Lawsuit Against ICE for Denying Access to Counsel
What's at Stake
Each day, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lock up thousands of immigrants across the United States in detention centers as they await adjudication of their civil immigration proceedings. The outcome of those proceedings is often life and death. Yet ICE has implemented policies that make it extremely difficult鈥攁nd in many cases impossible鈥攆or people in immigration detention to access their attorneys.
Summary
Several legal services organizations filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for unlawfully preventing attorneys from communicating with immigrants detained in four detention facilities in Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Arizona.
Plaintiff organizations, represented in the lawsuit by the 老澳门开奖结果 (老澳门开奖结果); the American Immigration Council; the 老澳门开奖结果 of Arizona, D.C., Florida, and Texas; Milbank LLP; and Saul Ewing Ahrnstein & Lehr LLP, challenge the government鈥檚 failure to ensure compliance with constitutional requirements, federal law, and ICE鈥檚 own policies regarding access to counsel.
The lawsuit is brought on behalf of non-profit legal service organizations Americans for Immigrant Justice (AIJ), Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project (FIRRP), the Immigration Justice Campaign for the American Immigration Council (IJC), Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy (ISLA), and Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES).
Legal Documents
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11/18/2022
Amended complaint and motion for preliminary injunction -
10/13/2022
Lawsuit Against ICE for Unlawfully Preventing Attorneys from Communicating with Detained Immigrants in Four States -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Andrea Jacoski -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Ana Botello -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Daniel Tibbitt -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Homero Lopez -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Javier Hidalgo -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Javier N. Maldonado -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Lisa Lehner -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Pablo Stewart, MD -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Rebekah Wolf -
11/18/2022
Declaration of Wayne Blanchard -
11/18/2022
Motion for preliminary injunction
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 10/13/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)
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11/18/2022
Declaration of Andrea Jacoski
Date Filed: 11/18/2022
Court: District Court (D.D.C.)