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DECEMBER 21, 2023

The French Parliament passed a new immigration law Tuesday aimed at controlling immigration and improving integration. The law, which was approved by the commission mixte paritaire (CMP) introduces significant changes to the government’s initial proposal and grants France the means to implement an assertive migration strategy.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2024

The Australian Human Rights Commission released a report on Monday outlining concerns regarding the conditions at the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre in Northam, Western Australia. The Migration Act 1958 establishes Australia’s mandatory immigration detention framework.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

had been previously imprisoned for 28 months in Turkey on charges of FG membership, which is considered a terrorist organization by the Turkish government. The post Europe rights court rules Greece immigrant pushback violated human rights appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

The government of Sweden announced Thursday that they will be exponentially increasing their repatriation incentive for migrants to leave Sweden from 10,000 Krona to 350,000 Krona per person, according to local media. The government explored the new policy change in an inquiry that released its findings last month.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Tuesday struck down a portion of a Florida immigration law as unconstitutional and declared that the measures within the bill were racially motivated. Gruter was the senator that sponsored SB 168.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) David Neal Friday filed a motion to dismiss a complaint from the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) regarding a policy restricting their ability to speak at public events.

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JANUARY 5, 2025

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said on Saturday that they have turned away two boats carrying nearly 300 Myanmar immigrants, who the authority believed to be Muslim Rohingya refugees. The statement gave no further detail about where the immigrants came from.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2023

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Americans for Immigrant Justice (AIJ) and the American Immigration Council (AIC) filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the recently enacted Florida immigration law SB 1718 , one of the strictest immigration laws in the US.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

A federal judge in New Jersey struck down AB 5207 on Tuesday, concluding that New Jersey’s ban on detaining individuals for violating US civil immigration laws is unconstitutional. CoreCivic operates private prisons that partner with the state and federal government to detain mostly US asylum seekers and undocumented people.

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2024

Mexico filed an amicus brief Thursday with the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, voicing opposition to Texas Immigration Law SB 4 , which authorizes Texas authorities to arrest and prosecute individuals suspected of illegal entry across the US-Mexico border. United States.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Concerning immigration, the senior Republican (Les Républicains) called for a much tougher policy, proposing to regularize as few as possible and deport as many as possible in an interview on National TV. However, the fact that the agreement is governed by international law, not French law, might make it more difficult to make it void.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

On Friday, various academic lawyers from across the UK and abroad signed an open letter to Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, accusing the government of “attacking” mostly immigration lawyers for advising and representing clients – especially those seeking asylum. The open letter expressed solidarity with Ms.

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JUNE 4, 2024

Portugal announced a plan to toughen its immigration policies on Monday known as the “Action Plan for Migration.” The post Portugal announces plan to toughen immigration policy appeared first on JURIST - News.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“Supreme Court Mulls Deadline for Voluntary Immigrant Departures; Court asked for holiday, weekend flexibility; Tenth Circuit ruled 60-day deadline is not extendable”: Lydia Wheeler of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

these changes follow a high court ruling that the indefinite detainment of immigrants who could not be extradited was unlawful. In 2017, he had his visa cancelled on the grounds of a significant imprisonment period, but the Australian Government was found to owe him a duty of protection and therefore could not deport him to China.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Pakistan Interim Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti issued a warning Thursday to “illegal immigrants” living in Pakistan to voluntarily leave the country by November 1 or risk potential arrest and deportation. The announcement alleged that undocumented migrants contribute to smuggling and attacks against the government and the army.

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JURIST

JUNE 10, 2023

Japan’s recent amendments, passed on Friday, to its immigration law have sparked a heated debate on the treatment of asylum seekers and the deportation of unsuccessful applicants. The revised legislation grants the government the authority to expel individuals who have repeatedly sought refugee status.

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MAY 5, 2024

.” The charity said its legal action against the Rwanda plan aims to ensure the government does not overlook “evidence of individual risk in Rwanda cases,” and to prevent cases from being unlawfully blocked from being admitted into the asylum system. UK authorities began last week detaining migrants it plans to deport.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Denmark’s sixth impeachment trial in history began on Thursday over former minister Inger Stojeberg’s aggressive immigration policies. During Stojeberg’s term as Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing from 2015 to 2019, she imposed more than 100 new amendments limiting the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers.

