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Curtrina Martin and her partner were injured and terrorized during a violent pre-dawn FBI raid on their suburban Atlanta home in 2017, all because the FBI agents went to the wrong address. Fifty years ago,...
The Alien Enemies Act, passed in 1798 when the still-new Republic feared foreign invasion, is a wartime authority providing that the President may—after a public proclamation—apprehend and remove citizens...
In February 2025, the Trump administration began moving immigration detainees to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. After first filing a lawsuit seeking to assure that detainees at Guantanamo...
Two weeks after his inauguration, President Trump began sending immigration detainees to the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. In addition to other legal issues with that action, the detainees there are in a...
Federal law protects noncitizens fleeing persecution or torture, granting them asylum rights. We sued the Trump administration over the president’s proclamation aimed at completely shutting down asylum at...
The day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration announced a new plan to massively expand fast-track deportation (called “expedited removal”) of undocumented immigrants without a fair legal...