How legal aid groups survived the administration's attacks—barely.

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries that are not identified in their removal orders. It also plans to hear full arguments on the case.

The White House directed the Department of Homeland Security to volunteer space to serve as makeshift immigration courts as the Trump administration seeks to speed deportations.

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

EOIR is scheduling immigration hearings in DHS-operated spaces not traditionally used as courts. This policy brief explores how the use of these hidden courts threatens due process and judicial indepe...

More than 25,000 people have been expelled to "third countries" under Trump, including to dangerous and conflict-ridden nations such as the Central Africa Republic.

Immigrant workers contributed $177 million in state tax revenue between 2020 and 2024.

Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

The court found detainees lacked adequate food, hygiene, medical care and sleep.

The arrests of plant workers and others around southwest Kansas began Tuesday, causing alarm and confusion across the region, where immigrants make up a large portion of the agriculture workforce.

At least 21 people have been shot by federal immigration agents during the second Trump administration, according to an ABC News count.

The 25th Annual AILA New York Chapter Immigration Law Symposium will convene on Monday, December 7, 2026, at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City, NY.

The Department of Homeland Security said agents released the man after he identified himself. He was taken to a hospital with head and neck injuries, local police said.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association, known as AILA, conducts the annual event to help lawful permanent residents apply for naturalization ...

Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities."

The city of Leavenworth, Kansas, fought ICE’s reopening of a notorious CoreCivic-run prison tooth and nail. It still wasn’t enough.

The 2027 AILA Midwinter Conference and Webcast will convene on Friday, January 15, 2027, at the Westin Beach Resort & Spa, at Frenchman's Reef in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

The secretive rollout of NY1 — a new immigration courtroom located in a DHS space on the third floor of 26 Federal Plaza — has unnerved immigrants and advocates alike.

The inability to locate people facilitates deportations, because it prevents appeals against deportation orders, leaving detainees with no way to defend themselves

The administration enacted additional policies to restrict businesses from hiring skilled foreign nationals and renewed the $100,000 entry fee blocked in court.

An immigration law group returned to federal court with new allegations that ICE agents are still making warrantless arrests in Oregon.

Activists and lawmakers say Americans are feeling the effects of the ‘ICE tax’: higher prices for goods and services caused by a labor shortage

Attention AILA members! The AILA Northern California Chapter is thrilled to invite you to our conference in scenic San Francisco.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

In this blog post, AILA member Angelo Paparelli interviews former USCIS asylum adjudicator Joshua Perez about the adjudicator’s view of an asylum filing and concludes that “understanding the digital c...

The reported shooting in Austin came more than two months after an ICE officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.

The reported shooting in Austin came more than two months after an ICE officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.

Exclusive: Nearly 90% of children in federal custody being directed to GOP-controlled state that has unlicensed facilities and low legal representation rates

The policy, set to take effect Friday, would give immigration officers broader authority to deny permanent residency to people using public benefits.

A federal judge has blocked immigration officers from making warrantless arrests in Southern California unless they determine the person is likely to escape.

AILA Benefits Litigation Committee Member Steven Brown details the recent injunction postponing the effective date of DHS’s Final Rule replacing duration of status with fixed periods of admission for ...

A federal immigration officer wanted on assault charges for shooting and ​wounding a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis was arrested there on Wednesday, eight months after a confrontation that became a fla...

Concerned about conditions in federal immigrant detention facilities but often barred from entering them, some Democratic-led states are fighting to enforce their own health and safety standards at th...

Four in 10 pediatricians reported kids in immigrant families are avoiding coming in for healthcare out of concerns around immigration status, according to a new survey published Tuesday.

The immigrant detention facility dubbed Deportation Depot remains in operation with little to no federal supervision.

Massachusetts Judge Dennis Saylor called the government’s justification for the new rule “absurd.”

Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.

The ICE agents reportedly said they didn’t care after being told the two teenagers were citizens.

The Pentagon is recruiting from the immigrant community, including legal permanent residents, or green-card holders, at a rapidly growing pace.

New rules going into effect next week allow immigrants’ enrollment in safety net resources to be taken into account for lawful immigration status applications, the latest in the Trump administration’s...

The information taxpayers give the IRS is supposed to be for the IRS’s eyes only.

Border Patrol and CBP have held migrant families with kids in facilities far longer than a 72-hour government standard for detention.

Since the start of the Administration, ICE has been responsible for countless unlawful and violent abuses against immigrants and U.S. citizens, leading to serious injury and death. This policy brief h...