Immigration
Walks through practical and concrete steps juvenile court judges can take to ensure safe and equitable access to courts for noncitizen and immigrant youth.
The United States District Court in the Eastern District of California granted a preliminary injunction in immigration removal proceedings for minor T.M., ordering her release. The District Court offered the following language in support: “Petitioner R.D.T.M. is a noncitizen who entered the United States in 2023 as an unaccompanied minor. After entry, she was briefly…
Offers an overview of the rights of noncitizen youth and strategies for youth defenders to safeguard these rights and mitigate harm throughout the course of representing youth in juvenile court.
From the introduction: “Before the second Trump Administration, it was considered safe and even recommended for parents attending an ICE & ISAP check-in to bring their U.S. citizen children with them. Because the number of arrests at check-ins has increased, and because ICE has illegally deported some U.S. children with their parents against those parents’…
From the Introduction: Asylum claims based on gender identity are clearly established by decades of law in the United States, and transgender asylum seekers have long been successful in claims for humanitarian protection. The authors are legal service providers who regularly represent LGBTQ2 people seeking asylum. Due to recent transphobic Executive Orders that attempt to…
From the abstract: “People who require gynecological and obstetric care and who are detained by U.S. federal immigration authorities face unique challenges. This article examines how the current legal and administrative landscape fails to hold those responsible for providing healthcare accountable, effectively blocking access to gynecological care, and, assuming no immediate abolition of immigrant detention…
From the document: “This practice alert is intended to ensure that practitioners know what immediate steps they can take to protect clients who may be subjected to expedited removal. However, this practice alert does not offer comprehensive guidance on this evolving issue. “
This is a sample certification order from the San Francisco Superior Court, Juvenile Division, which authorizes the release of requested information regarding pending or sustained charges to the Immigration Court.
From the introduction: “Many may not naturally associate immigration law and First Amendment law, but we—a First Amendment expert and an immigration law scholar—have noticed several interesting intersections between our two disciplines that merit discussion. This essay identifies four areas of immigration law in which pressing First Amendment claims play a prominent and dominant role.”
