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Litigation and politics surrounding the Morton memos
The Flores Settlement Agreement, originating from litigation in the 1980s and formalized in 1997, set nationwide standards for the detention, release and treatment of immigrant children and required t...
fundamentally rewrote immigration practice through an aggressive, largely administrative campaign that touched border enforcement, , legal visas, , and student and campus policies, producing hundreds ...
The memos established a tiered prioritization for that focused resources on national-security, border-security, and serious public-safety threats while encouraging the exercise of in lower-priority ca...
most consequential have been reshaped not by policy reversals in but by a cascade of federal court rulings that either narrowed executive discretion or struck down specific relief programs — producing...
is a 1997 court-supervised consent decree that established national standards for the detention, treatment, placement and prompt release of immigrant children in federal custody, including requirement...
In 2024 the Biden administration used executive authority to impose a layered set of restrictions that make most people who cross the southern border unlawfully ineligible for asylum during periods of...
Over the last decade, a mix of media organizations, public-interest groups, and law firms have used FOIA litigation to force substantial disclosures from large federal agencies, sometimes producing fu...
Federal courts, advocacy groups, and congressional investigators have accused the Trump administration of violating several federal statutes and constitutional provisions across dozens of cases—most f...