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03/20/2026

President Trump has slashed the number of people on the Board of Immigration Appeals and stacked it with his appointees, tightening the due process available for immigrants, an NPR analysis shows.

03/13/2026

"They say the administration is placing law-abiding immigrants in detention centers with inhumane conditions, where they lack sufficient medical care and access to their lawyers and are given inedible food."

Asylum-seekers with no criminal records are being detained around the country in a major departure from previous practice.

03/06/2026

"Similar cases have emerged in New York, Virginia, North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia, Massachusetts and a slew of other states. It’s the latest rupture between the Trump administration and federal judges, who have described rampant abuses, violations of court orders and unconstitutional efforts to deprive ICE detainees of due process in a byzantine immigration court system."

The courts say the Trump administration isn’t complying in good faith with demands to give ICE detainees a measure of due process.

02/27/2026

"immigration officers detained as many as 261 recipients of Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, often referred to as Dreamers. Eighty-six of them were deported, Noem added." DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients - POLITICO

“Dreamers” who came to the U.S. as children are protected under U.S. law, so deportations of them are unusual.

02/25/2026

"Noncitizens will now only have 10 calendar days to file an appeal with the BIA after an immigration judge or DHS issues a decision. Previously, noncitizens had 30 calendar days to appeal. ... Limited Exception: Asylum cases will keep a 30-day appeal deadline, unless the asylum denial was only because of: the one-year filing deadline, a prior asylum denial, or
an asylum safe third country or asylum cooperative agreement. ...
Most appeals will default to quick dismissal unless a majority of permanent BIA members vote to fully review the case. If the BIA doesn’t vote to review the case, the case will be treated as dismissed automatically. If the case is dismissed, the immigration judge’s decision remains in place as the final decision on the case."

Asylum Community Resources Removal Defense Publication Date Feb 09, 2026 Share Versión en Español   The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a new rule that changes how immigration appeals are handled. The new rule shortens the time you have to appeal—which is how you ask for another court to ...

02/14/2026

Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that the Trump administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
Those decisions deliver a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump's immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts declared the policy illegal https://reut.rs/4rccUva

A Reuters review of court records underscores how immigration detention policy is reshaping U.S. court workloads: more than 20,000 federal lawsuits by immigrant detainees seeking release since President Trump took office, and at least 4,421 cases since early October in which more than 400 federal judges ruled that ICE was holding people illegally https://reut.rs/4rccUva

02/10/2026

“Roughly one-third of the arrests made by ICE in the first nine months of the Trump administration were of immigrants with no criminal convictions, according to public data..."

In an exclusive interview for an upcoming book, Tom Homan warned that public support for aggressive immigration tactics could falter.

02/04/2026

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. Learn more from David Bier.

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01/15/2026

The State Department says it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries whose nationals are deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United State...

01/06/2026

"In recent weeks, the judges’ conclusions have become increasingly urgent, describing shocking mistreatment and inhumanity as thousands of people — the majority not charged with any crime — are abruptly ripped from family members and locked up in squalid detention centers, even if they have lived in the country for decades. Many have been arrested while attending required immigration court proceedings or check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they had attended for decades. ... “No one disputes that the government may, consistent with the law’s requirements, pursue the removal of people who are in this country unlawfully. But the way we treat others matters,'” U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian.

Judges have ruled against the administration in more than 1,600 cases.

11/20/2025

"Access to legal representation is a life-changing protection in immigration court. Of the immigration court cases decided from FY 2019–2024, 62% of immigrants without a lawyer were ordered deported, compared to 27% of those who did have legal aid."

Using immigration court data this report examines the role of legal representation in shaping outcomes in immigration court proceedings.

11/05/2025