JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a report Monday that a French immigration bill under consideration threatens to curtail human rights. The bill also seeks to simplify the administrative aspect of immigration by increasing efficiency and reducing the number of procedures available to those engaging in immigration litigation.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed House Bill 4156 on Thursday by a vote of 77-20, which proposes the creation of the criminal act of impermissible occupation, targeting individuals who willfully enter and remain in Oklahoma without legal authorization to be in the United States. Iowa also passed a similar law in March.

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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

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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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2021

Oregon starts issuing standard driver licenses to undocumented immigrants Friday owing to a law passed by the state’s legislature in the summer of 2019. The Act’s proponents have praised the law, saying that it will benefit communities including and beyond undocumented immigrants.

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

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JURIST

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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JURIST

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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JURIST

JANUARY 24, 2024

The issue involved Waples Mobile Home Park, which had required all adult tenants to provide proof of their legal status in the US in order to renew their leases. The post US federal appeals court rules against trailer park immigration policy in Fair Housing Act case appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 27, 2022

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JURIST

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

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

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

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. ” The NILC described the settlement as a “hard-fought win.”

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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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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

From The Guardian : An Australian lawyer has been referred to a state legal complaints commission, after it was discovered he had used ChatGPT to write court filings in an immigration case and the artificial intelligence platform generated case citations that did not exist. Maybe that’s true.

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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

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

MAY 5, 2024

Asylum Aid, a leading UK charity providing free legal advice and representation to asylum seekers and refugees, announced on Friday that it was launching legal action against the Home Office’s Safety of Rwanda plan to “ensure that all individual cases against removal to Rwanda are properly considered.”

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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. Their case has attracted international attention.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

citizens are more likely to commit a crime than immigrants, refuting rightwing rhetoric that blames rising immigration for the uptick in crime, according to a study published in Crime & Delinquency. citizens, on average, had more previous arrests than immigrants. The higher rate of offending among U.S. the authors found.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2025

She also re-shared a story about three accused child rapists, wanted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who were released on bails set as low as $0. Ayotte further added: The broken bail law was a failed social experiment that created a revolving door for violent criminals in our state.

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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

APRIL 24, 2021

A rally in Japan on Thursday highlighted major opposition to proposed immigration reform currently under consideration in the National Diet. The post Japan rally protests immigration reform bill imposing refugee restrictions appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Thursday that undocumented immigrants bear the burden of showing that they have not been convicted of a crime involving “moral turpitude,” or they will face lawful removal. Clemente Pereida, is being deported under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

” Similarly, the second attempt was blocked by the immigration section of the Capitoline Court, which suspended its judgment concerning 7 migrants and referred the matter to the ECJ for an opinion.

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

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Immigration Department of Malaysia said Tuesday that it has deported 1,086 “illegal” immigrants from Myanmar. The immigrants were deported through the RMN Lumut Base in Perak on 3 Myanmar Navy ships with cooperation from the Myanmar Embassy and the Royal Malaysian Navy.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

UK charity Public Law Project (PLP) announced Monday they have written a letter to Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk claiming he is in breach of his duty to make legal aid available to asylum seekers in England and Wales, which he is obligated to do under s.1 1 (1) of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012.

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JURIST

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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JURIST

APRIL 4, 2025

His remark concerns the tension with the home secretary over how the right to private and family life free from interference from the state under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is applied in asylum and immigration cases. The ECHR is an international treaty to which all 46 Council of Europe member states are bound.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Monday limited the ability of federal courts to review certain factual findings in immigration proceedings that determine whether noncitizens will be deported or will be allowed to remain in the country. But the Supreme Court held that a federal immigration statute — 8 U.S.C. The ruling in Patel v.

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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., In 2012, Patel was placed in deportation proceedings before an immigration judge. The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the case on Monday.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 7, 2024

In January 1972, immigration attorney Leon Wildes received a call from an old law school friend asking for his help with a deportation case involving a musician and his wife. Here’s how you can follow in Wildes’ footsteps and change lives as an immigration lawyer. And that famous couple that retained Wildes?

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 8, 2024

“Supreme Court Appears Split Over Notice Requirements for Immigration Court; Although the legal question was narrow, the argument reflected broader debates about the immigration system”: Abbie VanSickle of The New York Times has this report.

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