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JUNE 8, 2023

The proposed legislation comes weeks after a violent May 13 anti-immigration rally in Melbourne, where protesters performed the Nazi Salute and two men were arrested. Notably, the Victoria government had already passed an act to criminalize the public display of Nazi symbols, starting on December 29, 2022.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

US District Judge Alia Moses of the Western District of Texas granted a temporary restraining order to Texas and enjoined the federal government from interfering with Texas’s fencing at the U.S.-Mexico The post Federal judge blocks immigration officials from cutting Texas border fence appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

On Tuesday, September 5, the situation in Latvia regarding the new Latvian Immigration Law took a significant turn. In the lead-up to elections, the Latvian parliament approved an amendment to the Immigration Law that was proposed by the right-wing National Alliance. Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST.

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JURIST

APRIL 3, 2023

Human Rights Watch (HRW) last week criticized two immigration enforcement bills before the Texas state legislature that would expand the state’s ability to enforce immigration laws, a matter usually left to the US federal government. Statistics show that 2.4

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) , a federal law that criminalizes the encouragement of illegal immigration, does not violate the First Amendment of the US Constitution. ” The US government filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court in 2022. The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. Hansen that 8 U.S.C.

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JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2024

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice (ONSC) certified a class action lawsuit on Tuesday involving the Canadian federal government and the detention of 8,360 immigration detainees in 87 provincial prisons across Canada. According to the manual, immigration detention is “administrative detention and must not be punitive in nature.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Musk claimed that the party represents the ‘voice of the people’ and criticized the ruling coalition’s immigration policies on the platform. He later doubled down on his view that only the AfD can save Germany in an opinion piece for a German newspaper.

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APRIL 2, 2025

The US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday granted the plaintiffs’ motion to postpone Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem’s attempt remove the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from Venezuelan immigrants.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2024

The US government filed a motion on Friday to partially end a 27-year-old agreement that requires the federal government to comply with court supervision about the treatment of migrant children in its custody. The Court should terminate the FSA as to HHS,” the government wrote.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2021

The case stems from a dispute over whether a group of eight non-citizen immigrants, initially detained by the US government for illegal entry, could seek release via bond hearings before immigration judges. Typically, noncitizens with reinstated removal orders are swiftly removed by the government.

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JURIST

JANUARY 5, 2023

Meloni said the new decree would prohibit those who “systematically violate” the law from doing so any longer and referred to the law as an effort to prohibit illegal immigration and human trafficking. Italy has been under fire from the international community for years for its anti-immigration policies.

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JURIST

AUGUST 10, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday upheld a New Jersey state law enforcement directive limiting local police interactions with, and/or barring its cooperation with federal immigration authorities. A second county filed suit the following month launching similar challenges to the Directive.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised on Thursday to reduce the number of migrants entering the UK by overhauling the country’s points-based immigration system and by requiring businesses to train British workers. ” He announced that a white paper on the proposed legal reform could be expected soon.

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JURIST

MAY 25, 2023

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution—or the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV)— warned Monday against rising levels of anti-government extremism in the midst of provocation from authoritarian states, such as Russia. In January, Reuters found that operatives within Germany spread pro-Kremlin messages.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

” In a post on X, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni responded to the ruling saying that she will nonetheless fulfill her promise of stopping illegal immigration. On Thursday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used the Italy-Albania Protocol as a model for how migration hubs might function in practice.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Garland (“the immigration case”) asking whether a federal court can review a decision by an agency within the Department of Justice ruling that a person is ineligible for permanent residency and in Hughes v. Th immigration case involves Pankajkumar Patel, a citizen of India who has been living in the US for almost 30 years.

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JURIST

MAY 27, 2022

Australia’s new interim Home Affairs minister Friday announced that a Sri Lankan family detained by immigration authorities since 2018 will be granted new visas and be permitted to return to their home in the Australian town of Biloela. In January Nades, Priya and Kopika were permitted by court order to apply for bridging visas.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2025

A Thai government delegation is visiting Xinjiang, China, from March 18 to 20, 2025, following international outrage over Thailand’s forced deportation of 40 Uyghurs in February. On March 14, the US Department of State imposed new visa restrictions against Thai officials who are responsible for the forced returns of the Uyghurs.

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