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A decision by the Supreme Court that emphasizes unlawfully present aliens are protected by due process and equal protection when within U.S. territory.
The Supreme Court’s doctrine on which constitutional rights reach non‑citizens is a patchwork of landmark decisions establishing that “persons” within U.S. territory receive many constitutional protec...
The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that many—but not all—constitutional protections apply to noncitizens present in the United States: core guarantees such as the Due Process Clause and certain Equ...
Undocumented immigrants can and have sued government actors for violations of rights grounded in the Fourteenth Amendment because the Constitution protects “persons,” not only citizens—a principle the...
State legislatures justify limiting local cooperation with ICE in schools and places of worship by invoking core constitutional protections—principally the Fourth Amendment’s guard against unreasonabl...
ICE has not been categorically forbidden from making arrests at schools since a January 2025 Department of Homeland Security policy change removed prior protections for "sensitive locations," meaning ...
’s immigration due‑process jurisprudence establishes that constitutional protections attach to “persons” in but that the scope of procedural rights varies with an individual’s status and location; key...
and equal protection clauses formally extend to “persons” in , so undocumented immigrants receive core protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments; however, courts and statutes draw practica...