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. It does not “prohibi[t] a substantial amount of protected speech”—let alone enough to justify throwing out the law’s “plainly legitimate sweep.” Hansen that 8 U.S.C.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2023

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Friday that Italy’s newly passed Cutro law will have “devastating impacts” on migrants’ rights, and threaten their ability to seek protection, access fair asylum and move freely throughout the country. percent–from 120 days to 135 days.

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JURIST

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

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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, adopting a rigid interpretation of a federal statute that requires the government to serve a “notice to appear” in order to trigger the “stop-time” rule. That rule can foreclose access to immigration relief by preventing noncitizens from accruing the time required for eligibility.

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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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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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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 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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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

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

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

JANUARY 5, 2023

The civil organizations claim that Italy’s new decree, announced on January 2, violates international law. 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.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Hungarian Constitutional Court ruled against a petition from Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government Friday, seeking to challenge a ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union that held Hungary’s asylum policies broke European law.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2022

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Monday called on Canada to end its practice of incarcerating immigration detainees in provincial jails. is inconsistent with international human rights standards, and jail conditions potentially breach federal-provincial immigration detention contracts,” HRW said.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The UN expressed concern Monday over the UK government’s action to make the Rwanda deal operational. ” He warned of the negative human rights implications, stating: The combined effects of this bill, attempting to shield Government action from standard legal scrutiny, directly undercut basic human rights principles. .”

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

A federal judge in Arizona upheld two state laws on Thursday that require voters to provide documentation to prove their US citizenship before registering to vote. After a 10-day bench trial, Bolton issued a 109-page opinion upholding the laws. US District Judge Susan Bolton’s decision upheld HB 2492 and 2243.

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JURIST

MARCH 27, 2024

A three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a controversial Texas law, Senate Bill (SB) 4 , will remain on hold as litigation continues. SB4, the controversial Texas law that is the subject of this continued litigation, was originally signed into law in December 2023. ” Judge Andrew S.

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JURIST

MARCH 11, 2024

The Indian government unveiled Monday the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules , 2024 (CAR), in accordance with the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act , 2019 (CAA), which aims to amend the laws governing citizenship in India. He stated : The Modi government today notified the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

The UK’s House of Commons passed a bill to declare Rwanda a safe country by 320 votes to 276, seeking to bypass the courts to implement the government’s plan to send some asylum seekers to pursue their claims in Rwanda.

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JURIST

AUGUST 20, 2021

Section 1326 was struck down because the court found that the law was enacted with a discriminatory purpose and had a disparate impact on Latinx persons, and the government failed to establish that the law would have been enacted but for racial animus.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2024

Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan approved a law concerning new immigrants on Tuesday after its third reading, facilitating the integration of immigrants in Taiwanese society and offering them legal recognition. The act governs rights and interests in matters including employment, interpretation and media access for immigrants.

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2023

As a result of the ruling, potential victims of modern slavery who are facing trial will not have their government support removed until after the government conducts a proper evaluation of their risk of re-trafficking.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The European Commission voted Friday to refer Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union, alleging that Hungary failed to comply with a 2020 Court of Justice judgment ordering reform of Hungary’s exclusionary asylum laws.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2024

The appeal challenges a court order against a preliminary injunction that halts the controversial anti-illegal immigration House Bill 4156 in the state. Attorney General Drummond, in the official statement , said that House Bill 4156 is a powerful tool to counter criminal activity largely being fueled by illegal immigrants coming to Oklahoma.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2024

The US Supreme Court has lifted a stay that prohibited the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries, allowing the law to go into effect. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later blocked that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Australian Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil stated in a Thursday interview that the federal government will introduce new legislation to monitor migrants who have recently been released from indefinite detention. The newly announced legislation is an attempt by the government to address that concern.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2024

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has deemed the transfer of asylum seekers under the UK’s new Rwanda arrangement violates international law in a legal analysis published on Monday. In response to the bill, the Rwandan government threatened to withdraw from the treaty if the UK did not adhere to international law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Supreme Court seems likely to side with noncitizens seeking a more favorable immigration status by allowing them to challenge in federal court administrative decisions that went against them, reports Bloomberg News. The law says courts can review constitutional issues, or questions of law, not determinations of fact.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained the government’s reasoning for relaxing Canadian immigration law after the pandemic, and for the recent restrictions imposed, in a YouTube video released Sunday.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Congress created a process known as “adjustment of status” so that immigrants physically present in the United States could change their status to that of a lawful permanent resident (i.e., The government’s decision to grant or deny a person adjustment has profound consequences for the individual. citizenship.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday struck down a law prohibiting speech that encouraged undocumented immigrants to “enter or reside” in the US. The court held that the law was an unconstitutional infringement on the freedom of speech. There is no path to citizenship through “adult adoption.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Ciara Dinneny is JURIST’s European Bureau Chief and a trainee solicitor with the Law Society of Ireland. Further arrests are expected over the coming weeks.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

The Dominican Republic Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation on Thursday into the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl by an immigration officer. Human Rights Activist Santiago Molina filed on Tuesday a criminal complaint against an immigration officer for the rape of a minor.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Hundreds of women’s rights activists and their supporters protested in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu on Friday to call for an end to violence and discrimination against women and the scrapping of a proposed law that would restrict foreign travel for many women. Therefore, the new rule is proposed for their protection. .”

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Share For four years, Helaman Hansen falsely promised undocumented immigrants that they could, for a substantial fee, become U.S. 1324(a)(1)(iv) , the federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration,” violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of free of speech. citizens through “adult adoption.”

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