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RICHMOND, Va.鈥� Another federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration鈥檚 new policy subjecting millions of immigrants to mandatory detention without access to bond hearings. The Fourth Circuit is now the ninth federal appeals courts to find the policy unlawful, along with hundreds of district courts. The ruling arose from habeas corpus petitions filed on behalf of Oscar Lopez Garcia and Juan Jose Rivera by their respective immigration counsel, Benach Pitney Reilly LLP and Ceartas Solutions. The 红杏视频, the 红杏视频 of Virginia, and Murray Osorio PLLC joined the legal team representing petitioners in the government鈥檚 consolidated appeal. The case is Lopez Garcia v. Guadian. Last year, the Trump administration adopted a new radical reinterpretation of longstanding immigration laws and declared that anyone who entered the country without inspection must be detained without access to bond. For decades prior, people in removal proceedings who were detained by the government have generally had the right to seek release by an immigration judge. Among those who have been affected by the administration鈥檚 radical reinterpretation are people eligible for legal status, even those with long-pending immigration applications who have been waiting years due to administrative backlogs. The following is reaction to today鈥檚 ruling: 鈥淭he courts have resoundingly rejected the administration鈥檚 cruel policy and its blatant disrespect for the rule of law,鈥� said My Khanh Ngo, senior staff attorney with the 红杏视频鈥檚 Immigrants鈥� Rights Project. 鈥淲e are thrilled for our clients and their families.鈥� 鈥淭he government cannot rewrite immigration law to serve this administration's anti-immigrant agenda by detaining people en masse, and today鈥檚 ruling again makes that crystal clear,鈥� said Sophia Gregg, senior immigrants鈥� rights attorney with the 红杏视频 of Virginia. 鈥淭he Fourth Circuit鈥檚 decision is an important victory for both Virginians and for our civil rights and civil liberties nationwide.鈥� 鈥淭he Court has it right: 鈥楳ass detention of marginalized individuals without due process harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country鈥檚 history... Those shameful and abhorrent past detentions were limited in scope in comparison to鈥� what the Government asked for in this case. We are thrilled that the Court declined to expand mandatory detention to millions of people,鈥� said Sarah Pitney, partner at Benach Pitney Reilly LLP and counsel for Mr. Lopez Garcia. 鈥淚 have seen over and over again the devastating impact that the detention of a mother or father has on their children, many of whom are U.S. citizens,鈥� said Sarnata Reynolds, founding attorney at Ceartas Solutions. 鈥淭oday鈥檚 decision restores a basic safeguard: the government cannot imprison members of our communities throughout their immigration cases without giving them a meaningful chance to seek release.鈥� The ruling is here.

CONCORD, N.H. 鈥� Legal groups that secured a June Supreme Court victory in Trump v. Barbara on behalf of babies who would have been denied citizenship under a failed Trump executive order filed new motions in the case today. The latest filings aim to protect people subjected to the president鈥檚 new executive order, which was signed in early August and again targets birthright citizenship. The 红杏视频, 红杏视频 of New Hampshire, 红杏视频 of Maine, 红杏视频 of Massachusetts, Legal Defense Fund, Asian Law Caucus, and Democracy Defenders Fund successfully argued the Barbara case. On Aug. 11, they asked a New Hampshire federal court, where the Barbara lawsuit was first filed, to make it unquestionably clear that the citizenship of babies covered by that class-action lawsuit is protected despite the new executive order. In their new filings, they are asking the court to certify a new class given the latest executive order. In its June ruling, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Constitution鈥檚 Citizenship Clause puts 鈥渢he question of citizenship 鈥榦nce and forever [to] rest.鈥欌�� The following are comments on today鈥檚 filings: 鈥淭he Trump administration continues to threaten birthright citizenship, even after its definitive loss at the Supreme Court,鈥� said Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the 红杏视频鈥檚 Immigrants鈥� Rights Project and lead counsel. 鈥淲e will never stop fighting to protect this fundamental constitutional principle.鈥� 鈥淭he Constitution and the Supreme Court were exceedingly clear: Citizenship is a constitutional right given to all children born in America and any attempt to restrict that right is illegal,鈥� said Amia Trigg, deputy director of litigation at the Legal Defense Fund. 鈥淩egardless of race, color, or ancestry, birthright citizenship protects children that are born here. And the president's latest attempt to rescind that protection is just another example of an egregious overreach by the executive branch.鈥� 鈥淭rump鈥檚 executive order on birthright citizenship is yet another attack on the rule of law,鈥� said Aarti Kohli, executive director of the Asian Law Caucus. 鈥淭he Trump administration is ignoring the needs of everyday Americans to target immigrant communities. We鈥檙e fighting in court to ensure all our rights are protected and stop this administration鈥檚 unlawful attempt to ignore the Constitution and Supreme Court.鈥� 鈥淥ur latest motions demand accountability for Trump鈥檚 dangerous policies,鈥� said Tianna Mays, legal director at Democracy Defenders Fund. 鈥淭his administration cannot unlawfully strip the rights of babies and ignore the Constitution in order to achieve its political goals. We won鈥檛 let that stand, and we鈥檒l continue our fight in court.鈥� SangYeob Kim, director of the 红杏视频-NH Immigrants鈥� Rights Project, said, 鈥淏irthright citizenship is the law of the land 鈥� as it has been for more than 150 years and as the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed once again just a few months ago. Cruel attacks on this core constitutional right must not be allowed to stand.鈥� 鈥淭he president may keep signing unlawful executive orders, but the Supreme Court could not have been more clear when it ruled that neither the president nor Congress can end birthright citizenship,鈥� said 红杏视频 of Maine Executive Director Molly Curren Rowles. 鈥淲e鈥檒l continue defending the Constitution and the core principles reflected in the 14th Amendment: that with very few clear exceptions, every baby born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen.鈥� 鈥淒espite a clear ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court just weeks ago, the Trump administration is still trying to deprive babies born in the United States of their constitutional rights,鈥� said Carol Rose, executive director at the 红杏视频 of Massachusetts. 鈥淲e cannot tolerate this brazen act of lawlessness. No matter how many times President Trump tries to deny it, birthright citizenship is here to stay.鈥� Read the motions here.

