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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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DECEMBER 30, 2023

Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Marc Miller, announced a family-based humanitarian pathway on Thursday that enables Sudanese and non-Sudanese nationals to reunite with their family in Canada permanently. Miller expressed deep concerns regarding the ongoing conflicts and humanitarian situations in Sudan.

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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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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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DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Danish Court of Impeachment, or Rigsretten, Monday sentenced former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg to 60 days in prison. As immigration minister, Støjberg was responsible for administrating and enforcing Danish immigration law during the 2015 European migration crisis.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

A spokesperson for the French government, Maude Bregeon, announced on Sunday that France’s newly appointed interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, has proposed a new immigration law to be adopted by the beginning of 2025 “to protect the French people.” Currently, irregular migrants can only be held in administrative detention for up to 90 days.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Iceland’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour invited immigrants on Monday to participate in a discussion on policy of immigrant matters. The meeting will take place in Reykjavik and aims to provide immigrants with an opportunity to “better integrate and actively participate in society.”

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JANUARY 24, 2024

A federal district court granted summary judgment in favor of the company, finding that the policy was reasonably necessary for the company to avoid criminal liability under federal statute 8 USC § 1324, which prohibits the harboring of undocumented immigrants. The court found that the policy had a disproportionate impact on Latino residents.

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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 discourse sheds light on the flaws within Japan’s immigration detention system, accentuated by the case of Wishma Sandamali.

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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 23, 2023

these changes follow a high court ruling that the indefinite detainment of immigrants who could not be extradited was unlawful. The post Australia emergency laws for immigrants who can not be deported face challenge appeared first on JURIST - News.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The UK’s Brook House Inquiry published a report Tuesday detailing an investigation into the mistreatment of individuals detained at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in the UK. The post UK inquiry reveals human rights abuses in immigration detention centre appeared first on JURIST - News.

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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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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 sued because its contract to continue operations with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expires August 31.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

In the lead-up to a highly-anticipated ruling from France’s Highest Constitutional Court that must be delivered before Thursday, hundreds of thousands gathered across the country to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed immigration law reform package.

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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. As written by Congress, the law has left people wondering what they can safely say on the subject of immigration. The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. Hansen that 8 U.S.C.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

The post Federal judge blocks immigration officials from cutting Texas border fence appeared first on JURIST - News. Earlier this year, a federal appeals court allowed Texas to leave floating barriers in the Rio Grande after Federal officials tried removing them.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A US federal judge Monday approved a settlement for over $1 million in a class action lawsuit that involved a 2018 immigration raid on a Tennessee meat packing plant that lead to the detainment of approximately 100 Latinx workers.

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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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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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AUGUST 8, 2023

The UK government announced a new task force to target “crooked” immigration lawyers on Tuesday. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said: Crooked immigration lawyers must be rooted out and brought to justice.

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DECEMBER 3, 2023

This is not the only litigation concerning Texas taking steps to block immigration into the state from Mexico. The post Federal judge declines Texas request to block immigration officials from cutting border fencing appeared first on JURIST - News.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

The Chairwoman of UK Home Affairs Committee (“the Committee”), Yvette Cooper , wrote a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel on Wednesday raising “ serious concerns about the shocking conditions the Committee observed” during its visit to an immigration detention facility in Kent the previous day.

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JULY 3, 2023

Public debate regarding UK immigration figures spiked again this past week due to a Court of Appeal ruling on the UK’s Rwanda plan. The court rejected the government’s plan to remove illegal immigrants from the UK to Rwanda as “unlawful.”

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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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OCTOBER 13, 2022

The post Australia High Court rejects constitutional challenge to closed immigration appeal appeared first on JURIST - News. The appellant then appealed the Tribunal’s affirmation of the visa cancellation and challenged the constitutionality of section 46(2) of the AATA.

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MAY 12, 2023

This is the latest in a series of Italian anti-immigration policies which have drawn international condemnation. The UN previously called upon Italy to reverse course on their increasingly strict immigration policies in November 2018.

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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. The court determined that the group was detained under Section 1226, ruling for the immigrants.

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MARCH 29, 2024

A dozen senators on Friday urged the US Department of Homeland Security to reform its system of placing detained immigrants in solitary confinement, referring to the practice as a “clear violation of international norms” in a heated letter. ICE is tasked with enforcing immigration laws within US borders.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Thursday issued an opinion holding that the US Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) must consider whether non-US citizens who are perceived in their home countries to be LGBT and persecuted for being considered part of that group can be granted asylum in the US.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The post Texas lawmakers fail to act on immigration enforcement bill as session end nears appeared first on JURIST - News. .” The nearly-over special session is the third special session Governor Greg Abbott has called since the 88th Regular Legislative Session ended earlier this year.

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JUNE 21, 2024

Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for a 6-3 majority that “a citizen does not have a fundamental liberty interest in her noncitizen spouse being admitted to the country” after a US citizen was unable to secure an immigrant visa for her Salvadoran husband. The case of Department of State et al. Muñoz et al.

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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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MARCH 27, 2024

The law would also empower state magistrates to issue removal orders to individuals found to be in breach of immigration policy. Historically, immigration policy has been the prerogative of the federal government. 4 is unconstitutional in every one of its potential applications. Plaintiffs likely cannot make that showing.

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JULY 2, 2024

According to a statement published by China’s National Immigration Administration, the new Mainland travel permit will apply to non-Chinese permanent residents in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macau Special Administrative Region starting July 10.

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JUNE 29, 2024

Indonesian immigration officials announced Friday the arrest of 103 Taiwanese nationals suspected of running a cybercrime operation in Bali. Saffar Muhammad Godam, Director of Immigration Control and Enforcement, stated that the operation was initiated based on intelligence provided by BAIS TNI to the Directorate General of Immigration.

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JUNE 7, 2024

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Thursday that Germany will start deporting criminals from Afghanistan and Syria after a knife attack by an Afghan immigrant last week left one police officer dead and four more people injured, in a speech to the country’s parliament. Scholz has previously pledged to deport refugees on a large scale.

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