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Court Case
Dec 19, 2023
The word filed over Texas law enforcement and Border Patrol agents
  • Border and Immigrants’ Rights|
  • +1 Issue

Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center et al v. Steven C. McCraw et al

Court Case
Aug 21, 2023
Exterior of migrant detention facility with the word "filed" stamped over the image.
  • Border and Immigrants’ Rights|
  • +1 Issue

Garces Robles, et al v. Ramirez, et al.

The ACLU of Texas and partners are suing over the unlawful, prolonged detention of four immigrants by two counties on the Texas border in 2021 and 2022.
Court Case
Dec 15, 2021
Border wall
  • Border and Immigrants’ Rights|
  • +1 Issue

Texas Migrant Arrest Program under 'Operation Lone Star'

Court Case
Jul 24, 2020
Census
  • Border and Immigrants’ Rights|
  • +1 Issue

New York Immigration Coalition v. Trump

A federal lawsuit on behalf of immigrants’ rights groups challenging President Trump’s order seeking to block people who are undocumented from being counted in the U.S. census.
Court Case
Jul 24, 2020
Latino children in school
  • Border and Immigrants’ Rights|
  • +1 Issue

Texas Civil Rights Project (for Unnamed Children) v. Wolf

A federal lawsuit to stop the deportation of children detained in hotel rooms by the Trump administration under an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus as reason to do so.
Court Case
Jun 16, 2020
Image: A stylized photo shows an outdoor area of a detention center with some benches and tables. It is surrounded by barbed wire and concertina wire. The camera's view is partially obscured by the barbed wire fencing.
  • Border and Immigrants’ Rights|
  • +3 Issues

Manzo-Hernandez et al v. Juarez

A class-action challenge against the federal government over the illegal detention of material witnesses at the La Salle County Regional Detention Center in Encinal, Texas near Laredo.
Court Case
Jun 10, 2020
Image: A stylized photo shows a family, their backs to the camera, carrying backpacks and walking along the international bridge between Matamoros in Mexico and Brownsville, TX.

  • Border and Immigrants’ Rights|
  • +1 Issue

G.Y.J.P. (a minor child) v. Wolf

A complaint is on behalf of G.Y.J.P., a 13-year-old girl from El Salvador, who attempted to seek asylum in the U.S. but was quickly deported without due process.
Court Case
May 12, 2020
Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez
  • Border and Immigrants’ Rights|
  • +1 Issue

Gómez et al v. USA & Barrera

A lawsuit on behalf of the family of a 20-year-old Guatemalan woman who was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent in May 2018.
Court Case
Apr 16, 2020
ACLU: Share image
  • Border and Immigrants’ Rights|
  • +1 Issue

Nora et al v. Wolf

A federal lawsuit on behalf of 26 asylum seekers — 12 adults and their 14 minor children — who are unlawfully trapped in life-threatening conditions in Tamaulipas, Mexico while they wait on their asylum cases to proceed in the U.S.