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Courts have entered favorable rulings for plaintiffs and imposed structural remedies to ensure individuals receive copies of detainer forms and can challenge extended custody.
Documented instances of U.S. citizens being wrongfully detained or even removed span both domestic immigration enforcement and overseas hostage/wrongful detention cases; oversight reports and investig...
A string of reported incidents has produced multiple lawsuits and settlements after U.S. citizens were arrested or held at the direction of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including a $125,...
Federal and lower courts in recent years have repeatedly found that and allied local law enforcement violated constitutional and statutory protections when detaining people later shown to be U.S. citi...
Since 2020 U.S. cities have layered a patchwork of formal ordinances, administrative directives and practical limits designed to blunt local cooperation with ICE — banning warrantless detainer holds, ...
The historical record shows multiple documented instances where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and related DHS components detained, and in some cases deported, people later determined ...
Federal appellate courts—most prominently the Ninth and the Seventh Circuits—have in recent years reversed or curtailed district-court orders attacking ICE detainer practices, doing so on a mix of pro...
Since 2010 federal courts have steadily constrained ICE detainers by treating detainer-based holds as seizures implicating the Fourth Amendment, requiring probable cause and neutral review, and holdin...
Unlawful ICE stops or detentions can be challenged through a mix of administrative complaint routes, facility-level grievance procedures, civil litigation (including habeas petitions and class settlem...