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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JURIST

MARCH 20, 2024

The passage puts the midwestern state on track to join Texas in enforcing state immigration laws that operate independently of the federal immigration system, meaning they are not directly tied to or governed by federal immigration policies. … It’s a gotcha bill.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

A Chinese refugee affected by recent Australian emergency laws subjecting certain refugees to monitoring challenged the laws in Australia’s high court on Wednesday, according to ABC News (Australia). these changes follow a high court ruling that the indefinite detainment of immigrants who could not be extradited was unlawful. .”

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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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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

She is a Ukrainian law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia. On Tuesday, September 5, the situation in Latvia regarding the new Latvian Immigration Law took a significant turn. The Latvian government must navigate the delicate balance between national security concerns and individual interests.

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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. 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

APRIL 4, 2025

UK Attorney General Richard Hermer on Wednesday expressed concerns over personal attacks on judges, stating such actions pose a threat to the rule of law and judicial independence. He also emphasized that Article 8 is supposed to be not only a robust, quick, and efficient but also a fair asylum and immigration process.

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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 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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HowAppealing

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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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

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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JURIST

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

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

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Nevertheless, the court held that domestic authorities can justify their denial of family reunification requests for asylum seekers, by striking a fair balance between the applicant’s interest in family unity and the state’s interest in controlling immigration, for example, the economic well-being of the state.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Additionally, it urged the Maltese government to implement a national law to ensure the protection of the rights of detained unaccompanied minors in line with the European Convention on Human Rights. The European court granted the applicants compensation for non-pecuniary damages.

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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

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

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

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

JUNE 7, 2024

The United States imposed visa restrictions on dozens of Georgian officials on Thursday, just three days after Georgia’s parliament enacted its controversial “foreign agent” law. The policy falls under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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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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