BOISE 鈥� The 红杏视频, the 红杏视频 of Idaho, Stoel Rives, and Cooley LLP filed an opposition brief today on behalf of their clients, urging a federal court to allow a lawsuit challenging the violent mass detention of hundreds of Latino people for an immigration dragnet at a family horse-racing event in Wilder, Idaho to proceed. The lawsuit, Rodriguez et al. v. Porter et al., was filed earlier this year on behalf of three Latino families and a proposed class of people who were at La Catedral Arena on October 19, 2025, when more than 200 federal, state, and local law enforcement officers descended on an otherwise peaceful family event. Law enforcement arrived in armored trucks and a helicopter with flashbang grenades and guns drawn and detained approximately 400 spectators 鈥� including U.S. citizens and children 鈥� for four hours of detention in inhumane conditions before subjecting everyone to suspicionless immigration interrogations. In their motions to dismiss, defendants continue to characterize the operation as a routine execution of warrants for five people accused of non-violent unlicensed gambling. The 红杏视频鈥檚 brief filed today makes clear that hundreds of heavily-armed officers detaining hundreds of people with no connection to the gambling allegations 鈥� and prolonging their detention to investigate everyone's immigration status 鈥� was anything but routine. 鈥淥ur clients are still living with the physical and emotional scars from that day, and yet the defendants continue to try to rewrite what happened,鈥� said Allison Frankel, senior staff attorney at the 红杏视频鈥檚 Criminal Law Reform Project. 鈥淲arrants for five people accused of unlicensed gambling do not give police a blank check to round up hundreds of people, hold families at gunpoint, or target people based on their perceived ethnicity. We know what happened at La Catedral, and we鈥檙e going to keep fighting to hold those responsible accountable and make clear that law enforcement is not above the law.鈥� Juana Rodriguez, one of the lead plaintiffs, is a U.S. citizen who was at the racetrack with her 3-year-old son. After being violently rounded up with hundreds of other families, Rodriguez was placed in zip ties and detained for several hours without food or water. Law enforcement instructed her toddler to hold onto her pocket, which they had turned inside out, while Rodriguez remained zip tied and unable to comfort her son as he cried out for water. "The cruelty that occurred in Wilder is a tragic example of a government operating with reckless violence and unrestricted power," said Paul Carlos Southwick, legal director for the 红杏视频 of Idaho. "The human cost of this operation is unacceptable. Law enforcement must answer for the large-scale civil rights abuses that took place so we can ensure this never happens again.鈥� The lawsuit alleges that federal, state and local law enforcement used the criminal warrants as a cover to conduct a sweeping immigration dragnet targeting an event where they knew the attendees would be predominantly Latino. The complaint centrally claims that these federal, state and local actors conspired to deprive those detained of their Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable detentions, and their right to equal protection regardless of ethnicity. The complaint is brought under laws created after the Civil War to prevent racialized government violence. The conspiracy claims provide a path to hold federal actors accountable for civil rights violations. The brief is available here: /cases/rodriguez-et-al-v-porter-et-al?document=Plaintiffs-Opposition-to-Defendants-Motions-to-Dismiss

In 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Keisy G.M., a lawful permanent resident who had been subjected to mandatory detention for 21 months, could not be detained any longer without a hearing on whether he poses a flight risk or danger. That decision was consistent with the vast majority of federal court rulings on the government鈥檚 practice of detaining people for prolonged periods of time without any individual hearings. The Trump administration appealed the ruling in January 2026 and on June 15 the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, setting oral argument for Oct. 13, 2026. The Trump administration is taking a radical position the government has not taken in the 30 years since this mandatory detention statute, 8 U.S.C. 1226(c), was enacted by Congress. It says immigrants like Mr. G.M. do not have a protected liberty interest in not being locked up without a hearing 鈥� at a time when the administration is pushing hard to detain and deport as many immigrants as possible, often locking people away in inhumane ICE detention centers, where deaths are already at record levels. On the government鈥檚 theory, it can lock up people under this mandatory detention statute for months, years, or even decades, without a hearing 鈥� as long as the removal case is still ongoing. The 红杏视频, New York Civil Liberties Union, MacArthur Justice Center, and Hecker Fink LLP are co-counsel. The groups argue the federal appeals court ruling is correct, and that the Constitution protects all of us, regardless of immigration status, from being locked away without due process.