreme-court-battle-after-immigration-ruling
The town of Hazleton, Pa., is threatening a Supreme Court showdown after a panel of judges last week threw out its restrictions against hiring and renting to...
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https://www.nhpr.org/2026-01-13/trump-administration-to-shutter-an-immigration-court-adding-to-judges-backlog
The planned closure of the San Francisco Immigration Court comes as immigration judges spent the last year facing pressure to move through their caseloads...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-imm-court-office-closings-12-20-12
EOIR public statement announcing that the Omaha, Nebraska immigration court will be closed to the public on Thursday, December 20, 2012 due to inclement...
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https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/canadian-immigration-pros-podcast/4edffd00-983a-013c-14df-0aaaca51f149/ai-in-canadian-immigration-law-and-the-federal-court-cipp-with-daniel-escott/7338de74-5520-4504-a7dc-de65d585224e
Canadian immigration lawyer Josh Schachnow chats with other Canadian immigration professionals about the latest updates, news and key topics on the Canadian...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-announces-opening-of-conroe-immigration-court
EOIR announced the opening of an immigration court in the DHS/ICE contract detention facility in Conroe, Texas. While there will no longer be an immigration...
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https://www.ktvu.com/news/obama-immigration-plan-blocked-by-4-4-tie-at-supreme-court
A tie vote by the Supreme Court is blocking President Barack Obama's immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from...
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https://www.ksat.com/news/national/2025/10/29/border-patrols-bovino-due-in-court-for-first-check-in-on-chicago-immigration-crackdown/
A federal appeals court has blocked an order that required a senior Border Patrol official to brief a judge on Chicago immigration sweeps.
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/175754/questions-raised-about-changes-to-fiji's-immigration-act-ruling-out-court-challenges
Serious concerns are being raised after changes were made to Fiji's Immigration Act, which now state the decision of the Immigration Minister to order...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-fact-sheet-observing-imm-court-hearings
EOIR provided a fact sheet on observing immigration court hearings. Fact sheet outlines specific instances when immigration court hearings are closed.
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https://kvia.com/cnn-national/2022/04/05/5-things-to-know-for-april-5-ukraine-supreme-court-covid-immigration-hate-crimes-4/
As a potential confirmation vote looms for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, CNN's John Avlon looks back at the effect partisanship in Congress has...
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-alert-regarding-relocation-of-newark-imm-ct
EOIR press release announcing that the Newark Immigration Court will close as of 3/22/12 to prepare for relocation. The Newark Immigration Court will reopen at...
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https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-and-asylum-daily-court-lists?utm_source=e2c4126c-8fdd-4038-a8c3-976bfb6d547f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=daily
Daily court lists in the Immigration and Asylum chambers, updated for the following day between 4pm and 5pm.
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2024/04/03/texas-defends-its-anti-illegal-immigration-law-in-court-against-the-biden-admin-n2637345
The state of Texas spent Wednesday in court defending its anti-illegal immigration law against the B
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-relocating-denver-immigration-court
EOIR notice that the Denver Immigration Court will close on 8/1/13 to prepare for relocation. The Denver Immigration Court will recommence hearings at its new...
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https://reason.com/volokh/2017/02/13/federal-court-rules-against-tr-3/
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema (Eastern District, Virginia). Earlier today, Virginia federal district court Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a preliminary...
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https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/video/new-immigration-court-opens-in-concord-amid-increasing-case-numbers/
Jose Martinez reports on a new immigration court that opened in Concord. Website: http://kpix.com/ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CBSSanFrancisco Facebook:...
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https://publiccounsel.org/court-issues-major-ruling-protecting-access-to-counsel-in-immigration-raids-case/
Nov 27, 2025 - We are proud to share an important victory in our ongoing fight to uphold the ...
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https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/fort-snelling-immigration-court-access-shrinks/
Dec 10, 2025 - Fort Snelling Immigration Court has increasingly denied access to court observers, mirroring trends across the country
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https://www.aila.org/library/eoir-updates-section-415j-of-immigration-court-pra
EOIR updated section 4.15(j) of the Immigration Court Practice Manual on 6/20/08.
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https://www.aila.org/blog/why-i-do-federal-court-immigration-litigation-a-short-elegy
AILA member Brad Banias reflects on why he began focusing on federal court litigation and the case that started him down that path, highlighting the tremendous...
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