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GARCIA RAMIREZ et al v. U.S. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOM ENFORCEMENT et al

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Case overview

Case Number:

1:18-cv-00508

Court:

District Of Columbia

Nature of Suit:

Other Statutory Actions

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action

Judge:

Rudolph Contreras

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  1. April 15, 2019

    Detained Migrant Teens Slam ICE Calling Class 'Near Empty'

    A certified class of immigrant teenagers detained in adult facilities has urged a D.C. federal judge to deny the government's decertification bid, slamming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's claims that — according to its own documentation system — it has been complying with an anti-trafficking law and the class is now "near empty."

  2. January 02, 2019

    Feds Can't Pause Suit Over Detained Teens During Shutdown

    A D.C. federal judge has refused to pause a class action challenging the detention of migrant teenagers in adult facilities despite the lapse in federal funding during the government shutdown, finding that the litigation concerns the "safety of human life."

  3. August 31, 2018

    Immigrant Teens Get Class Cert. In Suit Over ICE Detention

    A D.C. federal court ruled Thursday that a group of immigrant teenagers can move forward as a class with their claims that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security violated an anti-child trafficking law by transferring the teens to adult detention facilities upon their 18th birthdays without first considering a less restrictive option.

  4. May 09, 2018

    ICE Urges Toss Of Suit Over Immigrant Teens' Detention

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked a D.C. federal court on Monday to scrap a proposed class action by three teenagers who immigrated to the U.S. illegally as unaccompanied minors, arguing it had discretionary power to transfer them to adult detention centers once they turned 18.

  5. April 19, 2018

    Feds Must Rethink Detention Procedures For Immigrant Teens

    A federal judge in the District of Columbia entered an order on Wednesday in the case of two young unauthorized immigrants instructing the U.S. government to comply with a statute that requires officials to consider the least restrictive setting for detaining individuals once they turn 18.

  6. April 03, 2018

    Judge Skeptical Of ICE Procedure In Jailing Migrant Teens

    A D.C. federal judge dubiously probed the Trump administration's claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement considered less-restrictive alternatives, as law requires, when putting two green-card-seeking immigrant teens in adult detention centers when they turned 18.

  7. March 06, 2018

    ICE Accused Of Unlawfully Detaining Immigrant Teens

    The National Immigrant Justice Center hit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a proposed class action in D.C. federal court Monday on behalf of unaccompanied immigrant teens who say the government moved them to adult detention centers when they turned 18 without adequately considering their safety.