Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices.

Three courts have struck down a Trump administration policy that threatens immigrants with imprisonment without bond; two have upheld it.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are arresting record numbers of immigrants. The number of beds to house them has increased 12-fold in Ohio since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025. And, now, a new record has likely been ...

Their lawyers fear the notices are merely the first step toward the removal without due process of Somali asylum applicants in the country. Immigration courts fast-track hearings for Somali asylum claims Dozens of asylum cases filed by Somali migrants in ...

ICE's practice of arresting people in or near New York City's immigration courts had been universally decried by immigration advocates. U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel had initially allowed the arrests based on a May 2025 memo,

The closure of the courthouse at 100 Montgomery Street comes after more than a year of Trump administration cuts that whittled down the bench and left a massive case backlog.

A lawsuit challenging the authority of county sheriffs to work with federal immigration authorities is headed back to state court. Detainers give immigration agents more time to pick someone up if that person is suspected of being in the country illegally.

The closure of the 100 Montgomery St. court comes after the Trump administration's unprecedented termination of San Francisco immigration judges en masse.

Protesters and immigrants form a line outside of 630 Sansome St. immigration court in San Francisco. Photo by Sage Rios Mace. Outside the San Francisco immigration court building at 630 Sansome St., a long line of people carrying manila folders stuffed ...